YUMA - A bench warrant has been issued for Grammy Award-winning rapper Lil Wayne, who is facing drug and weapons charges in Arizona.
A Yuma County Superior Court judge issued the warrant Tuesday morning after the entertainer, whose real name is Dwayne Carter, failed to appear for a final trial management conference.
But Lil Wayne's attorney says his client couldn't appear because he just began serving a one-year jail sentence in New York for having a loaded gun on his tour bus.
Lil Wayne was arrested in January 2008 at a border checkpoint 78 miles east of Yuma after authorities say they found cocaine, Ecstasy and a handgun on his tour bus.
