New info has surfaced about Erica Banks, recognized legally as Erica Breaux, after she was taken into custody in Georgia earlier this week. Reports verify that the rapper was arrested on December 8 following an encounter with Brookhaven police in the midst of the afternoon. Officers carried out a site visitors cease on a car touring alongside Buford Highway, and Banks was sitting within the passenger seat when police initiated the cease.

While CBS News notes that authorities haven’t totally defined “what led to the traffic stop and circumstances of the arrest,” extra retailers have provided extra context. According to TMZ, officers had been alerted to the car as a result of the vendor plates had been obscured by a tinted tag, which raised suspicion. The state of affairs reportedly escalated as soon as police realized the automotive had been reported stolen. The driver, mentioned to be Amani Dirton, was ordered out of the car together with Banks.

Banks was later detained on a felony controlled-substance cost. Records point out she was hit with “possession of a Schedule or II controlled substance with intent to distribute,” and TMZ experiences that officers situated ecstasy inside her purse in the course of the search. Marijuana allegedly discovered on Dirton resulted in extra fees for the driving force. Dirton is now accused of “theft by receiving stolen property, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, and [improperly] displayed license plate.”

The arrest comes solely months after Banks confronted a distinct authorized problem at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. During that August incident, she was detained after safety found a firearm in her belongings. Banks reportedly advised police she didn’t understand the gun was in her possession. A later search decided that the weapon had been stolen, resulting in a cost of “theft by receiving stolen property.”