All cool for Ice-T in unlicensed-driving case
Actor/rapper Ice-T and Coco attend the after party for the premiere of "The Other Guys" at The Park in Manhattan. (Aug. 2, 2010) Credit: Getty Images
Ice-T has been cleared of unlicensed driving charges after a Manhattan arrest.
The rapper-actor called out “that’s what I’m talking about — dismissed!” in a Manhattan courtroom. Prosecutors did just that Tuesday to the misdemeanor case.
“Like I said from the gate, I never broke the law,” Ice-T said as he left court with his wife, Coco, a model.
The entertainer, born Tracy Marrow, said when arrested last month that he had a valid New Jersey license. Prosecutors said Tuesday that New York Department of Motor Vehicles records wrongly reflected that his license was suspended because of a lack of insurance. His 2009 Cadillac is in fact insured and registered in New Jersey.
Ice-T, 52, was arrested after a traffic stop of his 2009 Cadillac on Manhattan’s West Side on July 20; he and his wife were on the road after taking their bulldog, Spartacus, to a vet for knee surgery. Police said they pulled the entertainer over for not wearing a seatbelt — which he contests — and a routine check showed his license was suspended.
He said he had a valid New Jersey driver’s license and took to Twitter to call the officer who arrested him a “punk,” and a few considerably less polite things, for “arresting the Notorious Ice T for no seatbelt.”
The actor plays Detective Fin Tutuola on the TV drama “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.”
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