Despite her diminutive size, Lil’ Kim has always come off as someone you would not want to get on the wrong side of. And in her 1996 mugshot, Queen Bee looks like she’s about ready to sting somebody for inconveniencing her. The rapper, whose real name is Kimberly Denise Jones, explained to Vibe that she had a good reason for being annoyed about her arrest. She was at the Teaneck, New Jersey, home of her music mentor and lover, Christopher “Biggie Smalls” Wallace, when police barged in.
The aroma of marijuana had been wafting from his residence, and the cops found the drug inside, along with a number of illegal weapons. Jones was charged with possession of marijuana but said, “I wasn’t even smoking. I was upstairs all day sleeping when Five-O shoved guns and a flashlight in my face. When I came downstairs, I didn’t smell anything.” Wallace and multiple other members of his Junior M.A.F.I.A., including James “Lil’ Cease” Lloyd, were arrested as well.
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Jones never showed up for court, so an arrest warrant was issued. But in 2003, a detective told The Record of Bergen County (via EastValley.com) that the Teaneck Police Department hadn’t been too concerned about making the rapper face justice during the seven years the warrant was outstanding. “It wasn’t on the top of our priority list,” he said. All it took to get the warrant lifted was a $350 bail payment.
