Crazy Chris and Keshon Hawthorne

Dancehall disc jockey Crazy Chris and stylist Keshon Hawthorne were arrested in the US on cocaine trafficking charges.

The two pop dancehall personalities were both arrested in divide incidents that took place ii days apart. Crazy Chris, whose real name is Christopher Samuels, was arrested last week Tuesday in Charlotte, NC. The Montego Bay-based disc jockey/promoter was detained by the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department when a quantity of cocaine was constitute in his luggage upon inspection by constabulary enforcement agents.

Two days prior, dancehall stylist Keshon Hawthorne was arrested at the said Charlotte Douglas International Aerodrome in Due north Carolina just shortly after arriving on a flying from Montego Bay. He is also existence defendant of trying to smuggle cocaine in his luggage.

According to reports, Crazy Chris was institute with six pounds of cocaine in his luggage that carries an estimated street value of US$90,000. Both men are currently behind confined in Charlotte and accept been charged with drug trafficking. Samuels was charged with 2 counts of trafficking cocaine and i count of intent to sell and distribute cocaine. If found guilty, they could exist sent to prison for upwardly to ten years.

Dancehall artists Yanique 'Curvy Diva' Barrett, who Hawthorne works for equally a stylist, says she is in atheism over his abort for drug trafficking. "Keshon is not i to ignore telephone calls, and when I did not receive a call back I thought that something was seriously incorrect with him," she said. "I was more in the frame of mind that he was ill or worse, hospitalized."