TI Checks Into Jail Early

Rapper will serve 366 days on weapons charges
By Katherine Thompson,  Newser Staff
Posted May 26, 2009 1:39 PM CDT
TI Checks Into Jail Early
Rapper TI performs at TI's Final Countdown Concert at Philips Arena on May 24, 2009 in Atlanta, Ga.   (Getty Images)

Rapper TI began his prison sentence early today, leaving his home in Georgia and checking into the Arkansas federal facility before the noon deadline, TMZ reports. The time is a year and a day in the minimum-security Forrest City prison; the crime was attempting to buy unregistered machine guns and silencers from undercover officers in 2007.
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