This image provided by the Las Vegas Police Department shows the rapper Coolio, who was arrested Friday March 9, 2012, in Las Vegas on a warrant charging him with failure to appear in a local court on a traffic ticket almost two years ago.(AP Photo/LVMPD)
This image provided by the Las Vegas Police Department shows the rapper Coolio, who was arrested Friday March 9, 2012, in Las Vegas on a warrant charging him with failure to appear in a local court on a traffic ticket almost two years ago.(AP Photo/LVMPD)
FILE - In this May 12, 2008 photo, Rapper Coolio attends the NBC Universal Experience at Rockefeller Center as part of upfront week. Police say rapper Coolio was arrested in Las Vegas on a warrant charging him with failure to appear in a local court on a traffic ticket almost two years ago. Coolio's real name is Artis Leon Ivey Jr. Officer Laura Meltzer says 48-year-old Artis Leon Ivey Jr. was a passenger in a vehicle officers stopped about 2:20 a.m. Friday, March 9, 2012, several blocks east of the Las Vegas Strip. No one else in the car was arrested. Ivey was sought on a warrant charging him with failure to appear on an illegal stop and driving without a license summons issued in June 2010. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer)
LAS VEGAS (AP) ? Rapper Coolio was arrested on a warrant charging him with failure to appear in court on a traffic ticket almost two years ago.
Coolio, 48, whose real name is Artis Leon Ivey Jr., was a passenger in a vehicle officers stopped about 2:20 a.m. several blocks east of the Las Vegas Strip, Officer Laura Meltzer said.
No one else in the car was arrested.
It was not immediately clear if Ivey had a lawyer. His manager Susan Haber said she had not heard about the incident and had no comment.
Ivey was sought on a warrant charging him with failure to appear on an illegal stop and driving without a license summons issued in June 2010.
He was freed later in the day. A court date wasn't immediately known.
Coolio is a musician, actor and record producer best known for the song "Gangsta's Paradise."
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