Ol' Dirty Bastard pleaded guilty Thursday to a drug charge stemming from a 1999 arrest in Queens, New York. He admitted to possessing 120 vials of crack cocaine. Prosecutor Ken Holder will seek the minimum penalty for the crime at the sentencing hearing on June 13 in exchange for the plea. Because he pleaded guilty, Ol' Dirty (Russell Jones) faces two to four years in jail instead of seven years if the case went trial. Holder was going to move forward with a bail-jumping indictment if a plea wasn't entered before its' scheduled May 4 court date. With the plea the indictment has been waived. The bail-jumping charges stem from the rapper's failure to appear in court after fleeing a Los Angeles rehab clinic in October. That would have meant a mandatory 18 months to three years added on to any sentence he would have received and the case would have gone to trial. The plea also means that whatever sentence he would have received if found guilty of a Los Angeles probation vio! lation will run concurrently with the time served in New York. This is in accordance with a deal his lawyer has been working out with Los Angeles prosecutors over the last few months, which would also allow the rapper to enter his guilty plea in writing rather than appearing before the court. ODB violated his probation, which was ordered after he was caught wearing a bulletproof vest following a violent felony conviction and making terrorist threats, when he left the rehab clinic. The violation could have resulted in consecutive jail time of up to four years. He has another court date for accusations of sexual abuse and contempt of court on May 7. The abuse charge stems from a woman's claim that he sexually assaulted her in a hotel room after another Queens court appearance, in January 2000. The contempt charges stem from a 1998 incident where he allegedly violated an order of protection against his wife.
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