R&B singer and musician Chico DeBarge has been arrested for drug possession, and that wasn’t enough. The motorhome Chico was living in has been impounded.
TMZ says that Law enforcement sources let them know that they had a call on November 6, 2021, about someone causing disturbances in a motorhome. Upon their arrival, “they made contact with Chico and noticed his RV had an expired registration of over six months.”
We’re told police impounded the vehicle and officers allegedly found methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia inside the ride.
The DeBarge singer was then arrested and booked for possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia … and he was later released from custody on a promise to appear citation.
Chico’s admittedly struggled with addiction for years, and he’s been arrested 3 other times — in 2007, late 2019 and early 2021 — for drug possession.
As we first told you … during the last drug bust, cops say Chico ID’d himself as James, his older brother from the family singing group, before being properly ID’d during the booking process.
It is also reported that Chico DeBarge this time around didn’t claim to be someone else when the cops busted him.
Why is Chico DeBarge even living in the motorhome in the first place?
As we alluded to earlier, this wasn’t his first run-in with the law.
In 2003, while touring in the Tyler Perry stage play Why Did I Get Married?, DeBarge was stabbed by South Philadelphia Italian mafioso John “Johnny Gongs” Casasanto, inside a Philadelphia nightclub, due to an altercation with one of his associates. The stab wound was within inches of his kidney and lungs.
In 2007, DeBarge was arrested for drug possession in California and later went to rehab. In 2009, he admitted to addictions to heroin, cocaine and prescription medication and based his album, aptly titled Addiction, on his drug usage.
In November 2019, DeBarge was arrested again for drug possession in California.
On April 2, 2020, DeBarge’s eldest son, Dontae (born 1984), was murdered in a stabbing incident in the Van Nuys area of Los Angeles, California at age 35.
In January 2021, DeBarge was charged with drug possession, DUI and false impersonation after pretending to be his brother James during a traffic stop in Burbank, California.
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