Petey Pablo Says The Gun Wasn’t His…..

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Petey Pablo Says The Gun Wasn’t His…..

Posted at 09/14/2010 by Staff 0 Comment

As we reported a couple of days ago, Rapper Petey Pablo was arrested this weekend in North Carolina after being caught with a gun in his carry-on luggage at the Raleigh-Durham International Airport.

Now the rapper is saying that the gun wasn’t his and that it belongs to a friend…. He says he took the gun away from a friend because the friend was going to do something stupid with him… hmmmm….. We’re not sure we believe that story….

According to TMZ:

As we previously reported, Pablo — real name Moses Barrett III — was arrested on Saturday at RDU Airport in North Carolina after a TSA officer found a Smith & Wesson pistol in his carry-on.

But Petey’s rep tells us the rapper can explain — claiming the gun actually belongs to one of his friends. And last month, Petey learned that said friend planned to use the pistol to “do something crazy” … so Petey stepped in and literally took the weapon away.

The rep tells us Petey stashed the gun in a luggage bag so his friend wouldn’t find it — and when he was asked to hop on a last-minute flight to L.A., he grabbed the loaded bag without thinking.

Petey was arrested on suspicion of carrying a concealed weapon, possession of a firearm by a felon and possession of a stolen firearm. He’s due back in Wake County Court October 4.