Meek Mill has been forced to cancel his homecoming Philadelphia gig and a
string of other bookings after being sentenced to three to six months
in jail on Friday. The Philadelphia Daily News reports that a Philadelphia judge sentenced the rapper for probation violations.
Meek Mill was arrested on drug and gun charges in 2008 and spent eight
months in jail before being put on a five-year probation. Common Pleas
Court Judge Genece E. Brinkley found that he had violated the terms of
his probation by failing to get her permission before booking
out-of-town concerts, as well as failing to provide his probation
officer with a working phone number. The judge also noted that he had
posted disparaging remarks about his probation officer and prosecutor on
Twitter, and had posed holding a gun for a photo that was posted on
Instagram.
Mill's lawyer, Gary Silver, argued that the gun in the photo was a prop and that Mill's cell phone did sometimes work.
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