Kanye West Charged for LAX Pap Smear

The hip-hopster was charged today with three criminal misdemeanors resulting from a run-in with paparazzi at LAX last year

By Josh Grossberg Mar 18, 2009 6:55 PMTags
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We're guessing Kanye West and his hired guns will be doing everying to keep him out of L.A. County's version of love lockdown.

The hitmaker was charged today with three criminal misdemeanors in connection with his arrest last September following a run-in with a paparazzo at Los Angeles International Airport.

The city attorney charged the 31-year-old rapper with one count each of vandalism, battery and grand theft after breaking the camera of a shutterbug as he made his way through LAX's Terminal Four on Sept. 11. West's business manager, Don Crawley, 33, faces two counts each of the same charges.

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