Snoop Dogg producer pardoned by President Trump

Weldon Angelos, a former music producer who worked with Snoop Dogg, received forgiveness from President Trump.

Angelos, who was sentenced to 55 years in prison without parole in 2004 for selling $ 350 in marijuana to an undercover policeman while carrying a firearm, was one of 15 people Trump forgave on Tuesday (December 22). “It’s great to have been totally forgiven by the President of the United States. Now it’s time for more pardons and commutations,” wrote Angelos on Instagram about the good news.

Angelos was the executive producer of Snoop Dogg’s LBC Soundtrack Knots, who was released in 2002. Later that year, he was the target of a drug arming by the police who believed he was part of a local street gang. After buying small amounts of marijuana from the armed producer on several occasions, the police searched his home and found another weapon. He reportedly refused a 15-year deal and ended up convicted on 13 counts, including drugs, firearms and money laundering. He was also charged with three counts of possession of a firearm in a drug trafficking crime. Due to the mandatory sentence, he was sentenced to 55 years.

There was an immediate public protest about the sentence, even from the judge who was mandated to deliver it, Paul Cassell. Cassell contacted President Obama in 2016 about commuting the harsh sentence. “The sentence was unfair, cruel and even irrational … because his resources have been exhausted, the only solution for Angelos is a presidential commutation. I urge you to quickly commute his sentence, ”he wrote. Obama served and commuted Angelos’ sentence that same year, and he was released.

“He had to provide means for his family and himself,” said Snoop Dogg of the case in 2017. “It wasn’t like it was a violent crime he was committing – he was just working.”

Since his release, Angelos has advocated justice reform. Now forgiven, your registration will be deleted and your rights fully restored. Lil Wayne fans hope the rapper will receive the same treatment as Trump in his federal weapon case.