Rapper Offset was detained and a second man was arrested after police stopped their vehicle while they were driving past a pro-President Trump rally in Beverly Hills on Saturday.
Offset was released after questioning, but a passenger, Marcelo Almanzar, 20, was arrested on suspicion of carrying a concealed weapon and carrying a loaded firearm in public, police said.
Almanzar is reportedly a cousin of Offset’s wife, Cardi B, who also arrived at the scene at one point, according to videos posted to social media.
Beverly Hills police said in a statement that officers conducted the stop because they’d received a report that someone had pointed a weapon from a vehicle near Santa Monica Boulevard and Beverly Drive shortly after 5 p.m., and that the license plate matched that provided by a witness.
The person who said they’d had a weapon pointed at them didn’t want to press charges, police said, but Almanzar remained jailed Sunday in lieu of $35,000 bail, jail records state.
Police estimated that more than 2,500 people attended Saturday’s Trump rally, which started in the afternoon in Beverly Gardens Park.
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