Breaking News TI Sentence to 11 Months in Prison

Breaking News: TI Sentence To 11 Months In Prison ATLANTA — A federal judge revoked rapper TI’s probation Friday and ordered him back to prison for 11 months, according to a spokesman for the US attorney’s office. The Atlanta native, whose real name is Clifford Harris Jr., was in federal court here following his arrest last month in Los Angeles on suspicion of drug possession. He was on probation after serving 10 months behind bars on federal weapons charges. During the hearing, TI begged US District Judge Charles Pannell Jr. not to send him back to prison, saying he needed to get help for drug addiction. He told the judge he “screwed up” and pleaded for mercy. “I want drugs out of my life. If I can get the treatment and counseling I need … I can beat this,” TI told the judge, according to US attorney spokesman Patrick Crosby. “I need help. For me, my mother, my kids, I need the court to give me mercy.” The Associated Press was relying on information from the spokesman because the judge closed the courtroom after it was filled and several media outlets, including AP, were not allowed in. The Grammy Award-winning artist walked out of court with family and friends. Crosby said he will be allowed to voluntarily surrender. As a condition of TI’s release earlier this year, he was ordered not to commit another federal, state or local crime while on supervised release, or to illegally possess a controlled substance. He was also told to take at least three drug tests after his …

Cecil A. Hankins, Sr., born and raised in Darlington, SC At a very young age he learned the value of hard work and the strong character that comes from struggling on a sharecropper’s farm with his extended family. He attended Benedict College in Columbia, SC, and later Hahnemann University (Drexel) receiving a Bachelor of Science. In 1993 he received a Master of Science degree from St. Joseph’s University. His first call to politics was while he was sitting on the stoops of a brown-stone in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York, a young, diminutive, regal woman was beckoning people to vote for her for change. That woman went on to become the first African American female US Congresswoman and first to run for President of the United States. Ms. Shirley Chisholm became his heroine instantly and that couple of minutes watching her would forever transform his life. In fact, her cry for equal opportunity for all is the cornerstone of his candidacy for City Councilman of the 9th Councilmanic District. Cecil Hankins has been fortunate in retiring from City Government after 25 years of service to citizens who needed public health support. He worked as a case manager under Judge Broderick’s Special Master Court to bring our developmentally delayed citizens back to the city from Pennhurst Institution. He went on to use his housing development skills to provide housing for those persons infected with the HIV/AIDS virus. Later Mr. Hankins helped developed the first HIV …