LOS ANGELES : ‘Chaka’ Held on Charge of Marijuana Possession
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A young man who became notorious for scrawling his moniker “Chaka” across Los Angeles has been accused of a parole violation after his arrest on suspicion of possessing three “dime baggies” of marijuana, police said.
Daniel Bernardo Ramos, 20, was ordered held in lieu of $20,000 bail Tuesday after his arrest Monday at the Aliso Village housing project for possession of about $30 worth of marijuana, police said.
Rather than charging him with a drug violation, prosecutors alleged that he had violated probation, which carries a maximum sentence of a year in jail, authorities said.
Ramos was arrested in November, 1990, when he was seen writing his moniker on a traffic light pole. He spent five months in jail and in a county mental hospital awaiting trial before agreeing in May, 1991, to probation and 1,500 hours of community service.
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