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NY Police testify against Lil Wayne for gun and kush charges from back in July:

Marijuana smoke was billowing out of rapper Lil’ Wayne’s tour bus when cops stopped it on the upper West Side and found a loaded gun, a police officer testified Monday. “You could see the smoke as well as smell it,” Officer Diane Hornung said. “You could smell marijuana.” Hornung found a loaded 9-mm. handgun in Lil’ Wayne’s bag after she boarded the bus and searched the vehicle “for my safety” on July 22, 2007. The rapper, who won an MTV Video Music Award for his hit “Lollipop” this week, had just taken a shower and was trying to hide the designer Louis Vuitton bag when Hornung burst into his curtained-off bedroom. “He flung it to the ground,” Hornung said. The rapper is challenging the police search of his plush tour bus and hopes to get a judge to toss out the gun find. Lil’ Wayne, 25, whose real name is Dwayne Carter, faces a felony weapons charge that could put him behind bars for 3-1/2 years.