Can Gotti Beat the Rap?
This week, rap-biz strongman Irv Gotti has a court date in Oakland in which his lawyer will try to get a drug-possession charge against the Murder Inc. exec thrown out. In August, Gotti — real name Irving Lorenzo — got busted at the Oakland Arena during the R. Kelly concert for allegedly trying to smuggle in an Ecstasy tab. Police also confiscated a few Viagra pills from the 33-year-old ladykillah. The arresting metal-detector cop, Officer Randy Brandwood, detained Gotti after he most unwisely placed the pills in a plastic basket along with his wallet. In his arrest report, Brandwood claimed he recognized one of the pills as E. Gotti’s consigliere, Dennis Roberts, will be making a motion to suppress the evidence, arguing that Brandwood couldn’t have known that the white pill was Ecstasy, which comes in many different forms. Thus, if he didn’t really know, the cops didn’t have probable cause to make the arrest. “It’s horseshit for anyone to say, ‘I know Ecstasy when I see it,'” Robert
