Claims police should have done some DNA testing to establish this

May 13, 2009 08:40 GMT  ·  By

“You have to be an idiot to put drugs in your bag and bring them at the airport,” rapper Coolio told the paparazzi a couple of hours ago, as he returned to LAX, where, back in March, he was arrested for possession of crack cocaine and being aggressive towards the police officers. The rapper, it seems, is really not guilty of the alleged crime, since the drugs found in his bag were not his – “God knows they weren’t mine,” Coolio tells TMZ.

The paparazzi agency which also doubles as a celebrity gossip publication caught up with the legally troubled rapper right on the same airport where he first got in trouble. Coolio, never the one to have something to say and not speak his mind, showed himself really chatty with the paps, explaining for them in full details how only an idiot would bring drugs to an airport, in a bag nonetheless. Clearly, that idiot was not him because he didn’t even know what he had in the bag until officers told him why he was being detained.

In the same impromptu interview, Coolio also argues that the police should have investigated the matter further before heading straight to the DA with the case to have him charged. A simple DNA testing would have revealed that the drugs were not his, thus clearing his name in the process. However, the argument that only stupidity would push anyone to act like that is Coolio’s strongest defense point right now from what he tells the paps. Once a habitual marijuana smoker, the rapper admits that he did smuggle drugs from one country to another, but it was also in his pocket that he hid them, never in his bag, which seems to make the most recent arrest utter nonsense.

As noted above, Coolio was arrested in March, after failing a simple screening at LAX. When officers found an unspecified quantity of crack cocaine in the rapper’s bag, they called for reinforcements, which is when the star allegedly got “physical” with them, refusing to comply with their demands. Coolio was detained on the spot, taken to the police headquarters and charged. Hours after the incident, he was released on bail, set at $10,000.

When his arraignment was set, Coolio pled not guilty on all charges, a stance he seems to maintain for the most recent interview as well. When the paparazzi ask the rapper how he feels about the ongoing trial, stemming from the March arrest, he simply answers that “I don’t give a [expletive].” Click here for the video of Coolio’s airport interview.