Tone Loc pleads not guilty, of course

Everyone does.

July 15, 2011 at 3:26PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
FILE -  In this April 17, 1990 file photo, rapper Tone Loc, who was born Anthony Terrell Smith, appears at a news conference at the Nickerson Gardens housing project in the Watts section of Los Angeles.  The rapper pleaded not guilty Thursday, July 14, 2011 to a felony domestic violence and weapons charge related to his arrest on June 18 on suspicion of domestic violence. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
(AP/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Well, this sounds bad. And I mean it's poorly written:

Not immediately returned? What do these agents and publicists do with their time?

The "domestic violence and assault weapon" business makes it sound like he pulled a Jack Torrence on everyone. The details are sketchy, but this MTV story says "or suspicion of felony domestic violence following an alleged altercation with the mother of one of his children." Was the incident at his house? If so, was the rifle downstairs somewhere in a box? Or was the incident at her house, and the rifle was in the trunk? Or was the incident in a car, and the rifle was between the front seats? I have contacted his publicist, using telepathy, but no reply has been beamed into my brain. Unless I was thinking about something else, and the call went to voice mail.

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