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Drug Possession: El DeBarge drug arrest

Grammy-winning R&B crooner El DeBarge was arrested in Encino on suspicion of drug possession with intent to sell, LAPD officials told our sister blog LA Now on Wednesday. According to reports, undercover narcotics officers were conducting an investigation near the 101 Freeway on Monday when they spotted the singer and another male acting suspiciously. Officers recovered narcotics from an area where DeBarge had been, and the singer was booked on suspicion of possession of drugs for sale. The arrest is a major blow to DeBarge, who had tried desperately to clean up his act. In the last year and a half he had showed the true power of public redemption with a high-profile comeback — 2010’s Grammy-nominated, “Second Chance,” his first album in nearly two decades. Once the lead singer of the popular ’80s Motown family group DeBarge, he transitioned that early success into a solo career. But it became an afterthought when addiction — which he has battled for more than two decades and has also plagued a number of his siblings — and a laundry lists of legal troubles, including arrests on cocaine possession and domestic violence charges, crippled a once-thriving career. His dependence on heroin and crack ultimately landed him in prison, where he spent 13 months before his release in 2009. But the new album gave him a renewed outlook on life. “Second Chance,” DeBarge’s first release on new label home Geffen, boasted production from Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis and Babyface, and …

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