MTV reports:
NEW YORK — Lil Wayne was released from the Rikers Island prisonfacility after serving eight months of a year-long sentence forattempted gun possession. Though a guard told MTV News earlyThursday morning that he had to wait another day due to “miscalculated”time, at 8:35 a.m. a spokesperson at Rikers confirmed that Wayne had been discharged.
In March, Lil Wayne turned himself in to New York authorities after he struck a plea deal in his case stemming from a 2007 gun arrest near the Beacon Theatre in Manhattan.
The rapper and his entourage were leaving his first headline performancein the Big Apple when police pulled over his tour bus. The New YorkPolice Department alleged that the odor of marijuana was coming from thevehicle and later searched the bus. Authorities discovered drugs and agun, registered in Wayne’s manager’s name, near the rapper.
