Rapper Turned Himself In After the New Year
6:30PM ET February 26th, 2012
Contributor : Chris G.
A Rocky Williform Company

North Carolina rapper Petey Pablo has been incarcerated for almost two months and no one seemed to know that he had begun serving his time. Petey was arrested trying to smuggle a gun through an airport in 2011, and in January he was sentenced to three years in prison.

He turned himself in January 4th to begin serving his jail term at a federal medium security corrections facility in West Virginia.

TMZ reports, that the court recommended that the rapper receive "intensive substance abuse treatment, vocational training and educational opportunities" during his stay.