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The rapper posted a $10,185 bond and was released from the Yuma County Jail. He signed autographs for fans outside of a bail bondsman's office.

Lil' Wayne's tour bus was stopped about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday (Jan. 22) at a checkpoint on Interstate 8 near Dateland. A narcotics dog detected drugs on the bus and a search turned up 105 grams of marijuana, 29 grams of cocaine and an unspecified amount of the drug ecstasy. Also found was a .40-caliber pistol registered to the rapper who has a license for the weapon in Florida. Authorities are looking into whether or not he violated any weapons laws in Arizona.

According to Lil' Wayne's attorney James Tilson, the rapper was not formally charged and is due back in court Jan. 25.

In addition, Lil Wayne was hit with more bad news in his jail cell yesterday (January 23) in Yuma, County Arizona, when he was served legal documents relating to a lawsuit surrounding his 1999 Bentley Arnage.

Lil Wayne, born Dwayne Carter, was served the legal documents while he was detained. The lawsuit, filed in December 2007 by the law offices of Dan R. Price on behalf of his client Le Marck deAndre.

The California man accuses the rapper of owing more than $91,000 dollars left to be paid on his Bentley, which was being refurbished and repaired.

Lil Wayne is also the subject of two separate $1,000,000 dollar lawsuits filed by two Morgan State University students who were allegedly injured when the rapper threw money in the crowd, causing a melee.