The 23-year-old rapper,
whose real name is DeAndre Cortez Way, was arrested after a Los Angeles
police officer pulled over a car in which he was a passenger, police
spokeswoman Rosario Herrera told CNN.
Soulja Boy was booked
into a San Fernando Valley jail, but freed after posting a $35,000 bond
Wednesday afternoon, according to jail records.
The traffic stop happened on a residential street in the Granada Hills area of the San Fernando Valley at 4 a.m., Herrera said.
He was arrested on felony weapons and drug charges
during a traffic stop on a Georgia interstate in October 2011. Police
said they found a "felony amount" of marijuana and firearms in his
rented SUV.
The local district
attorney in Carroll County, Georgia, declined to prosecute the case
because federal prosecutors took it over, according to a spokesman for
the district attorney.
The U.S. attorney's office in Atlanta did not immediately respond to a CNN question about the status of the case.
