{"id":2154480,"date":"2025-11-13T17:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2154480"},"modified":"2025-11-13T17:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:22:09","slug":"akon-arrested-in-atlanta-on-a-bench-warrant-but-tour-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/akon-arrested-in-atlanta-on-a-bench-warrant-but-tour-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Akon arrested in Atlanta on a bench warrant but tour continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Akon, the singer known for \u201cSmack That\u201d and other hits, was arrested last week in Atlanta on an outstanding warrant, according to multiple local reports. <\/p>\n

Police were alerted to Akon\u2019s location last Friday by a surveillance camera outside a window-tinting business in DeKalb County, according to Fox5 Atlanta<\/a>. He was arrested on a bench warrant in the late morning, transferred between jails, then released just six hours later, Page Six<\/a> reported. His vehicle wasn\u2019t impounded, CBS News<\/a> said. <\/p>\n

The warrant stems from a September incident that found Akon, whose legal name is Aliaune Badara Thiam, stranded in his white Tesla Cybertruck in Fulton County. His battery was dead, Page Six said. Akon was cited at that time for driving with a suspended license that was linked to his failure to appear at an unrelated court case in 2023. <\/p>\n

The singer\u2019s wife, Tomeka Thiam, filed for divorce in early September, seeking joint legal custody of their 17-year-old daughter Journey, with Akon allowed visitation, according to People<\/a>. The documents were filed Sept. 11, right before what would have been their 29th anniversary. <\/p>\n

Since his arrest, the \u201cRight Now (Na Na Na) singer has been on tour in India<\/a>, hitting Delhi last Sunday. He has shows coming up in Bengalaru on Friday and Mumbai this coming Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Akon, the singer known for \u201cSmack That\u201d and other hits, was arrested last week in Atlanta on an outstanding warrant, according to multiple local reports. Police were alerted to Akon\u2019s location last Friday by a surveillance camera outside a window-tinting business in DeKalb County, according to Fox5 Atlanta. He was arrested on a bench warrant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2154481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2154480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Akon-arrested-in-Atlanta-on-a-bench-warrant-but-tour.com2F102Fc92Fc3c1c0294c46af0305fb3189.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2154480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154482,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154480\/revisions\/2154482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2154481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2154480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2154480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2154480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}