SNOOP DOGG - SNOOP DOGG ARREST TURNED VIOLENT

LATEST: British police reportedly needed 15 riot vans to restrain SNOOP DOGG and his 30-strong entourage at London's Heathrow airport yesterday (26APR06). The DROP IT LIKE IT'S HOT rapper and five members of his entourage were charged with violent disorder and affray after their group were refused entry to the first-class lounge provided by British Airways, ahead of their flight to South Africa. According to eye-witnesses the rowdy party were only restrained after police used extreme force and pepper spray. A Heathrow worker tells London newspaper The Evening Standard, "There were all these huge, 20-stone men smashing up display cabinets and throwing people around. "I saw Snoop Dogg on the ground with four riot police trying to put him in handcuffs. His minders were throwing bottles at people. "There were 15 riot vans and eight police cars outside, with dog sniffer units. They were throwing the policemen around like pillows. "Then the police used pepper spray on them."