Bruno Mars Cleared In Cocaine Possession Case



Pop star Bruno Mars has been cleared in his felony cocaine possession case this week, after following the conditions of a plea deal he struck in February 2011. According to the Associated Press, his attorneys told a Las Vegas judge Wednesday (January 18) that the 26-year-old (real name: Peter Gene Hernandez) had stayed out of trouble over the past year, and completed all his court ordered community service and drug counseling. Mars was not present at the hearing. The singer was arrested in a bathroom at Las Vegas' Hard Rock Hotel & Casino for having around 2.6 grams of cocaine, following a nightclub performance back in September 2010. Mars pleaded guilty to cocaine possession last February, but the judge postponed accepting the plea, asking that he stay out of trouble for the next 12 months instead. Mars was given probation, fined $2,000 and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service and eight hours of drug counseling. He could have faced up to four years in state prison. "Bruno earned the dismissal of his charge," his lawyer Blair Berk told Reports. "He exceeded the expectations of the court in both his service to the community and his counseling."

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