POLK COUNTY (Bay News 9) — An aspiring rapper will serve two years in state prison after a song he posted on MySpace caught the attention of law enforcement.

Antavio Johnson pleaded no contest to two charges related to threatening a public servant. The charges stem from a song entitled “Kill Me A Cop” that he posted on MySpace under the pseudonym T.O.

In the song, Johnson makes specific references to fallen officers. The lyrics includes lines like “Call me crazy, but I think I fell in love with the sound of hearing the dispatcher say, ‘Officer down.’”

Under Florida law, it’s illegal to threaten harm against any public servant.

Johnson was arrested after a Polk County detective heard about the song. At the time of the arrest, he was already in the Polk County Jail for violating his probation on drug charges.

He was sentenced to two years in state prison, but he could have received up to a 15-year sentence.

In addition to his MySpace recordings, Johnson is also listed on the Holy Hip-Hop Database as a Christian rapper.

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SAO PAULO – Inmates have devised an innovative way to smuggle cell phones into a prison farm in Brazil: carrier pigeons.

Guards at the Danilio Pinheiro prison near the southeastern city of Sorocaba last week noticed a pigeon resting on an electric wire with a small cloth bag tied to one of its legs.

“The guards nabbed the bird after luring it down with some food and discovered components of a small cell phone inside the bag,” police investigator Celso Soramiglio said Tuesday. Story continues below ?advertisement | your ad here

One day later, another pigeon was spotted dragging a similar bag inside the prison’s exercise yard. Inside the bag was the cell phone’s charger, Soramiglio said.

The birds were apparently bred and raised inside the prison, smuggled out, outfitted with the cell phone parts and then released to fly back.

“Pigeons instinctively fly back home, always,” the investigator said.

Soramiglio said that police have not discovered who raised the pigeons or the name of the inmate who was going to receive the cell phone, but that he hoped the telephone carrier would provide the information.

“Some of them are members of organized crime groups that use cell phones to talk to family and friends and to give and receive orders for criminal actions outside and inside prisons,” Soramiglio said.

In 2006, Sao Paulo’s notorious First Capital Command used cell phones to coordinate a wave of assaults on police, banks and buses that left more than 200 people dead in South America’s largest city.

The gang’s leaders are based in prisons, and use smuggled cell phones to plan and execute drug deals, kidnappings and bank robberies.

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Originally posted 2009-04-02 07:35:18.

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