Resident Rapper Pleads Guilty to Disorderly Conduct Charge

Fair Lawn resident and rap artist Jim Jones, who was charged with disorderly conduct and obstruction in February for refusing to peaceably settle two outstanding warrants, pleaded guilty in municipal court Wednesday, NorthJersey.com reported.

He was ordered to pay an $841 fine to resolve the disorderly conduct charge and two active warrants— one for failure to yield to an emergency vehicle in Paterson and another for failure to remove snow from his sidewalk in Fair Lawn.

The Dipset founder, whose legal name is Joseph Jones, was arrested on Feb. 13 after he "got out of line" with Lt. James Corcoran, who was handling a parking complaint in front of the rapper's Ward Street home, police said.

Corcoran was in the process of having towed what he believed to be an abandoned, snowbound car outside the rapper's home at the corner of Grunauer Place and Ward Street, when Jones approached him to ask what he was doing, police said.

Police reports state that Jones initially agreed to remove the vehicle from the roadway and pay the towing fee, but became combative after Corcoran alerted the rapper to the two active warrents that came up when he ran Jones' name.

When Corcoran asked Jones to settle both active warrants back at police headqarters, police said he denied their existence and became disorderly.

As a result of his failure to cooperate, Jones was arrested and taken into police custody, police said. 

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