Mad Cobra, who has been making dancehall music for a long time, was arrested in Florence County, South Carolina last week. He could spend up to 30 years in jail. The popular Jamaican singer from the 1990s, whose real name is Ewart Brown, was pulled over and arrested on Tuesday, July 25. He is being charged with trafficking cocaine and having a gun during a violent crime.

Sheriff TJ Joye told Fox 8 that Brown, 55, was taken into police custody after he was caught speeding on Interstate 95. Local news station WBTW News 13 says that Brown let officers search his car because they had “reasonable suspicion” that something illegal was going on. During the search, police found two kilograms of cocaine and a 9 mm Beretta pistol in the car.

“First you’ve got to have probable cause to stop them, traffic violation, shifting lanes illegal, something of that nature,” Joye said. “Once you do that, then you do a field interview, talk with them. Sometimes, if it’s two people in the car the stories will vary on where they’re going or why they’re going.”

Brown was taken into custody and charged with selling drugs and having a gun during a violent crime. He was kept in the Florence County Detention Center until he paid a $125,000 bond and was let go. DancehallMag says that Brown was given security bonds of $5,000 for having a gun during a violent crime and $120,000 for selling more than 400 grams of cocaine.

Brown could go to jail for up to 30 years with the charges. Matt Bodman Law says that if you sell more than 400 grams of cocaine in South Carolina, you could be fined $200,000 and sent to jail for 25 to 30 years. Even if you are allowed to have a gun, if you have one during a violent crime, you must serve five years in jail.

Many people know Brown better as Mad Cobra, which was his reggae music stage name in the 1990s. In 1992, he put out his first album on a big label called Hard to Wet, Easy to Dry. The album had the hit song “Flex,” which reached No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was certified Gold in the United States for selling more than 500,000 copies there. It was also used in the latest song by Janelle Monae, “Lipstick Lover.” “Press Trigger,” “Dis Dem Anyweh,” “Dun Wif,” and “Defend It” are some of the singer’s other big hits.