STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The "Sun God" faces some dark days.
Clifton resident Dennis Ames, who is known as the "Sun God," and also is the son of Wu-Tang Clan founding member Ghostface Killah β pleaded guilty Tuesday to a weapon charge.
Ames, 28, an affiliate of the globally renowned rap collective, was busted on July 3 of last year by detectives executing a warrant at his apartment. Police allege Ames is affiliated with the Komrad Militant Bloods gang.
Ames tried to flee, two detectives chased him, and he threw a gun β a .38-caliber Smith & Wesson β as he ran, police said.
When detectives searched the apartment, they found two bullets and marijuana in his bedroom, police said.
The incident wasn't the first in which Ames allegedly ditched a gun.
Two years earlier, on Oct. 30, 2013, cops conducting a floor-by-floor "vertical patrol" of an apartment building on the 200 block of Park Hill Avenue came upon Ames and several other people in a stairwell, according to a law enforcement source with knowledge of the case.
Ames, who was carrying a .38-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun, chucked it and ran, authorities alleged.
Police tested the gun and found Ames' DNA on it, and a review of video surveillance showed the defendant carrying the gun prior to the run-in with cops, the law enforcement source said.
Ames pleaded guilty in state Supreme Court, St. George, to a felony count of attempted second-degree criminal weapon possession.
In exchange for his plea, he'll be sentenced Sept. 22 to three years in prison and 18 months' post-release supervision.
"Mr. Ames took responsibility for his actions," said Mario F. Gallucci, his lawyer, outside court.
Son of Wu-Tang Clan member pleads to gun charge; dark days ahead for 'Sun God'
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