T.I. heading back to prison

ATLANTA, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- A U.S. judge in Atlanta sentenced rapper T.I. to 11 months in prison Friday for violating his probation in a 2007 federal weapons case, officials said.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution quoted U.S. District Judge Charles Pannell Jr. as saying the hip-hop star "has had about the limit of second chances."

"I screwed up," the rapper told the court. "I screwed up big time, and I'm sorry. I'm truly and sincerely sorry. I don't want and I don't need to use drugs anymore. I want them out of my life."

The recording artist spent a year in prison and a halfway house after pleading guilty to a federal weapons charge in connection with a 2007 incident in which he used a bodyguard to attempt to buy unregistered machine guns and silencers from an undercover government agent.

He was still on probation when he was arrested Sept. 1 in Los Angeles with his wife, Tameka Cottle, and charged with drug possession. A probation officer also named at Friday's hearing three violations of the rapper's supervised release from prison: possessing ecstasy, testing positive for opiates and associating with a convicted felon, the Journal-Constitution said.