ODB Is M.I.A.

By Stephen M. Silverman

10/22/1997 at 12:00 AM EDT

An arrest warrant has been issued for Wu-Tang Clan rapper ODB (real name: Russell Jones), 31, after he reportedly ran away -- on foot -- from Impact House, a California drug-treatment facility last week. He got away, says New York's Daily News, just as he was about to be transported to the Los Angeles Criminal Court for a conference with a judge. ODB had been in the program since June, after serving six months in jail for violating probation. Meanwhile, earlier this week Grammy-winning rapper Stanley Howse -- aka Flesh-N-Bone -- received a two-year prison sentence, stemming from a January weapons charge. It will run concurrently with an 11-year sentence that he received last month for a December assault incident.