After being busted and jailed for marijuana possession and resisting arrest in Nairobi, Kenya on Jan. 31, charges were quickly dropped against Barack Obama's half-brother George. "They took me from my home," he said. "I don't know why."

Police say Obama was rounded up with others who had marijuana. "Being found with people who are in possession of cannabis is a petty offense," an official stated.

Possession of any quantity of marijuana in Kenya can carry a life sentence, and those accused are denied bail.

George is Barack Obama's half-brother. He lives in the Huruma slum area of Kenya's capitol. Their father, Barack Obama Sr., died in a car accident six months after George was born in 1982. George's mother is Jael Otieno.

George barely knows Barack and did not attend the inauguration. Obama has called meeting George a "painful affair."

It has been reported that George makes one dollar a day.

"I was brought up well," he's said. "I live well even now. The magazines have exaggerated everything. I kind of like it here. There are some challenges, but maybe it is just like where you come from, there are the same challenges."

Pres. Obama has yet to comment on his brother's arrest. It's not known if the State Department intervened in George Obama's behalf.


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