BREAKING NEWS!!! Former Bad Boy Rapper LOON Got ARRESTED . . . For Selling HEROIN . . . They Say His MUSLIM Conversion Was A TRICK . . . To Keep Him OUT OF JAIL!!!

Rapper LOON was arrested - and is facing LIFE in prison. According to the feds, between 2006-2008 he was dealing HEROIN in North Carolina.

The feds claim that he converted to Islam, became an Imam and moved to ALGERIA (where the US has NO extradition treaty) to avoid charges that the DEA was about to bring against him.

Unfortunately for Loon, he left Algeria, and was picked up by INTERNATIONAL POLICE in Belgium. He was extradited to the United States.