Getting your grill repossesed

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Feds try to seize suspects\' fancy teeth
Costly \'grillz\' have been popularized by rappers

Friday, April 7, 2006; Posted: 12:12 p.m. EDT (16:12 GMT)

TACOMA, Washington (AP) -- Talk about taking a bite out of crime...

Government lawyers tried to remove and confiscate the gold dental work known as \"grills\" or \"grillz\" from the mouths of two men facing drug charges.

Flenard T. Neal Jr. and Donald Jamar Lewis, charged with several drug and weapon violations, were taken on Tuesday from the Federal Detention Center to the U.S. Marshal\'s office, where they were told the government had a warrant to seize their grills.

Before being put into a vehicle to be taken to a dentist in Seattle, they called their lawyers, who were able to halt the seizure, said Miriam Schwartz, Neal\'s public defender. A permanent stay of the seizure order was signed Tuesday by U.S. Magistrate J. Kelley Arnold, court documents show.

Grills, popularized by rappers such as Nelly, are customized tooth caps made of precious metals and jewels and can cost thousands of dollars for a full set. Some can be snapped onto the teeth like an orthodontic retainer, and others are permanently bonded to the teeth.

Neal and Lewis have permanently bonded grills, their lawyers said, declining to provide more description.

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How do you floss with all of that crap in your mouth?

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Now Zach Randolph has bought that look to his mouthguard.

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