By Jonathan Kaminsky
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Robert Durst, the real estate scion awaiting extradition to California to face a murder charge, was indicted on weapons charges in New Orleans on Wednesday, the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office said.
Durst, recently featured in the HBO documentary "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst," has been charged with the 2000 murder of a longtime friend in Los Angeles County and has sought a swift extradition to face that charge.
Durst, 71, was indicted on two Louisiana gun charges for illegally possessing a firearm as a felon and for carrying a weapon with a controlled substance, according to Assistant District Attorney Christopher Bowman, a spokesman for Orleans Parish District.
Durst's attorney had argued that his arrest last month and the initial search of his hotel room were improperly conducted.
(Reporting by Jonathan Kaminsky in New Orleans; Writing by Letitia Stein in Tampa; Editing by Will Dunham)
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