PHOTOS: Mike Johnson’s Adopted son has 18 arrests in his rap sheet for drug paraphernalia and theft

Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Mike Johnson’s Adopted son has 18 arrests in his rap sheet for drug paraphernalia and theft.

MIKE JOHNSON’S ADOPTED BLACK SON HAS BEEN ARRESTED 18 TIMES:

In an interview with DailyMail.Com, which was published on Friday, James praised the Johnson family for making him feel “loved like I was a part of their family,” while adding that he thanks “God all the time for giving them both the strength, patience, and unwavering faith that inspired me to do better and be better.”

The ‘adopted’ black son of new House Speaker Mike Johnson has spoken out for the first time in an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com.

Michael Tirrell James said he would ‘probably be in prison’ were it not for Johnson – after he appeared in a Los Angeles court Wednesday on charges of running an illegal cannabis business and possessing brass knuckles.

But now DailyMail.com can reveal how the top GOP lawmaker and his wife Kelly informally adopted James after meeting him while doing charitable community work in Louisiana in the 1990s.

James went on to have a string of conflicts with law enforcement, beginning just a few years after the Johnsons took him in, and continuing to this day.

His rap sheet extends back to 2003 and includes a long list of drug-related and other petty crimes, some of which landed him in jail, DailyMail.com can reveal.

“At the time of the Speaker’s election to Congress, Michael was an adult with a family of his own,” she added. “He asked not to be involved in their new public life. The Speaker has respected that sentiment throughout his career and maintains a close relationship with Michael to this day.”

James credited the Johnsons, who are evangelical Christians, with keeping him out of prison in his DailyMail.Com interview, saying: “If the Johnsons hadn’t taken me in as a teenager, my life would look very different today. I would probably be in prison or I might not have made it at all.”

Shortly after Johnson’s ascension to the speakership, questions were raised online about his family’s relationship with James. Some even suggested that James might not be a real person, due in part to him not being featured alongside Johnson’s four biological children in campaign materials.

The 51-year-old House Speaker, elected October 25 after three weeks of confusion following the ousting of previous Speaker Kevin McCarthy, has revealed he informally adopted James, a Baton Rouge then-teenager, and raised him during the first few years of his marriage.

James told DailyMail.com: ‘If the Johnsons hadn’t taken me in as a teenager, my life would look very different today. I would probably be in prison or I might not have made it at all.’

The Louisiana Republican congressman first met James in 1996 while volunteering with Young Life, a Christian ministry catering to middle and high school teens.

The future speaker, then a 24-year-old law school student, became a mentor for the 14-year-old boy, a source close to the Speaker’s office said.

When James became homeless in 1999 age 16, newlyweds Mike and Kelly Johnson took him in, filing papers with the local Baton Rouge district court to become his legal guardians.