Ol' Dirty Bastard, who last surfaced in New York during a November Wu-Tang Clan concert, is expected to return to that city in police custody this week to face outstanding drug charges, according to his lawyer.

The rapper, who is being held without bail in a Philadelphia jail as a fugitive, will waive extradition proceedings during a hearing on Tuesday morning, lawyer Larry Charles said Monday (December 18). That will allow New York police to transport him without further hearings, according to a spokesperson for the Philadelphia district attorney's office.

ODB is then expected to face crack-cocaine charges in Queens. "We just have to get a couple of detectives to pick him up — it takes a couple of days," said Ken Holder, bureau chief of narcotics trials for the Queens district attorney's office. "Then we'll see what we can do with the charges."

The rapper fled a court-mandated drug rehab program and became a fugitive in October, and then performed onstage the following month with the rest of the Wu-Tang Clan at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom.

He left the venue without being arrested, but police caught him a week later in a South Philadelphia McDonald's parking lot.

"He's kind of sad — he wants to get the whole thing over with," Charles said of ODB "He'd rather be on the road somewhere rapping."

ODB (born Russell Jones) is struggling with "some drug problems" and needs treatment, Charles said.

In addition to the Queens case, he also faces drug charges in Brooklyn, as well as charges of making terrorist threats, failing to pay child support and driving without a license.

The rapper could face four to seven years in prison if convicted of the drug charges, according to Charles, who said that he's attempted to buoy ODB's spirits by pointing to the bright side of his situation.

"I told him, 'There's no murder charge here. So even if you lose all these cases, you'll still get out as a young man,' " Charles said.

The rapper's New York lawyer, Peter Frankel, did not return a call for comment on Monday.

ODB had been living at the Impact House rehab center in Pasadena, California, after serving six months in county jail for violating his probation by drinking alcohol. The sentence stems from convictions for illegally wearing a bulletproof vest and making terrorist threats.

The rapper, who last year released his second solo album, N***a Please, still faces a California bench warrant for his arrest that was issued after he fled the center.