NBA YoungBoy‘s authorized woes have gone from dangerous to worse after the rapper was arrested on a number of fees whereas serving home arrest in Utah.
In keeping with jail data obtained by HipHopDX, the Baton Rouge native (actual identify Kentrell Gaulden) was booked into Cache County Sheriff’s Workplace on Tuesday night (April 16).
He has been charged with a string of weapons, drug and fraud fees together with: sample of illegal exercise; procuring or making an attempt to acquire drug/prescription; identification fraud; forgery; possession of different managed substances; and possession of a harmful weapon by a restricted individual.
No bail has been set.
YoungBoy has been confined to his Salt Like Metropolis mansion since late 2021 after being indicted in his native Louisiana on fees of “felon in possession of a firearm.”
The 24-year-old, who was beforehand convicted in 2017 of aggravated assault with a weapon, was allegedly discovered with two weapons throughout a September 2020 music video shoot in Baton Rouge.
He was later arrested on these fees in Los Angeles following a short chase. One other gun was present in his automotive throughout that arrest, resulting in an analogous case introduced towards him by federal prosecutors in California.
In 2022, YoungBoy was acquitted on these fees however remains to be awaiting trial in Louisiana over the unique indictment.
The rapper’s alleged drug behavior was cited in a submitting by federal prosecutors in February, which accused him of violating the phrases of his home arrest by “us[ing] or unlawfully possess[ing] a narcotic drug or different managed substance.”
U.S. Legal professional Ronald C. Gathe, Jr. additional claimed that YoungBoy had “knowledgeable his supervising officer that he has no intentions to discontinue utilizing the substance that resulted within the violation.”
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The Final Slimeto MC has involved followers in current months with numerous social media posts that time to an obvious substance abuse drawback.
Earlier this 12 months, he posted a photograph on Instagram exhibiting him laid on the ground with a vacant look in his eyes subsequent to a bottle of prescription drugs and a Styrofoam cup filled with what seems to be lean.
He captioned the alarming picture: “& that’s why I don’t choose up my cellphone when it ring.”
In a December 2023 interview with Bootleg Kev, nonetheless, YoungBoy claimed that the notion of him being a heavy drug person was inaccurate.
“I went to rehab for a weekend not too long ago,” he revealed. “I nonetheless get a picture that I do loads of medication, so I type of get that thrown in my face like ‘Oh, this taking on his thoughts’ or one thing on the identical time … And now I’m type of taking up simply remedy to any extent further.”
