Crime and Punishment
Atlanta Rapper Cash Out Indicted For Sex Trafficking, Rape
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ilya S. Savenok / Getty Atlanta rapper Cash Out, who emerged on the Hip-Hop scene over a decade ago and notched a pair of charting hits, was recently indicted on charges of sex trafficking and rape. According to a new report, Cash Out was arrested with four others who allegedly promised financial favor and standing within a company that was formed to promote the rapper’s brand. Local outlet CBS46 reports that Cash Out, real name John Michael Hakeem Gibson, is currently on the hook for multiple charges of rape, sex trafficking, and coercing women into prostitution per the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office. Cash Out and his co-defendants established the Pyrez Music Group LLC under the guise that it would be a company used to promote the rapper’s brand and busi...
Cuba Gooding Jr. Pleads Guilty In Forcible Touching Case, Avoids Jail
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Michael Reaves / Getty Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. made the move to plead guilty in the court case where he was charged with forcibly touching a woman, avoiding jail time as a result, and leaving the victims disappointed with the judge’s ruling. According to reports, the Jerry McGuire actor pleaded guilty in Manhattan Supreme Court on Wednesday (April 13th) to one count of forcible touching. Gooding Jr. had been accused of groping a woman’s breast at a nightclub in midtown Manhattan on June 9th, 2019. The victim was one of three women who would accuse the actor of forcible sexual touching, but the actor’s plea was for a different case where he kissed a woman against her consent in a nightclub in September 2018. Gooding Jr. would admit to committing that ...
New York DA Dispels Rumors That Donald Trump Investigation Has Stalled
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: New York Daily News / Getty Donald Trump has spent his entire presidency and post-presidency stacking scandals on top of each other and self-absolving by shouting “fake news” at everything that breathes with hopes that repetition can change a lie into truth. He’s like the Kid Rock of Richard Nixons. He’s a whole clown and, according to a New York district attorney, he’s still the suspect of an ongoing criminal investigation. According to Raw Story, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg issued a statement on Thursday to reassure people that his office hasn’t ended its investigation of the president who demonstrably tried to steal an election that was never stolen from him by claiming ad nauseam, and without a shred of evidence, that it was. (That’s not w...
New York DA Dispels Rumors That Donald Trump Investigation Has Stalled
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: New York Daily News / Getty Donald Trump has spent his entire presidency and post-presidency stacking scandals on top of each other and self-absolving by shouting “fake news” at everything that breathes with hopes that repetition can change a lie into truth. He’s like the Kid Rock of Richard Nixons. He’s a whole clown and, according to a New York district attorney, he’s still the suspect of an ongoing criminal investigation. According to Raw Story, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg issued a statement on Thursday to reassure people that his office hasn’t ended its investigation of the president who demonstrably tried to steal an election that was never stolen from him by claiming ad nauseam, and without a shred of evidence, that it was. (That’s not w...
Group Of Teens Slash & Beat A Man In NYC Subway
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NYPD / NYPD For a while now the crime rate for New York City subway stations have been steadily climbing with no end in sight and the violence that erupted earlier this week on a subway train is the latest example of how bad things have gotten. The New York Post is reporting that on Wednesday (April 6) a 48-year-old man was riding a northbound B train around 4:20 p.m. when he crossed paths with a group of rowdy teenagers believed to be between the ages of 16 and 17. As the train moved abruptly as trains are known to do, one of the teens accidentally stepped on the man’s shoes and sparked an argument between the two on the spot. Unfortunately for the 48-year-old, these kids were about that life. Related Stories “The group of suspects then punched the rider...
Arrest Made In Murder Of Young Thug’s Baby Mother LaKevia Jackson
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Fulton County Sheriff’s Office / Atlanta PD On March 17, LaKevia Jackson, who happened to be the mother of one of rapper Young Thug’s sons, was killed after a dispute in a bowling alley. A man with a lengthy rap sheet, Joshua Fleetwood, has been arrested in connection with the murder. On Thursday (March 31), the Atlanta PD announced that Fleetwood has been arrested and charged felony murder, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, according to TMZ. The circumstances about the shooting and her subsequent death are disturbing. Reportedly, Jackson and the killer got into a dispute in a bowling alley over a bowling ball at the Metro Fun Center on a Thursday night. She was there celebrati...
NYC Woman Charged In Kidnap, Torture & Ransom Of Online Date
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Facebook / facebook If y’all don’t already know by now them internet streets is a wild place to get caught with your pants down and a hopeless romantic in New York City found that out the hard way thanks to a “love connection” he made via Instagram. According to The New York Post, a 24-year-old man was jumped and tortured after making his way to a Marble Hill Ave apartment in the Bronx at 1 a.m. where he thought he was going to meet a woman he’d been chatting up online. Turns out that 22-year-old Valerie Rosario was a part of a group of sadists and after the man arrived at the apartment, three other men barged in and began pistol whipping him, and that was only the beginning. “Rosario and the accomplices then allegedly stripped the victim, “placed him in ...
Jussie Smollett Sentenced To 5 Months In Jail, Says He’s Not Suicidal and Innocent
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Pool / Getty Actor Jussie Smollett was sentenced to five months in jail for the crime of faking a hate crime. Last year, the former Empire star was convicted of filing a false police report. Smollet infamously claimed that he was a victim of a racist and homophobic attack in 2019. However, soon after his claims, and with digging from investigators, his story started getting shaky. Ultimately, a pair of brothers claimed Smollett orchestrated the whole thing, and although he still maintains his innocence, a jury agreed with prosecutors that it was all a hoax. On Thursday (March 10), a Chicago judge sentence Smollett to 150 months in jail. Judge James B. Linn read Smollett the riot act. “There are people that are actual, genuine victims of hate crimes that y...
Trey Songz Allegedly Accused of Anal Sexual Assault By Third Woman
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty R&B singer Trey Songz has just been hit with a $20 million lawsuit alleging that he committed sexual assault, filed against him by a woman who claims that he became a “savage rapist”. According to reports, the allegation against the “Slow Motion” artist was made by a woman referred to as Jane Doe, who claimed that he anally raped her at a house party in Los Angeles, California. The incident allegedly took place at the party which was held on March 24, 2016. The victim states in the filing that she and Trey Songz did have a consensual sexual relationship prior to the incident and that he had invited her upstairs for what she believed would be consensual relations. It was on the way upstairs that she claimed that he repeatedly asked...
4 Arrested In Connection To Overdose Death Of Michael K. Williams
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Rodin Eckenroth / Getty The tragic passing of celebrated actor Michael K. Williams last year was a shock to many of his adoring fans and colleagues in the industry, and now a new development in the case emerged. Four men were arrested in connection to the overdose death of Williams after the use of surveillance cameras and other investigative means. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York made an announcement on Wednesday (Feb. 2) that they arrested four defendants who they allege sold Williams a tainted batch of drugs that led to his overdose death. One man, Irvin Cartagena aka “Green Eyes,” was arrested in Puerto Rico this past Tuesday while Hector Robles aka “Oreja,” Luis Cruz aka “Mostro,” and Carlos Macci aka “Carlito” were a...
Two Officers Shot And Killed At Bridgewater College Campus
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ashland PD / Ashland PD A few weeks after two police officers were shot and killed in Harlem during a domestic disturbance call, two more officers have been shot in killed at Bridgewater College in Virginia. ABC 7 is reporting that Campus Police Officer John Painter and Campus Safety Officer J.J. Jefferson were shot and killed yesterday (February 1) after responding to calls of an active shooter on the campus. Known as the “dynamic duo” to those who knew them, college president Dr. David W. Bushman released a statement on the tragic shooting of the two friend. “These officers were close friends, known to many of us as the “dynamic duo,” Bushman wrote. ”John was J.J.’s best man in his wedding this year. They were beloved by students, faculty and staff. I h...
Jordan Brand’s Larry Miller Seeks Forgiveness For 1960s Murder He Committed
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Aurelien Meunier – PSG / Getty The memoir of senior Nike executive and former NBA team president Larry Miller has gained some notoriety upon its release, leading to his seeking forgiveness from the family of the person he murdered decades ago. In reporting from the New York Times, the book that Miller wrote with his daughter, titled Jump: My Secret Journey From the Streets to the Boardroom, was published on Tuesday (January 18). One key segment of the book discusses how Miller, as a 16-year old gang member in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania pled guilty to the second-degree murder of Edward David White back in 1965. He wrote about that crime as well as other crimes he committed before rehabilitating his life and becoming the former president of the Portland Tra...
