Crime and Punishment
More Charges Add Up For Young Thug After Police Raid Home
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Young Thug and several members of the alleged Young Stoner Life street gang were indicted on RICO and gang activity charges, with the Atlanta rapper now facing additional felony charges. After a raid of the popular and influential artist’s home, police tacked on a number of new charges in a case that is increasing in notoriety. WSB-TV reports that Young Thug, born Jeffrey Williams, saw his Buckhead home raided by Atlanta police, turning up a number of weapons and drugs thus adding to the gravity of the entertainer’s legal situation. Related Stories The news outlet obtained records from the Fulton County Jail listing out the additional charges Thugger faces, which include possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, possession o...
Mike Tyson Beats Charges For Slugging Unruly Plane Pest
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Al Bello / Getty Mike Tyson will not be charged by authorities after an incident on a flight where he punched an unruly passenger, which was caught on video. In a statement released to the press on Tuesday (May 10th), the San Mateo County (California) District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe said that his office will not seek charges against the former heavyweight champion. “We have reviewed the police reports of the San Francisco Police Department and the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office and have viewed the various videos collected by law enforcement from others on the airplane,” he began. Our decision is that we will not file any charges against Mr. Tyson based on the circumstances surrounding the confrontation. These include the conduct of the victim leadi...
Atlanta Rapper Young Thug & YSL Crew Hit With RICO Charges, Twitter Investigating
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Fulton County PD / Fulton County Sheriff’s Department On Monday *May 10), Atlanta rapper Young Thug was among 28 individuals who were arrested and hit with RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) conspiracy charges. Everyone was indicted by a grand jury and stands accused of being part of a street gang, with fellow rapper Gunna among those charged. Thugger got pinched in his own crib. Reports the New York Times: Mr. Williams has reshaped the rap world throughout his decade-plus career and inspired a host of emulators as he earned three No. 1 albums on the Billboard chart and collaborated with stars across the rap world and beyond. His arrest comes as District Attorney Fani Willis of Fulton County — a Democrat best known for investi...
Former Bad Boy Rep Legend Yung Joc Arrested For Child Abandonment
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Yung Joc has some explaining to do. The former Bad Boy South rapper now better known for his turn as a reality television star has been arrested for child endangerment. The Jasmine Brand reports that Joc got pinched in the wee hours of May 5 in Gwinett County, GA and posted his $1300 bail a few hours later. The rapper was reportedly pulled over for speeding, and the cops arrested him after running his information. Related Stories The rapper born Jasiel Amon Robinson was coughing driving, wait for it…with a suspended driver’s license. But Hollywood Unlocked was the first to report that the warrant that was out on Joc was for child abandonment. This is where it’s necessary to point out that Joc reportedly has eight children with f...
Hip-Hop Pioneer Kidd Creole Hit With 16-Year Sentence For Stabbing
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: New York Daily News / Getty Kidd Creole, a member of the pioneering Hip-Hop group Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, was given a 16-year sentence for the fatal 2017 stabbing of a homeless man. Creole, born Nathaniel Glover, rejected a plea deal that would’ve lessened his sentence to 10 years. The New York Daily News reports that Glover, 62, already spent five years at Rikers Island awaiting trial for the stabbing of John Jolly, who approached the veteran rapper on the street in Midtown. The outlet adds that Creole rejected the plea deal for manslaughter back in March of this year. Jolly was 55 at the time of his passing. Related Stories Creole said that Jolly frightened him as he was heading to work an overnight shift at a print shop near where the...
Hip-Hop Pioneer Kidd Creole Hit With 16-Year Sentence For Stabbing
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: New York Daily News / Getty Kidd Creole, a member of the pioneering Hip-Hop group Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, was given a 16-year sentence for the fatal 2017 stabbing of a homeless man. Creole, born Nathaniel Glover, rejected a plea deal that would’ve lessened his sentence to 10 years. The New York Daily News reports that Glover, 62, already spent five years at Rikers Island awaiting trial for the stabbing of John Jolly, who approached the veteran rapper on the street in Midtown. The outlet adds that Creole rejected the plea deal for manslaughter back in March of this year. Jolly was 55 at the time of his passing. Related Stories Creole said that Jolly frightened him as he was heading to work an overnight shift at a print shop near where the...
Man Arrested For Fatal Stabbing At Dave & Buster’s In Times Square
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Alexi Rosenfeld / Getty Violence in New York City has seen an uptick these past few years and it’s gotten to the point that even entertainment venues aren’t immune from the growing trend of savagery that’s been steadily engulfing the city that never sleeps. According to NBC News, a man was fatally stabbed at Dave & Busters in Times Square this past Saturday night (April 30) after a simple argument turned violent at the restaurant/entertainment establishment. According to the report the NYPD were called to the arcade just before 10:45pm and when they arrived they found 39-year-old Allen Stanford with a stab wound to the chest. Stanford was taken to St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital but unfortunately succumbed to his injuries. Related Stories Auth...
Florida Rapper Rod Wave Arrested For Battery By Strangulation
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Florida rapper Rod Wave was arrested over the weekend after police put out a warrant to bring him in. The St. Petersburg native was arrested for battery by strangulation and is currently awaiting charges regarding the matter. The Tampa Bay Times reports that Rod Wave, 23, was arrested during a traffic stop this past Sunday (May 1) in his hometown. The rapper whose real name is Rodarius Marcell Green was a passenger in the vehicle that was stopped ahead of Wave getting booked at the Pinellas County Jail. The arrest warrant originated from Osceola County according to Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson. As the Times adds in its reporting, Wave grew up in the Cromwell Heights section of town, gaining fame as a musician during ...
MTV’s ‘Making The Band’ Rapper Chopper Arrested For Sex Trafficking, Caught Via Instagram
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: New York Daily News Archive / Getty We’re going to guess this was not on your 2022 bingo card. Former MTV’s Make The Band star and rapper Chopper has been arrested for sex trafficking. According to law enforcement, the member of former Bad Boy Records group Da Band also happens to be a pimp. To add more salt to the struggle, Chopper got pinched when cops caught him booking rendezvous via Instagram. Reports TMZ: According to new legal docs, obtained by TMZ, an undercover vice detective in Nevada posing as a sex worker says Chopper direct messaged them on Instagram with an apparent offer to make money through prostitution. The undercover cop says they searched Chopper’s IG account and noticed several posts related to prostitution and pimping, including...
Archie Eversole Was Shot In The Face Sleeping, According To Cops
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty New details are currently emerging surrounding the tragic shooting death of “We Ready” rapper, Archie Eversole. According to a new report, Eversole was shot in the face while sleeping, with policing pinning the murder on his brother. TMZ obtained exclusive details about the shooting, writing that Eversole alerted police that he was shot was asleep but wasn’t aware that the shooter was his brother, later revealed to be Alexander Krause. From TMZ: Related Stories According to the police report … Archie told cops someone had kicked open his bedroom door and he was awakened by a gunshot to his face on March 25, but he couldn’t see who shot him. The docs say police then asked if the shooter was still in the home and he nodded his head yes...
Rapper Pooh Shiesty Catches 63 Month Prison Bid After Guilty Plea
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Pooh Sheisty is taking an extended, involuntary vacation. After pleading to guilty to gun charge in lieu of going to trial, the Memphis rapper received a 63-month prison sentence. The kicker is that Pooh was looking at more than the 5 years he agreed to. Reports TMZ: Pooh, whose real name is Lontrell Williams, was facing more than 8 years in prison, if prosecutors got their way — but his attorney, Bradford Cohen, tells TMZ … the government’s calculations were off. Cohen says they asked for no more than 63 months, which is exactly what the judge gave him. Pooh was busted for an October 2020 shootout involving himself and several other men. The incident went down in a Miami-area condo parking lot … and it left 2 men injured. Repor...
Mac Miller Drug Dealer Sentenced To 11 Years
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Lake Havasu Police Department / Lake Havasu PD It has been almost four years since the world lost the talents of Mac Miller way too soon. One of the reported drug dealers of the beloved Pittsburgh rapper has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. According to TMZ, the plug who provided the fentanyl-laced Oxycodone that eventually made it into Mac Miller’s possession got hit with a 10 years and 11 months sentence. Related Stories Ryan Reavis will be behind bars for 10 years and 11 months after pleading guilty in November to one count of distributing fentanyl. The sentence is longer than what Reavis himself had asked for — 5 years — but shorter than the 12.5 years prosecutors were gunning for. Remember … the feds say Reavis supplied the deadly oxycodone pill...
