Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine has pleaded responsible to violating his supervised launch by possessing cocaine and MDMA, his second such breach of a plea deal he struck with prosecutors in 2018 to testify towards his former Brooklyn gangmates.
The brand new costs stem from a raid on the rapper’s Miami dwelling in March. In public statements on the time, the rapper (actual identify Daniel Hernandez) mentioned that officers had seized firearms and medicines throughout the incident, however he denied any wrongdoing.
In accordance with courtroom information, the 29-year-old rapper appeared Wednesday in Paul A. Engelmayer’s federal courtroom, the place he admitted to 2 counts of drug possession in violation of his supervised launch. These costs are linked to cocaine and MDMA — the celebration drug often called Molly or ecstasy — discovered throughout the raid.
In return for the responsible plea, prosecutors agreed to drop two extra counts Tekashi was dealing with. He’ll be sentenced in September, when the punishment may vary from just a few months to years of latest jail time.
As soon as a rising star on the planet of hip-hop and social media, Tekashi was charged in November 2018 with serving to the 9 Trey Gangsta Bloods gang as they “wreaked havoc on New York Metropolis.” However only a day after being arrested, Tekashi minimize a take care of federal prosecutors to flip on his crew in return for lenience.
Beneath the phrases of that deal, Tekashi was sentenced to only two years in jail and 5 years of supervised launch. He was launched even earlier, in April 2020, after his legal professionals argued that the COVID-19 pandemic posed well being dangers attributable to his bronchial asthma.
With simply months left on his five-year supervised launch, Tekashi was charged in November with violating the phrases of the deal by taking methamphetamine, failing to seem for drug assessments, touring to Las Vegas with out permission and different wrongdoing.
After admitting to those violations in a brand new take care of prosecutors, the choose ordered Tekashi into jail for 45 days and prolonged his time period of supervised launch to a 12 months after his launch from jail. On the time, Decide Engelmayer sharply scolded the rapper, saying Tekashi apparently doesn’t “consider the principles apply” to him: “Your breach of the courtroom’s belief is profound.”
Will probably be the identical Decide Engelmayer sentencing Tekashi for the brand new violations in September. At Wednesday’s look, per AP, the choose warned the rapper that the “penalties might be extreme” if there are extra violations earlier than that sentencing listening to.