NBA YoungBoy Faces New Federal Gun Charge From April Arrest
NBA YoungBoy is now going through a brand new federal gun case simply as his previous one is winding up.
On Monday (August 19), NBA (actual title Kentrell Gaulden) was charged in U.S. District Court in Utah with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
He is accused of possessing a Sig Sauer P365 9mm semi-automatic pistol. The gun is prohibited for anybody who has “previously been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year,” the prosecutor clarified.
According to authorities, the weapon was discovered on April 16 of this 12 months, which is when Gaulden was arrested on quite a few state expenses associated to his alleged involvement in a prescription drug ring.
During that arrest, a number of businesses, together with the FBI, searched his Utah house.
This new cost comes simply days after Gaulden agreed to plead responsible in a unique federal gun case, this one from Louisiana.
That earlier gun possession case dates again to 2020, when YoungBoy was caught carrying a gun whereas filming a music video in his hometown of Baton Rouge.
The case was initially going to be heard in Louisiana, however after YoungBoy agreed in writing to plead responsible to firearms possession, the court docket has moved it to Utah, the place the rapper faces drug fraud expenses from the aforementioned April arrest — in addition to this new federal gun cost.
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The alleged prescription drug fraud scheme labored like this, in response to an affidavit: “A suspect calls in a prescription, claiming the identity of a real doctor and using a fraudulent patient name and birthday, all for Promethazine with Codeine. Sometime after the prescriptions are called in, they are filled and picked up by [YoungBoy and/or people referred to as ‘Known Associates’ 1 and 2].”
The rapper even allegedly impersonated a health care provider throughout the scheme however raised suspicion when he used the phrase “axed” as a substitute of “asked.”
In the case, YoungBoy was initially charged with 63 counts regarding identification fraud, forgery, acquiring a prescription beneath false pretenses, possession of a harmful weapon by a restricted particular person, a sample of illegal exercise and possession of a managed substance.
He later had extra expenses added to his sheet together with possession of a firearm by a restricted particular person and two counts of acquiring a prescription with out permission, in response to KUTV.
