NBA YoungBoy has requested an amendment to his house arrest rules, claiming that they’re in effect due to evidence provided by police officers who are now under investigation themselves.
According to court documents obtained by HipHopDX, the rapper (real name Kentrell DeSean Gaulden) wasn’t aware that the police who arrested him back in September of 2020 were also under investigation — and subsequently arrested — for a myriad of corruption charges.
As a result of the four officers being under arrest themselves, NBA YoungBoy submitted a memorandum of law in support of his amended release on Wednesday (November 1), pointing out that doing so would be a question of honoring his human rights.
“18 U.S.C. § 3142(f), allows for the detention hearing to be reopened at any time before trial if the judicial officer finds that information exists that was not known to the movant at the time of the hearing and that has a material bearing on the issue of whether there are conditions of release that will reasonably assure the appearance of the person as required and the safety of any other person and the community,” reads the memorandum.
It continues: “Out of an abundance of caution, Mr. Gaulden shows that there is new information that exists that was not known to the movant at the time of the hearing and that has a material bearing on the conditions of his release.
“More specifically, four BRPD Street Crimes Unit officers, all of whom were involved in the September 28, 2020, round-up and arrest of Mr. Gaulden and nearly 20 other individuals, have now been arrested as a direct result of their misconduct in relation to this very investigation.”
The Baton Rouge native goes on to say that the sales of his album have been suffering due to his inability to travel at will, and that he doesn’t want to “burden this Honorable Court with each employment-related request but needs the ability to request such activities in order to maintain his employment as ordered.”
Check out the full memorandum below:
NBA YoungBoy has been feeling the strain of being intermittently locked up, as evidenced by a recently resurfaced video from a 2019 arrest.
The undated video went viral on social media last month. In the video, the Baton Rouge native can be seen pacing back and forth in one of the holding cells, before going up to the police and threatening violence.
“I’ll break one of your phones first,” NBA Youngboy said to one of the officers, who responded: “You’re not going get my phone.”
“I mean payphone,” the rapper clarified.
The officer can then be seen informing the “I Need To Know” rapper that he was in a holding cell, not a jail, and that he would be released as soon as his lawyer showed up.
2019 was quite a rough year for NBA Youngboy. In addition to being arrested for marijuana possession — which is where the resurfaced video came from — he was sent to the slammer in August 2019 for three months on a probation violation.
He was then placed on three years of probation with a suspended 10-year prison sentence after striking a plea deal in his 2016 shooting case. Although he stayed out of trouble for awhile, he found himself in a precarious situation in May following a fatal shooting during Rolling Loud Miami weekend.
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At a hearing later that month, District Judge Bonnie Jackson ruled a social media post involving the incident constituted a probation violation and promptly sent him back to jail.
The Baton Rouge rapper’s attorney said the shooting was an “assassination attempt” on his life, insisting he was the victim. Nevertheless, Jackson still penalized him for the event.
YoungBoy was then placed on house arrest for 14 months to serve out the rest of his probation.
In an article published by the Miami Herald, YoungBoy’s attorney, James Manasseh, said his client wants to help the victim’s family in any way possible. He added he wishes he would’ve been killed instead.
“He told me, ‘I wish they would have gotten me, not him,’” Manasseh said.
