CACHE COUNTY, Utah (WAFB) – Baton Rouge native and rap celebrity, NBA YoungBoy, has been arrested in Utah, the place he has been serving strict home arrest throughout authorized proceedings stemming from a pair of arrests throughout a music video shoot in 2020.
In keeping with jail data from the Cache County Sheriff’s Workplace, the 24-year-old, whose actual identify is Kentrell Gaulden, was booked on a number of expenses Tuesday night, April 16 round 6:30 p.m.
Jail data present YoungBoy was taken into custody on the next expenses:
- sample of illegal exercise
- procuring or trying to obtain drug/prescription
- id fraud
- forgery
- possession of different managed substances
- possession of a harmful weapon by a restricted particular person
YoungBoy is awaiting trial for federal gun expenses, which was paused in March pending the U.S. Supreme Courtroom’s ruling on Second Modification rights this spring.
The rapper was indicted in March 2021 after allegedly being discovered with two weapons throughout a September 2020 incident in Baton Rouge. Sixteen folks had been arrested on drug and firearm expenses whereas filming a music video in an deserted lot.
In July 2022, a federal jury in Los Angeles discovered YoungBoy not responsible of “knowingly” possessing a firearm throughout an arrest following a quick foot chase in California.
He has been serving home arrest in Utah, beneath the surveillance of a safety agency staffed by army veterans. Final December, a federal choose lessened the circumstances of his home arrest to permit YoungBoy entry to psychological well being therapies, however denied him extra time within the recording studio, regardless of arguments that his file gross sales have suffered resulting from his lockdown.
An lawyer representing YoungBoy issued a press release saying partly, “Everyone seems to be presumed harmless and he has been falsely accused up to now.”
No bail has been set.
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