CACHE COUNTY, Utah — A rapper with thousands and thousands of followers who was serving home arrest in Utah was arrested in Cache County for his alleged involvement in a “giant scale prescription fraud ring.”
NBA YoungBoy, whose actual title is Kentrell DeSean Gaulden, was booked Tuesday and faces 63 fees.
The alleged offenses are:
- Possession of a harmful weapon by restricted particular person (2nd-degree felony; 1 depend)
- Sample of illegal exercise (2nd-degree felony; 1 depend)
- Id fraud (Third-degree felony; 20 counts)
- Forgery (Third-degree felony; 20 counts)
- Procuring/trying to obtain drug/prescription (Class-A misdemeanor; 20 counts)
- Possession of managed substance (Class-B misdemeanor; 1 depend)
In keeping with the arrest report, 24-year-old Gaulden was a part of a scheme to fraudulently receive promethazine with codeine — which, in line with the Nationwide Library of Medication, is blended with Sprite and/or alcohol to make “purple drank” or “lean,” and is widespread with rappers.
Police say Gaulden and “many different people” (who weren’t named within the paperwork) tried to acquire the prescripted cough suppressant from a number of pharmacies in Cache County.
In keeping with police, Gaulden known as in a prescription supposedly for a 74-year-old girl to a pharmacy in Hyrum in September. They stated he claimed to be a doctor within the Provo space, utilizing “an precise, legitimate DEA quantity, NPI quantity and different identification for the true doctor.” The pharmacist observed that the cellphone quantity didn’t match the variety of stated physician’s clinic, in order that they known as the physician instantly. The physician stated he didn’t write a prescription for a lady by that title, and added that this type of factor “occurred a number of instances at the moment.”
Comparable incidents occurred at different pharmacies in Cache County, and police stated two girls picked up the prescription drugs throughout one occasion. They had been then detained as a part of the investigation and later arrested for his or her alleged involvement within the “prescription fraud ring.”
Police stated the car the ladies arrived in to select up the medication was registered to Gaulden. Then later, his enterprise supervisor contacted the sheriff’s workplace about getting the car out of impound. The officer requested to talk on to Gaulden. Whereas chatting with Gaulden, the arresting officer stated he heard somebody — probably Gaulden — recommend asking about “the prescription that they picked up.”
After investigating and studying of comparable incidents of fraudulent prescriptions allegedly being known as in to varied pharmacies, a search warrant for Gaulden’s residence in Weber County was accredited after which executed on Tuesday. The Cache County Sheriff’s Workplace reported that a number of companies, together with the FBI, the Secret Service and the Layton SWAT workforce, performed the search on his residence.
Police stated Gaulden denied any data of the prescription fraud, however they discovered a prescription bottle of Promethazine in his residence, with the title of the “affected person” on it that was allegedly known as in fraudulently.
Additionally they stated marijuana was discovered within the car that was impounded, which was registered to Gaulden. Additionally they discovered a gun inside his residence, which he claimed belonged to his spouse. Nonetheless, court docket paperwork state that the gun was “not in a secured location and in a spot simply and continuously accessible” by Gaulden, and he admitted to choosing it up and shifting it at one level.
He was booked within the Cache County Jail and denied bail.
Experiences point out the rapper was in Utah beneath home arrest after he was accused of federal gun and different fees.
Native media in Baton Rouge reported his attorneys argued that shifting Gaulden to Utah would preserve him out of hassle.
In December 2023, a federal choose reportedly lessened Gaulden’s home arrest circumstances to permit him psychological well being remedies.
Additionally in 2023, the rapper made headlines when he introduced his intent to be baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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