NBA YoungBoy is now dealing with a brand new federal gun case simply as his outdated one is winding up.
On Monday (August 19), NBA (actual title Kentrell Gaulden) was charged in U.S. District Court docket in Utah with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
He’s accused of possessing a Sig Sauer P365 9mm semi-automatic pistol. The gun is prohibited for anybody who has “beforehand been convicted of against the law punishable by imprisonment for a time period exceeding one 12 months,” the prosecutor clarified.
In keeping with authorities, the weapon was discovered on April 16 of this 12 months, which is when Gaulden was arrested on quite a few state prices associated to his alleged involvement in a prescription drug ring.
Throughout that arrest, a number of businesses, together with the FBI, searched his Utah residence.
This new cost comes simply days after Gaulden agreed to plead responsible in a special 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 courtroom has moved it to Utah, the place the rapper faces drug fraud prices 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 identification of an actual physician and utilizing a fraudulent affected person title and birthday, all for Promethazine with Codeine. Someday after the prescriptions are referred to as in, they’re stuffed and picked up by [YoungBoy and/or people referred to as ‘Known Associates’ 1 and 2].”
The rapper even allegedly impersonated a physician throughout the scheme however raised suspicion when he used the phrase “axed” as an alternative of “requested.”
Within the case, YoungBoy was initially charged with 63 counts regarding identification fraud, forgery, acquiring a prescription underneath false pretenses, possession of a harmful weapon by a restricted individual, a sample of illegal exercise and possession of a managed substance.
He later had extra prices added to his sheet together with possession of a firearm by a restricted individual and two counts of acquiring a prescription with out permission, in response to KUTV.
