US EditionRapper Pooh Shiesty charged with kidnapping over alleged dispute involving rapper Gucci Mane’s label
Federal prosecutors say the nine defendants used a business meeting as a ruse and could face life in prison if convicted.
- On Thursday, the DOJ charged nine individuals, including Memphis rappers Lontrell Williams Jr., known as "Pooh Shiesty," and Rodney Wright Jr., known as "BIG30," with coordinated armed kidnapping and robbery at a Dallas music studio.
- Williams Jr. arranged the January 10 meeting purportedly to "discuss the terms of his recording contract with one of the victims," but federal authorities allege it served as a ruse for a violent takeover.
- During the incident, prosecutors allege Williams Jr. pulled an AK-style pistol and "forced one of the victims to sign a release from the recording contract at gunpoint," while Wright Jr. barricaded the exit.
- Eight suspects were arrested on Wednesday in Dallas, Memphis, and Nashville after investigators linked the group using ankle monitor data and social media posts flaunting stolen jewelry and cash.
- U.S. Attorney Ryan Raybould warned that such intimidation will be "vigorously investigated and prosecuted," noting defendants face potential life sentences after victims "were met with firearms and violence.
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Rapper Gucci Mane was the target of kidnapping and robbery plot by Pooh Shiesty, DOJ says
Rapper Gucci Mane was the victim of a kidnapping and robbery plot by a rapper signed to Mane's label earlier this year, the Department of Justice alleged in a criminal complaint unsealed Thursday.
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