Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine tried unsuccessfully Tuesday to steer a federal choose to not ship him to jail, calling him “bro” and insisting he by no means meant to violate the phrases of his probation from a felony conviction.
Judge Paul A. Engelmayer in Manhattan ordered him detained for a minimum of two weeks, citing alleged misconduct equivalent to failing drug assessments and declining to acquire required permission to journey — acts that he stated would replicate a scarcity of respect for the legislation.
The choose additionally famous that the performer left the Dominican Republic this yr, violating a courtroom order to stay there after he was arrested in January on home violence fees and detained in October 2023 after he was accused of assaulting a neighborhood music producer. His attorneys say he’s being handled unfairly there in a corrupt judicial system.
In 2019, Engelmayer sentenced him to 2 years in jail in a racketeering case. The musician, whose actual title is Daniel Hernandez, pleaded responsible in 2019 to fees accusing him of becoming a member of and directing violence by the gang often called Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.
Tekashi 6ix9ine was supposed to look in courtroom on Tuesday morning. When he didn’t, Engelmayer signed an arrest warrant. When the rapper confirmed up later that morning, he was arrested and accused of violating his probation repeatedly by what a prosecutor described as a “pattern of noncompliance.”
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Engelmayer, who had freed Tekashi 6ix9ine months early in April 2020 by granting a compassionate launch request due to risks the coronavirus posed for him, was stern because the rapper sat earlier than him.
He appeared to melt considerably after Tekashi 6ix9ine insisted on addressing him instantly.
The rapper apologized for coming to courtroom late.
“I’m not a bad person,” he stated, noting that he completed four-and-a-half years of a five-year time period of supervised launch however bumped into issues after his supervision was switched in July from courtroom officers in New York to courtroom officers within the Southern District of Florida, the place he lives now.
He argued with a prosecutor’s claims that he didn’t request permission as required to go to Las Vegas in early September for a present in entrance of 20,000 individuals, and he stated he skipped two drug-testing appointments as a result of he thought they weren’t required after an earlier optimistic check for marijuana use proved misguided.
“I feel like I did nothing wrong,” he stated, although rapidly he added that he knew he’d accomplished a number of issues that had been “technically” fallacious.
Otherwise, he stated, he’d been “squeaky clean.”
He additionally stated his life was tough and the “past four years has been bad, bro.”
He added: “Freedom is everything for me.”
Later, Tekashi 6ix9ine addressed the choose extra usually, saying his failure to indicate as much as a few drug assessments was “just a misunderstanding, your honor.” He insisted he’s by no means accomplished medication and {that a} drug check that discovered methamphetamine resulted from pharmaceuticals that contained traces of the substance.
At one other level, he instructed Engelmayer: “I’m not a piece of…” earlier than pausing, apparently to decide on the precise phrases, earlier than saying: “I’m not a bad person.”
The choose conceded that there may be justification for a few of his habits, however he stated he sensed the rapper had been “cutting corners.”
After the listening to, the rapper’s lawyer, Lance Lazzaro, stated in an e-mail that his shopper was charged with three “technical violations” of his supervised launch and that he was “confident that each specification will be dismissed.”
The musician’s subsequent listening to is scheduled for Nov. 12.
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