Judge Orders Rapper Pooh Shiesty To Remain In Custody In Case Involving Rapper Gucci Mane's Label

A national judge successful Texas connected Wednesday ordered rapper Pooh Shiesty to stay successful custody connected kidnapping charges aft allegedly pulling a weapon during a statement conflict involving rapper Gucci Mane ’s grounds label.

Pooh Shiesty, whose ineligible sanction is Lontrell Williams Jr., appeared earlier U.S. Magistrate Judge Renee Harris Toliver during a proceeding successful Dallas. Prosecutors person besides charged 8 others complete nan alleged January confrontation astatine a euphony studio, wherever nan victims were allegedly robbed astatine gunpoint.

Prosecutors person declined to sanction nan victims, and an FBI affidavit attached to a criminal title only refers to them by their initials. One victim, R.D., is described arsenic nan proprietor of 1017 Records, nan explanation belonging to Gucci Mane, whose ineligible sanction is Radric Delantic Davis.

“I find that nan weight of nan grounds against you is strong,” Toliver told Pooh Shiesty during nan hearing.

She noted that nan rapper had a criminal history and had violated a location confinement bid pursuing a anterior firearms conspiracy condemnation successful Florida.

During nan hearing, Bradford Cohen, nan rapper's attorney, raised questions astir overmuch of nan prosecution's evidence. “The FBI doesn’t return 3 months to apprehension personification if they judge everything that was said nan nighttime that it occurred,” Cohen said.

Prosecutors person accused nan rapper, who was arrested past week, of arranging nan euphony workplace gathering successful Dallas to talk nan position of his statement pinch 1017 Records.

According to an affidavit attached to a criminal complaint, Pooh Shiesty had asked to speak pinch nan grounds explanation proprietor privately successful a signaling room. He past allegedly produced statement termination paperwork and pulled retired what appeared to beryllium an AK-style pistol while forcing nan explanation proprietor to sign.

The rapper past took nan man’s wedding ring, watch, earrings and cash, according to nan affidavit.

Pooh Shiesty is from Memphis, Tennessee, but he is believed to person been precocious surviving successful a high-rise flat successful nan Dallas suburb of Frisco, according to nan affidavit. Several of nan defendants traveled from Memphis to Dallas up of nan meeting, according to nan affidavit.

Gucci Mane is wide regarded arsenic 1 of nan pioneers of trap euphony alongside chap Atlanta rappers T.I. and Jeezy. He emerged successful nan mid-2000s pinch his breakout azygous “Icy” and went connected to build a immense catalog.