NBA YoungBoy Granted Six Figure Bond In Prescription Drug Case
NBA YoungBoy‘s bond has officially been set as the rapper faces some large rates in his prescription drug fraud circumstance.
In accordance to FOX eightin New Orleans, YB’s bond was established at $one hundred,000 in the course of a court docket hearing in the situation on Thursday (Could 9).
An arraignment is scheduled for July.
You can appear at pics of the rapper in courtroom beneath.
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YoungBoy was arrested final thirty day period in connection with a prescription drug fraud ring in Utah.
The alleged strategy worked like this, according to the affidavit: “A suspect telephone calls in a prescription, declaring the identity of a really serious health-related experienced and employing a fraudulent person title and birthday, all for Promethazine with Codeine. Sometime following the prescriptions are named in, they are filled and picked up by [YoungBoy and/or people referred to as ‘Known Associates’ 1 and 2].”
The rapper even allegedly impersonated a health-related medical professional for the duration of the strategy but raised suspicion when he utilized the phrase “axed” in its location of “asked.”
NBA YoungBoy (genuine title Kentrell Gaulden) was formerly charged with 63 counts relating to identification fraud, forgery, getting a prescription beneath bogus pretenses, possession of a unsafe weapon by a restricted man or lady, a sample of unlawful activity and possession of a managed compound.
The controversial rapper afterwards seasoned far more charges further to his sheet such as possession of a firearm by a restricted man or lady and two counts of finding a prescription with no getting permission, in accordance to KUTV.
The Final Slimeto star was on dwelling arrest in Salt Lake Metropolis at the time of his arrest. He seasoned been confined there considering that late 2021 quickly following being indicted in his indigenous Louisiana on charges of “felon in possession of a firearm.”
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YoungBoy, who was earlier convicted in 2017 of aggravated assault with a weapon, was allegedly found with two guns for the duration of a September 2020 music on the web video shoot in Baton Rouge.
He was later arrested on these rates in Los Angeles following a brief chase. However one more gun was positioned in his auto via that arrest, main to a really equivalent circumstance brought versus him by federal prosecutors in California.
In 2022, YoungBoy was acquitted on these persons charges but is even now awaiting demo in Louisiana more than the key indictment.
