Clark County prosecutors have got dropped a felony robbery case against gangster rapper YG just now years before it was due to go away to trial. The 32-year-old Scared Money star was accused of ripping a atomic number 79 chain from a fan’s make out at the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas inward May 2019.
YG, tangible identify Keenon Daequan Ray Jackson, was arrested the followers June inwards 2018 after surrendering to police force during an initial court of justice coming into court at the Regional Justice Center inwards Las Vegas. He was supercharged with robbery and grand larceny, which he denied, and released on $20,000 bail.
Defense attorney Gia Marina told Rolling Stone Mon that prosecutors dropped the charges because the alleged dupe “no longer wanted to act on the case” because he was out of state.
Jackson’s conduct lawyer, Joe Tacopina, added that in that location had been an come out of court of law settlement of a civic showcase brought by the victim. But this wasn’t an admission of guilt, he added.
“YG didn’t steal his chain,” Tacopina said. “This was a nuisance settlement. The piece lost his neck opening chemical chain during a scuffle. This was an out-of-court resolution that is confidential.”
No Selfies
Prosecutors claimed Mahalia Jackson was walking through and through the casino at around 4am on May 27, 2018, with his entourage of around a dozen people when the devotee approached to inquire for a selfie.
When the group pushed the adult male away, he responded that Glenda Jackson was not a “big famous person anyway.”
“Once he made that remark, the chemical group of men turned on him and started followers him,” according to the stoppage report. The victim told constabulary that Glenda Jackson so ripped the man’s chain off his neck, which was worth betwixt $3,000 and $9,000.
Casino surveillance picture shows the rapper walking off from the face-off with “a shiny object in his hand,” according to courtyard documents.
The unnamed victim sued Thomas Jonathan Jackson independently and was reported by TMZ to get been seeking $250,000 inward damages.
On-Stage Antics
Compton indigene Helen Hunt Jackson is a self-confessed member of the Bloods street gang. This wasn’t the world-class time his alleged conduct towards a buff has gotten him inwards trouble. In Oct 2019, he invited 17-year-old capital of Texas Joyner on leg and encouraged him to chant “Fuck Donald Trump.”
When Joyner refused, Jackson pushed him, called him a racist, and ordered him turned stage. Joyner later claimed he was told to pull up stakes the concert because Jesse Louis Jackson had “put a target area on my back.”
Jackson was also arrested in 2020 at his place in Los Angeles County on suspiciousness of robbery, just now years before he was scheduled to execute at the Grammys. Charges inwards that slip were also dropped.