November 07, 2024 03:47 am IST
Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine reaches deal to end prison sentence
NEW YORK — Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine has reached a deal to end his current prison term, prosecutors said Wednesday, after serving a month behind bars for violating the terms of his release after a felony conviction. Have agreed.
The deal with federal prosecutors was described in a letter partially supported by a Manhattan federal judge. It demands that the entertainer be sentenced to one month’s jail, followed by one month’s home arrest, one month’s home detention and one month’s curfew. He will also be subject to electronic monitoring.
Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said he would sentence the artist, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, immediately after he admitted the violations at a Nov. 12 hearing. He said he would have to explain to each side why a one-month jail sentence followed by three months of home confinement, house arrest or curfew for repeated violations of probation is sufficient.
The terms of the deal also call for Tekashi 6ix9ine to submit to the supervision of the court’s probation department for another year.
Tekashi 6ix9ine, 28, was within a few months of being released from court supervision when he was arrested on October 29 after his probation officer complained that he was violating rules for obtaining prior approval for travel. and he failed a drug test. ,
In 2019, Engelmayer sentenced him to two years in prison in a racketeering case after the musician pleaded guilty the same year to charges of involvement in a gang called the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods and directing violence.
In April 2020, Tekashi 6ix9ine was released months early from his prison sentence after he complained that his illnesses made him particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus, which has spread in the country’s prisons and jails. Had been.
Engelmayer expressed frustration at the artist’s apparent failure to follow rules, saying at a hearing last month that they had granted him compassionate release during the coronavirus crisis.
The rapper apologized and told the judge he was “not a bad person.”
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