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He also testified that two men kidnapped him in July 2018, forcing him into a stolen car at gunpoint and stopping at times to beat and taunt him before taking him to his Brooklyn home and stealing a bag full of jewelry.Ħix9ine's cooperation earned him leniency from prosecutors and scorn from fellow rappers, with Snoop Dogg calling him a “snitch.” In December 2019, 6ix9ine was sentenced to two years in federal prison. Since then, he's been in and out of court - and prison.įacing a mandatory minimum of 37 years in prison for gang crimes including allegedly orchestrating a shooting that left an innocent bystander wounded, 6ix9ine started cooperating with federal prosecutors and testifying against members of the gang, the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods. 3 on the pop charts in 2018, and “Stoopid,” featuring the incarcerated rapper Bobby Shmurda. He had a multiplatinum hit song, “Fefe,” with Nicki Minaj, which peaked at No. Messages seeking comment were left with lawyers who've represented the rapper in the past.Ħix9ine, a Brooklyn native, rocketed to fame as a hip-hop artist after becoming a social media phenomenon with millions of followers on Instagram. Online court records didn't list lawyers for the other members of Tekashi 6ix9ine’s security team who were charged. “For the most part, they’re unfounded," Cushner said. Laperuta's lawyer, Todd Cushner, said he was reviewing the charges against the former detective. Other members of the security team were expected to be arraigned later Monday. Laperuta pleaded not guilty Monday and was expected to post bail Monday afternoon. The security team fled in the SUVs as an unmarked police car drove up with lights flashing, Vance said.
When 6ix9ine's bodyguards finally confronted the man, boxing him in with their SUVs near the Apollo Theater, they knocked his cell phone out and stomped it, Vance said.Īs the man wrestled with one of the bodyguards in an attempt to get the phone back, Laperuta approached with his hand on his holstered gun and another bodyguard pointed a stun gun at the man, Vance said. The former NYPD detective, Daniel Laperuta, falsely claimed to police officers and a 911 dispatcher that the man being chased had threatened 6ix9ine’s team with a gun, Vance said. “As alleged, these highly-compensated vigilantes caravanned through the streets of Harlem with sirens flashing in order to track a man down and steal and break his phone,” Vance said. said in a written statement announcing the indictments.
“A celebrity entourage is not a police department, and Manhattan is not the Wild West,” Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.