NBA As his last federal gun case comes to an end, YoungBoy is currently dealing with a new one.
NBA, real name Kentrell Gaulden, was accused of being a felon in possession of a handgun by the U.S. District Court in Utah on Monday, August 19.
He is charged with having a semi-automatic 9mm Sig Sauer P365 handgun. Anyone who has “previously been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year” is not allowed to own a gun, according to the prosecutor.
The firearm was discovered on April 16, this year, when Gaulden was taken into custody on multiple state counts pertaining to his purported involvement in a prescription drug network, according to the authorities.
Several organizations, including the FBI, searched his residence in Utah during that arrest.
Gaulden consented to enter a guilty plea in a separate federal firearms case, this one from Louisiana, only days prior to this latest indictment.
In 2020, while recording a music video in his hometown of Baton Rouge, YoungBoy was discovered to be in possession of a gun. This is when the previous gun possession case occurred.
The rapper faces narcotics fraud charges from the previously mentioned April arrest in addition to this new federal gun charge. The case was originally scheduled to be handled in Louisiana, but the court transferred it to Utah when YoungBoy consented in writing to plead guilty to weapons possession.
According to an affidavit, the suspected prescription drug fraud scheme operated as follows: “A suspect calls in a prescription for Promethazine with Codeine, claiming to be a real doctor and using a fictitious patient name and birthday. Prescriptions are filled and picked up by [YoungBoy and/or others referred to as “Known Associates” 1 and 2] at some point after they are called in.
During the plan, the rapper even purportedly passed for a doctor, but when he used the word “axed” rather than “asked,” suspicion was aroused.
YoungBoy was initially accused with 63 charges in the case, including identity theft, forgery, getting a prescription under false pretenses, possessing a dangerous weapon while under restriction, engaging in a pattern of illegal activity, and having a controlled substance in his possession.
Later, additional charges were added to his record, according to KUTV, including two counts of getting a prescription without authorization and possession of a firearm by a restricted person.
