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29-year-old performer, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, told
a Manhattan federal judge that his home in Miami was raided on
March 12 and that “residual” cocaine and MDMA — the party drug
known as Molly or ecstasy — were found in his bedroom cabinet.
In exchange for the admission, prosecutors agreed to drop two
other counts he faced stemming from the incident.
The Brooklyn rapper, who shot to fame with the 2017 release of
his song “Gummo,” will be sentenced Sept. 25.
He doesn’t face any state charges related to the raid, but U.S.
District Judge Paul Engelmayer warned him that the “consequences
will be severe” if he violates any of the conditions of his
release before he is sentenced.
Federal sentencing guidelines call for between three and nine
months in prison for each count, but Hernandez could face up to
five years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release, the
judge added.
The rapper, who was dressed in a black hoodie and who wasn't
sporting his trademark colorful hairstyle, declined to comment
as he left the courthouse.
Hernandez pleaded guilty in 2018 to his involvement with a
violent New York-based gang, the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.
He was handed a lenient sentence of two years in prison in 2019
followed by five years of supervised release for his cooperation
in the prosecution of other gang members.
He was even released from federal prison several months early
during the height of COVID-19 pandemic.
But last November, Hernandez was found in violation of his
probation for failing to show up for drug tests, traveling to
Las Vegas from his Florida home without permission and lying to
his probation officer.
At the time, Engelmayer sentenced him to another 45 days in
federal custody, saying the infractions showed a lack of respect
for the law.
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