Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine strikes deal to end jail stint

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine has struck a woody to extremity his existent jailhouse stint, agreeing to service a period down bars for violating nan position of his merchandise aft a felony conviction

NEW YORK -- Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine struck a woody to extremity his existent jailhouse stint, agreeing to service a period down bars for violating nan position of his merchandise aft a felony conviction, prosecutors said Wednesday.

The woody pinch national prosecutors was described successful a missive partially endorsed by a Manhattan national judge. It calls for nan entertainer to beryllium sentenced to a period successful jail, followed by a period of location incarceration, a period of location detention and a period of curfew. He would besides beryllium taxable to physics monitoring.

Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said he will condemnation nan performer whose existent sanction is Daniel Hernandez instantly aft he admits to nan violations astatine a Nov. 12 hearing. He said he will require each broadside to explicate why a one-month jailhouse condemnation followed by 3 months of location incarceration, detention aliases curfew are capable for repeated violations of probation.

The position of nan woody besides telephone for Tekashi 6ix9ine to taxable to supervision from nan court's Probation Department for different year.

Tekashi 6ix9ine, 28, was wrong a fewer months of being free from tribunal supervision erstwhile he was arrested connected Oct. 29 aft his probation serviceman complained that he wasn't pursuing rules astir obtaining support successful beforehand to recreation and that he had grounded supplier tests.

In 2019, Engelmayer sentenced him to 2 years successful situation successful a racketeering lawsuit aft nan musician pleaded blameworthy that aforesaid twelvemonth to charges accusing him of joining and directing unit by nan pack known arsenic nan Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.

In April 2020, Tekashi 6ix9ine was freed months early from his situation condemnation aft complaining that his ailments made him peculiarly susceptible to nan coronavirus, which was spreading done nan nation's jails and prisons.

Engelmayer, expressing dismay astatine nan artist's evident nonaccomplishment to travel nan rules, noted astatine a proceeding past period that he had granted compassionate merchandise to him during nan coronavirus crisis.

The rapper apologized and told nan judge he was “not a bad person.”