Although 42 Dugg is potentially facing a five-year prison sentence, the “Free The Shiners” rapper was all smiles in his first photo from jail. A snapshot shared by Akademiks shows Dugg in his orange jumpsuit and smiling gleefully while on the prison payphone. The pictured emerges after the Detroit native was arrested in Michigan earlier this month for failing to turn himself in to serve an outstanding six-month prison sentence.
A federal grand jury in Georgia charged Dugg, real name Dion Hayes, with possessing a firearm in March 2020, which is a felony since he had been previously convicted of carjacking and firearms possessions in 2011. The charge was related to an incident in which he allegedly fired a 9 mm Glock pistol at a gun range in Atlanta.
Dugg pleaded guilty to those charges in November 2020 and, in turn, was sentenced to three years probation after his lawyer was able to keep Dugg away from jail due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Court officials then threatened to revoke his probation after the rapper tested positive for drugs. Dugg filed an appeal, but his probation was ultimately revoked in February, and Dugg was sentenced to six months behind bars followed by two years of probation.
The 27-year-old was supposed to turn himself in last month to serve his time in a federal prison camp in West Virginia, but he never showed. “He got off the plane and they were waiting there to greet him,” the rapper’s lawyer, Steve Scharg, told Detroit News.
Prior to his arrest, 42 Dugg had just dropped off his collaborative Last Ones Left album with EST Gee on April 8, which featured additional appearances from BIG30, EST Zo, 42 Chez, Tae Money and others.
Watch the duo’s latest video for “Thump Sh*t” below.
Rising star man….damn….IF he gets off, which he’ll be lucky, hopefully he’ll truly stay out of bs like this man…dude is dope and makes some good albums.
He is about to get some years. When they say show up to do your time and you go to NBA games and at the club judge does not take that lightly. He will get 3-5 years which is sad. Do your 6 months be out in 3 but no. Now here comes some years.
Bruh I understand what you’re saying and I agree with most of your post. Yet he will not get any additional time he will still have the 6 months sentence, unless he acquired additional charges. Also he would have never got out in 3 months even if he turned himself in. With Fed time you do 90% of your time. So they would have taken 18 days off of the 180 days he was required to do which equals 162 days he will do.
Hedid get additional charges added pm what you mean ? He failed to show up to turn himself in which is an additional felony. Now let’s hope his lawyer is good enough to sweet talk him out of extra time instead of just his original 6 month sentence
idiot sounds like a prepubescent retarded jay z
Agreed! How you come up with something so accurate?
he’s a mum lol just like in middle east