Reports Mally Mall was arrested on Wednesday (April 3) are now being walked back. TMZ initially reported the seasoned producer was taken into custody for human and exotic animal trafficking following a raid on his San Fernando Valley home.
Now, the outlet says he wasn’t actually taken into custody — he was simply detained while authorities conducted the search.
Mally and his lawyer Steve Sadow also say the allegations are untrue.
“If they had real evidence they would have arrested him,” Sadow said. “They don’t have evidence. It’s bogus. Period.”
The Cotton-top Tamarin listed in the search warrant for Mally’s place was reportedly not found at his home either.
[This article has been updated. The last version was published on April 3, 2019 at 12:30 p.m. PT and can be found below.]
Mally Mall has reportedly been taken into custody following a police raid on his San Fernando Valley home. According to TMZ, the veteran producer was arrested for human trafficking and trafficking of exotic animals.
Law enforcement clarified the original arrest warrant was served by LAPD’s Robbery/Homicide division in conjunction with California Fish & Wildlife.
Captain Patrick Foy of California Fish & Wildlife says a Serval cat was also seized from the property and a spider monkey that allegedly belonged to Mall was seized from another property in Los Angeles.
Officials have also seized a Cotton-top Tamarin monkey from Mally’s home. Their investigation began roughly eight months ago when they started receiving tips about photos of Mally with the monkey.
[This article has been updated. The last version was published on April 3, 2019 at 10:40 a.m. PT and can be found below.]
Producer Mally Mall got an early morning wake up call from a SWAT team on Wednesday (April 3). Although the reasons for the raid on his San Fernando Valley home weren’t immediately known, The Blast now reports it was due to an endangered exotic monkey.
The California Fish and Wildlife reportedly revealed they’d conducted the early raid as part of an ongoing investigation into possession of exotic animals.
Once R&B star Chris Brown was busted for having a capuchin monkey last December, the California Fish and Wildlife was flooded with tips allegeding Mally was in possession of exotic animals as well.
The official said agents were able to identify a Cotton-top tamarin monkey on Mally’s Instagram and sprang into action to rescue the “critically endangered primate.”
The officials, who contacted LAPD to assist with rescue, successfully seized the monkey.
Fish and Wildlife officials are working with Los Angeles prosecutors on possible charges. Mally is currently not under arrest and no citations have been issued.
[This article has been updated. The original version was published on April 3, 2019 at 9:09 a.m. PT and can be found below.]
Mally Mall’s San Fernando Valley house was reportedly raided by police on Wednesday morning (April 3). The Love & Hip Hop star was home at the time.
According to TMZ, a SWAT team surrounded the veteran producers’s home before moving in to serve a search warrant. The operation was reportedly in progress since before sunrise.
Although it hasn’t been determined why cops conducted the raid, Mally’s home has been raided before.
In 2014, the FBI swarmed his Las Vegas home as part of a federal human trafficking investigation.
Mally also has a penchant for exotic animals. It’s unclear if that’s related at all.
This is a developing story.
Dude look like real life Homer Simpson.
Have they already figured out how to blame this on whitey?
Stfu Russian troll.
If you were a fan since the 80’s and never heard of DJ mally mall you must have been living in a cave somewhere on the west coast…. He was big on the east coast
You are stupid
Oh really any good songs?
this is not the mall, this one produces for a lot of artists & by produce i mean gets them ladies of the evening high priced of course
It’s Dj Marley marl
This dude is a known pimp. Been pimping in Vegas for nearly two decades.
This is so wrong it’s crazy. You’re thinking of Marley Marl the legendary producer, not to be confused with Melle Mel of Grandmaster Flash. Mally Mall was on some rap reality show and is a better known on social media than he is for making music
Somebody is trying to snitch the homie out. That goes against everything. If you going to play the game. You have to respect the G code. Snitches get dealt with everyday B!
one of the biggest P i m ps in the country & gets raided for a monkee haha but its well known so its all good, do your thing mall
So tax dollars wasted for swat to raid a home to confiscate a fucken monkey. So if he had a jaguar in his back yard would they send the national guard to his home or f16 fighter jets? I swear this country treats animals better than human beings
All that man power for a monkey
Lol…You would think they are after a resurrected Bin Laden
Social media. The governments real intention to keep track of citizens. But our narcissistic egos don’t want to hear it. We just need “likes.”
How are you commenting on a hip hop site and have no idea who dude is? You’re either some young cat that speaks without doing the knowledge, or just a hater. Either way, do your research. No wonder today’s youth is misguided. Everybody just wants to fart out their mouths bc their A-holes are to flabbered to do so due to just wanting to comment.
You’re thinking of Marly Marl, dummy. And I’m not a new Jack. I’m 37. I was part of this hiphop thing when you weren’t even in tingle in your dad’s nutt sack.
THIS GUY HAS SCUMBAG SWAG.
Disgusting. Human trafficking is slavery and it’s reprehensible beyond words. This guy is additionally a scumbag for exploiting an art form like hip hop so intertwined with overcoming struggles like racism, which is largely begotten from slavery.
What’s new another black guy who flagrantly disregards the law. I hope they don’t prosecute him or we gon hear an earful about how white people are always targeting the hard working black man.
He’s not black. Just like Khaled and French Montana.
No no no, don’t deny your kin my African American friend. They allowed to say the n word right? Well that makes them black.
I’ve got a white friend called David. He always uses the n word. I had no idea that he is actually black. Thanks Yves Rosier, now I finally know!