A Florida judge has sentenced Pooh Shiesty to 63 months in prison, according to Rolling Stone. The “Back In Blood” rapper, whose real name is Lontrell Williams, had been behind bars since June 2021 and previously faced eight years for his role in an October 2020 robbery. Shiesty had previously pleaded guilty to a single firearms conspiracy charge in January and was able to avoid life in prison after prosecutors threw out three charges from his indictment.
The federal charge stemmed from an October 2020 shooting in Bay Harbor Islands, Florida where Shiesty allegedly shot an individual in the buttocks after he and two others robbed a victim following a meet-up for marijuana and sneakers. In a filing from March, Pooh Shiesty’s defense lawyer, Brad Cohen, claimed Shiesty would never have committed a robbery considering his success as an artist.
“The government wants this court to believe Mr. Williams, with a net worth of $3,449,446, planned a robbery, then committed a robbery, and then shot a known drug dealer who knew him well and could easily identify him,” the filing read. “All over a few hundred-dollar drug deal for personal use, while he was driving a lime green McLaren that he rented from the alleged victim.”
It continued, “Mr. Williams possessed over $40,000 in cash and was driving a vehicle valued at over $200,000. It would be illogical for Mr. Williams to stage a robbery by two other individuals over something so miniscule as a bottle of liquid codeine with a retail value of a few hundred dollars, at most, when any damage done to the McLaren in the process would have cost thousands of dollars to repair.”
Pooh Shiesty had closed out 2021 by dropping his “Federal Contraband” freestyle where he rapped about his case and promise a comeback.
Listen to it below.
gucci mane got ten years double of what this brother got both from atlanta. well off to prison i guess.
Lock his ignorant as up.
Life too short to be sitting down for 5 years. This remind me a little of the Lucci case in ATL. Why Lucci was even there?… wake up
Lol good riddance
He is a Gucci Mane artist.
Bro just throwing his career away. Too much money to be made to let the devil win. Sad to see, but ignorance is bliss.
Bruh should not have even been there out the gate, like his lawyer said why would he rob a dude he rented a car from over a few hundred dollars it makes no sense at all. Dudes still want to live that street life that they rap about, while most of them never lived that life before they got on in the rap game. Now they can afford to do the stuff they rap about so they want to hustle backwards, that is dumb as fukk which makes no sense at all. Dude had made it if he really is worth 3.4 million, he has made it why go back unless you reaching out to help people come up to your level. The dudes you running with have nothing to lose while you have everything to lose. homie is suppose to be someplace kicked back with a blunt, a smooth drink, a fine broad, and getting yo joint sucked on. SMH…
If there is a win at least he avoided the life sentence shiz, and since he has prolly been in custody since the crime (Oct. 2020) he will prolly do maybe another 1 to 1.5 years in custody then will be released to parole and possibly house arrest. As long as he doesn’t get in any trouble while in prison. It’s messed up but it could be far worse.
Yeah…long story short… he’s a clown and deserves every bit of that time
5 years that sounds like the lifespan of his rap career
Basically the court said, “You a stupid mf dude”
Gonna be another Bobby shmirda
God gave u a blessing and he didn’t realize it can be tooking away 5yrs and 3mos the new white boy rapper will have his spot in no time Black folks they Trying to get rid of US this just another prime example and we assisting them with our own demise
Blessings Gone- He will be an after thought when he get’s out.