Shy Glizzy affiliate Taliban Glizzy was arrested by the Secret Service earlier this month after reportedly being under federal surveillance for over a year.
According to documents obtained by AllHipHop on Wednesday (December 21), Taliban Glizzy was arrested during a traffic stop on December 12 and charged with two counts of unlawful possession of a weapon and illegal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
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In addition to guns, Taliban Glizzy was also found with diamond earrings, an Oyster Perpetual Rolex watch and more than $17,000 at the time of his arrest.
As for the weaponry, officers recovered a pistol laying openly on the floor of Taliban Glizzy’s vehicle, an AR-15-style firearm partially concealed inside of a duffel bag, a second AR-15 with 29 rounds of .223 caliber ammunition in the 45-round capacity magazine that had been reported stolen, a black 9mm Glock semi-automatic pistol with an obliterated serial number on the Glock receiver and no serial number on the slide (which is what’s known as a “ghost gun”) and a Ruger-57 semi-automatic handgun.
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Prosecutors are asking to have him remain behind bars until an as-of-yet undetermined trial date.
“The government retains the ultimate burden of persuasion by clear and convincing evidence that the defendant presents a danger to the community and by the lesser standard of a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant presents a risk of flight—even where it is presumed that those standards are satisfied,” the court docs read.
Taliban Glizzy’s “lyrics and images glorifying gun violence and depicting firearms” were also flagged, including 2019’s “Keltech” and 2021’s “Suicide Bombers” and “Indictments.”
Prosecutors also stated that the D.C.-based rapper is a danger to the community.
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“The dangerousness that Defendant poses to the community cannot be understated. That he has persisted in possessing weapons designed to kill and maim evinces a level of dangerousness that cannot be mitigated by less restrictive conditions or combinations thereof.”
Taliban Glizzy appeared on Shy Glizzy’s Don’t Feed The Shark’s EP in 2021. He’s also collaborated with the likes of DDG, Pressa and more.
