{"id":490865,"date":"2019-10-03T14:33:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T20:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=894545"},"modified":"2019-10-03T14:33:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T20:33:08","slug":"tekashi-6ix9ines-testimony-leads-to-guilty-verdicts-for-two-gang-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/tekashi-6ix9ines-testimony-leads-to-guilty-verdicts-for-two-gang-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Tekashi 6ix9ine\u2019s Testimony Leads to Guilty Verdicts for Two Gang Members"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two purported members of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods were found guilty on multiple charges due, in part, to the testimony of rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine<\/a>, the New York Times<\/em><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, a jury in the Federal District Court in Manhattan handed down several guilty verdicts to Anthony Ellison and Aljermiah Mack, including racketeering conspiracy. Mack was also found guilty of conspiring to distribute drugs and Ellison \u2014 who used to be the rapper\u2019s bodyguard \u2014 was found guilty of kidnapping the rapper.<\/p>\n

Lawyers for Ellison and Mack did not immediately return Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

Tekashi 6ix9ine (real name Daniel Hernandez) was a key witness for the prosecution, providing three<\/a> days<\/a> of explosive testimony<\/a>, during which he not only spoke at length about the two defendants, the illegal activities they partook in and the night he was kidnapped, but also the general goings-on of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods. Hernandez even went so far as to accuse other celebrities and musicians of being part of the gang, including Cardi B and Jim Jones.<\/p>\n

While Hernandez was the star witness, the prosecution also got an assist from Kristian Cruz, a former gang member-turned-witness, who described himself as a former \u201cfive-star general\u201d who\u2019d sold millions of dollars worth of drugs.<\/p>\n

Hernandez\u2019s rise<\/a> as a rapper was inextricably tied to the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods, a link solidified through his former manager, Kifano Jordan, a.k.a. \u201cShotti.\u201d It was Shotti who reportedly brought together the crowd of red-clad men seen in the video of 6ix9ine\u2019s 2017 breakout viral hit, \u201cGummo.\u201d<\/p>\n

In November 2018, just over a year after the release of the \u201cGummo\u201d video, Hernandez and Jordan were among those arrested<\/a> as part of a joint effort between the ATF, NYPD and Homeland security. Ellison, meanwhile, had been picked up<\/a> a few days prior.<\/p>\n

While Hernandez initially pleaded not guilty<\/a> to all charges, he changed his plea to guilty in January,<\/a> copping to nine counts, including weapons possession, armed robbery and dealing narcotics. Around that time, reports also surfaced that Hernandez had decided to cooperate with the government, though during Ellison and Mack\u2019s trial, he revealed that he started working with the prosecution the day after his arrest.<\/p>\n

Last month, Jordan, in a separate trial, was sentenced to 15 years<\/a> in prison after pleading guilty<\/a> to two federal weapons charges.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two purported members of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods were found guilty on multiple charges due, in part, to the testimony of rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, the New York Times reports. On Thursday, a jury in the Federal District Court in Manhattan handed down several guilty verdicts to Anthony Ellison and Aljermiah Mack, including racketeering conspiracy. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-21 19:40:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}