A Utah judge has set bail at $100,000 for NBA rapper YoungBoy, who faces dozens of charges related to a fraudulent prescription business he allegedly orchestrated.
The 24-year-old rap artist, whose real name is Kentrell Gaulden, appeared Thursday (May 9) before Judge Spencer D. Walsh in a Cache County, Utah, court for a bond hearing, KUTV-TV mentionted.
Golden was arrested April 16 at his Huntsville home, where he was under house arrest while awaiting trial on federal weapons charges. He faces 63 felony and misdemeanor counts related to the fraudulent prescription enterprise, which included identity fraud, obtaining a prescription by false pretenses, forgery, possession of a dangerous weapon by a prohibited person, engaging in a pattern of unlawful activity and possession of a controlled substance.
Three others connected to the case are accused of traveling to nearby pharmacies to pick up prescriptions for pills that were filled with fake orders from people pretending to be real doctors.
The defense informed Walsh that the state agreed to $100,000 bail in exchange for his waiving a preliminary hearing, where the state would have to convince a judge that a crime was committed and that it was committed by the defendant. His trial is set for July 1, when he will enter a plea, the television station reported.
“They're going to bring you in from the Cache County Jail, assuming you're still incarcerated,” Walsh said.
On April 26, additional charges related to the prescription fraud case were filed against Gaulden in Weber County, including a second-degree felony count of possession of a dangerous weapon by a restricted person and two Class A misdemeanor counts of distribution of a controlled substance. He was held without bond in that case.
Authorities said Golden will at some point be transferred back to federal custody in the U.S. Middle District Court for Louisiana, where he faces a July 15 trial on a gun charge in Baton Rouge. U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick, who is presiding over the federal case, signed an order May 2 adjourning the trial to a date yet to be determined as several pending motions in the case progress, according to court records.
The weapons charge stems from a 2020 music video shoot. Baton Rouge police officers arrested Golden and 15 others after destroying the video and finding handguns and rifles hidden in the area, arrest reports state.
A spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Baton Rouge confirmed Thursday that when Golden is eventually released from the state of Utah, he will be taken into federal custody. The lawyer mentionted.
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