YoungBoy Never Broke Again (aka NBA YoungBoy) was arrested Tuesday (April 16) in Utah, where he has been under house arrest for more than two years while awaiting trial on federal gun charges.
The rapper (real name Kentrell Gaulden) was arrested on seven charges ranging from drug and gun possession to identity fraud, according to inmate records from the Cache County Sheriff’s Office.
The charges include procuring or attempting to procure prescription drugs; possession of other controlled substances; and possession of a dangerous weapon by a restricted person; a “pattern of unlawful activity”; identify fraud; and forgery.
The arrest came nearly two months after federal prosecutors accused YoungBoy of violating the terms of his house arrest by using unspecified drugs. In court documents, the feds said YoungBoy was “noncompliant” and told his supervising officers that he had “no intentions” of stopping.
Beyond the charges themselves, little else is yet known about the circumstances of YoungBoy’s arrest. His attorney, James P. Manasseh, declined to comment, and the Cache County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately return a request for comment. Bail has not yet been set, according to sheriff’s office records, and court records do not yet show a criminal case pending or an arraignment hearing set.
YoungBoy was indicted by federal prosecutors in March 2021 after he was allegedly found with two guns during a September 2020 incident in Baton Rouge, La. He was charged with violating a long-standing federal law that bans convicted felons from ever again possessing guns — a rule that applied to him because he had been convicted in 2017 of aggravated assault with a firearm.
The rapper had finally been set for a trial on those charges this July. But in a March ruling last month, a federal judge paused the case to await a Supreme Court ruling on a major gun-control case that could play a key role in YoungBoy’s efforts to avoid a conviction.
While awaiting trial, YoungBoy has been confined to his Salt Lake City mansion — a house arrest that has now lasted more than two full years. In October, his attorneys pleaded that the “long period of social isolation” was harming his mental health and asked that the judge loosen restrictions, including allowing him to travel to a recording studio to create new music. But that request was largely denied in November.
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