Tekashi 6ix9ine was in federal custody on Monday on racketeering and firearms charges, law enforcement sources told the The Daily Beast.
Further details of the case involving 6ix9ine—whose real name is Daniel Hernandez—will be announced later today at his arraignment in Manhattan federal court.
The 22-year-old rapper has had several brushes with the law since he was put on probation for use of a 13-year-old child in a sexual performance in 2015, when he created three sexually explicit videos of the girl involving fondling her breast, smacking her buttocks and watching two other men penetrate her orally and vaginally.
Hernandez admitted in detail to the sex crime but has since been involved in several other precarious legal situations. On one occasion, bullets interrupted the filming of a video on Nov. 8 in Beverly Hills, in which Kanye West and Nicki Minaj were set to take part. Last week, he appeared in Brooklyn Criminal Court after he was charged with disorderly conduct related to an incident in May, when an officer became injured while stopping Hernandez for driving with a suspended license.
In his 2015 plea agreement, Hernandez was to demonstrate “that the crime he committed was the result of a serious mistake he made in his youth, one that was not indicative of the law abiding life he intended to lead as an adult,” according to a memorandum written last month by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
“Since defendant’s plea of guilty on October 20, 2015, he has not only become a successful recording artist, but is now a self-admitted member of a violent gang, the 9 Trey Bloods,” the memo states, noting that such affiliation is “patently inconsistent with his acceptance of responsibility and rehabilitation.”
“He has… been arrested multiple times for crimes he committed this year” and “exacerbated his own violent conduct by using his public platform and significant following to provoke and promote incidents of gun violence,” according to the memo.
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