A Manhattan choose Friday blasted ex-con rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine for squandering his probability at freedom by violating probation once more — and slapped him with one other three months behind bars.
The 29-year-old flamboyant musician — who appeared in court docket with streaks of Christmas red-and-green in his hair and carrying a pink fleece and white Crocs — discovered his destiny after most just lately breaching the foundations by punching a person who taunted him for snitching on his former gang.
“He retains blowing it,” federal Choose Paul Engelmayer seethed through the continuing in Manhattan federal court docket.
“You imagine the foundations don’t apply to you,” Engelmayer advised the Brooklyn-born rapper, whose actual title is Daniel Hernandez.
The convict admitted he violated the phrases of his supervised launch with the Aug. 8 assault at a Florida mall and by stashing MDMA and cocaine for private use in his bed room.
Hernandez was beforehand sentenced to a lenient two years in jail by the identical choose after he infamously testified towards members of the 9 Trey Gangsta Blood gang as a part of a 2019 plea deal in a racketeering case. He ended up getting sprung early the subsequent 12 months due to COVID.
He was then sentenced to 45 days in jail by Engelmayer in November 2024 for violating probation by failing drug checks and touring with out permission.
The choose mentioned Friday that a further jail sentence for the rapper on the most recent probation breaches was “clearly vital” due to what he known as an “excessive abuse of the court docket’s belief.”
Hernandez had urged the court docket to permit him to serve his three-month sentence beneath home arrest in his Florida mansion that contains a separate pool home — however the choose slammed that proposal as a “slap on the wrist.
“With respect, lots of people want to be in a home like that,” Engelmayer mentioned, dismissing the concept of permitting Hernandez to spend “three months on the pool home.”
Earlier than his sentence was doled out Friday, Hernandez stood on the protection desk and skim a prolonged assertion outlining a laundry record of assaults and threats he says he’s obtained since giving his testimony, together with when he was viciously overwhelmed by a bunch of males at an LA Health in Florida in 2023.
He claimed that in a single incident, somebody left a coffin with a “lifeless animal” in it outdoors his Florida mansion. In one other 2021 episode, somebody threw a drink in his face on his strategy to his VIP seats at an UFC struggle, he mentioned. In a 2020 incident, three armed males held up his mom at gunpoint, he claimed.
“I don’t assume a jail goes to show me something,” Hernandez advised the choose.
Engelmayer mentioned Friday that he had initially deliberate to provide the embattled artist greater than three months behind bars however that he was moved by his speech and by the progress he says he has made his psychological well being by seeing a court-ordered therapist.
The choose mentioned he would recommend to the federal Bureau of Prisons that Hernandez serve out his sentence at a Florida lockup somewhat than on the infamous Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn.
After Hernandez is launched, he’ll be on a contemporary 12 months of probation — which means that he may wind up again earlier than the identical choose once more if he will get into hassle throughout that point span.
