Mobb Deep's Prodigy Given 3 1/2 Year Sentence
Albert Johnson, aka Prodigy of The Infamous Queens rap duo Mobb Deep, pleaded guilty to a 2006 charge of possession of a loaded gun on Tuesday, October 9, and will soon serve a three-and-a-half-year sentence, according to a New York Daily News report.
The 32-year-old rapper was arrested in October of last year after police stopped him for making an illegal U-turn on Ninth Avenue in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood, according to the report. The officers found an unlicensed .22-caliber pistol in a compartment between the driver's seat and front passenger seat of his Chevy Suburban. Sitting in that passenger seat was the Alchemist, the producer who helmed the boards on Prodigy's Return of the Mac, which Pitchfork tagged as Best New Music earlier this year.
Though he initially claimed to have no knowledge of the weapon, Johnson eventually fessed up and struck the three-and-a-half-year deal with prosecutors in the Manhattan Supreme Court case. Since Johnson is a convicted felon and this was his third weapons charge, he would normally face a sentence of 15 years.
The 32-year-old rapper was arrested in October of last year after police stopped him for making an illegal U-turn on Ninth Avenue in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood, according to the report. The officers found an unlicensed .22-caliber pistol in a compartment between the driver's seat and front passenger seat of his Chevy Suburban. Sitting in that passenger seat was the Alchemist, the producer who helmed the boards on Prodigy's Return of the Mac, which Pitchfork tagged as Best New Music earlier this year.
Though he initially claimed to have no knowledge of the weapon, Johnson eventually fessed up and struck the three-and-a-half-year deal with prosecutors in the Manhattan Supreme Court case. Since Johnson is a convicted felon and this was his third weapons charge, he would normally face a sentence of 15 years.
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