NBA YoungBoy bound over for trial in Utah prescription fraud case; court sets $100K bail

LOGAN, Utah (KUTV) — Rapper NBA YoungBoy, legally named Kentrell Desean Gaulden,appeared in a Cache County, Utah, courtroom on Thursday for a bond listening to following his arrest in April.

The 24-year-old Louisiana native was arrested on suspicion of dozens of expenses associated to a fraudulent prescription operation he’s accused of conducting from his dwelling in Huntsville.

On Thursday, he appeared in Utah’s 1st District Courtroom earlier than Decide Spencer D. Walsh, who accepted an settlement made between prosecutors and YoungBoy’s protection.

The protection knowledgeable Walsh that the state agreed to a $100,000 bond in trade for his waiving a preliminary listening to, the place the state must persuade a choose {that a} crime was dedicated and that it was dedicated by the defendant.

NBA YoungBoy was sure over for trial and his arraignment was set for July 1.

His subsequent look earlier than Walsh can be to enter a plea.

“You will be introduced over from the Cache County Jail assuming you are still incarcerated,” Walsh mentioned.

YoungBoy has lively arrest warrants out in neighboring Weber County, the place he is going through further expenses associated to the prescription fraud case.

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The rapper was arrested April 16 at his Huntsville dwelling, the place he was on home arrest whereas awaiting trial on federal weapons expenses.

He was booked on suspicion of 63 felonies and misdemeanors associated to the fraudulent prescription operation, which included identification fraud, acquiring a prescription beneath false pretenses, forgery, possession of a harmful weapon by a restricted particular person, participating in a sample of illegal exercise, and possession of a managed substance.

Three further individuals are additionally linked to the case, accused of touring to close by pharmacies to choose up tablets that had been crammed on bogus orders from somebody pretending to be actual docs.

A possible trigger assertion filed the day after YoungBoy’s arrest alleged the YouTube star even went so far as to fake to be an older lady in a cellphone name to sheriff’s deputies after a prescription order was placed on maintain. The arresting deputy reported “it was very clear {that a} faux voice was getting used” and that the person “sounded as if she was a a lot youthful male from the Southern states.”

Finally, he was formally charged with 49 crimes.

In Cache County, prosecutors charged him with one rely of second-degree felony sample of illegal exercise, 15 counts of third-degree identification fraud, 12 counts of third-degree felony forgery, three counts of Class A misdemeanor forgery, and 15 counts of Class A misdemeanor illegal pharmacy practices.

Along with any jail sentences, YoungBoy additionally faces a possible of over $190,000 in fines, if convicted.

On April 26, the extra expenses have been filed in opposition to Gaulden in Weber County, including a second-degree felony rely of possession of a harmful weapon by a restricted particular person and two Class A misdemeanor counts of distributing a managed substance to the record.

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