NBA YoungBoy’s bail set at $100K in Utah prescription drug fraud case

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Rapper NBA YoungBoy appeared in a northern Utah courtroom Thursday morning for a bond listening to associated to his April arrest in connection to a large-scale prescription drug fraud ring.

The 24-year-old rapper, whose authorized title is Kentrell DeSean Gaulden, is going through dozens of costs and accused of working the fraudulent operation out of his multi-million greenback dwelling in Huntsville, Utah.

On the listening to Thursday in Utah’s 1st District Court docket, Decide Spencer D. Walsh accepted an settlement made between the 24-year-old rapper’s protection and prosecutors. Per the deal, the state agreed to set Gaulden’s bond at $100,000 in change for waiving a preliminary listening to.

Gaulden was sure over for trial and his arraignment was set for July 1. Ought to he publish bond, the choose mentioned that he might seem nearly for his arraignment.

Gaulden, who’s initially from Louisiana, at the moment faces 46 costs linked to the alleged prescription drug operation in Cache County. Many of the costs are both for forgery, id fraud, or illegal conduct associated to pharmacy practices.

In response to investigators, Gaulden and a number of other others concerned within the fraud ring referred to as in prescriptions for Promethazine with codeine, a generally abused cough suppressant, at pharmacies all through Cache County.

When looking Gaulden’s dwelling, investigators mentioned they discovered a number of prescription capsule bottles, a few of which had fraudulent names.

The rapper denied to authorities that he knew something about fraudulent prescriptions. He allegedly informed investigators that a physician in northern Utah prescribed him Promethazine.

On the time of his arrest, Gaulden was on home arrest in connection to a 2020 case out of his dwelling state of Louisiana the place he was arrested on federal gun and drug costs.

The rapper moved to Utah to serve his pretrial federal home arrest in that case as his attorneys argued that dwelling within the Beehive State would preserve Gaulden out of hassle.