Overview
- Federal prosecutors charged Pooh Shiesty, Big30 and seven others with kidnapping and robbery tied to an alleged armed takeover at a Dallas recording studio to force a contract release from Gucci Mane.
- Attorneys for Pooh Shiesty and Big30 say their clients will plead not guilty, with Shiesty’s lawyer arguing there is a gap between government claims and the actual evidence.
- An FBI agent said there is no hard surveillance footage showing Pooh Shiesty or Big30 with a gun, yet a judge still found probable cause for the case to proceed.
- Online reaction has grown louder as a video showed an Atlanta inmate throwing Gucci Mane’s book, and DJ Akademiks said victims identified people they believed were present, including Big30’s Instagram account.
- 6ix9ine claimed on a livestream that Pooh Shiesty’s label paid him to play Shiesty’s music, framing it as support for legal costs.