Overview
- Federal prosecutors charge nine people, including Pooh Shiesty and Big30, with kidnapping, Hobbs Act robbery, extortion, and firearms offenses tied to an alleged Jan. 10 recording-studio incident in Dallas.
- A Dallas federal trial is scheduled to begin July 6 with a final pretrial conference set for July 1, keeping the case on an accelerated summer calendar.
- Pooh Shiesty and Big30 have pleaded not guilty and remain in federal custody after bond revocations while one co-defendant, Lontrell Williams Sr., won bond and was released from custody on Wednesday.
- Defense teams successfully secured a formal 'complex' classification on May 27 to extend discovery time and pause certain Speedy Trial computations as they work through surveillance video, phone records, recordings, and thousands of pages of material.
- Prosecutors say they will rely on a 'mosaic' of surveillance footage, cellphone and travel records, and witness statements including Gucci Mane’s account while defense lawyers point to missing physical evidence and chain-of-custody questions that they say warrant more review.