{"id":319504,"date":"2026-06-25T15:59:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/319504\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T15:59:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:59:26","slug":"wu-tang-impersonator-north-florida-resident-back-behind-bars-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/319504\/","title":{"rendered":"Wu-Tang impersonator, North Florida resident, back behind bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV\/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) &#8211; Online court records indicate Wu-Tang Clan impersonator Aaron Barnes Burpo is back behind bars, accused of violating his supervised release from federal prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Burpo is a Crestview, Florida resident, court records indicate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">An arrest affidavit submitted by United States Probation Officer Travis J Gauthreaux says Burpo had a 2018 Porsche and admitted to smoking marijuana on multiple occasions, all while failing to pay back restitution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The U.S. Department of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdga\/pr\/rapper-scammer-sentenced-prison-faking-association-musical-group-conspiracy-cheat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdga\/pr\/rapper-scammer-sentenced-prison-faking-association-musical-group-conspiracy-cheat\" target=\"_blank\">previously said<\/a> Burpo \u201cfaked\u201d an association with the Wu-Tang Clan to defraud businesses like hotels and limo companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He was originally sentenced in March of 2021 to 84 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, on top of just under $300,000 in restitution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officer Gauthreaux wrote that Burpo has only paid back less than $1,000. Court records show he was arrested on June 24th, and that no further action has yet occurred in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV\/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) &#8211; Online court records indicate Wu-Tang Clan impersonator Aaron Barnes Burpo is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[132665,1721,23822,28,634,115,914,232,234,233,132664,26468,132663,132666],"class_list":["post-319504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-aaron-barnes-burpo","tag-capital-city","tag-crestview","tag-florida","tag-local","tag-news","tag-state","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-travis-j-gauthreaux","tag-u-s-department-of-justice","tag-wu-tang-clan-impersonator","tag-wu-tang-impersonator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}