Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine was released Friday from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where he served three months in custody after violating the terms of his supervised release.
As he left on Friday, he was filmed carrying a few belongings — including a SpongeBob plush toy, which he happily held up for the camera.
A signature was visible on it, and he said it belonged to Nicolás Maduro, the former Venezuelan leader with whom he shared time at the facility.
Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been held at the high-security center since they were taken out of Venezuela by the U.S. military on Jan. 3.
The jail has housed other high-profile detainees, including Mexican drug traffickers Rafael Caro Quintero and Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, as well as rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs and Luigi Mangione.
This story was translated from Spanish with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool. An NBC6 editor reviewed the translation.