{"id":185129,"date":"2026-04-04T03:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185129\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T03:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:27:15","slug":"tekashi-6ix9ine-leaves-new-york-jail-carrying-plush-toy-signed-by-maduro-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185129\/","title":{"rendered":"Tekashi 6ix9ine leaves New York jail carrying plush toy signed by Maduro \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>As he left on Friday, he was filmed carrying a few belongings \u2014 including a SpongeBob plush toy, which he happily held up for the camera. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/firma-maduro-tekashi-bob-esponja.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>A signature was visible on it, and he said it belonged to Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, the former Venezuelan leader with whom he shared time at the facility.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The jail has housed other high-profile detainees, including Mexican drug traffickers Rafael Caro Quintero and Ismael \u201cEl Mayo\u201d Zambada, as well as rapper Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs and Luigi Mangione.<\/p>\n<p>This story was translated from Spanish with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool. An NBC6 editor reviewed the translation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine was released Friday from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where he served three months&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3294,9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-185129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-crime-and-courts","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}