{"id":204529,"date":"2026-04-21T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204529\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T10:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:30:07","slug":"what-nicolas-maduros-life-is-like-in-a-notorious-brooklyn-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204529\/","title":{"rendered":"What Nicol\u00e1s Maduro\u2019s Life Is Like in a Notorious Brooklyn Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Tekashi 6ix9ine, the rapper and former gang member, finished serving a three-month sentence at Brooklyn\u2019s Metropolitan Detention Center, he left carrying a peculiar souvenir. He showed it off to two friends who were waiting outside the jail to collect him: it was a homemade SpongeBob SquarePants figurine with a jagged series of lines\u2014not unlike a heartbeat monitor, or a mountain range\u2014scribbled on it. This was, 6ix9ine explained, the autograph of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/a>, the President of Venezuela. The signature was also dated, in Spanish, \u201c2.\u00ba Abril.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, one of one,\u201d 6ix9ine said, holding up the SpongeBob, which, he later explained, another inmate had meticulously crafted, folding six hundred pieces of paper and sewing them together, over the course of two weeks. \u201cMaduro signed it,\u201d he said, proudly, before adding, \u201cVenezuela forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

On January 3rd, Maduro was abducted from Venezuela during a U.S. raid<\/a> on a military complex in Caracas, dubbed Operation Absolute Resolve. That same day, he was transported to a D.E.A. office in Manhattan for booking, before being brought to M.D.C. Brooklyn, New York City\u2019s only functioning federal detention facility. He has been held there for the past four and a half months.<\/p>\n

6ix9ine, who was at M.D.C. Brooklyn after violating the terms of his supervised release related to a 2018 case, claims to have been roommates with Maduro for a portion of his sentence\u2014an experience he described in great detail to Adin Ross, the manosphere<\/a> streamer. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to bug him, like, I didn\u2019t want to seem like a fanned-out little girl,\u201d 6ix9ine told Ross. \u201c\u00a0\u2019Cuz as soon as he came in, like, I was, like, Yo, whatever you need.\u201d At one point, early in his incarceration, Maduro seems to have been kept in a unit designed for solitary confinement, as is often the case for inmates of his status. \u201cHe smelled like shit when he first came out the box,\u201d 6ix9ine explained. \u201cBut then, you know, he was able to get time to take a shower and stuff like that.\u201d (The Federal Bureau of Prisons declined to comment on Maduro\u2019s conditions in the M.D.C. Brooklyn, citing the safety, security, and privacy of the inmates.) Afterward, Maduro was likely transferred to a unit known as 4 North, which is typically where high-profile inmates are held, such as the rapper Sean (Diddy) Combs, who spent more than a year at the jail, and more recently, 6ix9ine. (\u201cI took Diddy\u2019s bed,\u201d 6ix9ine said.)<\/p>\n

There are two main buildings in M.D.C. Brooklyn: a larger building, where most of the male detainees are held, and then a smaller building, which holds female inmates. 4 North is on the fourth floor of the latter, above the female jail. In the unit, which can house only a small group of detainees, the beds are clustered together dormitory-style, and there are no pillows. 6ix9ine described the cramped conditions. \u201cMaduro slept, like, right across from me,\u201d he told Ross, gesturing to a distance of about two feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Tekashi 6ix9ine, the rapper and former gang member, finished serving a three-month sentence at Brooklyn\u2019s Metropolitan Detention…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,28311,3582,9,24,15862,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-204529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-incarceration","12":"tag-jails","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nicolas-maduro","16":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204529","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=204529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}