Federal authorities on Thursday announced a sweeping case against nine men, including the Memphis rappers Pooh Shiesty and Big30, accusing them of kidnapping and robbing three music industry figures at gunpoint inside a Dallas recording studio earlier this year. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Pooh Shiesty, whose name is Lontrell Williams Jr., is accused of acting as the ringleader, and prosecutors said the attack unfolded while he was serving the remainder of an earlier federal sentence on home confinement. One of the nine suspects remained at large, authorities said. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis case should serve as a warning to others who believe that using violence and intimidation tactics to rob others in our community is a viable way to conduct business,\u201d Ryan Raybould, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas, said during a news conference at the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse in downtown Dallas.<\/p>\n
The robbery took place on Jan. 10 at a music studio in Dallas, Raybould said. He did not identify the studio, saying that information would be in charging documents a judge had recently unsealed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Eight of the nine men were arrested in a coordinated operation on Wednesday, according to Jeremy Wright, the assistant special agent in charge of the FBI\u2019s Dallas field office, with seven taken into custody in Memphis and Nashville and one in Frisco.<\/p>\n
One of the men remained at large but would be arrested “soon,” Raybould said.<\/p>\n
“I trust that the agents will be able to identify this person and find them and bring them to justice,” he added.<\/p>\n
Raybould declined to identify the three music industry figures, saying one of them had come to Dallas believing he was meeting the group to discuss a recording contract.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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