Rapper NBA YoungBoy arrested in Cache County for prescription fraud

CACHE COUNTY, Utah — A rapper with tens of millions of followers who was serving home arrest in Utah was arrested for his alleged involvement in a “massive scale prescription fraud ring” in Cache County.

NBA YoungBoy, whose actual title is Kentrell DeSean Gaulden, was booked Tuesday and faces 63 costs.

The alleged offenses are:

• Possession of a harmful weapon by restricted particular person (2nd-degree felony; 1 depend)
• Sample of illegal exercise (2nd-degree felony; 1 depend)
• Id fraud (Third-degree felony; 20 counts)
• Forgery (Third-degree felony; 20 counts)
• Procuring/making an attempt to obtain drug/prescription (Class-A misdemeanor; 20 counts)
• Possession of managed substance (Class-B misdemeanor; 1 depend)

In line with the arrest report, 24-year-old Gaulden was a part of a scheme to fraudulently acquire promethazine with codeine — which, in response to the Nationwide Library of Drugs, is blended with Sprite and/or alcohol to make “purple drank” or “lean,” and is standard with rappers.

Police say Gaulden and “many different people” (who weren’t named within the paperwork) tried to acquire the prescribed cough suppressant from a number of pharmacies in Cache County.

In line with police, Gaulden referred to as in a prescription supposedly for a 74-year-old girl to a pharmacy in Hyrum in September. They mentioned he claimed to be a doctor within the Provo space, utilizing “an precise, legitimate DEA quantity, NPI quantity and different identification for the actual doctor.” The pharmacist seen that the telephone quantity didn’t match the variety of mentioned physician’s clinic, so that they referred to as the physician instantly. The physician mentioned he didn’t write a prescription for a lady by that title, and added that this form of factor “occurred a number of occasions at present.”

Comparable incidents occurred at different pharmacies in Cache County, and police mentioned two girls picked up the prescription drugs throughout one occasion. They had been then detained as a part of the investigation and later arrested for his or her alleged involvement within the “prescription fraud ring.”

The Cache County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned the car the ladies arrived in to choose up the medicine was registered to Gaulden. Then later, his enterprise supervisor contacted the sheriff’s workplace about getting the car out of impound. The officer requested to talk on to Gaulden. Whereas talking to Gaulden, the arresting officer mentioned he heard somebody — presumably Gaulden — recommend asking about “the prescription that they picked up.”

After investigating and studying of comparable incidents of fraudulent prescriptions allegedly being referred to as in to numerous pharmacies, a search warrant for Gaulden’s residence in Weber County was authorized after which executed on Tuesday. The Cache County Sheriff’s Workplace reported that a number of companies, together with the FBI, the Secret Service and the Layton SWAT staff, carried out the search on his residence.

Police mentioned Gaulden denied any data of the prescription fraud, however they discovered a prescription bottle of Promethazine in his residence, with the title of the “affected person” on it that was allegedly referred to as in fraudulently.

Additionally they mentioned marijuana was discovered within the car that was impounded, which was registered to Gaulden. Additionally they discovered a gun inside his residence, which he claimed belonged to his spouse. Nevertheless, courtroom paperwork state that the gun was “not in a secured location and in a spot simply and regularly accessible” by Gaulden, and he admitted to choosing it up and shifting it at one level.

He was booked within the Cache County Jail and denied bail.

Studies point out the rapper was in Utah below home arrest after he was accused of federal gun and different costs.

Native media in Baton Rouge reported his attorneys argued that shifting Gaulden to Utah would preserve him out of bother.

In December 2023, a federal choose reportedly lessened Gaulden’s home arrest situations to permit him psychological well being therapies.

Additionally in 2023, the rapper made headlines when he introduced his intent to be baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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