The long, strange saga of Radric Davis, aka rapper Gucci Mane, continues to take bizarre twists. TMZ reports that an inmate in South Carolina has been working to free the incarcerated hip-hop star. Jerry Lewis Dedrick, 51, an inmate at a federal prison in Williamsburg, S.C., has prepared legal documents to help get Gucci out of the slammer. Dedrick insists that he can get gun charges against Gucci dropped.
Dedrick filled out a motion, but his ramblings allegedly make little sense. He claims that possessing a gun isn’t a federal crime and he wants the court to forward his legal work to the hip-hop star’s legal team. Officially, Dedrick can’t file documents on Gucci’s behalf.
Gucci is facing 20 years for the gun charge because he was a felon at the time of his arrest. Gucci has been charged with two counts of possessing a firearm following two incidents in September where he was involved with altercations with police and reportedly brandished a firearm. On Sept. 14, a man who said he was a friend of Gucci’s called police to say he was behaving erratically and making threats, according to a police report. Upon their arrival, police noted that Davis smelled of marijuana, and he became confrontational. He was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge and police found marijuana and a loaded .40-caliber Glock handgun in his possession. Gucci was sedated and taken to Grady Memorial Hospital for treatment.
