NBA YoungBoy is one step closer to freedom as a Utah judge has granted a $100K bond agreement for the embattled rapper in his prescription drug fraud case.
During a court hearing on Thursday, May 9, Judge Spencer Walsh approved an agreement between prosecutors and the 24-year-old rapper’s defense attorneys stemming from his arrest last month that led to him being charged with over 60 counts of drug and gun crimes.
The deal struck by both sides call for a $100K bond for the Louisiana-born rapper in exchange for his agreement to waive a preliminary hearing.
YoungBoy, born Kentrell Desean Gaulden, has been in Utah’s Cache County Jail since being charged with an elaborate prescription drug fraud scheme that involved impersonating doctors and creating fake patient names to obtain a number of drugs, but mostly promethazine and codeine. Officials say Gaulden would at times use family and friends to get phony prescriptions filled at a number of targeted pharmacies across the state.
In addition to all of his troubles in Utah, the “Outside Today” rapper is still awaiting trial in his native Louisiana for a 2021 gun charge.
NBA YoungBoy is scheduled for arraignment in the Utah case on July 1, where he is expected to formally enter his plea to the charges.
