Quantavious Grier, brother of rapper Younger Thug, was sentenced Monday (June 5) to 9 years and 6 months in jail after investigators mentioned he violated his probation.
Based on WSB-TV, in December, Grier (who performs beneath the title Unfoonk) pleaded responsible to 1 rely of violating the RICO Act and one rely of theft by receiving stolen property as a part of the broader YSL case involving Younger Thug and several other different associates. On the time, Grier was sentenced to 12 years in jail, with two years commuted and 10 years probation.
However on Could 4, Grier was arrested once more in Atlanta for possessing a firearm by a convicted felon, being related to a prison road gang to take part in criminal activity and site visitors offenses, WSB-TV experiences. Based on the outlet, on the time of his arrest, Grier was parked at a BP gasoline station in a black Mercedes G-Wagon with a gaggle of individuals across the driver’s aspect door; in an affidavit, plainclothes officers wrote that they deemed the gathering a potential drug deal. When the SUV pulled away, the officers stopped it, citing a window tint violation and including that the automobile smelled like marijuana, which stays unlawful within the state of Georgia.
WSB-TV experiences that the officer who wrote the affidavit famous a handgun in plain view contained in the automobile: “Mr. Grier suggested that the gun was clear, which prompted me to imagine he had data of the firearm being there.”
Throughout Monday’s sentencing, Choose Ural Glanville said that Grier hadn’t paid $141.08 in probation charges or began his neighborhood service, however that the deciding think about his sentencing was being caught with a firearm. “A part of the particular situation was that you simply weren’t supposed to own a gun,” he added. Whereas Grier’s lawyer had requested for a probation revocation of two years in jail, Glanville finally handed down the longer sentence.
“The difficulty I discover aggravating on this explicit circumstance are a number of. You bought arrested with a gun inside six months of you being positioned on probation,” Glanville mentioned through the sentencing. “All you needed to do was full your probation and do what you have been purported to do.”
An lawyer for Grier didn’t instantly reply to Billboard‘s request for remark.
Grier was indicted alongside Younger Thug (actual title Jeffery Williams), Gunna (actual title Sergio Kitchens) and dozens of others in Could on accusations that their group, YSL, was not likely a document label referred to as “Younger Stoner Life” however as a substitute a violent Atlanta road gang referred to as “Younger Slime Life.” The costs embrace allegations of homicide, carjacking, armed theft, drug dealing and unlawful firearm possession over the course of the previous decade. Although Gunna pleaded out in December, Younger Thug stays in jail forward of trial.
