YoungBoy Never Broke Again has been arrested on drug and gun charges, as well as for identity fraud and forgery.
The rapper (born Kentrell Gaulden) was booked on six charges in Utah on Tuesday (April 16th), according to police records. In addition to possession of a dangerous weapon by a restricted person, Gaulden has been charged with procuring or attempting to procure drugs, possession of controlled substances, identity fraud, forgery, and a pattern of unlawful activity.
Both the gun charge and pattern of unlawful activity are Class 2 felonies. No bail has been set.
Over the past several years, Gaulden has been on house arrest in Utah while awaiting trial for separate firearms charges. A federal grand jury indicted the artist in March 2021 on drug and weapons charges related to his September 2020 arrest.
After spending seven months in Louisiana jail, Gaulden was released to serve his pre-trial house arrest in Utah. In December, a federal judge relaxed the terms of Gaulden’s house arrest so he could receive mental health treatment.
Initially set to begin in July, Gaulden’s trial was put on hold last month to await a Supreme Court ruling on a potentially relevant Second Amendment case that will decide if a federal gun ownership ban for people with domestic violence restraining orders is unconstitutional.
Gaulden’s criminal record begins with his November 2016 arrest on two counts of attempted murder related to a nonfatal shooting incident. After pleading guilty in 2017 to a reduced charge of aggravated assault with a firearm, he was sentenced to a 10-year suspended prison sentence and given three years of active probation.
In 2022, Gaulden was acquitted of felony gun possession charges related to a 2021 incident in Los Angeles.
Last month, YoungBoy Never Broke Again dropped a compilation album, Compliments of Grave Digger Mountain, via his own Never Broke Again/Motown Records.
