Tekashi 6ix9ine arrested for alleged supervised release violation

Tekashi 6ix9ine performs at the 2021 MiamiBash at the FTX Arena. -Credit: John Parra/Getty Images

Tekashi 6ix9ine was arrested Tuesday for allegedly violating the terms of his supervised release, which was part of his probation in connection with a federal plea deal on racketeering and firearms charges.

This is what his lawyer Lance Lazzaro says Rolling stone that Hernández was arrested Tuesday for violating supervised release on three technical violations. “We are confident that he will be released at the next court hearing,” Lazzaro said. “They are technical fouls, and we have defenses against every one of them.”

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ABC7 reported that the rapper was arrested after traveling to Las Vegas without permission. He was arrested on a warrant issued by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, arraigned and pleaded not guilty to the specifications.

Tekashi 6ix9ine, born Daniel Hernández, also failed to attend a scheduled drug test and tested positive for methamphetamine. The rapper claimed he tested positive because he was taking Adderall, according to ABC7.

In 2018, Hernández was arrested in New York on racketeering and firearms chargesrelated to his involvement with the Nine Trey Bloods gang. Although he initially pleaded not guilty, Hernandez later pleaded guilty reached a plea deal and testified about the gang’s illegal activities, admitting that he ordered a Nine Trey member to shoot rival rapper Chief Keef.

The artist was sentenced to two years in prison in late 2019. The following year, he was released early because he feared his health would be seriously affected if he contracted Covid-19 during the start of the pandemic.

Hernández will spend the next two weeks at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, until his next hearing on November 12. The latest arrest on Tuesday is one of the long list of legal issues the controversial rapper has been dealing with it for almost a decade.

Last month, his ex-girlfriend Jorgina Lulu Guillermo Diaz sued the rapper, accusing him of it posting revenge porn of her onlineand physically and emotionally abuse her. In the filing, Diaz alleged that Hernández beat her, drugged her and stole from her. The stated causes of action in the lawsuit were non-consensual pornography, battery, fraud and intentional infliction of emotional distress. When speaking with TMZ Hernandez denied the claims at the time.

He was arrested Santo Domingo in 2023 on suspicion of attacking two music producers, with TMZ reporting at the time that Hernandez was allegedly jealous of the producers for spending time with his then-girlfriend, Dominican rapper and singer Yailin La Más Viral. One of the producers who was allegedly attacked told the local publication Diario Libre that he had suffered an injured jaw that would require surgery.

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