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\n\tPooh Shiesty will remain in jail after his bombshell arrest for allegedly barricading Gucci Mane in a Dallas recording studio and forcing the 1017 Records boss to sign a label deal release at gunpoint.<\/p>\n

\n\tShiesty (Lontrell Williams Jr.) was denied bail following a Wednesday (April 8) evidentiary hearing in Texas federal court, where he was charged last week with kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping over the alleged \u201carmed takeover\u201d in January. He faces up to life in prison if convicted. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cBased on the credible evidence presented at the hearing, the court finds probable cause to believe that defendant committed the law violations alleged in the criminal complaint,\u201d wrote U.S. Magistrate Judge Ren\u00e9e Harris Toliver in a detention order obtained by Billboard<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n\tWednesday\u2019s hearing featured testimony from an FBI agent about police reports given the night of the incident, when Shiesty allegedly pulled an AK-style pistol during a business meeting and forced Mane to release him from 1017. Though Mane (born Radric Davis) has not been named in court, the charging documents identify this victim as \u201cR.D.\u201d and describe him as the head of 1017.<\/p>\n

\n\tShiesty\u2019s attorney, Bradford Cohen<\/strong>, told reporters<\/a> after the hearing that the entire case rests on \u201cvery questionable\u201d witness statements, noting, \u201cThe FBI doesn\u2019t take three months to arrest someone if they believe everything that was said on the night that it occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThey have no contract,\u201d said Cohen. \u201cThey have no video of this alleged signing of a contract. They have no guns. They have no jewelry. They have none of that physical evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShiesty was charged last week alongside eight alleged co-conspirators, including his father, Lontrell Williams Sr., and the rapper Big30 (Rodney Wright Jr.). Prosecutors say these individuals barricaded the recording studio and robbed Mane\u2019s associates of Rolex watches, a 1017 chain and a Louis Vuitton bag.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe alleged incident came just a few months after Shiesty\u2019s release from prison on federal gun charges. He was still on post-release house arrest in January \u2014 a factor cited by Judge Toliver in Wednesday\u2019s detention order.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn light of that fact and the fact that the conditions of pretrial release at this court\u2019s disposal are the same or similar to those defendant has already violated, the court finds that there is no condition or combination of conditions the court can impose in this case which will reasonably assure defendant\u2019s appearance as required or the safety of the community or another person if released,\u201d wrote the judge.<\/p>\n


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