{"id":7259,"date":"2025-08-06T00:52:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/prosecutors-wont-bring-gun-charges\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T00:52:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:52:20","slug":"prosecutors-wont-bring-gun-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/prosecutors-wont-bring-gun-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors Won’t Bring Gun Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tSoulja Boy has been released from custody two nights after his arrest during a traffic stop in Los Angeles, with prosecutors determining that there\u2019s not enough evidence to charge the rapper with being a felon in possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 35-year-old \u201cCrank That\u201d rapper (DeAndre Cortez Way) was arrested in the early hours of Sunday morning (Aug. 3) while riding in the passenger seat of a vehicle that was pulled over in West Hollywood, Calif. Police said they spotted a gun in the car and booked Soulja Boy on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a firearm (the rapper has a criminal record for previous weapons violations).<\/p>\n

\n\tBut Soulja Boy was released from custody just before 2 p.m. PT on Tuesday (Aug. 5) after prosecutors opted not to bring charges against him, according to city jail records. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles County District Attorney\u2019s Office tells Billboard<\/em>, \u201cA case was declined due to insufficient evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe rapper tacitly celebrated his release with an Instagram story, writing, \u201cFirst day out\u201d against a plain black backdrop. Soulja Boy\u2019s legal reps did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n

\n\tSoulja Boy was convicted in 2014 for carrying a loaded firearm in public. While he was initially sentenced to probation, the rapper was later arrested for violating the terms of that probation and served 240 days behind bars in 2019.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe\u2019s also faced a series of civil lawsuits for alleged sexual assault and domestic abuse in the years since the success of \u201cCrank That,\u201d which spawned a viral dance craze and spent seven weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in 2007.<\/p>\n

\n\tSoulja Boy has already lost two trials over these abuse allegations, and he\u2019s facing down jury verdicts totaling more than $4 million in cases brought by his ex-girlfriend Kayla Myers and an anonymous former personal assistant. Another anonymous ex-girlfriend has a pending civil lawsuit claiming Soulja Boy beat her while she was pregnant with their child. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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