Casanova has been sentenced to fifteen years in jail on racketeering and narcotics fees.

The Brooklyn rapper, whose precise title is Caswell Senior, was sentenced to 188 months—or 15 years—of incarceration on Tuesday (June 27) by U.S. District Choose Philip M. Halpern. A gunshot in Florida on July 5, 2020, a theft in New York Metropolis on August 5, 2018, and a conspiracy to visitors greater than 100 kilogrammes of marijuana are among the many offences he’s charged with.

“Caswell Senior isn’t just a infamous recording artist, however he’s additionally a high-profile chief of a vicious avenue gang and a magnet for gang violence,” U.S. Legal professional Damian Williams stated in a press launch. “At a crowded Miami home social gathering, Senior personally fired a gun that significantly injured and will have killed a sufferer, inciting a shootout.

He continued: “Additional, Senior’s stature in the neighborhood was central to Gorilla Stone’s profitable recruitment and nationwide enlargement. Right now’s sentencing — together with the opposite vital sentences which were imposed on this case — exhibits as soon as once more that gang life isn’t price it and can result in a few years in jail.”

5 extra defendants have pled responsible within the Gorilla Stone case and are awaiting sentencing. The rapper was the twelfth defendant within the case.

The Roc Nation artist had penned a letter to the choose hoping for leniency from the authorized system earlier this month. “I’m telling you and anybody that may pay attention that I needed out earlier than I used to be arrested and I’m out. I discovered by my music profession that folks will pay attention and that I don’t have to affiliate myself with a gang to succeed. I don’t have to affiliate with a gang even when I don’t succeed,” he wrote.

“Whereas I’ve been in right here I misplaced my father to most cancers. Whereas I placed on that sturdy facade, all I needed to do was finish it. Surviving on Rikers Island and upstate correctional services weren’t simple with racial and gang pressure and violence at its top.”

Cas pleaded responsible to 2 counts in Might 2022, racketeering conspiracy and narcotics conspiracy, regardless of sustaining his innocence. He has been behind vehicles since December 2020.