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Pooh Shiesty is a free man after being launched from jail sooner than anticipated.
The Memphis-born rapper, greatest identified for his 2020 hit “Again in Blood” with Lil Durk, was launched from a high-security federal jail in Pennsylvania on Monday (October 3).
Pooh (actual title Lontrell Williams) seems to be already having fun with his newfound freedom, with movies and photographs exhibiting him posted up with family and friends — together with fellow Memphis artists BIG30 and Okay Carbon — at a welcome house get together.
“I’m elated that Pooh has been launched after three years,” the rapper’s lawyer, Bradford Cohen, stated in an announcement to XXL.
“The federal government fought exhausting to provide him 10, however after listening to the case, the choose agreed with us that it was not applicable and gave him a sentence that resulted in him serving three years.”
Cohen added: “I do know he’ll come again greater than ever and positively discovered from this expertise. He’s excited to start out the following chapter of his story. I imagine that every thing occurs for a cause, and I believe that that is just the start of his second act.”
Based on TMZ, Pooh Shiesty is prohibited from possessing managed substances, should undergo periodic drug assessments and report back to a probation officer as a part of his launch situations.
The 25-year-old has been behind bars since 2022 after he pleaded responsible to conspiring to own firearms in furtherance of violent and drug‑trafficking crimes.
He was sentenced to 63 months in jail, which might have saved him incarcerated till April 2026 with time served.
Shiesty was initially arrested again in October 2020 in reference to a theft and shoot-out in Florida that was caught on digicam.
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