You would think that being incarcerated would make it tough to commit crimes, but if you’re Baton Rouge rapper Lil Boosie, you find a way. On November 29, local hip-hop star Torrence Hatch, known by his stage name Lil Boosie, plead guilty to conspiring to smuggle codeine syrup, marijuana, and ecstasy into two Louisiana state prisons. Assistant District Attorney Dana Cummings reports that Boosie was already serving a sentence for possession of marijuana at the time he attempted smuggling the drugs into the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola and the Dixon Correctional Institute in Jackson with the help of a prison guard.
Baton Rouge drug rehabs report that, according to their patients, drug abuse in prison is actually not uncommon.
State District Judge Mike Erwin sentenced Boosie to a new term of eight years for the charge, but the rapper’s legal battles are far from over. Besides getting himself into trouble while already behind bars, Boosie is also facing a first-degree murder charge in the 2009 death of fellow rapper Terry Boyd, aka “Nussie.” Boosie is alleged to have paid $15,000 to have Boyd “stamped out” by an 18-year-old accomplice. While Boosie has clearly continued to put his drug and music profits to sinister use, the Baton Rouge luminary may finally be taken out of the limelight if prosecutors decide to seek the death penalty in the case, which is still under consideration, with a trial scheduled to start April 9th. Regardless of the outcome, Baton Rouge parents no doubt hope that attention to this “role model” gets “stamped out” soon.
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