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YoungBoy Never Broke Again has been sentenced to less than two years behind bars after he pleaded guilty to a felony firearms charge.
The 25-year-old rapper appeared in a Utah courtroom on Tuesday, December 10, where he learned his fate. According to The Advocate, U.S. District Judge David Barlow sentenced YoungBoy, born Kentrell Gaulden, to 23 months in prison and five years of supervised release after he completes his sentence. YB pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm back in September. The plea came four years after he was first arrested with 15 others for possessing over a dozen guns at a music video shoot in Baton Rouge.
In addition to his prison sentence, YB must also pay a $200,000 fine. YB's sentencing ended the legal drama that cast a shadow over his career since 2020. After he was arrested, the Baton Rouge native was ordered to turn over a .45-caliber Glock pistol and a 9 mm handgun found at the video shoot. YB and his attorneys battled the charges in court for over three years before the case was transferred to Salt Lake City, Utah, where the rapper was living on house arrest.
NBA YoungBoy's case was transferred to Utah several months after he was arrested in connection to a statewide fraudulent prescription drug ring. Police said YB posed as a doctor and called in fake prescription orders for promethazine with codeine to pharmacies across the state. He faced 63 charges in total including 20 separate counts of “procuring or attempting to procure any drug/prescription plus 20 counts each of forgery and identity fraud." Last month, he accepted a plea deal that allowed him to plead guilty to two counts of third-degree felony identity fraud, two counts of third-degree felony forgery, and six counts of misdemeanor unlawful pharmacy conduct. He pleaded no contest to the rest of the charges.