The federal government wants 6ix9ine to be back behind bars instead of getting house arrest for violating his supervised release…again.
In a sentencing letter written on Thursday (Nov. 13) and obtained by Complex, government prosecutors list the rapper’s possession of cocaine and MDMA and his battery of someone inside a Florida shopping mall as reasons for him to serve 3 to 9 months in prison, followed by a new two-year term of supervised release.
The letter also recalls a warning from the court (during his sentencing hearing for previously violating the terms of his release) that “violence of any sort” would be considered a “grave breach of trust, warranting revocation of supervised release, and a return to prison.”
Though prosecutors find “no joy” in seeking a prison sentence for 6ix9ine, who the letter refers to as a “former cooperator,” the reason they’re doing it is to “send a message to Hernandez and other Government cooperators—or those considering cooperating with the Government—that they are not above the law by virtue of their status as cooperators, and that when they earn leniency at sentencing, this is not to be taken as a green-light to recidivate.”
In a separate letter to Judge Paul Engelmayer, prosecutors admit that the Probation office in Florida responsible for overseeing the rapper’s supervised release has essentially given up, and wants him out of their hair. Probation recommends a three-month term of home confinement, and then for 6ix9ine to be free from supervision.
The reason for that, the letter explains, is that the department “has exhausted all efforts and resources to correct Mr. Hernandez’s behavior.”
Prosecutors disagree with the department’s take, arguing that letting the controversial artist off the hook would send a bad message.
The government’s letters to the judge in 6ix9ine’s case come days after the rapper’s attorney, Lance Lazzaro, issued his own plea for the judge not to give him jail time.
“Due to Mr. Hernandez’s classification, he always serves his jail time segregated and fully isolated from other inmates,” wrote Lazzaro. “As a result, Mr. Hernandez is given extremely limited social interaction with other inmates and very little time outside to get fresh air and exercise.”
The rapper’s plea comes months after he confessed to violating the terms of his supervised release due to drug possession and assault. At the time of the assault, 6ix9ine was gearing up to be sentenced for previously violating his supervised release for possessing MDMA and cocaine.
For more about 6ix9ine, including the whole story of the federal racketeering case in which he served as a cooperating witness, check out Complex Presents Dummy Boy: Tekashi 6ix9ine and the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.
