{"id":4271,"date":"2025-08-06T00:45:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/soulja-boy-released-jail-gun-charges-1236037627\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T00:45:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:45:57","slug":"soulja-boy-released-jail-gun-charges-1236037627","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/soulja-boy-released-jail-gun-charges-1236037627\/","title":{"rendered":"Soulja Boy Released From Jail After Prosecutors Decline to Bring Gun\u00a0Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tSoulja Boy has been released from custody two nights after his arrest during a traffic stop in Los Angeles, with prosecutors determining that there\u2019s not enough evidence to charge the rapper with being a felon in possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 35-year-old \u201cCrank That\u201d rapper (DeAndre Cortez Way) was arrested <\/a>in the early hours of Sunday morning (Aug. 3) while riding in the passenger seat of a vehicle that was pulled over in West Hollywood, Calif. Police said they spotted a gun in the car and booked Soulja Boy on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a firearm (the rapper has a criminal record for previous weapons violations<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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\n\tBut Soulja Boy was released from custody just before 2 p.m. PT on Tuesday (Aug. 5) after prosecutors opted not to bring charges against him, according to city jail records. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles County District Attorney\u2019s Office tells Billboard<\/em>, \u201cA case was declined due to insufficient evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe rapper tacitly celebrated his release with an Instagram story, writing, \u201cFirst day out\u201d against a plain black backdrop. Soulja Boy\u2019s legal reps did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n

\n\tSoulja Boy was convicted in 2014 for carrying a loaded firearm in public. While he was initially sentenced to probation, the rapper was later arrested for violating the terms of that probation and served 240 days behind bars<\/a> in 2019.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe\u2019s also faced a series of civil lawsuits for alleged sexual assault and domestic abuse in the years since the success of \u201cCrank That,\u201d which spawned a viral dance craze and spent seven weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in 2007.<\/p>\n

\n\tSoulja Boy has already lost two trials over these abuse allegations, and he\u2019s facing down jury verdicts totaling more than $4 million<\/a> in cases brought by his ex-girlfriend Kayla Myers and an anonymous former personal assistant. Another anonymous ex-girlfriend has a pending civil lawsuit claiming Soulja Boy beat her while she was pregnant with their child. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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