Arkansas rapper Bankroll Freddie has been found guilty of multiple charges stemming from his 2022 arrest on federal gun and drug charges.
CBS affiliate THV-11 reports the Quality Control artist, real name Freddie Gladney III, was found guilty of one count of marijuana possession and distribution, one count of possession and distribution of a controlled substance, one count of firearm possession in furtherance of drug trafficking, and one count of using a communications facility in the furtherance of drug trafficking crimes.
The ruling was filed earlier this month with the U.S. District Court in Eastern District Arkansas. Though Bankroll Freddie's sentencing status has not yet been confirmed, it's worth noting that several other charges against the Arkansas native have been dropped.
The news arrives nearly two years after Bankroll Freddie was arrested as part of a federal drug bust. Freddie was charged as part of a 61-count indictment against the Loady Murder Mobb Every Body Killas (EBK) gang, of which law enforcement believes he was associated with.
Officials jsaid of the EBK gang members that they "voluntarily and intentionally conspired" together to distribute cocaine, crack cocaine, meth, and marijuana.
Freddie's conviction follows a long hiatus from the QC rapper, who hasn't dropped a full-length project since 2022. After releasing his studio debut Big Bank in 2021, Freddie returned with his mixtape From Rap to Trap 2 in July 2022.
“I feel like a lot of stuff I did slept on. Probably because ain’t too many people heard me. I’m a new face to the world,” he told XXL after signing a contract with QC in 2019. “A lot of people may not have heard my new stuff, my old stuff. It’s more about putting it out there, put it in they face.”
