After Yung Relle posted a video on Monday Bobby Shmurda declaring he was back, rumors began to swirl that Shmurda (born Ackquille Jean Pollard) had made bail and been released from custody. "I'm back, baby," Shmurda says in the video, captioned #MyBro Is Back, #DontTellNobody. Unfortunately for fans of the rapper, Riker's Island has confirmed that the Shmoney dance originator remains in custody at the NYC jail's West Facility in East Elmhurst, NY, HipHopDX reports. The misleading video was likely a shameless publicity stunt by Relle.
According to HipHopDX's sources, Pollard was admitted into the West Facility, which also contains the department's Contagious Disease Unit, on Dec. 19, two days after he was apprehended by police at Quad Studios in midtown Manhattan, the site where Tupac was first shot in 1994.
The 20-year-old Brooklyn rapper was indicted on a variety of charges incuding reckless endangerment in the second degree, conspiracy in the second degree, three counts of conspiracy in the third degree, two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and one count of criminal possession of drug paraphernalia (intent to sell and possession of narcotics). He faces up to 25 years if convicted on the conspiracy charges and a maximum of 15 years on each weapons charge. He was found with three weapons on two separate occasions. The charges stem from a long-term narcotics investigation run by the NYPD and a designated Brooklyn task force.
His bail was set at $2 million. Pollard pled not guilty to the charges.
His attorney Howard Greenburg told REVOLT last month that Pollard wouldn't be released from Rikers until Jan. 29 and that the rapper's label Epic Records would be covering the collateral for his bond.
"The bail was set," he told them. "But then it's just a matter of putting the package together."
