Rapper Fredo Bang arrested for 'parole violation' five years after attempted murder case... and just one DAY after his Top Boy Gorilla comrade Lit Yoshi is taken into custody
The rapper Fredo Bang, real name Fredrick Givens II, was arrested this Thursday in his city of residence, Miami.
He was taken into a custody allegedly because of a parole violation stemming from a case in his native Louisiana, according to the Miami Herald.
In video footage obtained by TMZ federal agents can be seen parked outside what was reputedly the 25-year-old's residence in Miami Lakes.
Mugshot: The rapper Fredo Bang, real name Fredrick Givens II, was arrested this Thursday in his city of residence, Miami
The footage includes audible flash bangs and multiple agents can be seen escorting somebody from the house.
Givens was arrested in his hometown of Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 2016 after he shot at a man as they quarreled outside an apartment building.
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Although he was charged with attempted murder he was eventually released on parole - but when the FBI and police raided his residence this week they are said to have discovered body armor, three firearms and a stolen vehicle.
'The vehicle did not belong to Mr. Givens,' his defense lawyer Ron Haley insisted. 'Mr. Givens does not have knowledge of the vehicle being stolen.'
Associate: Givens is part of the group Top Boy Gorilla with another rapper called Lit Yoshi who was arrested just one day prior and is pictured in his own mugshot
Haley further maintained that the three guns in the home actually belonged to Givens' security team and were legally registered as such.
Givens was taken to Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Thursday, a day before he was meant to play the Rolling Loud festival in Miami Gardens.
Haley argued that, as Givens was scheduled to attend a hearing in his home state this coming week, the authorities 'easily could have executed the arrest warrant Monday when he returns to Baton Rouge.'
The attorney further maintained that the home raid was unnecessary to begin with as his client had a tracking device on.
At work: Givens was taken into a custody allegedly because of a parole violation stemming from a case in his native Louisiana; he is pictured onstage in Atlanta earlier this month
Givens is part of the group Top Boy Gorilla with another rapper called Lit Yoshi whom the Herald reports was living with him in Miami Lakes.
Lit Yoshi, whose real name is Mieyoshi Edwards, was arrested on a warrant out of Louisiana just one day before Givens was.
Top Boy Gorilla have been feuding with rapper YoungBoy Never Broke Again, aka NBA YoungBoy, aka Kentrell Gaulden, who is 21 years old and has seven children.
Two years ago Gaulden's entourage were fired upon outside Miami's Trump International Beach Resort in an incident that left his girlfriend injured.
The shooting also claimed the life of a 43-year-old rental car employee called Mohamad Jradi who was across the street and struck by a stray bullet.
Conflict: Top Boy Gorilla have been feuding with rapper YoungBoy Never Broke Again, aka NBA YoungBoy, aka Kentrell Gaulden, who is pictured in 2017
Although charges have not been brought in the 2019 shooting case, Louisiana prosecutors suspect that Top Boy Gorilla were involved.
Meanwhile Edwards injured one of the three people inside a car in Baton Rouge while firing on the vehicle last year, Fox 8 reported citing court documents.
Gaulden also has a history of legal trouble, including a 2016 arrest for his involvement in a non-lethal drive-by shooting when he was 16.
The federal authorities and LAPD are said to have pulled him over on account of an outstanding federal warrant this March.
He allegedly fled and was then purportedly apprehended with the help of a K-9 and arrested, according to a report in TMZ.
Days of freedom: Fredo Bang is picutred at the Hot 107.9 Who's Hot Artist Showcase Concert at Believe Music Hall in Atlanta this July 9
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