Lil Durk stays behind bars after a decide rejected his request for bond.
On Thursday (December 13), attorneys for the Chicago rapper reportedly proposed an intensive bail package deal, together with $2.3 million in property and $1 million money from Sony Music. The protection additionally supplied digital monitoring, 24-hour safety at a safe property, and the handover of all digital units.
Prosecutors say the proposed bond situations had been “woefully insufficient.” They argued Banks is a hazard to the neighborhood and labeled him a flight threat, stating the proof in opposition to Lil Durk warranted his detention.
U.S. Justice of the Peace Choose Patricia Donahue agreed, telling the Los Angeles courtroom, “I discover that there is no such thing as a situation or mixture of situations that may moderately guarantee the security of the neighborhood.”
She added, “The allegations aren’t that the defendant personally pulled the set off. The allegations are that the defendant workout routines a major quantity of management over others.”
Lil Durk was arrested in October for his alleged involvement in a murder-for-hire plot. The rapper and 5 different males had been indicted on federal expenses for allegedly plotting to kill rapper Quando Rondo in retaliation for King Von’s 2020 homicide.
His trial date is about for January 7, 2025. Lil Durk faces life in jail if convicted.
Lil Durk Allegedly Tied To “Different Murders”
In the meantime, prosecutors linked Durk to a different homicide, the killing of an alleged gang chief exterior a neighborhood heart on the Far South Aspect of Chicago in 2022.
A newly unsealed indictment accuses Lil Durk of funding a murder-for-hire plot in retaliation for the 2021 killing of his brother, Dontay Banks. In keeping with the submitting, Durk orchestrated the slaying of Stephon Mack in January 2022. The FBI claims Mack was the chief of the Smashville faction of the Gangster Disciples on the time.
“Lil Durk was and nonetheless is providing cash for individuals to kill these accountable for his brother’s homicide, and extra particularly, providing to pay cash for any Gangster Disciple that’s killed,” a federal agent wrote within the warrant software filed April 2023.
Prosecutors additionally argued Durk’s alleged ties to “different murders,” the Chicago Tribune reviews.
“Proof collected on this case additionally exhibits (the) defendant has allegedly positioned financial bounties to solicit different murders, together with a member of the family of a witness,” prosecutors wrote. “Defendant’s modus operandi is evident: he’ll use his energy, his cash, his affect, and any pretrial launch to hazard anybody who he perceives as a risk, together with witnesses on this case.”
