Hartford Rapper, Music Video Producer Sent To Prison: Feds

HARTFORD/BLOOMFIELD, CT — A Hartford resident, rapper, and rap music video producer was sent to prison Tuesday on a weapons conviction tied to a Bloomfield domestic incident last year.

Vanessa Roberts Avery, U.S. attorney for Connecticut, said Wesley S. Pearson, 26, of Hartford, was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Bridgeport to 34 months of imprisonment, nearly three years, followed by two years of supervised release, for unlawfully possessing firearms.

According to court documents and statements made in court, on May 16, 2023, Bloomfield police arrested Pearson after a domestic violence incident.

Later that day, having applied for and received a Risk Protection Order from the Connecticut Superior Court, police searched the Bloomfield home where Pearson had been residing and seized several handguns, ammunition, and an "AR-style pistol," among other weapons, Avery said.

She said the investigation revealed Pearson directed music videos, under the name “The Kid Wes,” which featured suspected Hartford gang members celebrating gang violence and drug trafficking, among other topics.

According to Avery, he also created his own videos, including one titled “Pray for Me,” in which he raps “We outside every day on that strip…we got them Glocks with a switch, come out and play us, at least a hundred shots.”

Pearson was previously convicted in state court of a felony drug offense, she said.

It is a violation of federal law for a person previously convicted of a felony offense to possess a firearm or ammunition that has moved in interstate or foreign commerce.

Pearson has been detained since May 16, 2023. On June 3, 2024, he pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon.

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