Joliet Rapper Gets 4 Years For Trying to Flee Police

A Joliet rapper was sentenced to four years in prison for trying to escape from the cops after he and a pal were picked up on gun charges last year.

Since Deondray “Star Money” Hall, 24, has already served nearly 11 months in the Will County jail and will receive day-for-day good time credit, he will likely have to do a little more than a single year in prison—if he even goes away for that long. Hall’s attorney, Jeff Tomczak, said he will ask Judge Daniel Rozak to reconsider the sentence during a hearing next week.

Hall was arrested along with Stephen Hayes, also 24, in May. Hayes and Hall were riding together in a Sport Utility vehicle when the cops pulled them over. Prior to the stop, police said, Hall tossed a pistol out of the SUV.

After they were taken into custody, a handcuffed Hall tried to slip out of a moving squad car but his escape was thwarted by Police Officer James Kilgore.

Prosecutors dropped the charges against Hayes. Hall pleaded guilty to escape in December. In exchange, prosecutors dismissed weapons charges.

Hall had been released from prison just four months before his arrest.

During the first half of Hall’s sentencing hearing in February, his best friend, college student Ronald Byrd, said the rapper is the “star” of the “Star Money Gang,” a “movement” comprised of family, friends and fans. Byrd also said Hall is far and away the most successful of Joliet’s rappers and that other local performers imitate the Star Money Gang.

“They mimic what we do, as far as the party buses,” Byrd said. “They try, but they don’t even come close to our movement.”

In the second half of his sentencing hearing, held last month, Hall pleaded with Judge Rozak for the chance to go free on probation so he could “do whatever I have to do to be successful.”

“My mama raised me to be better than this,” Hall told the judge.

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