Rapper Young Buck Headed Back To Prison After Probation Violation

Nashville rapper Young Buck is heading back to federal prison after admitting to violating his probation from two earlier cases.

Young Buck, whose real name is David Darnell Brown, was immediately taken into custody after his admission and will serve seven months in prison, according to U.S. Attorney David Rivera.

Brown was initially convicted of two felonies in July 2013: being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and being a convicted felon in unlawful possession of ammunition. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison and three years of probation. A condition of his release required drug-testing and urinalysis.

In August, 2015, he pleaded guilty to "willfully falsifying, concealing, and covering up by trick, scheme, and device," by providing a false urine sample and by falsely telling his probation officer that he had not used a controlled substance. Brown used a device known as "The Whizzinator," consisting of a plastic bag containing another person’s urine, to provide a urine sample. He was sentenced to serve 18 months’ probation.

The rapper admitted Wednesday to violating his probation in three different ways, resulting in the prison sentence.

Young Buck took to Instagram, posting a shot of him looking away pensively while wearing a vintage Marlins jersey and leaning on his luxury car, asking for support from his fans and G-Unit colleagues ahead of his appearance.

In a statement, his attorney, Alex Little of Bone McAllester Norton, said Brown was "disappointed by the result but grateful for the support of his family, friends and fans."

In March, Brown received text messages from the fiancé of the mother of one of his children. In those text messages, the fiancé told Brown that he was in violation of a state court child support/visitation order, and that he could face state jail time for contempt. Brown then called the man "various derogatory and racial epithets and threatened him with physical harm."

On July 20, another of Brown’s ex-girlfriends obtained a restraining order in state court, and arrest warrants were issued against Brown based on an incident in which Brown wanted to get certain property out of that woman’s house and was told that the property was not there. He then kicked in the door of the residence and threatened to burn down the home. Brown was arrested for violating his probation but was released with an order not to have contact with the ex-girlfriend. He then violated that condition by contacting and attempting to contact the woman more than 100 times in less than two weeks.

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