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Casanova has been sentenced to 15 years and six months in prison.
On Tuesday, June 27, the Southern District of New York confirmed that U.S. District Judge Philip M. Halpern decided to keep the "Don't Run" rapper behind bars for the next 188 months after he was found guilty of racketeering and narcotics charges stemming from his time as the leader of the Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation Bloods Gang aka "Gorilla Stone." The artist, born Caswell Senior, was accused of being involved in a 2018 robbery in New York, a shooting in Florida back in July 2020 and conspired to traffic over 100 kilograms of marijuana.
"Caswell Senior is not just a notorious recording artist, but he is also a high-profile leader of a vicious street gang and a magnet for gang violence," U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a press release. "At a crowded Miami house party, Senior personally fired a gun that seriously injured and could have killed a victim, inciting a shootout. Further, Senior’s stature in the community was central to Gorilla Stone’s successful recruitment and nationwide expansion. Today’s sentencing — along with the other significant sentences that have been imposed in this case — shows once again that gang life is not worth it and will lead to many years in prison.”
Casanova has been locked up since he surrendered to the FBI in 2020 on racketeering charges. While he was in jail, the "Set Trippin" rapper was charged with attempted murder stemming from a shootout that went down in November 2020 at a Miami strip club. After nearly two years behind bars, Casanova plead guilty to one count of conspiring to conduct and participate in the conduct of the affairs of a criminal enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity and one count of conspiring to distribute over 100 kilograms of marijuana.
His sentence comes a few weeks after Cas was attacked in jail. He was reportedly slashed in the face by another inmate at the Essex County Correctional Facility in Newark, N.J. after he condemned his gang affiliation in court nearly 10 years after he joined. The rapper was one of 18 Gorilla Stone members who were indicted. So far, 12 out of the 18 have been sentenced.