Rapper Tekashi6ix9ine has struck a deal to end his current prison sentence, agreeing to serve a month behind bars for violating the terms of his release following a felony conviction, prosecutors said Wednesday.
The deal with federal prosecutors was detailed in a letter that was partially endorsed by a federal judge in Manhattan.
It demands that the entertainer be sentenced to one month in prison, followed by one month of house arrest, one month of house arrest and one month of curfew.
He would also be subject to electronic monitoring.
Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said he would sentence the artist, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, immediately after he admitted to the offenses during a Nov. 12 hearing.
He said he would require both parties to explain why a one-month prison sentence followed by three months of house arrest, detention or a curfew is sufficient for repeat probation violations.
The terms of the deal also require Tekashi 6ix9ine to submit to another year of supervision by the court’s probation department.
Tekashi 6ix9ine, 28, was free from court supervision within months when he was arrested on October 29 after his probation officer complained that he was not following the rules about obtaining prior approval to travel and that he had failed the drug tests.
In 2019, Engelmayer sentenced him to two years in prison in a racketeering case, after the musician pleaded guilty that same year to charges accusing him of participating in and directing violence by the gang known as the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.
In April 2020, Tekashi 6ix9ine was released from his prison sentence months early after complaining that his ailments made him particularly susceptible to the coronavirus, which was spreading through the country’s prisons.
Engelmayer, who expressed his dismay at the the artist’s apparent inability to follow the rulesnoted at a hearing last month that he had granted him compassionate release during the coronavirus crisis.
The rapper apologized and told the judge he was “not a bad person.”
