Three males are dealing with prices in connection to an assault March 21 in opposition to the rap artist Tekashi 6ix9ine at a suburban Lake Price Seashore LA Health fitness center.
The Palm Seashore County Sheriff’s Workplace on Thursday arrested Rafael Medina Jr., 43, Anthony Maldanado, 25, and Octavious Medina, 23, on prices of theft and battery after alleging that the lads have been concerned in assaulting the rapper, whose actual title is Daniel Hernandez.
Based on an arrest report, Hernandez was within the males’s locker room of an LA Health alongside Lantana Highway close to Florida’s Turnpike when the three males got here in, assaulted him and stole objects from him.
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Surveillance-camera video confirmed Maldanado getting into the fitness center as a member with Octavious Medina becoming a member of him as a visitor. Medina was seen later seen holding the entrance door to the power open, letting in his father, Rafael Medina.
The surveillance video confirmed the three males enter the locker room and exit after about 5 minutes, adopted by Hernandez exhibiting indicators of trauma to his face, the arrest report mentioned. Hernandez was handled at a hospital.
He later advised deputies the three males attacked him and stole his white Balenciaga footwear, the important thing fob to his Lamborghini SUV and an iPhone.
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Hernandez has been the sufferer of a number of reported assaults since he cooperated with authorities in a racketeering and firearms case in opposition to him and others in 2018.
He confronted a long time in jail and rapidly turned on different members of the 9 Trey Gangsta Bloods, assembly with authorities almost two dozen occasions and securing a jail sentence of solely two years, the Related Press reported. Many followers and different rappers labeled him a snitch.
Final yr, somebody reportedly struck Hernandez behind his head at a Miami membership. The PBSO arrest report signifies that Rafael Medina is a high-ranking member of the Latin Kings gang. A confidential supply advised investigators that the elder Medina needed to admit to his involvement within the assault, telling the supply that he was within the mistaken and overcome by anger.
Throughout a court docket listening to Friday on the Palm Seashore County Jail, County Choose Ted Booras ordered that Rafael Medina be held on $52,000 bail and that he be positioned on home arrest upon his launch. Booras set Octavious Medina’s bail at $22,000. Bail info for Maldonado was not instantly obtainable. All three remained in custody Friday afternoon.
Julius Whigham II is a felony justice and public security reporter for The Palm Seashore Put up. You may attain him at[email protected] and observe him on Twitter at@JuliusWhigham. Assist assist our work:Subscribe at the moment.
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