YoungBoy Never Broke Again moved to a mansion in Huntsville, Utah in 2022 to get away from it all after being sentenced to house arrest in a 2020 Louisiana gun case. The change of venue was initially motivated by justice, but ended badly after YB was arrested on gun and prescription drug fraud charges and was recently sentenced to nearly two years in prison. But how did YB end up in Utah in the first place?
The answer goes deeper than one might think, and originated when the rapper was in middle school. According to KSL.com, while in sixth grade at Capital High School in Baton Rouge, YB participated in an AmeriCorps program for kids who showed signs they might not graduate from high school. It was there that he was paired with counselor Kyrie Garcia, who took a liking to the teenager.
“He was a prankster. He was funny. He was a prankster… He would prank my roommate and throw water on him, like he was just a funny kid,” Garcia told KSL.
Garcia eventually became YB’s godmother. After the show, he visited Garcia’s hometown in Utah.
“This was his first time on a plane or out of the South,” Garcia added. “His mother]thought it was a good opportunity for him to see me in a different state and see a different lifestyle.”
The young boy would visit Garcia between Thanksgiving and Christmas. He even planned to move to Utah to live with Garcia before his rap career exploded in high school. So when the rapper was placed on house arrest in 2022, his lawyers asked that he be allowed to move to a familiar shelter in Utah, where he stayed for two years until his arrest in April.
“I just want people to see that Kentrell is a human being and there’s another side to these things… He’s a human being and he has a good heart,” Garcia said.
Last week, NBA YoungBoy was formally sentenced to 23 months in prison and five years of probation after pleading guilty to gun charges in Louisiana and Utah. Last month, he was sentenced to probation and fined $25,000 after pleading guilty to prescription drug fraud charges.
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