The "artist" in question.
Posted on 02/05/2018 5:01:43 AM PST by Simon Green
A Chicago rapper who filmed himself in a music video with a gun at a Deerfield hotel was sentenced recently to 15 years in prison.
The aspiring rapper, Ricardo Burgos, 31, possessed the gun in January 2016 and he can be seen in the video holding two firearms while rapping about selling drugs, committing acts of violence and disrespecting law enforcement, according to a release by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
He performs under the name Nation, and he had been previously arrested and convicted of multiple felonies and he was not legally allowed to possess a firearm, according to the FBI statement.
Burgos pleaded guilty to one count of illegal possession of a firearm by a felon and one count of distribution of a controlled substance. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison last week by U.S. District Judge Ronald A. Guzman. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jordan M. Matthews prosecuted the case, according to the FBI.
Burgos admitted in the plea declaration that he possessed a .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol while filming the video in a hotel room in Deerfield. Then Burgos brought the gun to the Austin neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago. He was arrested there by Chicago police , according to the FBI.
Investigators learned the .45 caliber handgun was used in a shooting in Chicago two days before the music video was filmed. The gun had been stolen from a store in Indiana, according to the FBI.
The FBI said the drug charge arose from multiple illegal narcotic sales by Burgos in 2015 when he sold 4 grams of crack cocaine and 1.4 grams of heroin to several individuals, all of whom were undercover police officers.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
The "artist" in question.
Prop guns for a phony musician?
One illegal possession charge for 2 firearms?
I have to wonder how that court case went. How did they prove the fire arms he had were real and not props?
Talk about putting your career on hold.
The good news is rap will still be around 15 years from now.
Burgos admitted in the plea declaration that he possessed a .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol while filming the video in a hotel room in Deerfield. Then Burgos brought the gun to the Austin neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago. He was arrested there by Chicago police , according to the FBI.
Investigators learned the .45 caliber handgun was used in a shooting in Chicago two days before the music video was filmed. The gun had been stolen from a store in Indiana, according to the FBI.
The FBI said the drug charge arose from multiple illegal narcotic sales by Burgos in 2015 when he sold 4 grams of crack cocaine and 1.4 grams of heroin to several individuals, all of whom were undercover police officers.
Obviously he is a Master Thespian!
This will be good for his street cred and career when he gets out of prison some day.
“aspiring rapper” = career criminal
Apparently, he admitted it to the LEO.
Oh I understand that.... but why admit to it if all they had was the video? Either a lawyer with poor advice or they had found the gun on him or in his house. The second seems more likely.
He was not arrested for the video. He was arrested on the street and had the .45 in his possession at the time of his arrest. That is where the gun possession charge comes from.
The video angle is just the click-bait hook for the story.
Sounds like he had it on him when arrested:
>> Then Burgos brought the gun to the Austin neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago. He was arrested there by Chicago police , according to the FBI.
Yeah, the sentence and paragraph right before that are talking about the plea deal. This seems like a very poorly written article. In short, that paragraph conveys:
‘He admitted in the plea deal..... Then Burgos brought the gun.... was arrested.’
Anywho, the good news is, another idiot off the street.
“Obviously he is a Master Thespian!”
More like a Master Baiter. He baited himself right into law enforcement hands.
The cops say “Thank you, sir!”.
Another one down, still thousands to go. Kudos to the authorities.
Could someone tell all these ‘aspiring rappers’ that the chances for making a career of screaming into a microphone are about the same as winning a lottery?
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