LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – A federal decide positioned hip hop producer Jamal Rashid, also referred to as ‘Mally Mall,’ on home arrest regardless of expressing security issues.
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“I am concerned about the safety of particular persons in the community,” U.S. Justice of the Peace Decide Elayna Youcach stated in courtroom Thursday afternoon.
A federal decide positioned hip hop producer Jamal Rashid, also referred to as ‘Mally Mall,’ on home arrest regardless of expressing security issues. (KLAS)
Rashid was taken into custody on Tuesday primarily based on allegations that he violated the circumstances of supervised launch. He appeared in a shirt marked, ‘detainee’ on the again, saved wanting round as he appeared to examine who was within the courtroom, and appeared to weep when the decide stated she would launch him on Thursday.
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Rashid is accused of violating circumstances of supervised launch by contacting a lady who claims she is a sufferer of a intercourse trafficking ring tied to Rashid, illegally recording telephone calls along with her and attempting to steer her to drop a lawsuit towards him, testing constructive for medicine and failing to undergo drug testing, mendacity to his probation officer relating to an alleged ‘intercourse room’ in his house, and interacting with a convicted felon.
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Rashid faces potential revocation of his supervised launch, which means a decide will determine whether or not he ought to serve the rest of his sentence in jail on Nov. 17. His supervised launch started on July 14, 2023, in line with courtroom paperwork.
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U.S. District Court docket Decide Gloria Navarro sentenced Rashid to 33 months in jail adopted by three years of supervised launch on Might 13, 2021, after he pleaded responsible to 1 depend of use of an interstate facility in help of illegal exercise. Rashid admitted the escort providers he ran in Clark County between 2002 and 2014 had been fronts for prostitution.
“Rashid operated a high-end prostitution business that transported victims across the United States, using various paid websites — such as Backpage and Eros — to advertise the victims for prostitution purposes,” a Division of Justice information launch said. “Rashid exploited hundreds of victims as: (a) “impartial contractors” who turned over to Rashid a portion of what they earned through prostitution; and (b) “precedence ladies” who turned over nearly all of the proceeds from prostitution to Rashid.”
Rashid admitted to manipulating the victims, imposing guidelines, and threatening them, in line with federal prosecutors.
LOS ANGELES, CA – FEBRUARY 16: Mally Mall is seen on February 16, 2020, in Los Angeles, California. (Photograph by OGUT/Star Max/GC Photographs/Getty Photographs)
“Rashid encouraged victims to get tattoos of him to demonstrate their loyalty and led many of them to believe he would advance their careers in show business,” in line with the discharge.
In a ‘petition for warrant’ obtained by the 8 Information Now Investigators, Rashid’s probation officer stated he violated state legislation by recording telephone calls with a lady recognized as a sufferer in his intercourse trafficking ring with out her data final March. In Nevada, each events should agree for a telephone name to be recorded.
“Mr. Rashid’s conduct regarding his contact with the victim in his instant offense is very concerning,” a probation officer wrote. “In his calls with the victim, he engages in conspiracy-type conversation suggesting the two join forces to sue businesses because if joined together they will win a lot of money.”
Rashid urged the girl to unblock him, informed her that he by no means acted as her pimp, and informed her to not communicate with reporters, in line with the officer.
Rashid was with convicted felon Ocean Fleming throughout a minimum of one telephone name, whereas he had not obtained permission from a probation officer to affiliate or talk with a convicted felon, a requirement of his supervised launch, in line with the petition.
Fleming started serving a life sentence after he was convicted on 23 counts in 2012. Las Vegas Metro police stated that he compelled girls to promote intercourse and terrorized them. He was launched from custody in 2020 after an FBI investigation into alleged corruption on the police division’s unit, which investigated intercourse trafficking. Rashid’s legal professional, Nicholas Wooldridge, informed Youcach, Rashid offered calls from Fleming to probation. Fleming declined to remark.
Rashid additionally claimed a mobile phone present in his house was not his, the officer wrote.
Rashid did not undergo drug testing in August and December 2023 and submitted a urine specimen that was confirmed constructive for MDMA (Ecstasy), cocaine, and marijuana final August, the petition states.
Rashid positioned blame on musicians being in his house and claimed they’d ‘spiked’ his drink whereas he was within the recording studio on the property, talked about there have been a number of individuals there and lots of had been utilizing illicit medicine, and likewise stated his son had a bachelor celebration at his house and medicines had been current, in line with the petition.
Rashid failed to point out probation officers a hidden room in his house throughout a walkthrough in January 2024, in line with the petition. An officer realized about Rashid’s ‘intercourse room,’ situated behind a mirrored false door, after listening to Rashid talk about it on a podcast, the officer wrote.
“The entrance led to a room with a massage table and a closet,” in line with the probation workplace. “A spiral staircase in the room led to a bedroom upstairs where there is a bed much larger than a king-size bed.”
Rashid additionally couldn’t present federal tax filings for 2023 and 2024 as proof of his employment and stated he did not file taxes for the 2 years famous, the petition states.
Youcach stated Rashid will need to have no contact with anybody related to the intercourse trafficking case and Fleming, just one mobile phone, which needs to be accepted by his probation officer, and one checking account in use. He’s additionally prohibited from playing and coming into casinos.
Navarro denied a request from Rashid to not serve probation in February and pointed to the seriousness of the crime the music producer dedicated and his “concerted effort over at least 12 years to operate an illegal prostitution business” in her order.
“Defendant’s conduct was not the result of a single poor decision or regrettable judgment,” Navarro wrote. “Rather, his livelihood for more than a decade depended on his illegal operation.”
At Rashid’s sentencing, Navarro referred to as him a ‘monster’ prior to now, identified his victims went via a type of imprisonment, and stated she wasn’t positive she would settle for the deal as a result of his actions had been so horrific.
In a Jan. 20 movement, Rashid’s legal professional, Chris Rasmussen, requested for early termination of supervised launch, stating it might “dramatically simplify things,” and that the circumstances of probation intervene with Rashid’s music profession as a result of he wants permission to journey out of Nevada.
“The mere inconvenience of having to obtain approval to travel for work purposes from probation and the court is an insufficient reason to terminate his supervision,” Navarro responded in her order.
Rashid’s supervised launch is scheduled to run out on Sept. 17, 2026, in line with courtroom paperwork. He lives in Las Vegas.
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