September 30, (THEWILL) – Incarcerated rapper, YNW Melly, has been accused of planning to escape from jail.
The accusation was made by a Florida Sheriff’s Office, which claimed that the rapper teamed with one of his attorneys to plan a jailbreak from the Broward County, Florida’s Main Jail facility, where he has been since February, 2019.
He is awaiting trial for the alleged murder of his two crew members and close friends, Christopher “YNW Juvy” Thomas Jr. and Anthony “YNW Sakchaser” Williams.
“On April 11, 2022, Broward Sheriff’s Office received a confidential tip regarding inmates Nicholas Lewis and Jamell Demons, both housed in the same unit at the Main Jail, planning an escape from jail by having Demons’ attorney bring in two handcuff keys to aid in the escape. Additional information provided by the source was that Lewis had a shank and drugs,” the statement from the authorities read, according to Complex.”
The authorities reportedly got the tip from another inmate whose cell they searched and found a six-inch shank, two razor blades, two lighters, and rolling papers. Lewis was also holding Seroquel and Klonopin pills, for which he doesn’t have a prescription. They found nothing in Melly’s cell, except food from the commissary and what an incident report calls “excessive jail-issued clothing.”
“The confidential source gave us two pieces of information. One of them [about the shank and drugs] turned out to be a hundred percent true,” explained Christian Tsoubanos, Assistant General Counsel for the Broward Sheriff’s Office, in court on Tuesday. “And when they did the search of Demons’ cell, they did not find the handcuff key, but it could have been that there was not an opportunity to bring it into the facility yet.”
