A judge rejected a long-shot bid for bail by Tekashi69’s kidnapper Monday, writing that the gangster was the most dangerous person to ask the court for release from custody due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Anthony “Harv” Ellison had asked to be released from lower Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center because he is asthmatic and at risk of catching coronavirus. Ellison, 32, is awaiting sentencing for kidnapping Tekashi, assault with a dangerous weapon and racketeering.
“In the court’s assessment, of the 20 or more defendants or former defendants who have applied to this court for release on account of the pandemic, Ellison’s release would pose the single greatest danger to public safety," Manhattan Federal Judge Paul Engelmayer wrote.
The judge noted that Ellison was a high-ranking member of Nine Trey who assaulted another inmate while in custody. Ellison and Tekashi were once friends in the Nine Trey Bloods. Ellison kidnapped the rainbow-haired rapper at a Brooklyn intersection in 2018 as internal beefs tore the gang apart.
Tekashi cooperated with the government against Ellison and other Nine Trey members. Engelmayer ordered Tekashi’s release to home confinement earlier this month due to the risk the virus posed to the rapper, who is also asthmatic.
Judges have been flooded with requests for bail during the pandemic.
Source: New York Daily News
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