Rapper handcuffed in Atlanta bank parking lot
“What’s wrong with having $200,000?” After withdrawing $200,000, Youngsta and about eight other people were placed in handcuffs in the bank’s parking lot on the corner of Peachtree Drive and Piedmont Road.
“I come out the bank, I see the police, I’m walking to my auto, I see one of them point to my bag like ‘him, ‘” he said. “I said, ‘What I do?'” The rapper posted a photo of himself being handcuffed outside the bank on his Facebook page.
Authorities said they responded to the scene at the request of the bank manager over suspicion that another bank patron had cashed a fraudulent check, 11Alive, an Atlanta NBC affiliate, reports, but later admitted the hip-hop artist was not the person they were looking for. He deferred further inquiries to Wells Fargo. It was determined that the occupants of the vehicle were not involved. The caller identified Charles Darnell Edward as the male attempting to cash the check.
Edward was charged with forgery in the first degree – a felony.
Black Younsta said that because he’s a millionaire, 0,000 is not a large amount of money. I might go buy a Ferrari now…
The Yo Gotti signee wasn’t however, and police had to let him go after finding out he was simply withdrawing money from his own bank account. Everything was all good until he got outside and says he was surrounded by police.
“This incident did not directly involve Blac Youngsta, nor was he accused of committing a crime”, Sgt. Pickard said.
“Wells Fargo came out like everything was cool, but (the employee) called the police on me”, he told the Daily News. He said he was told to pick up the other $100,000 at the police headquarters after it was processed as evidence. “This the check. This the check right here”.
Benson said he was also considering spending some of the money he withdrew at an adult entertainment club after the incident.
Blac Youngsta came to fame in 2014 for a hit song, “Heavy”.
Benson is from Memphis, and has been associated from fellow Tennessee rapper Yo Gotti.