Tekashi 6ix9ine reports to NYC jail where Maduro and Mangione await trial

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine reported Tuesday to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn to serve out the latest stint of his federal sentence, the Associated Press reported.

Hernandez, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, arrived at the facility in a luxury van with internet personality Adin Ross and a camera crew streaming live as he turned himself in, AP said.

The Metropolitan Detention Center, which AP described as the only federal jail in New York City, has come under sharp criticism for poor conditions and constant violence. AP said some judges have refused to send people to the facility, and that others have described it as “ hell on earth ”.

AP said the lockup currently houses Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, as well as Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, Brian Thompson.

Over the years, AP reported, the facility has also housed other high-profile inmates, including music stars R. Kelly and Sean “Diddy” Combs and longtime Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

Hernandez’s lawyers did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment Tuesday, AP said. In prior statements, Hernandez’s team has said he looked forward to serving his sentence so he could resume his music career, the report said.

AP said Hernandez admitted last year to assaulting a man and possessing drugs, which prosecutors said violated the terms of his supervised release in a gang-related case. AP also reported that in December he was sentenced to serve three more months in federal custody after earlier receiving a 45-day sentence in 2024 for breaking the supervised release terms.

AP said Hernandez shot to fame after the 2017 release of his song “Gummo.” The following year, AP reported, he pleaded guilty to involvement with the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods and was sentenced in 2019 to two years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release tied to his cooperation in a racketeering case against other gang members.

AP reported that Hernandez was released from federal prison several months early during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. His latest sentence, AP said, was related to small amounts of cocaine and ecstasy found at his Miami home during a police raid, and prosecutors said he also punched a man who taunted him at a Florida mall over Hernandez’s cooperation against gang members.