NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Kentrell Gaulden, the Baton Rouge rapper known as NBA YoungBoy, has been transferred from a federal prison in Alabama to a residential reentry management facility in Phoenix, Arizona.
Federal records show Gaulden was recently moved out of FCI Talladega, a minimum-security federal prison in Alabama, and is now under the jurisdiction of the RRM Phoenix field office.
Residential Reentry Management (RRM) offices are part of the Bureau of Prisons system that oversees inmates transitioning back into society through halfway houses or supervised release programs.
The transfer marks the latest phase in Gaulden’s sentence stemming from a guilty plea entered last year in Logan District Court in Utah. In November 2024, Gaulden pleaded guilty to charges tied to a large-scale prescription drug fraud scheme that prosecutors described as an “ongoing criminal enterprise.”
A federal judge based in Baton Rouge signed a request from federal prosecutors to schedule a bond revocation hearing for rapper NBA YoungBoy.
He was initially booked on 63 counts and was charged with 46, but through a plea deal, Gaulden pleaded guilty to two counts of third-degree felony identity fraud, two counts of felony forgery, and six counts of misdemeanor unlawful pharmacy conduct.
Logan District Judge Spencer Walsh reduced his felony charges to Class A misdemeanors, fined him $25,000, and sentenced him to 27 months in federal custody followed by five years of federal probation.
Prosecutors alleged that Gaulden orchestrated a scheme involving fake prescriptions for codeine and promethazine — drugs commonly used to make “lean,” a recreational narcotic cocktail. The operation allegedly used false identities and multiple accomplices to fill prescriptions at various pharmacies across Utah.
The rapper’s legal issues trace back to a court order requiring him to relocate to Utah after a 2019 shooting in Miami. His attorneys said the move was meant to provide a “safer environment.”
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