Lil Zay Osama has received a federal prison sentence stemming from a 2022 incident in which the rapper left a loaded machine gun in a ride share in New York City.
On Thursday (Nov. 7), Lil Zay Osama, born Isaiah Dukes, was hit with a fourteen-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to possession of a machine gun earlier this year.
The Chicago native’s legal team was seeking a seven month sentence for their client, citing the deplorable conditions at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, where Lil Zay Osama will serve his time. The prosecution was seeking a 27 month sentence against Lil Zay Osama, with Federal Judge Nina Morison settling on the fourteen-month sentence.
“The defendant knowingly carried a fully automatic weapon — a pistol with a switch device whose only purpose is to make a dangerous weapon all the more deadly — and then carelessly left that gun in the back of a rideshare,” U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said following the ruling.