Pooh Shiesty Arrested, Charged in Gucci Mane Robbery
The Memphis rapper and eight others now face charges following a raid at his home.
Pooh Shiesty performs onstage during 2021 Shiesty Season Spring Fest at Central Station on April 11, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images.
Nine people have been arrested following an FBI investigation into an alleged robbery and kidnapping involving hip-hop star Gucci Mane.
According to Memphis Action News 5, the North Texas U.S. Attorney’s Office held a press conference in Dallas on Thursday, April 2, to announce the arrests, which included Memphis rapper Pooh Shiesty (born Lontrell Williams Jr.).
The Department of Justice (DOJ) confirmed that Shiesty’s father, Lontrell Williams Sr., was also arrested following a raid on April 2 at the family’s home. The DOJ said that the nine people, including the aforementioned rappers, kidnapped and robbed at gunpoint multiple victims at a Dallas music studio. Eight of the nine suspects were arrested on Wednesday, according to the DOJ, in Dallas, Memphis and Nashville.
WFAA in Dallas reports that three music industry professionals traveled to Dallas for a meeting in January. Pooh Shiesty arranged that meeting, the DOJ said, reportedly to "discuss the terms of his recording contract with one of the victims." Pooh Shiesty was signed to Gucci Mane’s 1017 label before Shiesty ran into legal problems.
When the three men were in the music studio, Williams Jr. and his eight co-conspirators, several of whom traveled from Memphis, "executed an armed takeover," according to the DOJ complaint. The DOJ said Williams Jr. pulled out an AK-style pistol and "forced one of the victims to sign a release from the recording contract at gunpoint."
The charged defendants include:
Lontrell Williams. Jr. a/k/a “Pooh Shiesty”
Lontrell Williams, Sr.
Rodney Wright, Jr. a/k/a “Big30”
Kedarius Waters
Terrance Rodgers
Damarian Gipson
Demarcus Glover
Kordae Johnson
Darrion McDaniel
Shiesty was previously released from jail in October 2025 after serving three years for a gun charge in Miami, after he pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess firearms in furtherance of crimes of violence and drug trafficking. He was on home detention at the time of the alleged robbery.
Electronic monitoring data placed Williams Jr. at the offense location in violation of his home detention conditions, according to the DOJ.
