Shmurda, whose real name is Ackquille Pollard, also pleaded guilty to an illegal weapons charge in accepting the plea deal on the advice of his lawyers, which mandates that he spend at least seven years behind bars.
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Bobby received 7 years in prison and 5 years probation.
In making the deal, Pollard dodged a possible 25-years-to-life sentence if he had been convicted on all charges.
Bobby Shmurda and two co-defendants, Chad “rowdy rebel” Marshall and Nicholas McCoy, accepted a plea deal from the prosecution in a court hearing today, agreeing to serve seven years in prison rather than risk trial, which had been scheduled to begin Monday. After tense negotiations with their attorneys, the deal was accepted.
Police arrested Shmurda in late 2014 after he left a recording studio near Radio City Music Hall.
Shmurda himself had been charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the second degree, two counts of criminal possession of a weapon, reckless endangerment and criminally using drug paraphernalia.
Bobby claims in new court docs cops have had it out for him because of his anti-police raps … adding the very same officers who arrested him in 2014 harassed him and his friends before.
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A “Hot Boy” video posted on YouTube in August has been viewed tens of millions of times, and Shmurda performed the song for a national television audience on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” the same month he was arrested.
