FILE – Rapper Daniel Hernandez, generally known as Tekashi 6ix9ine, performs throughout the Philipp Plein girls’s 2019 Spring-Summer season assortment at Trend Week in Milan, Italy, Sept. 21, 2018. Authorities within the Dominican Republic have arrested the rapper, who’s scheduled to look in court docket on Jan. 18, 2024 on expenses of home violence, and is being held at a jail within the capital, Santo Domingo, the place he was arrested Jan. 17, in line with officers. (AP Photograph/Luca Bruno, File)
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Authorities within the Dominican Republic have arrested U.S. rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, who’s scheduled to look in court docket on Thursday on expenses of home violence.
The rapper, whose actual identify is Daniel Hernández, is being held at a jail within the capital of Santo Domingo, the place he was arrested Wednesday, officers mentioned.
No additional particulars had been instantly obtainable, and it wasn’t instantly clear if Hernández has an legal professional.
A decide on Thursday is anticipated to determine whether or not the rapper will stay behind bars or be freed on bond because the investigation continues.
The arrest is Hernández’s newest brush with the regulation.
He was arrested at a seaside lodge within the Dominican Republic in October after being accused of assaulting an area music producer. Hernández and his associate, a Dominican rapper generally known as Yailín la Más Viral, had been recording on the producer’s studio.
Hernández was additionally beforehand accused within the U.S. of utilizing a violent gang as a “private hit squad,” however he prevented jail after offering testimony in opposition to the 9 Trey Gangsta Bloods, which function within the U.S. East Coast.
In March 2023, he was assaulted by several people at a gym in Florida.
Tekashi 6ix9ine had a multiplatinum hit tune, “Fefe,” with Nicki Minaj in 2018. It peaked at No. 3 on the pop charts.
