A federal grand jury in Los Angeles approves new charges against Lil Durk

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A federal grand jury in Los Angeles approves new charges against Lil Durk

A federal grand jury in Los Angeles this week approved new charges against Lil Durk in connection with a 2022 *******-for-hire plot that targeted a rival rapper but instead left the man’s cousin *****.

The U.S. attorney’s office in the Central District of California announced Friday that a grand jury returned a superseding indictment charging Lil Durk — the 32-year-old Chicago native born Durk Banks — with one count of *********** and one count of use of interstate facilities to commit *******-for-hire resulting in ******. It also charged him with one count of using, carrying and discharging firearms and a machine ****, as well as possession of such firearms in furtherance of a ****** of ********* resulting in ******.

Banks, 32, remained at the federal lockup in Miami on Friday, where he has been since his arrest last month, allegedly while trying to flee the country on a private jet. He’s being held without bond pending his transfer to Los Angeles to face the charges. Court dates there have not been set.

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Banks and five others were charged last month in separate cases that alleged a cross-country *********** to avenge the 2020 slaying of King Von, born Dayvon Bennett, another Chicago rapper and close friend of Banks who was gunned down in Atlanta in 2020. Charged in the initial indictment were: Kavon London Grant; Deandre Dontrell Wilson; Keith Jones; David Brian Lindsey; and Asa Houston. Arraignment hearings for all six are expected in the coming weeks, according to the prosecutors’ office.

Banks is accused of offering money and “lucrative music opportunities” to anyone who would ***** Quando Rondo, a Georgia-based rapper whose real name is Tyquian Terrel Bowman.

Bowman, his sister and his cousin, Saviay’a Robinson, 24, were riding in Bowman’s ****** Cadillac Escalade near a gas station in West Hollywood in August 2022 when gunmen opened *****, according to the charges. Bowman and his sister were not injured, but Robinson was struck multiple times and *******.

The superseding indictment also alleges Lil Durk “sought to commercialize” Robinson’s ******.

After the *********, Banks released a song that included news footage that featured Bowman’s reaction to his cousin’s ******. The song, the indictment says, “explicitly references audio from a news clip taken shortly after (Robinson’s) ******* where (Bowman) screamed ‘no, no!’ after seeing (Robinson’s) ***** body.”

OTF was founded by Lil Durk more than a decade ago as Chicago’s drill rap scene was gaining international attention. Federal prosecutors say the group primarily “produced and sold hip hop music” from artists from Chicago.

FBG Duck, the Chicago drill rapper, was ******* in a hail of gunfire on Oak Street in 2020, and his ****** led to the convictions of several men in a federal *********** trial last January. Earlier this month, FBG Duck’s mother filed a lawsuit alleging Lil Durk, OTF and King Von were involved in the *********, as well. The lawsuit alleges that OTF operates as a ********* enterprise.

According to the initial indictment, after tracking Bowman to the Los Angeles area, Grant rented a hotel room for the co-conspirators on Aug. 18, 2022, and later met them there. He brought several firearms, including one that had been modified to operate as a fully automatic machine ****.

Grant also provided two rented vehicles to “use to find, track and *****” Bowman, the indictment stated, a white BMW sedan and a white Infiniti. The group followed and tracked Bowman’s ****** Escalade from his hotel to a ********** dispensary and then a clothing store in downtown Los Angeles, the indictment stated.

A surveillance image included in the indictment allegedly shows the BMW and Infiniti following the Escalade as it traveled between stores.

When Bowman stopped at a gas station, Houston drove around to the alley and let Jones and Lindsey and another unidentified co-conspirator out to carry out the *********, according to the indictment.

Chicago Tribune’s Jason Meisner contributed.

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