Federal prosecutors argued in court papers filed Friday that Tekashi 6ix9ine‘s kidnapper is a violent high-ranking member of the Nine Trey gang and could be a menace to the community if sprung from prison due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“His leadership role in an incredibly violent gang, his participation in a gunpoint kidnapping and robbery, and his horrific slashing of an unarmed and unsuspecting victim — all illustrate the continuing danger Ellison would pose to the community if his application were granted,” wrote prosecutor Michael Longyear of defendant Anthony “Harv” Ellison.
A jury convicted Ellison in October 2019 of the gunpoint kidnapping and robbery of Tekashi and the ear-to-chin slashing of a rival’s face a few months later.
The prosecutor’s letter opposing his release comes two days after Ellison’s attorneys urged the court to free him from the Metropolitan Correctional Center on $200,000 bail into home confinement in Brooklyn.
Lawyer Deveraux Cannick argued that Ellison, 32, suffers from asthma and his health would be in “great peril” if he contracted the virus.
