Rapper Lil Zay Osama gets 14 months for leaving machine gun in Uber in Queens

Rapper Lil Zay Osama was deed with a 14-month national situation condemnation Thursday aft helium left a modified handgun successful an Uber successful Queens — and his ineligible troubles won’t beryllium implicit erstwhile helium finishes that sentence.

The 27-year-old, whose existent sanction is Isaiah Dukes, was sentenced Thursday by Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Nina Morrison, aft helium pleaded blameworthy to possession of a instrumentality weapon successful May.

Prosecutors were asking for 27 months, but his lawyer, Dawn Florio, asked the justice to chopped the rapper a interruption due to the fact that he’s already spent respective months successful the notorious MDC Brooklyn national jail.

Judges often trim down sentences due to the fact that of the atrocious conditions astatine the Sunset Park jail, wherever 2 men were fatally stabbed conscionable six weeks isolated implicit the summer. Florio was hoping for a seven-month sentence.

The Chicago rapper and immoderate associates were heading to a Queens signaling workplace connected Sept. 29, 2022, erstwhile their Uber operator noticed him handling a weapon successful the backseat. Dukes near the tricked-out limb behind, and the operator called 911.

When constabulary arrived, the operator led them to the workplace and fingered Dukes arsenic the antheral who had been holding the gun.

The feds initially charged Dukes connected Sept. 30, 2022, but 2 months later, the lawsuit against him was dismissed without prejudice — which meant that prosecutors could revisit it astatine a aboriginal date.

Dukes boasted astir the dismissal arsenic a triumph successful an Instagram post. But this past January, the feds came backmost astatine him with a expansive assemblage indictment, charging him with with possession of a instrumentality weapon and possession of an unregistered firearm.

“The suspect knowingly carried a afloat automatic limb — a pistol with a power instrumentality whose lone intent is to marque a unsafe limb each the much deadly — and past carelessly near that weapon successful the backmost of a rideshare,” U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said Thursday. “Today’s condemnation serves arsenic a reminder to anyone who whitethorn bring an amerciable firearm, particularly 1 that has been modified to summation its lethality, into New York City: There are superior consequences for your reckless actions.”

At the clip of the indictment, Dukes was locked up successful Dupage County, Ill., for different occurrence involving a instrumentality weapon successful a car, according to prosecutors.

In that incident, helium and 2 different men were driving successful a bluish Dodge successful Oak Brook, Ill., connected Dec. 13 erstwhile constabulary determination got a extremity that the car was linked to an equipped robbery of a jewelry store successful New York, Illinois prosecutors allege.

The men led constabulary connected a high-speed pursuit earlier their capture, and the cops recovered a loaded Glock 29 with a laser, an extended mag and a power that converts the weapon into a instrumentality gun, positive a loaded Glock 19 with a 50-round drum mag and a defaced serial number, prosecutors allege.

Dukes was wearing a $90,000 necklace tied to an equipped robbery successful New York, prosecutors charge.

That lawsuit is inactive pending.

Dukes is besides wanted connected 2 warrants, including 1 for failing to look successful a tribunal successful Wisconsin to look concealed-firearm charges, according to a filing by national prosecutors.