Chicago rapper pleads not guilty to leaving gun in rideshare vehicle in Queens

Thursday, April 4, 2024 6:38PMStream New York's #1 news - Accuweather - original content 24/7Chicago rapper Lil Zay Osama pleaded not guilty Wednesday to an indictment charging him with possession of a machine gun and possession of an unregistered firearm after he allegedly left a Glock with a switch inside a rideshare vehicle.

According to prosecutors, in September 2022 a rideshare driver picked up Dukes at a hotel in Manhattan and drove him to a recording studio in Queens. Sometime during the trip the driver noticed the Glock model 22 .40 caliber pistol with a switch, a small device that when affixed to the back of a handgun converts the firearm into a fully automatic weapon.

Lil Zay Osama was arrested in 2022 but the case was dismissed. Prosecutors revived it after Dukes was arrested in December outside Chicago following a high-speed chase. Police in Illinois found a loaded Glock 29 with a laser, extended magazine and a switch along with a loaded Glock 19 with a fifty-round drum magazine and defaced serial number.

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