iHeartMemphis
‘Hit The Quan’ Rapper Arrested for Lethal Threats
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Rapper iHeartMemphis — also referred to as iLoveMemphis — was arrested early Tuesday morning after he streamed a dramatic standoff with Florida police throughout an obvious psychological well being disaster.
Plantation Police Division confirms to TMZ officers arrived at a residence Monday night time, the place the rapper — actual identify Richard Maurice Colbert — was armed and barricaded. Authorities efficiently took him into custody on an lively warrant for written or digital threats to kill hours after they made preliminary contact.
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Colbert was evaluated at a neighborhood hospital as a precaution after which booked into the clink. He’s charged with making written or digital threats to kill and for resisting an officer.
Police additionally say his canine — seen on his livestream — was safely faraway from the house on Gatehouse Highway and launched to a member of the family.
Followers flooded social media with considerations over Colbert’s psychological state as he livestreamed for hours on Monday, even at one level holding up a gun. In one other a part of his livestream, he instructed officers at his house that he is God, and did not must sleep.
TMZ reached out to his household for remark … to date, no phrase again. Nonetheless, a member of the family instructed WFOR-TV that they had been making an attempt to assist Colbert “for days.”
iHeartMemphis rode to fame in 2015 along with his hit tune “Hit the Quan.”
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