Posted on: July 17, 2024, 10:10h.
Last updated on: July 17, 2024, 10:17h.
The performer known as Blueface has again circumvented incarceration after violating probation following an original case linked to a shooting at a Las Vegas strip club.
Clark County District Court Judge Kathleen Delaney recently placed Blueface, whose real name is Johnathan Jamall Porter, 27, on three years’ probation. She also suspended a prison sentence of between two to five years, according to Las Vegas TV station KLAS.
The judge has repeatedly cautioned Blueface about the use of weapons.
Judge Warns Rapper
“If you get caught doing that, you get brought back here on any kind of probation violation especially anything involving weapons, I will not hesitate to put you in prison for a significant period of time,” Delaney was quoted by KLAS.
“You are playing with your liberty, your life obviously. But you’re playing with your liberty if you’re going to have guns and do anything that’s going to violate your probation in that regard.”
As it currently stands, Porter will avoid going behind bars if he completes the conditions of his latest sentence.
On June 24, the judge also sentenced Porter to 30 days in jail. She then waived the sentence given the time he already spent in jail on a different case that took place in California.
The latest sentence comes after an incident that took place last December. When a show in Salt Lake City concluded, Porter pulled a female audience member onto the stage, KLAS reported. He told his fiancee to “get her,” the report added. The fiancee attempted to punch her. The incident was recorded on a cell phone.
He already was on probation at the time. Earlier, Delaney gave him a suspended sentence on Oct. 2, 2023, for an October 2022 shooting outside of the Euphoric Gentlemen’s Club located off of the Las Vegas Strip.
The victim, Kentabius Traylor, was shot in the hand. The victim and Porter had spoken at the club before the shooting.
Porter was charged with attempted murder for the shooting. As part of a plea deal, the charges were lessened to battery and discharging a firearm at or into an occupied structure.
Under that sentence, which kept him out of prison, Blueface was ordered to not consume drugs or alcohol, avoid the Las Vegas Strip and Downtown Las Vegas if he doesn’t have to work there, undergo counseling, have no contact with a victim of the shooting, be employed full-time, follow curfew hours, meet with parole and probation staff, and give them access to phones and social media apps.
The strip club was closed following the shooting after it lost licenses. Porter was ordered to pay the club more than $13M in damages in a civil lawsuit brought by club owners.
The plaintiffs claimed the club’s closure was “a direct result of [Blueface’s] negligence, willful, and/or reckless conduct.”
Prior Criminal Charges
In another case, Porter was arrested in Los Angeles for a probation violation related to an assault. He’s scheduled to appear in court on that case on July 29.
In November 2018, he was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon, according to the New York Times. He was arrested again in 2021 after he allegedly attacked a bouncer who wouldn’t let him into a club in California’s San Fernando Valley.
Also in June, Porter was arrested in Las Vegas on a robbery charge for stealing a fan’s phone at the Palms Casino Resort. That charge will be dismissed.
