Taxstone’s Bail Revoked After EyeWitness Comes Forward
It looks like Tax Season podcast host Taxstone’s legal problems are just beginning. As previously reported, Taxstone was hit with two weapons charges related to the fatal shooting at a T.I. concert in New York City last May that left Brooklyn MC Troy Ave. wounded and one of his friends, Ronald “Banga” McPhatter, dead. Two other men and a woman were also injured.
Taxstone, born Daryl Campbell, was arrested in Texas in connection with the May 25 shooting. According to reports, Taxstone was wanted for a federal warrant that charged him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, and he was being sought by the NYPD in connection to the Irving Plaza shooting last year.
It was previously reported that Tax was released on a $500,000 bond and placed on house arrest by Manhattan Federal Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck. However, prosecutors on Wednesday convinced Manhattan Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan to keep Tax locked up. An eyewitness has also come forward claiming they witnessed the podcast host fire the fatal shot that killed McPhatter and that played a role in the decision reversal as well.
According to The New York Daily News,
“They doubled down on their arguments Campbell posed a danger to the community and said witness testimony would “directly show” he fired, at a minimum, the shot that killed McPhatter. Prosecutors also said additional charges might be brought against Campbell relating to this testimony, possibly in state court. Kaplan said the government’s position influenced his decision. Campbell’s lawyer Kenneth Montgomery argued his client isn’t violent and that prosecutors misrepresented his podcast to wrongly cast him as a gang member.”
GRIP will keep you posted as the case proceeds.
