A NFL Cartell Bo and Maxo Kream music video leads to the arrest of 20 suspected gang members for illegal gun charges.
According to Click 2 Houston, a police investigation began back in March when the two Houston rappers were shooting their rap video for the song “Hoova.”
Maxo and NFL Cartell Bo were shooting the video next to Hillard Elementary School in Houston around the same time students were dismissed from class. Some of the students actually appeared in the music video that contained real live weapons. Neighbors nearby saw the guns out in the open and called the police.
When the cops arrived, several people fled the scene and left guns and some drugs behind. A dozen loaded guns were confiscated at the video shoot. According to police, the extras holding the weapons were all documented street gang members and rappers.
Two months later, the “Hoover” video was released and police used the video to track down every person who appeared in the clip. So far, the visual has almost two million views on YouTube.
20 people were arrested and charged with illegal possession of a weapon.
NFL Cartell Bo, whose real name is Warren Brown, was charged with illegally possessing two assault rifles (as a convicted felon) and threatening a police officer on the way to jail. He was later released on bond and ordered to wear an ankle monitor. But, according to police, Bo cut the ankle monitor off and disappeared without a trace.
Brown and eight other gang members remain on the run, and four others were on probation or parole, according to police.
Another man, up-and-coming rhymer Kenyon Tennessee, who appeared in the video holding a child, was killed in a separate event before police could charge him. Tennessee was shot and killed in November along with another man, outside a local nightclub.
Police said that 11 of the suspects are either in state or federal custody, while nine suspects remain wanted for numerous open warrants.
There’s no word if Maxo Kream, real name Emekwanem Ogugua Biosah Jr., was charged with any crime. The Houston rapper just released a music video for “Roaches.”
Here’s the news report.
