Why did Pooh Shiesty end up behind bars?

Pooh Shiesty is finally free after serving three years in prison. He was first indicted in 2021 for a shooting that took place the previous year in Bay Harbor Islands, Florida. In 2022, he entered a guilty plea to charges of conspiring to possess firearms connected to violent crimes and drug trafficking. Although he initially faced up to 20 years in federal prison, his plea deal shortened his sentence, setting his expected release for April 2026.

In a press release published on the Department of Justice’s website, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida outlined that Shiesty admitted to being involved in a conspiracy tied to three different events. The statement read: “First, on July 7, 2020, in Memphis, Tennessee, Williams, Jr. was inside a car when an occupant of the car discharged a firearm at a gas station. Second, on October 9, 2020, in Bay Harbor Islands, Florida, Williams, Jr. and his co-conspirators arrived at a meeting to acquire marijuana, codeine, and sneakers. During this meeting, members of Williams’ group brandished firearms and assaulted two victims. Following the assault, the group departed the scene with the victims’ marijuana, codeine, and sneakers. Third, on May 30, 2021, Williams, Jr. assaulted a victim with a firearm at a Miami strip club.”

Even though his original sentence projected his release for April 2026, Pooh Shiesty was granted an early release on Monday and transferred to a halfway house. The news followed an Instagram post he shared thanking his fans for their loyalty throughout his ordeal.

“Aye mane say mane that’s how you walk that lil t down,” he wrote in August. “S/O to all the ones who counted me down and not out. The support and love I received on this roller-coaster is unmatched. S/O to all the good men I stomped the yard with like Chris Brown. S/O to the other selected few rappers who name hold weight in these fed walls. Dear streets, use me as an example of what ‘keeping it solid and standing on wax’ look like. Now nobody can fool you or tell you different, Ain never going, Ain never went! I stamp it! I’m rich as I ever been lit as I ever been! IF YOUN FEEL ME k1ll ME! #TheBiggestGetBack.”