Rapper Blueface gets probation in Las Vegas case again
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Las Vegas judge has granted probation for rapper Blueface, whose real name is Johnathan Porter, after he was accused of violating probation already previously granted in the same case.
Clark County District Court Judge Kathleen Delaney granted probation for up to three years while suspending a two-to-five-year prison sentence, meaning Porter does not have to serve time in prison if he complies with conditions.
Delaney also sentenced Porter to 30 days in jail but gave him credit for time served as he is already in jail in an unrelated California case.
Delaney had issued a bench warrant for Porter on Feb. 1 for violating the terms of his probation. Porter’s Las Vegas attorney, Kristina Wildeveld told the 8 News Now Investigators the probation violation was related to a cell phone video that circulated after a show in Salt Lake City last December. Porter appeared to pull a woman on stage and told his fiancée to “get her” as the fiancée tried to throw punches.
The 8 News Now Investigators obtained court records from a hearing on June 24. Porter was on the telephone from California during the hearing, records showed.
In the judgment of the parole and probation office, Porter violated conditions of probation, according to records.
“This was a first technical violation with only temporary revocation available for a maximum of 30 days,” an amended judgment of conviction stated.
Conditions of the probation included no use of alcohol or drugs including marijuana, staying out of the Las Vegas Strip and downtown corridors unless he has a work application or other legitimate basis to be there, attending impulse control counseling, having no contact with the victim of the shooting, to maintain full-time employment, to comply with a curfew, to report to parole and probation, and to provide access to communication devices and social media apps to the Division of Parole and Probation.
Wildeveld said Porter was cooperating with law enforcement authorities and looked forward to moving on with his career.
Delaney originally gave Porter a two-to-five-year suspended sentence, meaning probation, on Oct. 2, 2023, for a shooting outside a Las Vegas strip club the year prior.
Delaney issued stern warnings to Porter, particularly about guns.
“If you get caught doing that, you get brought back here on any kind of probation violation especially anything involving weapon, I will not hesitate to put you in prison for significant period of time,” Judge Delaney said. “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.”
The Oct. 8, 2022, shooting left one man injured.
The victim said he was shot in the hand outside of Euphoric Gentlemen’s Club on Windy Road off the Las Vegas Strip, according to documents the 8 News Now Investigators obtained. He recognized Porter in the venue and had spoken “with him earlier in the night.” The victim said he made a joke about Porter “speaking with some females in a cheap vehicle,” documents stated.
Prosecutors initially charged Porter with attempted murder. The plea deal lowered the charges to battery and discharging a firearm at or into an occupied structure. A judge ordered Porter to pay the now-closed strip club more than $13 million in damages as a result of the shooting.
The club’s owner claimed that the club’s licenses were revoked immediately after the shooting.
Police arrested Porter on a robbery charge as he was entering court in June. Detectives said he had stolen a fan’s phone at the Palms casino. Prosecutors agreed to dismiss the charge after Porter was sentenced in the shooting case, records showed.
Porter is in custody in Los Angeles County for a probation violation related to an assault case in California. His next court appearance is scheduled for July 29.
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