Warrant issued for rapper Blueface in Las Vegas; judge says he violated probation
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Las Vegas judge has issued a bench warrant for rapper Blueface, whose real name is Johnathan Porter, for violating the terms of his probation.
The 8 News Now Investigators obtained a copy of the bench warrant signed by Clark County District Court Judge Kathleen Delaney on Feb. 1 ordering Porter, 27, to turn himself in.
Porter had been handed a suspended sentence of two to five years, meaning probation on Oct. 2, 2023, for a shooting outside a Las Vegas strip club the year prior. Porter could now be required to serve his sentence in prison.
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, maintaining full-time employment, to comply with a curfew, reporting to parole and probation, and providing access to communication devices and social media apps to the Division of Parole and Probation.
Porter is already in custody in Los Angeles County for a probation violation related to an assault case in California. His release date is July 2, 2024, according to jail records.
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.
Porter is cooperating with law enforcement authorities, planning to turn himself in in Las Vegas to resolve the Nevada case after serving his time in California, and is looking forward to moving on with his career, according to Wildeveld.
At his Las Vegas sentencing last October, Judge 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,” 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.
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