Tekashi 6ix9ine’s Kidnappers Denied A New Trial

Anthony “Harv” Ellison, a former Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods member who was convicted last year of the kidnapping of rapper-turned-snitch, Tekashi 6ix9ine, has been denied a new trial.

Ellison claimed that the ordeal was set-up to ensure that Tekashi’s single, “Fefe,” gained more attention, but the judge was not biting.

“The evidence of Ellison’s commission of this crime was overwhelming,” Judge Paul Engelmayer. “Ellison’s theory that he had colluded with Hernandez to stage a fake kidnapping was unsupported by any evidence at trial. And Ellison, who was in a position to attest as to his circumstances surrounding that incident—including, if true, that it was a staged, and not actual, kidnapping—elected not to testify.”