Flint, Michigan, rapper Rio da Yung OG was launched from a federal jail in Arkansas on Wednesday, December 11. The musician had been serving a 60-month sentence of imprisonment after he agreed to plead responsible to possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
Rio da Yung OG, whose authorized identify is Damario Donshay Horne-McCullough, will full his sentence through “group confinement,” a Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson tells Pitchfork. Neighborhood confinement means the musician can serve his time at a midway home or via residence confinement. His projected launch date from custody is Saturday, July 12, 2025, and his sentence might be adopted by 18 months of supervised launch.
Wade G. Fink, an lawyer who has labored with Rio da Yung OG, mentioned in an announcement to Pitchfork, “I’m so blissful for Damario and his household. I can not wait to see what’s subsequent for him.”
Rio da Yung OG and his co-defendants had been indicted by a grand jury, in Michigan, in 2019, and he he started his federal jail sentence in 2021. His music has been launched sporadically in the course of the years of his incarceration, with tasks like Fiend Lives Matter and Rio Circa 2020 popping up on digital streaming platforms. Rio da Yung OG will have a good time his launch from federal jail with a concert at Detroit’s Masonic Temple on January 11.
