Chief Keef in Jail for Violating Probation

<br /><h2 style="background-color: white; border: none; color: #555555; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; width: 586px;">Chicago rapper faces sentencing hearing Thursday</h2><div>From: <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/">http://www.rollingstone.com</a>   </div><div><div class="assetContainer imageStandard floatLt" style="background-color: white; color: #202020; display: inline; float: left; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="image-holder" style="border: 1px solid rgb(127, 127, 127); height: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 5px !important;"><img alt="Chief Keef" src="http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/images/story/chief-keef-in-jail-for-violating-probation-20130116/1000x306/keef-306v-1358342275.jpg" style="border: none; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div><div class="imageCaption" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 8px 6px; width: 304px;">Chief Keef</div><div class="imageCredit" style="background-image: url(http://assets.rollingstone.com/images/fe/copyCamera.png); background-position: 5px 6px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9px; line-height: 10px; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 6px 6px 20px; width: 290px;">Johnny Nunez/WireImage</div><div><div style="color: black; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Chicago rapper Chief Keef was put in jail yesterday after a Cook County juvenile court judge ruled that the 17-year-old rapper had <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/chief-keef-violated-probation-with-pitchfork-gun-interview-prosecutors-say-20121017" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #003366; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">violated his probation</a>, the <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/17597035-418/chief-keef-taken-into-custody-for-probation-violation.html" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #003366; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Chicago Sun-Times</a></em> reports.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.012em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Keef was sentenced to 18 months of probation last January after he was convicted of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon for pointing a gun at Chicago police officers. Although terms of his probation included requiring him to stay away from guns, Keef (real name: Keith Cozart) last summer did a video interview with Pitchfork at a New York shooting range, where he also spent 20 minutes firing a semiautomatic rifle. The video has since been taken down.</span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.012em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="inStoryLink" href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/gun-control-now-20121214" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #003366; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Gun Control Now</a></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">An attorney for Keef, Dennis Berkson, told the court that the rapper didn't violate the spirit of his probation in the Pitchfork interview. "Was it stupid? Yes. Did it violate the court order? No," Berkson argued, blaming Keef's record company, Interscope, for setting up the interview. The label released Chief Keef's album <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/finally-rich-20121228" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #003366; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Finally Rich</a></em> last year.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.012em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Judge Carl Anthony Walker disagreed with Berkson. "There is a clear record of a disregard for the court's authority," Walker said. He scheduled a sentencing hearing for Thursday.</span></div><span style="color: black; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></div></div></div>

Chief Keef in Jail for Violating Probation

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