Playboi Carti Leaker ‘King Bob’ Arrested For Wire Fraud, ID Theft

Playboi Carti‘s infamous leaker, a man known as “King Bob” who has also leaked misic by other major artists has been arrested on charges relating to wire fraud and identity theft.

According to the United States Attorney’ s Workplace for the Center Area of Florida, the 19-year-old– whose actual name is Noah Michael Urban– was arrested on Thursday (January 11) and billed with one matter of conspiracy theory to dedicate wire fraud, 8 matters of wire fraud, and 5 matters of exacerbated identification theft.

Urban is checking out two decades behind bars per wire fraud cost, for a total amount of 160 years behind bars; plus 2 years behind bars per cost of exacerbated identification theft, for a total amount of an extra ten years. This brings his bare minimal sentence to 170 years if he’s founded guilty on all costs.

The Center Area of Florida affirms that Urban– that likewise passed the pen names “Sosa,” “Elijah,” and “Anthony Ramirez”– took greater than $800,000 from 5 various sufferers via his numerous criminal offenses. Prison logs reveal that he was grabbed by the Volusia Area Constable’s Workplace and struck with a service charge of being a fugitive from justice.

Urban has actually begged innocent to all the costs. None of the artists whose job he dripped in the past– which likewise consists of musicians like Ariana Grande and Lil Uzi Vert– have actually been noted as sufferers of any one of his economic frauds.

Nevertheless, component of Urban’s costs include his claimed deceitful use cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency– particularly, Bitcoin– went to the facility of a claimed leakage of Playboi Carti’s songs back in 2020, by DaBaby’s manufacturer Jetsonmade.

In a clip published to social media sites at the time, Jetsonmade talks with a follower that uses him countless bucks for Carti’s unreleased job. The manufacturer informs the possible purchaser he does not have one track the guy was searching for yet does have accessibility to the 2nd one.

Throughout the discussion, Jetsonmade shows up to have some uneasiness. At one factor, the follower asks, “Bruh, I thought you wanted money? Bro, I’m literally about to pay you money for songs that are never dropping. So, you’ll never get money from them dropping.”

Jetsonmade reacts, “I’ll call you back in two minutes.”

The manufacturer behind DaBaby’s multi-platinum marketing hit “Suge” consequently declared he was trolling after a video clip revealed him talking about the prospective sale of unreleased Carti tunes for $17,000 in Bitcoin.

“dat video y’all keep posting is CAP,” he composed on Instagram Stories at the time. “i was definitely trolling.”

Taking into account the costs versus Urban, nevertheless, it has actually left followers questioning if Jetsonmade was, actually, connecting with “King Bob,” albeit unwittingly, at the time.

So far, Urban hasn’t been struck with any type of costs connected to the track leakages.