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 will full his sentence by way of “group confinement,” a Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson tells Pitchfork. Group confinement means the musician can serve his time at a midway home or by way of residence confinement. His projected launch date from custody is Saturday, July 12, 2025, and his sentence will probably be adopted by 18 months of supervised launch.
Rio da Yung OG and his co-defendants have 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 throughout the years of his incarceration, with initiatives 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 live performance at Detroit’s Masonic Temple on January 11.
