Casanova was once reportedly the current sufferer of reformatory violence, receiving vicious slashes to his face in an altercation with any other inmate. This incident comes days after the former gang member renounced his affiliation with the Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation sect of the Blood gang.
According to NBC 4, whilst watching for sentencing in his RICO case at the Essex County Correction Facility in Newark, he was once attacked on Thursday (June 15).
Court archives document Casanova, whose actual identify is Caswell Senior, used to be bodily assaulted with a weapon—believed to be some type of blade throughout the face—by some other inmate named Ulysses Lugo.
After getting slashed, he chased Lugo, jumped on pinnacle of him and “cut Inmate Lugo’s face a number of times.” Reports say Casanova didn’t act alone. Others hopped into the altercation and joined in the violent melee.
A correction officer said: “Inmate Lugo? You couldn’t see his face due to the fact it used to be saturated in blood… and his total uniform used to be saturated in blood. Inmate Senior was once sitting there and blood used to be simply coming out of his face.”
A spokesperson for Essex County, Anthony Puglisi said, “This minor incident and whether or not weapons had been employed is underneath investigation.”
As before stated by means of AllHipHop, Casanova faces a minimal sentence of 15 years with a plausible most of 60 years following his alleged involvement in the infamous road gang.
The rapper’s attorneys verified Casanova has already admitted his guilt, candidly mentioned his membership in Gorilla Stone and stated he promoted a gang way of life in hopes of getting a lighter sentence.
“I am telling you and all people that will hear that I desired out earlier than I was once arrested and I am out,” he said. “I realized via my song profession that humans will hear and that I don’t want to companion myself with a gang to succeed. I don’t want to accomplice with a gang even if I don’t succeed.
“I notion I wanted to remain in the lifestyles in title due to the fact it was once a way to promote my career. I don’t care what the authorities tells you. I am telling you the truth. I used to be now not worried in the day by day things to do of this gang. I wasn’t anyone’s boss. What I was once and I be apologetic about this was once a individual that they may want to use to promote themselves in a world I swear to you I was once making an attempt to leave. I actually did now not do a accurate sufficient job of this as I did locate myself in one horrific scenario after another.”
Casanova’s sentencing is scheduled for June 27.