In the early hours of Saturday morning (June 12), Chicago rapper Polo G was arrested by Miami police & booked into Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
According to a police report obtained by the Miami Herald, the car Bartlett was in was pulled over in the area of Biscayne Boulevard and Southeast First Street around 12:30 a.m.
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Polo G filed five charges in total: battery on a police officer, threats to a public servant, resisting an officer with violence to his person, resisting an officer without violence to his person, and criminal mischief. He was released from Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Saturday afternoon with bond set at $19,500.
Polo G allegedly threatened the arresting officer while in custody, shouting: “I will kill you, I swear I will use these fists to beat the shit out of you and knock your ass out.”
Polo G and his entourage were driving back from a party celebrating the release of his third album, ‘Hall Of Fame’, which was released Friday (June 11) via Columbia.
In tweets sent on Sunday (June 13), Polo G claimed that one of the police officers “told us they was on us since we got off our jet”. He added, “They playin foul in Miami & dat shit been like that for a minute.”
The rapper’s mother and manager, Stacia Mac, had earlier claimed on Twitter that Polo G was not the driver in the car in the traffic infraction, but a “passenger in a professionally licensed vehicle with security”.
“None of these charges would be possible if the POLICE did not make contact with my son Polo G!!!” she wrote.
Polo G Arrested By Miami Police