Fort Worth, TX – Even though rapper Tay-K has been locked up at the Tarrant County Lon Evans Correction Center for over a year, that’s not keeping him out trouble.
According to the Star-Telegram, the North Texas teenager was allegedly caught with a cellphone last month and has racked up another felony.
Sheriff’s ficials reportedly said after the cell phone was discovered, Tay-K attempted to flush it down a toilet before getting into an altercation with one the guards.
The deputy felt some kind contraband near Tay-K’s “groin region.” The item turned out to be a cell phone and charger stuffed into a white sock and tucked into his underwear.
“They asked him to remove it,” Chief Staff for the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office David McClelland said. “That’s when he attempted to throw it in to the toilet to destroy the phone. When they tried to take the phone away from him, he got a little angry and got into an altercation with one our jailers.”
Prosecutors added a third-degree felony charge possessing a prohibited item inside a correctional facility last week.
The Tarrant County Inmate Search page says he was charged on August 2, while McClelland told the Star-Telegram he was caught on July 25 as a deputy was doing a pat-down.
Tay-K is charged in the 2016 death 21-year-old Ethan Walker, who was killed during a home invasion in Mansfield, Texas. While on house arrest, he cut f his ankle monitor and fled his home.
During his time as a fugitive, the now 18-year-old was identified as a suspect in another murder and accused assaulting a 65-year-old man. He was apprehended in Elizabeth, New Jersey on June 30.