Cuban rapper Chocolate MC was discovered responsible of plotting a murder-for-hire in opposition to the person accused of killing his shut good friend, El Taiger.

Yosvanis Sierra Hernández noticed his destiny sealed Wednesday in a Miami courtroom after a jury discovered the Cuban rapper responsible of soliciting a murder-for-hire plot aimed on the man accused of killing his longtime good friend and fellow Hip-Hop artist El Taiger.

Known within the music world as Chocolate MC, Sierra Hernández was convicted on prices of soliciting first-degree homicide and issuing written threats to kill or trigger bodily hurt.

Prosecutors stated the rapper tried to recruit inmates at Miami-Dade correctional amenities to kill Damián Valdés Galloso, who’s going through first-degree homicide prices within the October 2024 capturing demise of El Taiger, born José Manuel Carbajal Zaldívar.

The six-person jury returned the decision after lower than two hours of deliberation, capping off a trial that featured emotional testimony, social media proof and a rap track that prosecutors claimed doubled as a name to violence.

According to the state, Sierra Hernández used Instagram to supply $20,000 and a 12 months’s value of commissary to anybody prepared to kill Galloso. One of the important thing items of proof was a observe titled “Pincha Lo,” which prosecutors translated as “stab him.”

On the witness stand, Sierra Hernández broke down whereas describing his friendship with El Taiger, which he stated started of their teenage years. Speaking by means of a translator, he informed the jury: “Maybe at one point I did not express myself the right way, or the way I should have. But I’m not capable of killing anyone.”

At one level through the trial, he held up a yellow notepad that learn “Dios conmigo, ¿quién contra mí?” or “God is with me, so who could be against me?”

As the responsible verdict was learn aloud, his girlfriend, Yelena, wept within the courtroom and stated in Spanish: “They said he’s guilty, but it’s an injustice. He didn’t kill anyone. He’s not a killer.”

Sierra Hernández has reportedly been in custody at Metro West Detention Center since June, following a separate incident in Opa-locka the place he allegedly pulled a gun on a person who requested for a photograph after which fled the scene.

The murder-for-hire conviction carries a possible sentence of as much as 15 years. Sentencing will happen at a later date.

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