Brooklyn Rapper Arrested in Sting Involving Drug Trafficking, Shootings

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An up-and-coming rapper from Brooklyn is among several people arrested in an investigation into a series of gang-related shootings and drug trafficking in New York City.
Authorities said Wednesday that Ackquille Pollard was taken into custody shortly after he left a recording studio near Radio City Music Hall in midtown. He performs under the name Bobby Shmurda.A spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office says the 20-year-old Pollard is among a group of defendants named in an indictment that will be unsealed after their arraignments Thursday.
The Brooklyn-born Pollard is best known for the hit song "Hot Boy" and for a music video that popularized a dance move called the "Shmoney dance."The name of Pollard's attorney wasn't immediately available.

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