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Criminal

May 4, 2005

Literary Gangster Pleads

LOS ANGELES - Kody Scott, a former Eight Tray Crips member-turned-author, pleaded guilty Monday to resisting an officer and trespassing. He was sentenced to three years probation and 120 days in drug rehab.

LOS ANGELES - Kody Scott, a former Eight Tray Crips member-turned-author, pleaded guilty Monday to resisting an officer and trespassing. He was sentenced to three years probation and 120 days in drug rehab.
        Scott, now known as Sanyika Shakur, pleaded to all of the charges against him instead of bargaining with the district attorney's office.
        "It wasn't a plea I negotiated," ...

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