

The high school dropout was arrested on Jan. It wasn’t Chief Keef’s first felony charge. 2 for failing to keep in touch with his probation officer.Ĭhief Keef was held in the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center until a judge sentenced him to home confinement at his grandmother’s house.ĭuring that time on house arrest, Chief Keef made the now- famous video "I Don't Like," which got more than 20 million views on YouTube and helped him land a deal with Interscope Records, the label of rappers Dr. Keith Cozart, aka "Chief Keef" was called into court Jan. When he was collared, police noted that 16-year old had two tattoos - "Fast" on his right hand and "Life" on his left hand. He also was hit with a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest. Police recovered the pistol, which was loaded, according to reports.Ĭhief Keef was charged with four felonies - three counts of aggravated assault with a firearm on a police officer and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon. One officer suffered bruises in the struggle to detain the rapper. The officers “discharged their weapons” but missed, according to the police account.Ĭhief Keef made it about a half-block before officers nabbed him in the alley of the 6100 block of South Indiana, according to the report. When officers gave chase, Chief Keef - who was 16 at the time - twice turned and pointed the pistol at the officers, according to the police report. When a police officer tried to stop and question Chief Keef, the rapper dropped the coat, flashed a blue-steel handgun and sprinted through the vacant lot next door, according to police reports.

Officers spotted Chief Keef, whose real name is Keith Cozart, walking out the front door of his grandmother’s apartment building in the 6100 block of South Michigan, holding a coat over his hands that were in front of his waistband, according to police reports obtained by. 2, 2011, police responded to a call of shots fired in the 6100 block of South Indiana. While much has been written about the 17-year-old gangster rapper’s chances of getting locked up for violating probation on charges he pointed a gun at a cop, all the details of Chief Keef’s run-in with police have not been made public - until now. CHICAGO - Before Chief Keef got a shot at hitting it big in the rap game, the Englewood teen star was the target of shots - bullets fired at him by police - that missed, Chicago has learned.
