Boosie BadAzz is maintaining his innocence amid being charged for allegedly assaulting a security guard.
On Monday (June 1), it was reported that the Baton Rouge native was charged in Harris County, Houston for causing reckless bodily injury to security guard Edward Iglehart on May 24.
In court documents reviewed by Complex, Iglehart was working security at a local nightclub Privilege, where a woman requested to use the restroom outside of the club’s normal business hours. An argument ensued between Iglehart and the woman, and she struck the guard with her elbow. Court documents allege while Inglehart reached down to grab the woman’s fallen belongings, something hit his head. Boosie appeared to have allegedly struck the security guard with a broken glass hookah base.
Iglehart was rushed to the hospital for a head injury. Boosie, who was booked as club host for the evening, was in court on Monday morning, where his bond was set for $85,000.
In a video that appeared to be recorded after the hearing, the rapper insisted that he was “okay” and claimed that Iglehart was attempting to take advantage of him financially.
"This is basically a money grab, man. It's a money grab, bro. This is what you go through as an entertainer," Boosie claimed. “The facts of the case will come out. I mean, we in court now."
Boosie went on to claim that Iglehart was not supposed to be hired as security and previously served 18 years for aggravated armed robbery with a deadly weapon.
"He just got caught at the border a couple years back, smuggling women out the country and in the country," Boosie alleged, adding that he contacted his parole officer after learning about the warrant.
While Boosie’s next court date is scheduled for September, the rapper has a lengthy history of legal issues, among his most recent being an investigation into the alleged exploitation of late Southern University student Caleb Wilson. Boosie is alleged to have exploited Wilson’s 2025 death from fraternity hazing by developing an allegedly false scholarship to promote his music festival Boosie Bash in the same year.
