UPDATED 3/28/25, 5:59 p.m. ET: Yella Beezy has been released from the Dallas County Jail after posting bond.
According to CBS News, the rapper posted bond after authorities reduced it to $750,000 on Thursday. The original bond was set at $2 million.
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A judge has agreed to reduce the $2 million bond for Yella Beezy in his alleged murder-for-hire plot.
Earlier this month, the Dallas rapper, real name Markies Conway, was indicted for the November 2020 murder of late rapper Mo3, or Melvin Noble. In court, footage was shown of a masked hitman, alleged to be Kewon Dontrell White, shooting Noble on the I-35 before escaping in his car. Beezy is accused of hiring White as the triggerman.
On Wednesday (March 26), the rapper appeared in court, where his grandmother, Alma Jean Alexander, testified that he could not afford the set two million bond.
Prosecutors, who noted that Beezy owned a bulletproof GNC Denali and owned a mansion in Frisco, argued that Beezy was "substantially wealthy" in their questioning.
"He might used to be, but if he could make a two million bond, he'd be out," Alexander said.
Judge Chika Anyiam ruled to reduce Conway's bond to $750,000 with restrictions, disallowing Beezy to contact witnesses or victims.
"You are to have no contact, direct or indirect, no threatening or harrassment of any victims or witnesses. If it's you or anybody on your behalf, there's going to be a problem. Do you understand that?" she said.
Conway was also scolded for seeming to take the case nonchalantly.
"The financial statement that the defendant was to put on file, he didn't seem to take that very seriously at all. And, that causes me concern about whether or not he's taking seriously the allegations against him," Judge Anyiam said.
Beezy is charged with "capital murder while remuneration" caused when "murder occurs in order to receive a benefit or financial settlement paid upon the death of the victim,” per the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs.