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Rapper Lil Tjay Arrested In The Bronx After Guns Found During Car Stop: Police Sources

Bronx rapper Lil Tjay, also known as Tione Jayden Merritt, was arrested Monday afternoon, according to police sources.

The 21-year-old, who has 7 million followers on Instagram, was traveling in a black Cadillac Escalade, along West 183rd Street and Ryer Avenue in the Bronx, when police conducted a car stop.

Police say a total of five men were inside the Escalade, from which they recovered four handguns.

Rapper Lil Tjay arrested in NYC with loaded gun in car: cops

 

Police sources say that Lil Tjay was one of the five people in the vehicle.

He will be charged with criminal possession of a weapon.

The arrest comes a little more than six months after the rapper suffered multiple gunshot wounds during a shooting in Edgewater, New Jersey in June of 2022.

He was one of two men who were injured in the shooting.

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