Florida prosecutor brings six new charges against YNW Melly

thefader.com:

The State of Florida has added new charges to YNW Melly’s witness tampering case, NBC6 News reports. Court documents confirm that six new charges have been filed in Melly’s case, the case of YNW Bortlen — Melly’s co-defendant in a separate but connected homicide case stemming from the double murder of their friends YNW Juvy and YNW Sakchaser — and that of Terrence Mathis.

Mathis is a Broward County Jail inmate accused of helping Melly contact Bortlen, who was out on bond at the time of the alleged tampering.

The state claims Bortlen and Mathis aided in Melly’s attempt to sway members of his first murder trial’s jury. (That jury ended up deadlocked 9–3 in favor of convicting Melly, forcing a mistrial.) Read Next: XXXTentacion murder prosecutor assigned to YNW Melly’s trial In addition to the original count of tampering with a witness in a capital felony, Melly (born Jamell Demons), Bortlen (born Cortlen Henry), and Mathis are now charged with directing the activities of a criminal gang, conspiracy to commit tampering, and two counts each of solicitation to commit tampering and unlawful use of a two-way communication device.

Reporter Bryson “Boom” Paul, who’s been closely covering Melly’s trials, posted the state’s instruction sheet to the Broward County Clerk and an information document on the new filings on X this morning (October 18), after they were published on the Clerk’s website on Tuesday.