Rapper White-B, real name David Bouchard-Sasseville, will spend the next few years behind bars. The one we saw alongside the big names in music like Loud or Souldia received a second prison sentence on Wednesday in a few months.
Judge Manlio Del Negro, of the Court of Quebec, sentenced the artist on Wednesday to a sentence of two years less a day for illegal possession of a loaded firearm. This sentencing was suggested by mutual agreement between the Defense and the Crown.
The charges against the member of the popular 5sang14 formation date back to August 2019. The latter was strolling in the lane Chabot, in Montreal, when he met Rodolphe Jean, a cement worker by profession, who was traveling with his truck. When the two cross paths, the rapper calls out to the worker. “Ouch, my dog,” he shouts, referring to his chihuahua by his side.
Not perceiving the origin of this warning, Mr. Jean gets out of his vehicle to understand what is happening. That’s when he sees David Bouchard-Sasseville and his animal frolicking without being attached to a leash. The altercation begins. “The defendant shouts nonsense at him, that he is going to kill him”, says the judgment. He accuses Mr. Jean of having “almost killed his dog”.
Rodolphe Jean replies to him that his dog should be tied up to avoid any accident, then, without asking for his rest, gets back in his truck to go to his workplace located a few meters further down the alley. “The defendant is behind his truck and is always yelling at him,” states the course document.
Then, Bouchard-Sasseville pretended to grab a rock and seemed to want to throw it at the worker’s truck. Alerted, Rodolphe Jean asks him what he intends to do with this rock. “It was at this moment that the defendant took his right hand out of his pocket, holding in it a weapon which Mr. Jean described as being a small revolver with a black barrel”, indicates the judgment.
The rapper then goes further in his threats. “That, do you think that’s a fake?” he said.
Mr. Jean will tell after being afraid of being “shot”. The evidence will reveal that “the serial number [de l’arme en question] has been modified, made up or erased”.
Consecutive Sentences
“The gun was never pointed. The weapon has been exhibited”, assures the To have to defense attorney, Mr.and Alexander Bergevin. The rapper now shows remorse, according to him. “He wants to turn the page on the carrying of weapons for his personal protection and to take advantage of the musical talent he has”, he adds, mentioning that this “troublesome period of his life” could allow him “to ‘enrich his texts’.
This sentence is accompanied by the prohibition to carry a firearm for at least 10 years, specified for her part the Crown prosecutor in the file, Ms.and Christine Desjarlais.
At the time of his sentencing, Bouchard-Sasseville was already in prison in an institution in Ontario. He has been serving a first sentence there since February, also for illegal possession of a firearm. This first sentence must stretch for another 16 months. The two sentences will thus be served consecutively, for a total of nearly three and a half years in prison.
The criminal asked to be transferred to a Quebec prison, but the prison authorities have so far refused to go ahead with this request. “We’ve tried to bring him to Quebec three times, without success,” notes his lawyer.