Dallas rapper Yella Beezy's murder-for-hire bond reduced to $750,000

DALLAS - A North Texas rapper faced a judge on Wednesday morning after being arrested for allegedly orchestrating the murder of a fellow rapper in November 2020. She agreed to reduce his $2 million bond to $750,000.

Yella Beezy in Court

What's new:

Rapper Yella Beezy, whose real name is Markies Conway, appeared in court for a bond reduction hearing.

His bond amount was set at $2 million after he was arrested last week for the death of rapper Mo3, or Melvin Noble.

Prosecutors showed a video of the alleged hitman shooting at and chasing down Noble in the middle of I-35 before getting back into his car and driving away. 

44 bullet casings were recovered from the highway after the shooting.

Prosecutors told judge Gracie Lewis that the state has a witness who will testify that Conway, Yella Beezy, was part of a conversation about the payment for Noble's murder.

They say he withdrew $40,000 from an account days after the murder.

"That's state's witness will also testify that Markies Conway was one of the individuals responsible for a portion of that payment," said prosecutor Tommy Adams.

The state argued that Conway is a danger and has the means to flee if he wants to.

Adams also argued that the rapper drives a bulletproof Denali for a reason and, according to 2020 bank records, had $870,000 in a checking and savings account in one bank.

The judge also listened to testimony from the rapper's grandmother, who said he could not afford to pay a $2 million bond despite owning a bulletproof Denali and living in a mansion in Frisco.

"You're in agreement that your grandson is substantially wealthy, correct," prosecutors asked.

"He might used to be, but if he could make a $2 million bond, he'd be out," Alma Jean Alexander said.

Defense attorneys told Judge Lewis that the state had not connected their client to any murder for hire.

"You've received no information of a text message, any message on social media platform, that our client paid for this murder, any type of remuneration, just this person who came forward and said he overheard this conversation," defense attorneys argued.

Judge Lewis ultimately decided to reduce Conway's bond amount to $750,000 with conditions, including an order against contacting any of the victims or witnesses.

"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.

She also reprimanded Conway for seemingly not taking the case seriously.

"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 Lewis said.

Yella Beezy Arrested

The backstory:

Conway was arrested after being indicted by a Dallas County grand jury this past Thursday. He’s now charged with capital murder while remuneration.

Police believe he hired a hitman to carry out Noble’s murder.

Noble was gunned down in broad daylight in the middle of Interstate 35 in November of 2020.

Investigators said Noble was in his car on the interstate when Kewon Dontrell White, while wearing a ski mask and holding a gun, approached his car.

Noble got out of his car and started running away. White shot him in the back several times.

White was arrested a month later and charged with murder. He’s currently serving a nine-year prison sentence for firearm charges connected to the shooting.

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