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Lil Nas X Charged With 4 Felonies in Los Angeles, Pleads Not Guilty

A judge set $75,000 bond with drug-use monitoring after prosecutors filed counts stemming from an encounter on Ventura Boulevard.

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Overview

  • Prosecutors charged the artist, whose legal name is Montero Lamar Hill, with three counts of battery with injury on a police officer and one count of resisting an executive officer.
  • LAPD says officers responding to reports of a nude man on Ventura Boulevard encountered Hill, who allegedly charged at them during the interaction.
  • Police transported him to a hospital on suspicion of a possible overdose before he was booked into jail.
  • He was held without bail over the weekend and appeared in Van Nuys on Monday, where he waived arraignment and entered a not-guilty plea.
  • TMZ published widely viewed videos showing him first in underwear and cowboy boots and later nude; media reports note potential penalties of up to three years per felony count.