Former Vine Star Yung Poppy in jail for murder, according to viral TikTok. Yung Poppy allegedly sold Fentanyl to a woman who overdosed and died. He later allegedly sold $650 worth of Fentanyl to an undercover agent and was arrested.
Vine video rockstar known as YP or TheYungP who accumulated over 2 million followers on the app. His success followed him to Instagram, where he has more than 1.8 million followers.
Meanwhile, commenting on the report that Yung Poppy is in the prison, one Twitter user wrote:
“I had NO IDEA this guy got sent to prison for 10+ years! That makes me so sad 😞 he was all over the internet wit his lil funny videos.”
BEHIND BARS Who is comedian Yung Poppy?
YUNG Poppy is an Instagram comedian who is currently serving out a jail sentence in San Diego.
Social media erupted after a viral tweet that noted Poppy was locked up despite fans thinking otherwise.
Poppy, whose real name is Michael Steen II, is also behind the social media personality Kiesha Red which boasts nearly half a million followers.
A neighbor once described Steen as having a lot of ambition and “seemed like he was going to conquer the world,” reported NBC San Diego.
Why was Yung Poppy arrested?
In 2018, court documents revealed Poppy may have allegedly supplied the drugs that led to a woman’s fatal overdose.
Taskforce investigators were called to a Ramona, California home on July 10, 2018, after a 33-year-old woman was found dead of a suspected drug overdose.
Investigators found heroin and M30 Oxycodone pills in her room, but the pills in question were believed to be laced with fentanyl.
Authorities then searched the woman’s phone and found a text conversation from the day before with a person under the contact name “Yung” who identified themselves as “Yung P.”
Looking into Yung P’s identity, investigators found multiple profiles on several social media platforms for both “Yung Poppy,” also known as Yung P, and “Kiesha Red.”
Officers arrested Poppy in July 2018 on drug possession charges after an undercover operation sting revealed the comedian had 144 Oxycodone pills, marijuana, a scale and $8,300 in his vehicle.
His arrest was the culmination of an investigation launched by detectives with the SDPD and the San Diego Sheriff’s Department’s joint Narcotics Task Force.
Is Yung Poppy in jail?
In March 2020, Poppy pleaded guilty in federal court, admitting that he supplied fentanyl that led to the fatal overdose of the woman in question.
He sold more than 500 grams of what he knew to be fentanyl in 2018.
“This case should put dealers on notice that every time we have an overdose death, we are going to come looking for you, because many lives are at stake,” said US Attorney Robert Brewer at the time.
“We are using every available criminal and civil tool to combat this deadly epidemic and stop these tragic losses.”
Subsequently, Federal District Court Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel sentenced Poppy to 12 years in jail for his crimes.
“If you are selling fentanyl, beware: as today’s sentence reflects, you will be held fully accountable for the death and destruction you selfishly cause,” Brewer declared after Poppy’s August 2020 sentence.