A teenage rapper who had his charges mysteriously dropped after allegedly shooting an NYPD officer earlier this year was busted again late Tuesday with a loaded firearm, law enforcement sources told The Post.
Camrin Williams, a 17-year-old gangbanger who goes by the stage name C-Blu, was arrested at the corner of Garden Street and Crotona Avenue in the Bronx at about 11.30 p.m., the sources said.
It wasn’t immediately clear why Williams — a member of the Reywey Crew, a subset of the Crips – was stopped. Charges have yet to be filed.
Williams, who already has a string of gun-related arrests to his name, was last nabbed over the police shooting in the Bronx earlier this year that saw officer Kaseem Pennant take a bullet to the leg.
The Jan. 18 shooting unfolded after cops responded to reports of a disorderly crowd near East 187th Street.
Williams allegedly refused to take his hands out of his pockets and got into a struggle with cops, which resulted in both him and Pennant being wounded, police said.
The teen, who was out on probation for a prior gun case at the time, was charged with attempted murder and later posted his $250,000 bond with an advance he’d received from a recording contract with Interscope Records.
Despite being hauled back to court for violating probation just one week after making bail, his case was then suddenly dropped without explanation in May.
The city Law Department issued a statement at the time saying that Williams “cannot be prosecuted.”
The department noted the case had been sealed under Family Court Law and they weren’t able to say any more on the matter.
“This absurd decision should outrage every New Yorker who wants to get illegal guns off our streets,” NYPD Police Benevolent Association President Patrick J. Lynch said at the time.
“If perps like this face absolutely no consequences, even after shooting a cop, we have to ask: why bother sending us out to get the guns at all?”
He was also previously arrested as a juvenile in the Bronx in May 2020, when he was just 14, for possession of a Tauris firearm.
