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Brooklyn rapper Ra Diggs was convicted by a jury this week on a variety of charges, including racketeering, drug trafficking and the murders of three rivals after just one day of deliberations, reports the New York Daily News.
The rapper (real name: Ronald Herron) had been indicted in 2012 on three murder counts, including one he alleged bragged about on Twitter.
In court this week, the jury found him guilty of all 21 counts in the indictment. He now faces a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole... and will be sentenced on Oct. 1.
Diggs is charged in the 2001 death of Frederick Brooks, a charge he previously beat in Supreme Court when two witnesses refused to testify against him after his associates threatened them. He also charged with the slayings of Richard Russo in 2008 and Victor Zapata in 2009.
In his federal indictment, he's also accused (and now convicted) of running a drug ring based in his Brooklyn neighborhood, after more than two years of surveillance by the Feds.
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