Remy Ma was sentenced to eight years in prison for shooting an acquaintance over missing money. And adding insult to injury, she began her bid as a single woman.
The rapper attempted to marry her rapper/fiancé Papoose before beginning her sentence, but Monday’s jailhouse ceremony was cancelled after he was discovered holding a handcuff key and thrown in a cell.
“The key that was found today easily opened handcuffs that we and other law enforcement officials use,” a prison official told the New York Daily News. “The visitor was sanctioned by not being able to visit Rikers Island again for six months. He was asked to leave.”
Papoose, however, says jail officials were already aware of the key, which he describes as a skeleton key that has hung from his keychain without repercussion each time he has visited Remy at Rikers Island. “The handcuff thing was ridiculous,” Pap told SOHH.com. “The law states, if I carried a handcuff key into a prison, I would have been arrested.”
Marlon, one half of Remy’s management team, suggested to SOHH that jail officials were simply using Pap’s skeleton key as an excuse to cancel the wedding.
Information from the New York Daily News and SOHH contributed to this report.
