Crime Fix with Angenette Levy - Bombshell Arrest After Tekashi 69's Mom Held Hostage in Home Invasion

Starting point is 00:00:00 Wondery Plus subscribers can binge all episodes of this Law and Crimes series ad-free right now. Join Wondry Plus in the Wondery app, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. What's up, boys? So you guys know I got sentences of three months in prison. I don't have to turn myself into January 6th. Rapper Takashi 6-9's holiday just got a little better. Not only did he get to walk into the Jake Paul fight over the weekend. Six-nine night, I'll fly, yo. The Palm Beach Sheriff says he caught one of the men responsible for a home invasion at 6-9's home.

Starting point is 00:00:35 Pedro Rodriguez is in jail for Christmas, while others are still on the loose. I look at the new video from the break-in and what we know about the investigation. I'm Anjanette Levy, and this is Crime Fix. You know, there is a reason that Morgan and Morgan is a moment. America's largest personal injury law firm, and it's because the firm wins a lot. It has more than a thousand lawyers who've recovered $25 billion for more than 500,000 clients. In the last few months alone, a client in Florida received $12 million when the insurance company offered only $350,000. In Pennsylvania, another client was awarded $26 million that was 40 times the insurer's offer.

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Starting point is 00:02:00 Takashi was hanging out with YouTuber Jack Doherty on a live stream. This was after Doherty's release from jail in Miami after he was booked on charges of resisting arrest and misdemeanor and felony drug possession. You know the f*** vibes. We outside here with my boy Jack. Yes, sir. Fresh home.

Starting point is 00:02:19 Yeah, straight out of jail, baby. Straight out of jail. Oh, that's your mugshot. Yeah. And we're live on party. Doherty and 6.9, they were having a lot of fun, but at the same time, three men were breaking into Takashi's home in Palm Beach County, and his mother was actually held at gunpoint, home security videos that are now evidence in the case and that were first shared with TMZ

Starting point is 00:02:39 showed people dressed in all black inside the home. It's pretty scary stuff. Three masked people holding your mom at gunpoint and walking through your house? That's nuts. And there was some chatter online that maybe Takashi set this up to distract. from his own legal problems, but he made it clear he wasn't playing. What's up? So I want to make this video to clear up all the fake news and rumors. So the world knows this. It's a fact. I'm on house arrest. I've been on house arrest. I think everyone in America and everyone across the world knows that I'm on house arrest. Yesterday they allowed me to leave for work. People, I guess, saw that I was on live stream

Starting point is 00:03:17 with Jack Doherty. They took that opportunity to do some . . Like I said, it's me, so I get it. The rules are different for me. But if it was your favorite artist, your favorite actor, and that was done, they don't get no cool points for that. My mom is 60 years old. Yeah, I know I'm supposed to come home. You know, I'm home all the time. I'm on house arrest. So, y'all take the opportunity that I'm not home. Y'all see me on live stream with Jack Doherty in Miami, and y'all do that. That's whack. Get no coupon for it. I don't think nobody respects that. So that's what 6-9 said about the home invasion after it happened.

Starting point is 00:03:55 And the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office began investigating immediately. Earlier this month, 6-9 went to New York to face the music and a federal judge. After violating his probation, 6-9 pleaded guilty in an racketeering case and testified against members of the nine-tray gangsta blood several years ago. He's been on supervised release. And federal prosecutors say he's repeatedly violated the terms of his release. Last February, he was caught with cocaine in MDMA. In August, 6-9, whose legal name is Daniel Hernandez, admitted to punching a man who called him out for testifying against his own gang,

Starting point is 00:04:33 basically calling him a snitch. That happened at a mall in Florida. Earlier this month, Judge Paul Engelmeyer sentenced 6-9 to three months in federal prison because he just can't seem to stay out of trouble while he's on probation. The judge, who's given him chance after chance after chance, was not happy. But 6-9 doesn't seem to be letting that news cramp his style. What's up, boys? So you guys know I got sentenced to three months in prison.

Starting point is 00:04:59 I don't have to turn myself into January 6. So I told my team that I want to give my fans a project before I go in. So you guys are going to have new music coming soon. But till January 6, I'm free and I'm going to be here with you guys. So this is the bet I got. Today I'm a bet a $30,000 hand on rain bet, but this is the thing. If I win this hand, look, I'm facing a five. If I win this hand, that means I'm going to have a good prison sentence.

Starting point is 00:05:29 But if I lose this hand, I felt like this is the time I'm going to get beat up. I don't know why. And let's just let's just see what's going to happen. So that was Takashi promising his fans some fun and music before he reports to prison in January. Then this past weekend, the sheriff announced that he'd made an arrest. 19-year-old Pedro Rodriguez faces a number of charges, including kidnapping, false imprisonment, robbery, or home invasion with a firearm or a deadly weapon, grand theft between $20,000 and $100,000, and a drug charge. The arrest report reveals how detectives said the home invasion unfolded, recounting what Six-Nine's mother, Nativod Perez, and other witnesses told them. The affidavit states Perez advised that she arrived home around 2130 hours and was in the kitchen area.

Starting point is 00:06:20 She opened the door to the laundry room, which leads to the garage that had an open garage door and was met by three mass suspects with firearms. The suspects pointed their firearms at Perez, forced her inside her home, and demanded money and the keys to the cars. Perez did not have access to the vehicle, keys, or money. Therefore, two of the suspects started rummaging. through the house for items, while the third suspect kept Perez in the kitchen. After failing to find anything, the suspects went outside with Perez, and one of them entered a black 24 Mercedes Sprinter van through an unlocked passenger door rummaging through it. Now, the report said that that Sprinter van was actually in the driveway, not in the garage. The report continues. The two other suspects went into the garage and appeared to take small bags, possibly purses,

Starting point is 00:07:11 Since all three suspects were distracted, Perez went to the mother-in-law's suite where other family members were inside. She banged on the door for help and was greeted by her son, Oscar Hernandez, and friend Anthony Espinall. Upon Hernandez opening the door, they noticed Perez there who appeared to be scared and was saying she was being robbed. Perez went inside the suite while Espinall went outside and observed three armed suspects all wearing masks. one of the males told Espinal to come over to them. However, he went inside. Hernandez let Perez inside his home and called 911. The suspects then ran away from the residence. Detectives collected surveillance video from Hernandez's house and it showed the burglars in the home with his mom and in the area outside. A neighbor found a medical card that actually belonged to 6-9's girlfriend at a neighbor's home. And she told detectives that card was in one of her purses that had been stolen. The report says the item stolen from Hernandez's girlfriend included gold and black Van Cleef earrings valued at $2,600, a diamond necklace, a nameplate marked Alliday worth $25,000. A black Valenciaga purse worth $2,000, a pink Chanel purse worth $5,000 containing two insurance cards, $400 in U.S. currency, her Florida driver's license, an American Express credit card, a PNC credit card, and a Regents Bank card.

Starting point is 00:08:40 Detective said they looked at cell phones that were in the area that night, and they found one that belonged to 19-year-old Pedro Rodriguez, who fit the description of one of the burglars. Detective said when they executed a search warrant at the apartment, where Rodriguez lived with his mom, he was wearing a black Nike jacket with an air vent on the back that was similar to one worn by a suspect in the surveillance video from the burglary at 6-9's house.

Starting point is 00:09:06 The detective said he interviewed Pedro, Rodriguez and he claimed he'd never been to the neighborhood where Takashi 6-9 lived. The report states he further advised that he has never been in the homeland community and claimed on November 16th, 2025, he stated his girlfriend's house and then came home afterwards. I asked if he had ever met Daniel Hernandez and he advised that he had met him in traffic on Southern Boulevard. He claimed to get a photograph with him on the side of the road. I asked if he had heard about anything recently happening to Hernandez, and he advised no. I advised him that I located evidence in his room, at which time he advised that he wished to remain silent. The detectives said they found a black and yellow

Starting point is 00:09:49 tub in Rodriguez's room in his mom's apartment, and they found a lot of plastic baggies, marijuana products, black clothes, and some designer purses. The marijuana products included THC disposable vapes, several hundred grams of marijuana, a pink Chanel purse, a black Dolce and Gabana purse, and a Louis Vuitton purse. There was a lot of black athletic clothing, too. Also found in a children's bedroom, a stolen Glock 19 firearm with blue markings, an orange dot front site, and a black extended magazine that was consistent with the firearm used in the home invasion.

Starting point is 00:10:25 Takashi 6-9's girlfriend told police, those purses belonged to her, and she didn't realize that two of them had been stolen. So to discuss this arrest, I want to bring in somebody who knows. a lot about Palm Beach County. He is Dave Aaronberg. He used to be the state's attorney for Palm Beach County. So Dave, we have one suspect in custody for this home invasion at Takashi 6-9's house, two others on the loose. I don't know. I'm thinking maybe it's not going to take them that long to track down these other two suspects. What are you thinking? Totally agree. The guy they have is a 19-year-old.

Starting point is 00:11:06 Generally, a 19-year-old is not going to do these things by himself. And when he does it with his boys, it's usually just a matter of time when the accomplices get caught, especially because it looks like Mr. Rodriguez was very sloppy with videos, and he had his cell phone, which helped track him. And there's plenty of evidence, apparently, now, just because it took him a while, to catch them doesn't mean that they don't have a lot of goods against them. And apparently they've got it. Just there were so many different suspects here.

Starting point is 00:11:41 You know, people were wondering if it was staged. Right. Yeah, right? If there was this group that, like called the Island Boys that were behind it, but it looks like this was a just a crime, a legitimate crime of someone who was targeting someone they knew would have money and for at least a little while I was getting away with it. I want to talk a little bit about the allegation. or the suspicion early on, you know, in Takashi 6.9, he took to social media to say that I didn't, I didn't stage this. You know, he was on the streamers and stuff like that saying, I didn't stage this because I was facing a federal, you know, parole violation or whatever, you know, I wouldn't do that. I mean, his mom was, had the width scared out of her. I mean, she, she opens the door and sees three guys in all black, hoods on the whole nine yards,

Starting point is 00:12:32 guns. I mean, he was mad. And he obviously was very angry that people thought he might set this up to, you know, garner some sympathy since he was looking at his own court date. Yeah, that's right. And but yet, I mean, to abduct your mom or they hold your mom hostage for at least a little bit. And it's not a thing that most people would do even to try to get sympathy. And then they found an ID card that belonged to Takashi's girlfriend. They had the photos, like I said, how sloppy these folks were. There are images of three suspects captured on a neighboring homeowner security camera. Yeah, you have to assume, I mean, this is not the 1970s anymore.

Starting point is 00:13:19 There are these ring camera doorbells on many houses, and cell phones are trackers, and it's not just about fingerprints anymore. there's a lot of new technologies that'll catch you i want to talk about the technologies that appear to have caught this guy you know it took some time for them to piece this together they always have to get the search warrants they've got to interview everybody they've got to do all of these things you know there was a trail of breadcrumbs both digital and just kind of regular evidence uh wise the first thing was they were able to according to the affidavit identify this guy through cell phone records you know they they looked at the cell phones that were active in the area they find one registered to

Starting point is 00:14:04 this guy and they start their legwork from there that leads them to execute this search warrant at his house and according to what they're saying you know they pull him out of the house his mom somebody else that lives there and he's like yeah i've never been over to that neighborhood no i've never been there even though they know they've got the cell phone evidence that indicates he was there and then they go looking through the house and according to what they found they find takashi's girlfriend's purses there um plus he's still wearing a jacket that they say he was wearing the night of of the break in i mean it doesn't get much better than that than that does it no yeah you're wearing the same clothes note to self when you commit a crime maybe you don't want to keep wearing the same

Starting point is 00:14:52 clothes that you may be identified with i mean generally you burn the clothes you you try to change your appearance. I mean, this was a high-profile crime, and the sheriff's office is already a sophisticated law enforcement agency, and they were focused on this. And they used Rodriguez's phone records, messages, call logs to now look at these other co-conspirators. And I think that just a matter of time until they get it. These folks were apparently corresponding with each other and pretty free about messaging each other. And it's just amazing that these stupid criminals, alleged criminals, are just unaware

Starting point is 00:15:31 that technology is different today than it was back when, you know, Billy the Kid was committing crimes. What's really unfortunate to me, thank goodness nobody was hurt. You know, the whole thing is unfortunate. I'm glad, you know, his mother is probably still traumatized from this, you know, his brother was there at the house. Other people who live in the

Starting point is 00:15:57 house were there. People could have been hurt. Thank goodness. They were not hurt. But, you know, it's sad to me because this is a rapper, Takashi 6-9. He's got the cameras all over the place. He didn't have security per se. Obviously, he didn't have, you know, people around the house stationed there to keep his place safe. But what's really unfortunate is that when this happened, he was on a live stream with that jack doherty and that i mean for all we know these guys see that takashi is not home you can't even go on a live stream with your friend without somebody maybe potentially seeing that and taking advantage of it and saying let's go over to the house and see what we can get i mean that's pretty frightening yeah this is the time we're in though when people broadcasts

Starting point is 00:16:47 all these things about themselves there's very little privacy left so you know, you're taught, don't advertise that you're away from your home. And yet you're on the live stream and you obviously show a bit of your money, you know, that your possessions, you talk about it. And you have these individuals who are probably just hanging around. These are 19, 20-year-olds who are hanging around and probably not doing much with their lives and looking to do a heist. They're probably bored, also looking from some extra cash.

Starting point is 00:17:22 And that's what they do. And they're just not the smartest folks in the world. And so they end up doing incriminating things, like showing their face on surveillance video, use cell phones to communicate, to be tracked by authorities. And here we are. And then they're found. At least the main guy is found wearing the same jacket

Starting point is 00:17:43 that he was wearing when he allegedly committed this crime. Like I said, just a matter of time when the others are caught as well. Yeah, it seems like it will be just, matter of time. Do you think, you know, people thought maybe they would get caught a little more quickly. Is this pretty quick, though, as far as you can tell, in your experience, in handling investigations such as these? It's about the right amount of time. I think they were caught just recently. And I think the crime occurred in November, correct? Correct. Yeah. So, I mean,

Starting point is 00:18:18 that's pretty good. But remember, these aren't the smartest criminals in the world. And so even though it's high profile and you think, well, it wasn't solved for six weeks. It must be some sophisticated criminal. No, police are there to make sure they have the goods because if you arrest someone too early, the speedy trial clock will start. And that puts prosecutors at a disadvantage because the defense lawyer can come in and say, okay, I want to go to trial like ASAP. And now the prosecutors are scrambling. So you want to make sure you have the goods. First of all, you need at least probable cause to make an arrest.

Starting point is 00:18:49 And second, you want to make sure, at least for prosecutors' sake, there's even more. than that where you can prove a case beyond a reasonable doubt, because if you start charging first and asking questions later, you can lose the whole case. That's why police are very careful to make sure they've got enough evidence beyond just probable cause to make the arrest. No doubt. You don't want to mess it up, especially if it is high profile. You know, I think Palm Beach, Palm Beach, you know, I've not been to Palm Beach, unfortunately, I should come down there and visit you, but it sounds like a beautiful place and it always sounds kind of ritzy to me, but this kind of stuff, I guess, can happen anywhere.

Starting point is 00:19:29 You have to take precautions. So is this like a home invasion in Palm Beach County? Is that pretty unusual? Well, it's a safe county, but the entire county is not Palm Beach. Palm Beach is the island. It's the swanky island where Mar-a-Lago is and very wealthy. The county is huge. The county is the fifth largest county land-wise east of the Mississippi.

Starting point is 00:19:51 And you have 1.3, 1.4 million people living there. So there are parts where there are areas where they're higher in crime than others. Now, where Takashi lived, and I don't know exactly where he lives, but he, if it's a nice home, he probably lives in a nice area where there's not a lot of crime, but he's someone who's high profile, who probably talks about how much he owns, how much he, where he lives in general. And so people can find out. And here are these teenagers, 19, probably 20-year-old folks

Starting point is 00:20:24 who have nothing better to watch these live streams and him talking like Jack Doherty, who's another one, you know, another controversial figure on the internet. And what are you doing? I mean, should you be working? Should you be like doing something better than that? Nope. And that's the type of person who have a predisposition,

Starting point is 00:20:41 pre-disposition to go do something as brazen as this. Yeah, most definitely. Well, we will keep an eye on it and see where it goes. And Takashi, he has to report to prison in January. So he's got his own stuff to worry about. So he'll be spending some time in the pokey thinking about what he's done. So we'll see how this how this all unfolds. Dave Ehrenberg. Thank you so much. Thank you, Antoinette. So Pedro Rodriguez, he remains in the Palm Beach County Jail for Christmas. He will be there until his court date in. January. Those two other suspects, if anybody has any information about them, they should call the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. That's it for this episode of Crime Fix. I'm Janette Levy. Thanks so much for being with me. I'll see you back here next time.

Crime Fix with Angenette Levy - Bombshell Arrest After Tekashi 69's Mom Held Hostage in Home Invasion

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