UPDATED: Shaquille O'Neal indirectly won an enormous victory today ... after a judge threw out a case against 7 gang members who were accused of kidnapping a man in order to retrieve a sex tape of Shaq, TMZ has just broke the news. Deputy Dist. Atty. Hoon Chun told judge M.L. Villar de Longoria that there was “cause for concern” about Robert Ross’ testimony in court as well as conduct outside of court that led to the prosecution’s decision. He declined to give details.
LAST UPDATED: Seven alleged Los Angeles street gang members are charged with kidnapping and robbing a man who testified in court that they were after a Shaquille O'Neal sex tape he had. Cops told TMZ that Ladell Rowles who is a member of the Main Street Mafia Crip Gang in L.A. and is friends with Shaq and 6 other members went on a search and destroy mission in L.A. on February 11, 2008.
According to the police report, the seven gang members met up with Ross at the Sunset Strip convenience store Pink Dot. The men allegedly surrounded Ross' Rolls Royce Phantom with guns drawn, jumped into Ross' car and ordered him to drive to Rowles' house in South Central L.A.
It seems that Ross and O'Neal had a falling out after a sour deal involving Shaq's record label, and Ross threatened to release a security camera tape showing O'Neal having sex with a woman who was not his wife. Phone records showed a "flurry of calls" between the man who allegedly led the attack and O'Neal's business partner Mark Stevens around the time of the incident, the Times reported.
LAST UPDATED: Seven alleged Los Angeles street gang members are charged with kidnapping and robbing a man who testified in court that they were after a Shaquille O'Neal sex tape he had. Cops told TMZ that Ladell Rowles who is a member of the Main Street Mafia Crip Gang in L.A. and is friends with Shaq and 6 other members went on a search and destroy mission in L.A. on February 11, 2008.
According to the police report, the seven gang members met up with Ross at the Sunset Strip convenience store Pink Dot. The men allegedly surrounded Ross' Rolls Royce Phantom with guns drawn, jumped into Ross' car and ordered him to drive to Rowles' house in South Central L.A.
It seems that Ross and O'Neal had a falling out after a sour deal involving Shaq's record label, and Ross threatened to release a security camera tape showing O'Neal having sex with a woman who was not his wife. Phone records showed a "flurry of calls" between the man who allegedly led the attack and O'Neal's business partner Mark Stevens around the time of the incident, the Times reported.
