Gucci Mane Security Guard Tells Judge He Fears Pooh Shiesty Would Threaten His Family

Scott Legato/Getty Images/XXL/YouTube — Gucci Mane performs during Tycoon Music Festival at Little Caesars Arena on April 19, 2025 in Detroit, Michigan. Pooh Shiesty

The most immediate voice in the latest court papering over Pooh Shiestys bid for release is not a prosecutor or a witness, but the man who guarded Gucci Mane the night the rapper says he was robbed. In a letter filed with the United States Attorneys June 24 response to Pooh Shiestys motion for bond, the security guard says he fears for his own life and the safety of his family if defendant Rodrick Williams is freed.

That fear is written plainly in a note the government attached to its filing. It is not a legal brief; it is a neighbors worry penned in first person, the kind of human detail that often punctuates otherwise technocratic filings.

“I respectfully ask that Mr. Williams remain remanded with no bond due to the safety concerns for myself and my family,” the letter reads in part. “Mr. Williams was aware that I am a vested retired police officer, and that knowledge did not stop him from committing these actions. Because of this, I am deeply concerned about what he may attempt to do if he is released.”

“Since the incident, I have found myself constantly watching vehicles passing by my home, worried that he or someone connected to him may attempt to harm me or my family,” he adds. “I have young children, and because of this fear, I have limited their ability to go outside and enjoy normal activities as they should.”

Speaking to the filing, the letter functions as a blunt counterweight to the defense’s argument for pre-trial freedom. Pooh Shiesty, who remains in custody after a judge previously ordered he be held without bond, has continued to press for release while his case inches toward trial. The matter is scheduled to go before a jury on Feb. 22, 2027.

Pooh Shiestys camp is not the only one with relatives entangled in bail decisions: the defendants father and fellow rapper Big30 were released on bond earlier, a detail the court file notes as it weighs the safety concerns raised by the security guard.

Federal prosecutors accuse a group of luring Gucci Mane to a Dallas recording studio in January, then forcing him at gunpoint to sign a contract release form before robbing him and the people with him. In total, three men, plus six others, have been charged with federal robbery and kidnapping counts in connection with the episode, according to court papers.

Elsewhere in the filing, prosecutors reiterated facts from their investigation: the alleged sequence of events, the presence of firearms, and the alleged coercion used to obtain the release form. For now, those allegations and the security guards safety concerns are the threads the judge must pull on as Pooh Shiesty renews his push for pre-trial release.