Rapper Lil Tjay Set To Be Released On $90K Bond After Gun Arrest In NYC

NYC- Rapper Lil Tjay is set to be released on $90,000 bond after he was arrested this week while filming a music video.

Tjay was arrested while he was filming a music video in The Bronx with up & coming rapper IceSpice.

Lil Tjay was in a Cadillac Escalade on Monday when police stopped the vehicle at 183rd St. and Ryer Avenue around 4 p.m. for having tinted windows and a missing front license plate, police said, according to The Daily News.

Police say they allegedly found several loaded guns inside of the Escalade.

Tjay, whose real name is Tione Jayden Merritt, was arrested with another male.

The 21-year-old rapper was charged with second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, which is a felony.