A teenage drill rapper who had his charges dropped after allegedly shooting an NYPD officer earlier this year was busted again late Tuesday with a loaded firearm, law enforcement sources told The Post.
Camrin Williams, a 17-year-old gangbanger who goes by the stage name C-Blu, was arrested at the corner of Garden Street and Crotona Avenue in the Bronx at about 11:30 p.m., the sources said.
Williams — a member of the Reywey Crew, a subset of the Crips — was stopped by cops after they spotted him running towards a car fumbling with his waistband, according to sources.
Police said the arrest unfolded as part of a car stop. Sources said the officers saw him fumbling with something in his waist band.
The teen perp allegedly had a loaded silver Bryco Arms 9mm handgun on him at the time — with a live round in the chamber and 11 rounds in the magazine, the sources said.
The hip-hop musician was charged with criminal weapons possession and obstruction of government administration, sources said. He was awaiting arraignment Wednesday afternoon.
His mother, Monique McGriff, suggested the firearm didn’t belong to her son – and that he was unfairly targeted.
“It was another stop that shouldn’t have happened. Another stop and frisk and the same group of kids being targeted by the same cops and them finding something that didn’t belong to my son. It’s not fair at all,” she told The Post when reached by phone.
Williams was last nabbed in January for allegedly shooting an NYPD officer in a scuffle in the Bronx, which saw him also shot.
“They haven’t even charged him yet. He’s a minor, he’s not a menace to society.”
Williams, who already has a string of gun-related arrests to his name, was last nabbed over the police shooting in the Bronx earlier this year that saw officer Kaseem Pennant take a bullet to the leg.
The Jan. 18 shooting unfolded after cops responded to reports of a disorderly crowd near East 187th Street.
Williams allegedly refused to take his hands out of his pockets and got into a struggle with cops, which resulted in both him and Pennant being wounded, police said.
The teen, who was out on probation for a prior gun case at the time, was charged with attempted murder and later posted his $250,000 bond with an advance he’d received from a recording contract with Interscope Records.
Despite being hauled back to court for violating probation just one week after making bail, his case was suddenly dropped without explanation in May.
Williams is a 17-year-old gangbanger who goes by the rapper stage name C-Blu. C Blu/YouTube
The city Law Department issued a statement at the time saying that Williams “cannot be prosecuted.”
The department noted the case had been sealed under Family Court law and it wasn’t able to say any more on the matter.
But the judge in the case, Bronx Supreme Court Justice Naita Semaj, later said she decided cops had no cause to search Williams before the shooting, and he had to be released.
“This absurd decision should outrage every New Yorker who wants to get illegal guns off our streets,” NYPD Police Benevolent Association president Patrick J. Lynch said at the time.
“If perps like this face absolutely no consequences, even after shooting a cop, we have to ask: Why bother sending us out to get the guns at all?”
He was also previously arrested as a juvenile in the Bronx in May 2020, when he was just 14, for possession of a Tauris firearm.
