Monster Author Pleads No Contest, Sentenced to Six Years Prison

Monster Author Pleads No Contest,
Sentenced to Six Years Prison

May 5, 2008
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LOS ANGELES – The man who penned “Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member” was sentenced today to six years in state prison.

Kody DeJohn Scott, 44, who pleaded no contest to one count of carjacking and admitted a 1991 strike for robbery out of Riverside County, was sentenced by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marcelita V. Haynes.

Deputy District Attorney Sam Hulefeld of Central Trials said four counts were dismissed as part of the plea agreement. In December 2006, Scott allegedly beat an acquaintance, took the keys to his Jaguar and left the scene in the victim’s vehicle. The defendant was arrested on felony complaint for arrest warrant March 2007.

Scott, whose moniker is Monster Kody, published his memoir under the pseudonym Sanyika Shakur, aka Monster Kody Scott.

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