Joliet Rapper Star Money Arrested Again

JOLIET, IL — Just two months removed from his most recent stretch in prison, Joliet rapper Deondray “Star Money” Hall was locked up for a couple hours early Thursday morning.

Hall, 25, was booked on charges of possession of cannabis and resisting a police officer, according to jail records. He was released shortly after 2:30 a.m.

Hall was sentenced in April 2015 to four years in prison for trying to escape from the cops after he and a pal were picked up on gun charges the year before. He got out 11 months later due to time he had already served in the Will County jail and day-for-day good time credit.

Hall had been released from prison just four months prior to that arrest.

During Hall’s 2015 sentencing hearing, his best friend, Ronald Byrd, said the rapper is the “star” of the “Star Money Gang,” a “movement” comprised of family, friends and fans. Byrd also said Hall is far and away the most successful of Joliet’s rappers and that other local performers imitate the Star Money Gang.

“They mimic what we do, as far as the party buses,” Byrd said. “They try, but they don’t even come close to our movement.”