Pooh Shiesty and Big30’s Federal Kidnapping and Extortion Trial Is Set for July 6, With a Pretrial Conference Set for July 1, in Federal Court in Dallas

That is the May 2026 scheduling order. Senior U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey. Earle Cabell Federal Building. Nine names on the indictment.

Lontrell Williams Jr. — Pooh Shiesty. Rodney Wright Jr. — Big30. Lontrell Williams Sr. — the father. Six other men. Prosecutors: January 10 meeting at a Dallas studio with Radric Davis — Gucci Mane — and people in his circle. Alleged motive in the papers: force a way off a 1017 contract. Charges in the public write-ups include kidnapping, conspiracy to kidnap, robbery-related counts. Statutory exposure on the kidnapping piece is any term of years or life. He has pleaded not guilty.

A judge had already denied him bond, finding probable cause on the kidnapping theory. Complex and Dallas Morning News both printed the July 1 / July 6 pair when the order dropped. NBC 5, writing in early July after more exhibits hit the docket, said he was still in Kaufman County jail and that trial had been pushed toward February 2027, with Big30 out on bond. Federal calendars move. The headline on this graphic is the first stamped date, not a promise the jury sat that Monday.

Defense has argued the physical link is thin. The government has put photos, surveillance, and messages in later filings. None of that is a verdict. Gucci Mane is described in the papers as a victim of the alleged studio incident, not a defendant.

Shiesty’s catalog and 1017 history are why the case left the crime page. The docket does not care about streams. Nine defendants, one judge, a date that already had to fight the rest of the Northern District’s calendar.

The QuikTrip still is old money-on-the-sidewalk content. The caption is a court clerk’s two dates. If July slipped, the charges did not. Accused until a jury or a plea says otherwise. Life is the top line on the statute. Not guilty is the line he filed.