Yella Beezy Trial Examines MO3’s Hidden Glock

Yella Beezy‘s jury heard Wednesday about a Glock found in MO3’s car nearly three years after his death.

According to FOX 4, ATF agent Derek Wright said a targeted October 18, 2023 search at Dallas police’s impound lot found the pistol. His explosives dog, Chewbacca, alerted near the front passenger seat. Wright said the gun was deliberately hidden and hard to reach.

Crime-scene supervisor Justin O’Donnell said the first search turned up jewelry and $17,960, but no gun. Prosecutors entered the Glock and car photos into evidence.

Yella Beezy, whose legal name is Markies Conway, pleaded not guilty to capital murder. Prosecutors accused him of paying Kewon White $40,000 to kill MO3 after a feud that began in 2017.

His lawyers disputed both the alleged payment and the state’s explanation of the money. They argued that cash White had came from drug activity, rather than from Yella Beezy.

Defense lawyer Toby Shook told jurors the state would ask them to fill holes in its case with assumptions. He urged them to watch for reasonable doubt as witnesses testified. The defense’s account put the source of White’s cash at the center of the fight over whether the killing was paid for.

The separate trial of White ended in September with a capital murder conviction and a sentence of life without parole. MO3, whose legal name was Melvin Noble, was killed on Interstate 35E in Dallas on November 11, 2020.

Before Yella Beezy’s trial, his lawyers sought more time to prepare after White’s case. The defense wanted transcripts so it could check what witnesses said in the first trial against their accounts before a new jury.

The lawyers also wanted expert Julianna Moore available. Her background included 18 years of work in the federal court system. His lawyers wanted her to explain benefits that witnesses in related federal drug cases could receive for helping prosecutors.

The witness lists in the two cases were nearly the same: prosecutors listed 264 people in Yella Beezy’s case and 263 in White’s. That overlap gave the earlier testimony a direct role in the defense’s preparation.

Testimony was set to resume Thursday at 9 a.m.