Yella Beezy Trial Maps Phones, $40K Withdrawal And No Direct Calls

Prosecutors spent Day 6 of Yella Beezy’s capital-murder trial building a cellphone timeline around MO3’s killing and a $40,000 cash withdrawal.

The same testimony also exposed a major gap in that timeline: no direct calls connected the rapper to the two men prosecutors accuse him of hiring.

During testimony on November 3, FBI Special Agent Taylor Page mapped devices associated with Yella Beezy, whose legal name is Markies Conway, as well as Kewon White, Devin Brown and Jerry Johnson.

White’s phone was near the Interstate 35E murder scene before moving away. Page also said communication between White and Brown increased around the shooting.

The timeline then shifted to the days after MO3 was killed. On November 20, 2020, Yella Beezy flew from Los Angeles to Dallas-Fort Worth, visited a Chase Bank in Frisco and withdrew $40,000. Phone-location records showed Johnson’s device traveling to Frisco before it later moved to the area of White’s phone in South Dallas.

Two days later, Johnson’s device moved toward an area associated with Yella Beezy. Johnson then exchanged calls with White before White headed east. Police arrested White on November 23.

Page testified that the records showed no direct communication between Yella Beezy and either White or Brown. Instead, the contacts ran through Johnson. He also acknowledged the evidence’s limits.

Cellphone data cannot identify who was holding a device or prove that people were riding in the same vehicle.

Yella Beezy has pleaded not guilty to capital murder.

Prosecutors accused him of offering White and Brown $40,000 to kill MO3. White was convicted in the killing and sentenced to life in prison. The allegations against Yella Beezy remain unproven as jurors continue hearing the state’s case.

Earlier Tuesday, jurors heard about a separate 2018 shooting in which Yella Beezy was wounded.

That investigation remained unsolved after he declined to press charges. In a recorded hospital statement, he said cooperation “wouldn’t be good for his portfolio” and referred to concerns about his rap persona.

Dallas officer Nicholas Brooks testified that he contacted investigators after MO3’s killing because of an online feud involving the rappers. Brooks wanted to know whether Yella Beezy had been viewed as a shooter or a victim in that earlier case.

The phone analysis was separate from the airline-reservation evidence heard one day earlier. That testimony focused on defense questions about how travel bookings were attributed. Day 6 moved the dispute to phone locations, call patterns and what the records could not show.