1990s pop singer Cyndi Lauper’s son avoided spending the weekend on Rikers Island, after police say that they caught the young man – who is a “rapper” carrying a gun.
Cyndi’s husband, “Law & Order” actor David Thornton, went to the precinct and paid a $20,000 cash bail to save his rapper son, Declan “Dex” Lauper, from going to jail on gun possession charges.
According to prosecutors alleged that Dec, 28, and another man took an Uber ride from Queens to 135th West 112th St. when the driver allegedly heard them say, “It has already been sold.”
That’s when things went left – and a group of armed men surrounded the Uber and shot inside – hitting Dex’ partner in the leg.
“The defendant and the separately apprehended individual drove to the location both with firearms to engage in what appears to be illicit activity,” Assistant District Attorney Harriet Jiranek said in court.
Law enforcement sources said that drugs were also found on Lauper when he was arrested, so far he was not charged for the drugs yet.
Prosecutors were seeking $50,000 cash bail but Dex’s attorney, Steven Brill, made his case for letting him out without bail, explaining that Dex has been working with a life coach to point him in the right “direction.”
For those interested here’s Dex the gangster:
