from the Blair Boulevard spider hole where police found him.
MOJO CAUGHT, THEN CLEARED
Memphis rappers apparently behind Money shooting
By Ariel Mutha-Tafoya, Fantasy Sports News
In a whirlwind series of events Tuesday, fugitive Midtown owner Mojo D was apprehended by Metro police, even as new information from private sources appeared to confirm Mojo’s innocence in the attempted assassination of NFFA commissioner William D. Money.
Mojo, who had been on the lam for the past two weeks, was caught after police received an anonymous tip on his whereabouts. A S.W.A.T. team dispatched to the scene found a scruffy looking, heavily bearded Mojo hiding in what police termed a “spider hole” behind a home on Blair Boulevard. In emerging from his hideout, sources said, he defiantly announced, “I am the president of the Midtown Mojo.”
Shortly after Mojo was booked and fingerprinted downtown, he was released based on what police said was “conclusive evidence” brought forward by NFFA founder Jorge Linardo, who, apparently unbeknownst to the authorities, had been conducting his own investigation into the Money shooting.
FSN has learned that, in the days following the incident in which a man in a Mexican wrestling mask wounded the commissioner outside a trendy, East Nashville nightspot, Linardo’s agents rounded up a number of “potential suspects” and brought them secretly to Club Gitmo for questioning. (Because Club Gitmo, located in “The Nations” area of West Nashville, stands on sovereign Native American tribal land, Metro law enforcement officials have no jurisdiction over the facility.)
During “enhanced interrogation procedures,” three of the potential suspects revealed that the shooting of Money was “facilitated” (though not ordered) by former Mojo team mascot Mojo Jojo. According to tapes of the interrogations viewed by FSN, the suspects said that Jojo reached out to the Memphis rap group Dr. Krunkenstein. He told them that “a tall East Nashville honky” who called himself “Dr. Krankenstein” was using extensive samples from the Memphis’ group’s unreleased debut CD, Muscle and Blow, to build his own career as a local rapper. “Are you gonna let your [expletive] get cracka-jacked like that?” Jojo reportedly asked the group.
Jojo then allegedly told the group members where to find Money on the night of the shooting. He even directed the shooter to wear a Mexican wrestling mask, in hopes that police suspicion would fall on the Midtown Mojo, for whom the masks are part of the team’s trademarked identity. None of the detainees knew which of the three members of Dr. Krunkenstein might have been the trigger man.
Interestingly, however, two other detainees cast doubt on whether Mojo Jojo had been involved at all in the conspiracy. According to them, Money — who dabbles in the music business as a sideline to his work as NFFA commissioner, and who sometimes goes by the moniker of Dr. Krankenstein — arranged for the attempted hit himself as a way to generate “street cred.” These detainees added that merely grazing Money with a bullet to the cheek was all part of the plan.
“It doesn’t matter which version is right,” said Beelzebubbas’ community relations director Anton Chigur. “Mojo D didn’t do it.”
Chigur added that Linardo had dispatched his old friend, Dog the Bounty Hunter, to search for Mojo Jojo. The controversial chimp dropped out of sight last week after failing to appear at the Jojo A Go Go, where he was scheduled to emcee a charity dance marathon to benefit orphaned highland gorillas in Uganda. Chigur also said that Linardo was planning to meet personally with the members of Dr. Krunkenstein, who are set to perform at the fifth annual Bacchanal to the Future this weekend in Centennial Park.
Meanwhile, police are seeking to question Linardo’s godson, Beelzebubbas coach Boyd X. Biggs, in the deaths of Mojo coach Otto Pilot and Furious George, childhood friend of 12th Avenue Bakers coach QCurl Sharif. Though investigators believe Furious committed suicide, the case is not yet closed. Late Sunday, Pilot’s deflated body was found with numerous puncture wounds at the Richland Creek end of the McCabe Golf Course. “It’s interesting that both of these deaths occurred in West Nashville, within easy walking distance of Biggs’ Cherokee Park residence,” said police spokesman Don Aaron.
“Biggs will happily make himself available to the police immediately after hell freezes over,” said Chigur in a prepared statement. “The timing of this shows that it is nothing more than someone’s cheap attempt to distract the 'Bubbas from their huge game with the Bakers this weekend and to drain the joy from the Bacchanalia.” Then, with a slight and somewhat frightening smile, he added, “I am confident justice will prevail.”
Mojo, who had been on the lam for the past two weeks, was caught after police received an anonymous tip on his whereabouts. A S.W.A.T. team dispatched to the scene found a scruffy looking, heavily bearded Mojo hiding in what police termed a “spider hole” behind a home on Blair Boulevard. In emerging from his hideout, sources said, he defiantly announced, “I am the president of the Midtown Mojo.”
Shortly after Mojo was booked and fingerprinted downtown, he was released based on what police said was “conclusive evidence” brought forward by NFFA founder Jorge Linardo, who, apparently unbeknownst to the authorities, had been conducting his own investigation into the Money shooting.
FSN has learned that, in the days following the incident in which a man in a Mexican wrestling mask wounded the commissioner outside a trendy, East Nashville nightspot, Linardo’s agents rounded up a number of “potential suspects” and brought them secretly to Club Gitmo for questioning. (Because Club Gitmo, located in “The Nations” area of West Nashville, stands on sovereign Native American tribal land, Metro law enforcement officials have no jurisdiction over the facility.)
During “enhanced interrogation procedures,” three of the potential suspects revealed that the shooting of Money was “facilitated” (though not ordered) by former Mojo team mascot Mojo Jojo. According to tapes of the interrogations viewed by FSN, the suspects said that Jojo reached out to the Memphis rap group Dr. Krunkenstein. He told them that “a tall East Nashville honky” who called himself “Dr. Krankenstein” was using extensive samples from the Memphis’ group’s unreleased debut CD, Muscle and Blow, to build his own career as a local rapper. “Are you gonna let your [expletive] get cracka-jacked like that?” Jojo reportedly asked the group.
Jojo then allegedly told the group members where to find Money on the night of the shooting. He even directed the shooter to wear a Mexican wrestling mask, in hopes that police suspicion would fall on the Midtown Mojo, for whom the masks are part of the team’s trademarked identity. None of the detainees knew which of the three members of Dr. Krunkenstein might have been the trigger man.
Interestingly, however, two other detainees cast doubt on whether Mojo Jojo had been involved at all in the conspiracy. According to them, Money — who dabbles in the music business as a sideline to his work as NFFA commissioner, and who sometimes goes by the moniker of Dr. Krankenstein — arranged for the attempted hit himself as a way to generate “street cred.” These detainees added that merely grazing Money with a bullet to the cheek was all part of the plan.
“It doesn’t matter which version is right,” said Beelzebubbas’ community relations director Anton Chigur. “Mojo D didn’t do it.”
Chigur added that Linardo had dispatched his old friend, Dog the Bounty Hunter, to search for Mojo Jojo. The controversial chimp dropped out of sight last week after failing to appear at the Jojo A Go Go, where he was scheduled to emcee a charity dance marathon to benefit orphaned highland gorillas in Uganda. Chigur also said that Linardo was planning to meet personally with the members of Dr. Krunkenstein, who are set to perform at the fifth annual Bacchanal to the Future this weekend in Centennial Park.
Meanwhile, police are seeking to question Linardo’s godson, Beelzebubbas coach Boyd X. Biggs, in the deaths of Mojo coach Otto Pilot and Furious George, childhood friend of 12th Avenue Bakers coach QCurl Sharif. Though investigators believe Furious committed suicide, the case is not yet closed. Late Sunday, Pilot’s deflated body was found with numerous puncture wounds at the Richland Creek end of the McCabe Golf Course. “It’s interesting that both of these deaths occurred in West Nashville, within easy walking distance of Biggs’ Cherokee Park residence,” said police spokesman Don Aaron.
“Biggs will happily make himself available to the police immediately after hell freezes over,” said Chigur in a prepared statement. “The timing of this shows that it is nothing more than someone’s cheap attempt to distract the 'Bubbas from their huge game with the Bakers this weekend and to drain the joy from the Bacchanalia.” Then, with a slight and somewhat frightening smile, he added, “I am confident justice will prevail.”
