Nasir Valenzuela, a 19-year-old Bronx resident also known as Nas EBK, is seen on video in connection with the Jan. 9 incident at a Rochelle Park ShopRite, police said. The YouTube video, titled “We Got Arrested For Tresspassing *Never Again*,” has been viewed more than 440,000 times. “Note to potential criminals, if you commit a crime, and happen to record it, maybe forgo posting the crime to the internet,” police wrote on Facebook. “Quick detective work led to the above arrest.”
Both surveillance video and the YouTube video show the ShopRite incident, authorities said. Witnesses and employees told police that on Jan. 9, three men came into the store with a camera and harassed both customers and workers.
Valenzuela was charged with possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, terroristic threats, simple assault and disorderly conduct, officials said. He was apprehended in Penns Grove, then committed to Bergen County Jail.
The U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force on Tuesday captured a Bronx man wanted in connection with assault and making terroristic threats at a New Jersey grocery store. The video shows Valenzuela, 19, of the Bronx, snatching the stock clerk's cap, continuing to harass him and wielding a scalpel-styled knife when the worker steps to him.
The employee eventually turns his back to walk away when Valenzuela suddenly charges and hits him from behind with a running drop-kick.
The employee chases Valenzuela, who runs from the store with his partners.
Rochelle Park police received several calls from the supermarket that Jan. 9 morning, Lt. James DePreta said. Valenzuela, formerly of Teaneck, has produced highly polished and successful YouTube videos that feature guns that he claims are props, drugs by the handful and huge wads of cash. One tune in particular, "Bunny in the Box," has 1,930,000 views.
Valenzuela also has a Spotify channel with nearly 200,000 listeners -- including a cut, "OYK," that has more than 2.7 million listens -- to go with an active Instagram account. Most of his lyrics are violent and profane, with heavy gangster talk. Ebk, in fact, is an acronym "Every Body Killer," a term coined by a Crips street gang in Los Beach, CA.
Rochelle Park Detectives Brian Cobb and Brian Gallina conducted interviews following the ShopRite incident. They reviewed store surveillance footage -- and watched the YT video, of course, which had gotten 430,000 views.
They then obtained an arrest warrant charging Valenzuela with simple assault, making terroristic threats, possession of a weapon and disorderly conduct.
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