Brian Earl Taylor, 21, tried to sing his way out of trouble in a Washtenaw County Courtroom. In a video that has now gone viral, Taylor did his own version of Adele’s hit “Hello”
“Hello there, your honor,…I want to say I’m sorry for the things I’ve done and I’ll try and be stronger in this life I chose, but I want you to know — that door, I closed.
“And your honor I’m sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.”
Judge Darlene O’Brien said he was “obviously a talented young man”, nevertheless, Taylor was sentenced two years in prison for illegally carrying a concealed weapon and 18 months to 15 years for unlawful imprisonment. Five other charges against him in the case were dismissed.
According to MLive, Taylor was arrested after police found him struggling with another man and holding a gun to his abdomen on Nov. 9, 2015 in a second-floor stairway of the Peninsular Place apartments, Ypsilanti police Lt. Deric Gress confirmed. The apartments are in the 900 block of Railroad Street in Ypsilanti.
Police said they suspected three men forced a 23-year-old Ypsilanti man into a vehicle at gunpoint and drove to the end of Railroad Street to rob him. The group then drove back to the apartment to complete the robbery.
At the time of his arrest, police said the Belleville man had multiple felony warrants and was on parole in Wayne County.
