6ix9ine pled guilty to a felony count of use of a child in a sexual performance. He was charged with three counts of the offense after a February 2015 incident in which he had physical contact with a 13-year-old girl and later distributed videos of the incident online as part of a music video.
On July 12, 2018, 6ix9ine was arrested in New York for an outstanding warrant related to an incident where he allegedly choked a 16-year-old in The Galleria shopping mall in Houston, Texas back in January 2018.
On June 2, 2018, Chief Keef was fired upon outside the W Hotel in New York City but not hit; no injuries resulted from the incident. In February 2019, 6ix9ine pled guilty to ordering the shooting of Chief Keef. 6ix9ine offered his associate Kintea "Kooda B" McKenzie $20,000 to shoot at Chief Keef.
On September 10, 2019, 6ix9ine admitted to years of domestic violence in a cooperation agreement. 6ix9ine admits domestic violence from 2011 to November 2018. Accusations of domestic violence against 6ix9ine first came to light in early 2019, including a testimony from the rapper's ex-girlfriend (and the mother of his daughter), Sara Molina, that he beat her over a period of seven years. Molina told the Daily Beast about numerous incidents of abuse, including one beating in Dubai that left her face so swollen that she says, "I could barely open my eyes." She continued to detail that 6ix9ine proceeded “beating me for two hours straight,” she claims “He punched me so hard in my right ear I thought I was deaf.”