A person who broke right into a automotive and stole a tough drive containing Beyoncé’s unreleased songs has been sentenced to 2 years in jail.
Kelvin Evans, 41, pleaded responsible final yr to costs together with breaking and coming into of a motorcar in Atlanta, Georgia. The choose sentenced him to a further three years of probation.
On July 8, 2025, whereas Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Tour was in Atlanta, Evans apparently randomly broke right into a Jeep Wagoneer rented by a choreographer and dancer for Beyoncé.
Once they returned, the again window of the automotive was damaged and their baggage was gone. Investigators haven’t recovered the laborious drive or different stolen gadgets.
Based on court docket paperwork filed in Fulton County Superior Court docket, Evans entered right into a plea deal in court docket Tuesday forward of his trial this week.
Data obtained by the BBC present that Evans was a repeat offender.
His lawyer instructed the choose his consumer “needs a future the place he can earn cash legally and be a member of society like the remainder of us,” in response to CBS Information, the BBC’s US media companion.
Jury choice within the case started Monday, with prosecutors exhibiting surveillance footage of a crimson Hyundai pushed by Evans parked subsequent to a rental automotive within the car parking zone.
One other surveillance video confirmed the identical crimson Hyundai arriving on the condo complicated, and Evans was seen dealing with suitcases believed to belong to Beyoncé’s choreographer Christopher Grant and dancer Diane Blue.
Grant and Blue instructed police that gadgets stolen from the rental automotive included two MacBook laptops, Apple headphones, high-end clothes and niknaks, and a tough drive that investigators stated contained unreleased Beyoncé materials.
Grant additionally instructed authorities that he was carrying Beyoncé’s “confidential private info.”
Prosecutors stated the stolen laptop computer was geared up with monitoring know-how and gadgets had been positioned on the tackle proven within the second video.
As a part of his sentence, Evans was ordered to avoid the sufferer and the car parking zone the place the theft occurred.
He has been in jail since his arrest in August final yr. He was indicted by a grand jury in October and initially pleaded not responsible in January.
He rejected an analogous plea deal in March, in response to CBS.
The break-in occurred simply earlier than Beyoncé started her four-night Cowboy Carter tour at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
