Mello Buckzz pleaded guilty in her Chicago gun case and received a two-year term running with her existing sentence.
Mello Buckzz received a two-year prison sentence after pleading guilty in a Chicago gun case, adding a complete outcome to a legal development that had previously remained unresolved.
The artist, whose legal name is Melanie Doyle, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a weapon before Judge William Gamboney. The judge imposed a two-year term that will run at the same time as another two-year sentence Judge Patrick Coughlin issued in her aggravated battery case.
AllHipHop previously reported the battery sentence and the October 26 court entry in the separate gun matter. At that point, the weapons case’s full disposition had not been established.
The gun prosecution followed Mello Buckzz’s June 15 traffic stop in Chicago. Police alleged that officers saw illegal windshield tint before finding suspected marijuana in her purse, an open alcohol container inside the vehicle and a handgun beneath the driver’s seat.
Officers also accused her of refusing repeated instructions to leave the vehicle.
Prosecutors initially charged Mello Buckzz with aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon, along with two misdemeanor counts of resisting or obstructing an officer. Police said the recovered Glock 43X was loaded and had been reported stolen in Bedford Park.
The plea was for felon in possession of a weapon.
Mello Buckzz was already on probation when police arrested her in June. She had pleaded guilty in April 2025 to aggravated battery in a public place. Different judges imposed the later prison sentence and the gun sentence, but the concurrent structure means the terms run together rather than one after the other.
CWB Chicago reported that Mello Buckzz was transferred from Cook County custody to Logan Correctional Center on November 4.
The outlet cited Illinois Department of Corrections records listing June 2 as her projected release date after sentence reduction.
Mello Buckzz drew national attention after her mixtape release party was shot up, leaving four people dead and 18 wounded.
