FBI Sent a Fake Music Producer at Houston Drill Crew YNS. Now Luh Que Is Locked Up
The FBI used a confidential source posing as a music producer, then staged fake robberies, to build a federal case against Houston crew YNS. Law enforcement sources told KHOU that rappers Luh Que and Dee Fully were arrested Sept. 23. Charges are alleged, and the judge has not ruled on bond.
The FBI didn't just watch a Houston drill crew's videos. It sent them a "producer."
Federal agents and Houston police arrested more than 15 people in a Sept. 23 takedown aimed at YNS, a group the FBI calls a violent Houston gang based in the Greenspoint area. Law enforcement sources told KHOU 11 that two YouTube rappers, Luh Que and Dee Fully, were among those picked up. The FBI has not publicly named either rapper.
Here's how it went down, according to FBI testimony at a Sept. 29 detention hearing in federal court in Houston, as reported by KPRC 2 and Houston Public Media.
Houston police and DPS flagged the group to the FBI after seeing members in music videos and social media posts about shootings, robberies and guns with switches. Earlier this year the FBI brought in a confidential source with music-industry ties. Defense lawyers say the young men called him "Coach Chris." He invited them to a rented studio to make a song. Those meetings were recorded.
Then came the setups. Agents say the source told the crew about a cartel member keeping drugs and cash in a U-Haul. That was fake. Next came a bait car. Then a fake stash house on Army-owned property that supposedly held 42 bricks of cocaine. Agents say the group showed up armed and masked. On Sept. 23, SWAT moved in as the men were changing license plates before another staged robbery. Investigators say they recovered five guns, each with a machine-gun conversion device. Nobody was hurt.
Five young men appeared in court on Sept. 29: Jocquez Frye, Jacob Barrett, Kristian Winters, Darrell Sampson and Jaquan McClendon. They're charged with conspiracy to commit robbery, conspiracy to distribute drugs, and using a firearm in a drug crime. Frye is also charged with possessing a machine gun. HypeFresh reports that Luh Que's real name is Jocquez Frye. All of these charges are ALLEGED. Nobody has been convicted.
The defense came out swinging. "There's no crime in rap songs about violence," Frye's attorney, James Stafford, told the court. "The government set these kids up so they could keep them in jail." Another lawyer said the teens may have been acting tough to impress someone they thought could get them a record deal. Prosecutor Sebastian Edwards fired back: "Kids don't show up to rob what they believe is going to be a cartel stash house."
Magistrate Judge Dena Palermo took the bond question under advisement. As of Oct. 10, we have not seen a public ruling.
Meanwhile, on Sept. 28, five days after the raid, Luh Que's official YouTube channel dropped the video for "Too Late." It opens with a message from Que: "We be home soon... Free me man... Free all my bruddas." Social media posts are also claiming the FBI had three informants around the crew. Court reporting so far only describes one.
Entrapment, or did they do it to themselves?
Sources: KPRC 2 / Click2Houston (Bryce Newberry, Sept. 29-30, detention hearing testimony); Houston Public Media (Sept. 29); KHOU 11 law enforcement sources, via Baller Alert (Sept. 24) and HipHopHero (Sept. 25); HypeFresh (Oct. 9); Luh Que official YouTube ("Too Late," Sept. 28). Photo: Luh Que in "Planes" (Official Video), Luh Que YouTube, Sept. 10, 2026. Other people in the shot are blurred.