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Did Yelawolf’s Entourage Retaliate for DJ Klever’s Arrest?

friday night during the texas showdown festival at the coliseum. abc-seven got a hold of the complaint affidavit today. it states an el paso county sheriff’s deputy says the d-j, whose real name is josh winkler, was drunk and out of control back stage. the deputy says winkler swung at someone who tried to help him. two sheriff’s detectives tried to arrest him but say he refused. klever serves as the d-j for hip hop artist yelawolf. yelawolf posted a photo on his facebook account of klever after he was released. yelawolf accused authorities of beating klever up. today we learned more about what happened after the arrest of d-j klever in yelawolf’s coliseum dressing room. abc-7’s darren hunt spoke with el paso sports commission c-e-o brian kennedy today. he’s live now. darren. rick/estela, kennedy’s been in charge of the county coliseum for nearly two decades. and he said he’s never seen anything like what happened last weekend. “i think it was a great event that was marred by one guy deciding to be a knucklehead.” after the arrest of d-j klever, el paso sports commission c-e-o brian kennedy said he briefed yelawolf about the charges filed against his d-j in his dressing room. “he jumped off the couch to threaten me and he was gonna beat me up and so we just left … i just left the room at that point.” “kennedy said when he came back up to yelawolf’s dressing room after he left, he found this toilet, plugged with towels and this beer can in the tank in an attempt to flood the second floor of the coliseum.” “had we not known there was a potential for damage and hadn’t gotten it, it would have flooded the entire second dressing room and probably dripped down into the first floor dressing room also.” kennedy said in addition to trying to clog the toilet, someone left behind a pile of human feces. “he had relieved himself an left a pile of excrement in the middle of the dressing room.” this i an instagram photo posted by yelawolf of a member of his crew allegedly soiling the dressing room floor. “i understand there was als some damage at the hotel later that evening.” an employee at the radisson told me someone in yelawolf’s crew left some damage here at the hotel, although they would not tell us what that damage was, or speak to us about it on camera.” ” this tatoo festival brought i over a quarter of a million dollars in economic impact, it was an awesome festival, everybody had a great time, i think everybody who came here had a great time, behind the scenes we had one knucklehead we had to deal with.” kennedy said he did not witness klever’s arrest, but he did see him drinking tequila and jaegermeister earlier in the evening and saw him allegedly kicking at officers in the security office. asked if yelawolf and his crew would ever be invited back … kennedy laughed and said, “i would be surprised.” rick and estela a mixed martial artist who fought off four men who broke into his

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