Heavyweight hip-hop producer Bryan Leach — credited with discovering Lil Jon and the Yin Yang Twins — pleaded guilty in Manhattan to attempted gun possession today in a deal that will put him in prison for two years.
Leach had been busted in 2010 after getting pulled over while driving his 2006 Bentley Continental — erratically, cops said — on West 72nd Street.
Inside the car’s console cops found a Kel-Tec handgun loaded with hollow-point bullets.
A sombre-looking Leach left court without commenting after pleading guilty to a single, reduced count of attempted weapons possession in the second degree. He’d originally been charged with two counts of weapons possession, which carries a mandatory minimum of three and a half years prison.
Leach’s sentence will include a year and a half of post-release probation.
He is being allowed to remain free pending sentencing, set by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lewis Bart Stone for November 8. At that point, Leach may be still be able to remain free pending appeal.
But the judge warned Leach that he faces a potential seven year prison term should he fail to cooperate with probation officials or return to court on his sentencing date.
Leach’s rap sheet already has two previous weapons convictions — for possessing brass knuckles and, in 1994, for possessing a loaded gun.