Dipset member Charly
"Max B" Wingate was ordered held on $2 million bail yesterday (Jan. 9), after
the rapper was charged with robbing and murdering a man in his hotel room in Fort
Lee, New Jersey last September. Police
believe Max B. conspired to rob David Taylor and Allan "Jay" Plowden
after his girlfriend, erotic dancer Gina Marie Conway, revealed that the men had
flashed wads of cash and drove expensive cars. Max
B., 28, allegedly phoned Kelvin Leerdam of New York to help rob the men, who were
staying in separate hotel rooms at the Holiday Inn in Fort Lee. Police
said Max B.’s girlfriend Conway knocked on Plowden’s door around 4 am, while Leerdam
waited in unseen area with a handgun. Leerdam
burst into Plowden’s room and ordered him to call Taylor, who was shot in the
head and murdered as he entered the room.The
pair then bound Plowden arms and legs with duct tied, before fleeing with an undisclosed
amount of cash. Police
said the robbers missed $30,000 in cash, which they confiscated from Plowden,
as he attempted to leave the scene of the crime. Max
B.’s attorney told the New Jersey Star Ledger that evidence against her
client was mostly hearsay and that Max B. was not in New Jersey at the time of
the shooting. Police
claim that calls from all of the suspects cell phones before and after the crime
link Max B. to the murder. Conway
and Leerdam are also being held on murder, robbery and conspiracy charges.Max
B. has recorded on various records with fellow Dipset members Cam’ron, Jim Jones
and Juelz Santana. In
October, the group released a mixtape titled The Diplomats & Max B Million
Dollar Baby Radio, which was recorded prior to Max B.’s arrest.
