Ex-con who appeared on Joe Rogan final month is arrested for homicide
- Sheldon Johnson, 48, advised Joe Rogan a month in the past how he had turned his life round since being jailed for 2 violent robberies
- The justice reform advocate and former drug supplier was given 50 years in jail
- Johnson has since been arrested in connection to discovery of dismembered physique of Colin Small, 44, in a Bronx condominium
An ex-con who’s buddies with woke DA Alvin Bragg and appeared on Joe Rogan‘s podcast final month has been charged with homicide after a severed head was discovered at a Bronx condominium.
Justice reform advocate Sheldon Johnson, 48, advised the favored Joe Rogan Experience podcast on February 1 about his journey ‘altering his life round’ after being jailed for 50 years for 2 violent robberies.
He regaled Rogan’s viewers with tales of his rise to the highest of one of many jail’s most infamous gangs, earlier than insisting it was all behind him.
‘I’ve been doing unhealthy for thus lengthy I’m going to attempt to do one thing good, if all else fails I can return to doing one thing unhealthy,’ he mentioned on the time.
Just a month after the episode aired, Johnson was charged in relation to a dismembered physique present in a bin and a head stashed in a freezer belonging to sufferer Colin Small, 44.
Sheldon Johnson, 48, has been charged with homicide after a severed head was discovered at a Bronx condominium
The justice reform advocate appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast on February 1 to speak about how he turned his life round. He was arrested weeks later
Johnson, who works with at-risk youth on the Queens Defenders in New York, joined Rogan to debate his justice reform advocacy.
During the chat, he admitted to dealing medicine and robbing those that couldn’t settle their money owed – acts for which a choose reportedly branded him, ‘a menace to society.’
He described robbing a debtor and his girlfriend within the Nineties with the assistance of a gang of accomplices, one in all whom pistol-whipped the sufferer leaving him with a head wound.
Johnson additionally admitted he ‘roughed up’ a second theft sufferer, though he insisted the person was not bodily harmed. Johnson was given consecutive 25-year sentences for the crimes.
While in jail, the convicted felon mentioned he was smoking weed and consuming ‘jailhouse hooch.’
‘I used to be in a gang, I used to be high of the meals chain. I had my very own nation below me, I wasn’t identical to a random gang member,’ Johnson advised Rogan.
But he claims that stints in solitary confinement, the place he was restricted to a food regimen consisting of bread with cabbage and carrots six days every week, helped him rethink his lifestyle.
‘I used to be actually taking a look at myself and reevaluating and considering, “what the f*** are you doing”,’ Johnson defined.
‘I keep in mind considering, “what are you going to do? Can you live out the next 48 years like this?” I mentioned I could not do it.’
Johnson entertained Rogan with tales of brutal solitary confinement and jail gang politics, boasting that he was ‘on the high of the meals chain’
On the night time of the alleged homicide, the suspect was seen carrying a blonde wig within the condominium constructing, doubtlessly as a disguise
Johnson was seen transporting numerous baggage to and from the condominium, and the constructing’s tremendous speculated that he was ‘hiding one thing,’ officers siad.
Johnson mentioned it was eager about his spouse and his son rising up listening to tales of his ‘notoriety’ that spurred him on even additional.
‘When I received out [of solitary] I decided that I used to be going to stroll away and I did not care concerning the penalties,’ Johnson defined.
Johnson added the gang was joyful for him to take a step again as a result of he precipitated issues for them as a consequence of his strict adherence to ‘road guidelines.’
‘I used to be what you name an authoritarian, I used to be a rule man. I like guidelines, I like construction, I like issues to be a sure means,’ he advised Rogan.
‘This begins my journey. I received into faculty, I received my GED.’
The uplifting story is a far cry from the narrative painted by cops’ after their grisly discovery of Small’s stays this week.
Neighbors allegedly advised investigators they heard a sufferer pleading for his life earlier than two photographs got here from the condominium, sources advised the New York Post.
Neighbors claimed they heard a sufferer screaming for assist by the partitions, pleading with the alleged killer: ‘Please do not… I’ve a household’
Johnson, pictured being perp-walked from the NYPD forty fourth Precinct on Thursday, the place he yelled, ‘I’m harmless!’ to reporters as he was led away in white overalls
Johnson is a widely known prison justice activist in New York City
Before the grisly discovery, Johnson was noticed in chilling surveillance pictures showing to disguise himself in a blonde wig and transporting massive bins and trash baggage.
He has now been charged with homicide, manslaughter, and weapon possession.
Police descended on the condominium Tuesday following studies from involved neighbors over photographs heard throughout the constructing.
They reportedly advised police making the wellness test that they subsequently noticed a stranger coming and going from the condominium with cleansing provides.
Fears had been additionally sparked by the alleged pleading from the sufferer, who was heard screaming, ‘Please do not… I’ve a household.’
The constructing’s superintendent advised the Post he advised officers that he turned involved by the stranger’s presence, notably as they weren’t the tenant that he knew.
He claimed that the suspect carried a blue bin, seen in surveillance footage, into the condominium at round 2am after the photographs had been heard, however wasn’t seen bringing it again.
‘He introduced within the bin … I advised them, ‘Why is he bringing in the bin at 2 o’clock within the morning? He’s bringing in a bin so late,’ the tremendous mentioned.
Johnson who works with at-risk youth on the Queens Defenders in New York and is a justice reform advocate
Evidence baggage seen piled up exterior the crime scene on Thursday, two days after cops made the grisly discovery
‘We tried to see if he took out the bin. He by no means took out the bin. I advised them, ‘Look for a bin.’ And positive sufficient, it was there.’
In an odd growth, the constructing’s tremendous additionally claimed he noticed the suspect leaving the scene within the sufferer’s blue Audi, earlier than returning carrying a blonde wig.
They felt that he was making an attempt to disguise himself, saying he was ‘dressing in a different way, altering his character… that is not regular, he’s hiding one thing.’
Johnson was seen being perp-walked from the NYPD forty fourth Precinct on Thursday, the place he yelled, ‘I’m harmless!’ to reporters as he was led away in white overalls.
The justice reform activist has been open about his prison previous, as effectively of that of his father and his son.
On the Prison Writers web site, Johnson writes about ‘three generations with a father in jail’ explaining his regret at not being round to information his son.
The then 14-year-old was jailed in 2008 for killing a Columbia graduate pupil, ‘whereas making an attempt to impress a bunch of buddies’, in keeping with Johnson.
‘To categorical that I used to be mentally and emotionally devastated is an understatement,’ he wrote.
‘I used to be compelled to replicate into the half that I performed in the entire fiasco as my son’s father. “You should have been there to guide and raise him,” the voice repeated time and again.’
