Man Who Stole Beyoncé’s Unreleased Music Gets Two Years In Prison

There is absolutely nobody in the popular music realm who moves in more secrecy than Beyoncé. Her tracks simply do not leak. She's the pioneer of the surprise album drop. On more than one occasion, she has put out entire full-length statements without advance warning. So when unreleased Beyoncé music gets stolen, it's a five-alarm feature. One man in Atlanta briefly did possess entire hard drives of Beyoncé's music, but that music never leaked. This morning, that man got a two-year prison sentence.

Last summer, someone broke into a Jeep in Atlanta just before a stop on Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter tour. 11Alive reports that the Jeep was parked in a parking garage. Beyoncé's team claims that the thief got away with two suitcases containing "jump drives with unreleased watermarked Beyoncé music, footage plans for the show, past and future set lists, two laptops, designer sunglasses, and Apple AirPods Max headphones." Using security camera footage, Atlanta police tracked down Kelvin Evans, a man who already had a number of break-in cases on his record. As far as I can tell, there's no evidence that Evans intentionally targeted Beyoncé.

After rejecting plea deals, Evans pleaded guilty to one count of entering an automobile and one count of criminal trespass. He was given a five-year sentence, with two years in prison and three on probation. He was already on parole, so he won't have the possibility of parole in this case.