Hip-Hop Podcaster Taxstone Arrested In Connection To Irving Plaza Shooting

Authorities arrested Hip-hop personality Taxstone Monday in connection with a May shooting at an Irving Plaza T.I. concert that left one man dead and rapper Troy Ave wounded, police said.

Taxstone, aka Daryl Campbell, 31, was slated to appear in federal court on a weapons possession charge Tuesday, officials said.

Campbell had been under scrutiny for months for his involvement in the high-profile shooting, a police source said.

He was arrested at his aunt’s house in East New York, the sources said. He did not say a word when he was escorted by detectives from the 13th Precinct stationhouse in Gramercy Park.

“He will be arraigned tomorrow,” Campbell's defense attorney Ken Montgomery said. “We look forward to reading the complaint from the government.”

Campbell was previously convicted of weapons and robbery charges in Brooklyn, records show.

He served about 18 months of the original sentence and was then returned on a parole violation in 2010 and served eight more months.

He returned to prison on another parole violation in 2012 and served 11 more days before his sentence was completed, records show.

Troy Ave, aka Roland Collins, has been free on $500,000 bail following the May shooting in the green room at Irving Plaza.

The gunfire killed Collins’ bodyguard Ronald McPhatter. Collins is accused of attempted murder in that case.

He was shot in the leg and claims he wrestled the gun away from the man who killed McPhatter and fired back in self-defense.

On Monday, Collins’ lawyer Scott Leemon declined to identify Campbell as the man who shot Collins and McPhatter.

“As I told you day one, Troy was a victim,” Leemon said. “He was shot by someone else and his friend and bodyguard died a hero.”

Collins was shot again on Christmas Day while he was sitting with a female friend in a red Maserati on E. 91st St. and Linden Blvd. in East Flatbush.

Cops charged Troy Ave in the Irving Plaza shooting and he pleaded not guilty.

In the Huffington Post, writer Azeem Khan called him “one of the faces of Black Twitter.” He also has a podcast.

“He comes off as one of the hood’s elder statesmen,” Khan wrote in March.

He has been credited with helping the careers of Desiigner, Bobby Shmurda and Manolo Rose.

Campbell may not have known the arrest was coming because shortly before, he posted a funny video on his Facebook page of a man enraged over the Dallas Cowboys’ loss to the Green Bay Packers.

Minutes after word of his arrest broke, a friend of his wrote on his Facebook page, “Free Taxstone. I know Troy Ave a snitch. smh (shaking my head).”

Taxstone and Wack been @ it for weeks on the net …….

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