Beyoncé may no longer be on her “Cowboy Carter” tour, but a robbery that took part during her Atlanta stop is back in the news.
Kelvin Evans, the man accused of stealing unreleased music belonging to the Grammy-winning artist, entered a guilty plea Tuesday May 12, just one day after the trail began.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that on July 8, when Beyoncé’s choreographer, Christopher Grant, and one of her dancers, Diandre Blue, returned to their rented SUV in a parking deck, the trunk was open. Two suitcases had been removed.
According to reports, the items taken included laptops and hard drives with unreleased music, tour show plans, and set lists for current and future appearances. A man’s voice on a 911 tape can be heard explaining that the laptop and drives for a person of “high status” were stolen.
Evans received a five-year sentence — two years in prison and the remaining three years on probation.
This wasn’t the only low note for the Grammy winner’s run in the city.
As fans were leaving Beyoncé’s final concert in Atlanta just after midnight, several were injured after an escalator malfunctioned at the Vine City MARTA station. According to a statement from MARTA, of the eight people injured, seven went to the hospital for treatment.
