Lexington man denied bond for alleged gang involvement asks judge for release
The lawyer for a man denied bond because of his alleged association with a Lexington street gang has filed an order to have the man released.
Quincino Lamont Waide Jr., 24, was charged June 5 with possession of a firearm and ammunition by a person convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence.
Federal judge Matthew Stinnett sided with prosecutors and ruled June 4 that Waide’s alleged association with members of Lexington’s West End ‘Hot Boyz’ gang, which prosecutors claim is connected to more than a half-dozen homicides, was enough to keep him in custody until his case was resolved.
In his ruling, Stinnett posted a question to the lawyers and Waide: Are you, in fact, the company you keep?
But in a motion filed June 18, Waide’s lawyer, Whitley Lawson, argued Waide was held only on “convenient assumptions,” and noted that no alleged member of the Hot Boyz has been charged in any of the homicides.
Lawson pointed to Waide’s significant ties to the community, family support and ability to maintain work.
“The suggestion that the defendant can and should be held on such attenuated and heavily assumed connections to individuals believed to be members of a gang cannot stand,” Lawson wrote in the order asking a judge to reconsider holding Lawson without bond.
Lawson declined to comment for this story.
A hearing for Lawson’s request has not been set.
This story was originally published June 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM.
