{"id":55126,"date":"2026-01-08T15:21:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/beyonce-unreleased-music-theft-suspect-pleads-not-guilty\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:21:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:21:22","slug":"beyonce-unreleased-music-theft-suspect-pleads-not-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/beyonce-unreleased-music-theft-suspect-pleads-not-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyonce Unreleased Music Theft: Suspect Pleads Not Guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Kelvin Evans allegedly lifted hard drives containing music and tour plans from a rental car in Atlanta last summer<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/beyonce-hard-drives-stolen-atlanta-arrest-1235428969\/\">man accused of stealing<\/a> unreleased <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/beyonce\/\" id=\"auto-tag_beyonce\" data-tag=\"beyonce\">Beyonc\u00e9<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/beyonce-choreographer-unreleased-music-stolen-robbery-1235385472\/\">music and tour plans from a rental car<\/a> in Atlanta last summer pleaded not guilty to theft charges on Wednesday, Jan. 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tKelvin Evans appeared virtually in Fulton County court yesterday, where he met and spoke with his public defender before entering his guilty plea, according to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/news\/crime\/man-accused-of-unreleased-beyonc-music-theft-pleads-not-guilty\/85-83371644-5c99-40e6-ac98-dfee3075ed64\">local<\/a> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/atlanta\/man-accused-stealing-beyoncs-unreleased-music-car-near-krog-market-pleads-not-guilty\/CO72WKJZNFGPDHV7RLS5LRASNU\/?outputType=amp\">news<\/a>. Evans reportedly said little else during the hearing, and his lawyer did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tEvans is facing a felony charge of entering a motor vehicle with the intent to commit theft, as well as a misdemeanor charge of criminal trespassing. He\u2019ll next appear in court on Feb. 11 for a case management hearing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe hard drives containing the unreleased music and tour plans were stolen last July as Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s <em>Cowboy Carter <\/em>tour rolled through Atlanta. Choreographer Christopher Grant and dancer Diandre Blue said they parked their rental car at around 8 p.m., and when they returned an hour later, the trunk window was damaged and two suitcases were missing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn a police report, Grant told officers that he had been carrying \u201cpersonal sensitive information for the musician Beyonc\u00e9\u201d and that hard drives for her upcoming show in Atlanta were also taken. The hard drives contained \u201cwater marked music, some un-released music, footage plans for the show, and past and future set list,\u201d per the police report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWhile an arrest warrant was issued for a suspect about a week later, it wasn\u2019t until late August that police arrested Evans, though that was for an unrelated parole violation. In mid-September, he was officially named the suspect in the Beyonc\u00e9 case. Evans has been out on a $20,000 bond since October.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/beyonce-unreleased-music-theft-suspect-pleads-not-guilty-1235495947\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelvin Evans allegedly lifted hard drives containing music and tour plans from a rental car in Atlanta last summer The man accused of stealing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":55127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}