The troubled son of Cyndi Lauper who was busted with a loaded gun during a Harlem shooting dodged a lengthy prison sentence Friday when he finally copped to the weapon charge.
Declyn “Dex” Lauper pleaded guilty to criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree in Manhattan Supreme Court, and will serve just one year of interim probation stemming from the Feb. 7, 2024 Upper Manhattan shooting where his pal got hit in the leg.
He was facing up to seven years in prison if convicted on the firearms bust.
Lauper, an aspiring rapper, flashed a thumbs up while donning what he claimed to be a $10,000 Louis Vuitton jacket after taking the plea deal at his court appearance.
As part of the plea deal, Lauper will have to receive substance abuse treatment and remain arrest free for one year.
If he completes the program with no problems, he would then be allowed to plea to the lesser charge of criminal possession of a firearm and receive a three-year conditional discharge, according to the terms accepted by Judge Sara Litman.
The resolution comes more than two years after cops caught the 29-year-old with a loaded Glock .47 caliber handgun on 112th Street in Harlem, near where his 24-year-old pal had just been shot in the leg by a group of five gunmen, prosecutors have said.
Lauper — who denied that the gun was his — infamously tried wooing cops by name dropping his legendary pop-star mom after he was placed into custody.
“I grew up, my mom is Cyndi Lauper, Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” Lauper allegedly told a detective at the time, while also pleading for them to call his mom and life coach.
It was Lauper’s second conviction in Manhattan — coming after he took another plea to avoid jail time for stealing a Mercedes outside another rapper’s memorial in 2022.
Lauper’s attorney, Joe Tacopina, called the deal a “great resolution” for Lauper who is eager to put the case behind him and focus on his music future.
“He’s a great creative mind and has got a lot of things to do,” the high-profiled attorney said after the hearing. “This hanging over his head was a hindrance to that.”
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