Watch: ‘No Jumper’ Podcaster Ant Jefe Charged With Felony Murder, Bail Set at $1 Million
Ant Jefe is facing legal troubles.
The No Jumper podcast co-host (real name Maurice Shelmon) was charged with felony murder in Los Angeles May 19, according to TMZ, citing law enforcement officials.
Shelmon was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department’s Robbery-Homicide Division, with his bail being set at $1 million, according to arrest records obtained by E! News.
No Jumper founder Adam22 responded to the arrest on his Instagram Story hours later, sharing a screenshot of the text message he sent to a TMZ reporter.
“Honestly, I don’t know anything yet, so I’m not of much value,” the cohost (real name Adam Grandmaison) wrote. “But he’s been a great podcaster for the last year or so and as far as I knew, he wasn’t really in the streets like that anymore, so this was all a huge shock.”
E! News has reached out to the LAPD for comment and has not yet heard back. E! News was unable to locate an attorney for Shelmon.
Grandmaison—who recruited Shelmon in May 2025—said he learned of the news alongside cohosts Munchie B and Lush (real name Nicholas Hurok Hyams) during their podcast’s May 19 episode, when the rapper didn’t show up to set.
“I would bet money that he got arrested or something,” Grandmaison said on the episode. “I don’t want to wish it on him, but him being three hours later, phone off, not responding to anybody?”
Although his fellow cohosts initially speculated that Shelmon, 35, may have simply lost service or been dealing with a family emergency, the trio later pulled up his arrest record in the episode.
Shelmon hadn’t shied away from his legal trouble, previously sharing insight into his past run-ins with the law, including multiple arrests as a teen.
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“I was running with people who was five and 10 years older than me,” he said on the No Jumperpodcast in June 2025. “I really started at a young age. My peers, they started gangbanging three, four years down the line.”
“My whole time as an adolescent was back and forth, in and out of jail, from gang banging and stuff,” he shared, “catching cases, whether it was a gun case or a stolen car.”
Eventually, he admitted that it “got tiresome” and decided to make different decisions in adulthood.
“Once I start gathering information and I start having a better understanding of life,” he explained, “and I start having a better respect for life and s–t, wanting to travel and be cultural, that’s when a motherf–ker starts respecting s–t more.”
As he put it, “Like, man, it’s more to it than this gang s–t.”
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