Chicago drill rapper Mello Buckzz was in custody Tuesday after being pulled over in her Mercedes SUV with an open bottle of vodka and a stolen gun in the car on the West Side.
The rapper, whose real name is Melanie U. Doyle, 25, was booked into the Cook County Jail on June 16, a day after her arrest and was being held without bail, according to the Cook County sheriff’s office.
Doyle, a South Shore resident, was at the center of a mass shooting last summer that left four people dead, including her boyfriend, and 14 wounded in River North outside her record-release party.
The rapper appeared in court Tuesday, charged with felony aggravated unlawful possession of a loaded weapon in a vehicle without a FOID card, two misdemeanor counts of resisting or obstructing and citations for having an obstructed front windshield and transporting or carrying alcohol as a driver, according to the Chicago police..
Her recent arrest happened around 10 p.m. June 15. Doyle was behind the wheel of a black 2020 Mercedes GLC SUV, heading east on 19th Street from Washtenaw Avenue. Plainclothes police officers stopped her a few blocks away at 1918 S. Rockwell St. because her vehicle appeared to have a windshield tint, according to court records.
When officers, who had police identification visible, asked Doyle for her driver’s license, she reached into her purse and an officer saw what appeared to be marijuana in a small clear bag, records show. Another officer saw an open bottle of Tito’s Handmade Vodka on the front passenger-side floorboard, records showed.
The police said they asked Doyle to get out of her SUV so they could conduct a narcotics search and that she repeatedly refused. A sergeant was called to the scene and repeatedly ordered Doyle to get out of the vehicle for about 15 minutes, according to records.
At that point, the sergeant opened the driver’s-side door, and officers removed Doyle from the driver’s seat by grabbing her left arm because she was resisting, records say.
Before Doyle was fully escorted out of the vehicle, an officer saw the barrel of a gun protruding from under the driver’s seat and recovered a Glock semi-automatic pistol with one live round in the chamber and an unknown number of rounds in the magazine, records show.
Doyle told officers she did not have a valid FOID card or concealed carry license, and a records check confirmed that, police said. A records check also confirmed the vehicle belonged to Doyle but the had been reported stolen out of Bedford Park, records showed.
In an unrelated case in 2024, Doyle was charged with felony aggravated battery in connection with an attack on another rapper. She pleaded guilty in April 2025 and was sentenced to 30 months’ probation, the Sun-Times previously reported.