Hit ’90s rapper’s son arrested for allegedly stealing refrigerators

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Hercy Miller, the son of 90’s hitmaker and record producer Master P, was arrested at Southern Utah University, where the 24-year old attends and plays basketball, on November 27. Miller, along with fellow SUU Thunderbirds Brock Felder and Peter Dadson Jr., have been accused of stealing refrigerators from the loading dock of the campus bookstore.

The students were seen on security footage from November 11 loading the refrigerators into their vehicles. Miller and Dadson Jr., 25, maintain that the refrigerators, valued at $1500 apiece, had been sitting on the loading dock for “almost a month,” and that the basketball players “assumed that they were being disposed of,” according to police documents obtained by Music Times. Dadson Jr. apparently told authorities, “I believed they were being thrown away and that it was OK to take them.”

The SUU basketball coach, Rob Jeter, told TMZ Sports that the whole situation was a “mixup,” and that they expected the felony charges against the players to be dropped. “The university is working to get this thing resolved quickly,” Jeter said. The outlet also reported that Miller, Felder, and Dadson are “well-respected” on campus and have had “zero issues” with the school in the past. The basketball players were released from police custody on November 28.

The 54-year-old Master P, whose real name is Percy Robert Miller, has 9 children total, most of them with ex-wife and fellow rapper Sonya C. The couple’s daughter, Tytyana, passed away in 2022 after struggling with substance abuse issues. Several of the rapper’s children have followed him into the music business, including Romeo, 35, previously known as Lil’ Romeo, and Nickelodeon star Cymphonique, 28. Cymphonique is not one of Sonya C’s children, and her mother’s identity has not been made public. Mercy Miller, 19, also plays college basketball at University of Houston. Hercy transferred to Southern Utah University in 2024, after previously playing for the Louisville Cardinals and the Tennessee State Tigers.