US Rapper Fetty Wap Attracts 6 Years Behind Bars For Drug Trafficking
Trap Queen hitmaker Fetty Wap has been sentenced to six years in prison for drug trafficking.
The rapper pleaded guilty last year to distributing and possessing cocain€.
The star was part of a ring of six men that distributed more than 100 kilograms of cocain€, h€roin, f€ntanyl and crack cocain€ across the US using the United States Postal Service and drivers with hidden vehicle compartments.
American rapper Fetty Wap was sentenced to six years in prison on Wednesday for trafficking dr■gs across the United States.
The Trap Queen rapper born Willie Junior Maxwell II had pleaded guilty last year to distributing and possessing cocain€.
New York prosecutors said he was part of a ring of six men that distributed more than 100 kilograms of cocain€, h€roin, f€ntanyl and crack cocain€ across Long Island and New Jersey between June 2019 and June 2020.
The men obtained the dr&gs on America’s west coast and used the United States Postal Service and drivers with hidden vehicle compartments to transport the n@rcotics to New York.
The substances were then distributed to dealers who sold them on Long Island and in New Jersey.
The Justice Department described Maxwell, 31, as “a kilogram-level redistributor for the trafficking organisation”.
The rapper was arrested in October 2021 at the Citi Field baseball stadium in Queens, New York, where he had been scheduled to perform at a music festival.
Prosecutors said that searches during their investigation had recovered approximately $1.5 million in cash, 16 kilograms of coc@ine, two kilograms of h&roin, numerous f€ntanyl pills and several guns.
Maxwell will also be subject to five years of post-release supervision, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York said in a statement.
One of Maxwell’s co-defendants, a New Jersey prison officer, was sentenced to six years in March for his role in the scheme. The other four co-defendants have pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing.
Maxwell gained recognition when his debut single Trap Queen reached number two on the US charts in 2015.
AFP
