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Fetty Wap pleads guilty in drug-trafficking case, faces minimum 5 years in federal prison
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Fetty Wap pleads guilty to conspiracy drug charge
Fetty Wap pled guilty on Monday to a conspiracy to distribute drugs charge, which carries a compulsory five-year prison sentence according to reports.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Steven Locke, who had revoked his release and placed him in jail two weeks prior, heard the plea in Central Islip on Long Island. No immediate sentencing date was established.
Locke took this action after prosecutors said that Wap, real name Willie Maxwell, threatened to kill a man over a FaceTime contact in 2021, in violation of the terms of his pretrial release in his narcotics charge.
The “Trap Queen” crooner admitted to his role in a multimillion-dollar drug trafficking ring, pleading guilty in Long Island Federal Court Monday in exchange for a minimum of five years in federal prison.
The platinum-selling rapper, born William Junior Maxwell II, could have faced life in prison after he was charged last October for conspiring to bring more than 100 kilos of heroin, fentanyl and cocaine from the West Coast to the East for sale in New Jersey and Long Island.
As part of his deal, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess cocaine, but not the other drugs.
Federal authorities labelled him “a kilogram-level redistributor for the trafficking organization,” which sold drugs between June 2019 and June 2020 — long after his rise to stardom. Five other suspects were also charged in the conspiracy.
Federal prosecutors claim that Fetty Wap and his associates obtained their drugs on the West Coast and transported them to Suffolk County, where they were stored, using the mail and drivers who had secret compartments in their vehicles.
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Authorities used search warrants to disrupt the drug network and discovered approximately $1.5 million in cash, 16 kilogrammes of cocaine, two kilogrammes of heroin, multiple fentanyl pills, two 9-mm handguns, a rifle, a.45 calibre pistol, a.40 calibre pistol, and ammo, according to prosecutors.
Fetty Wap’s smash single “Trap Queen” debuted in the Top 20 of Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in its third week of release, and a remix reached the Top Ten of the Billboard Hot 100.
The lyrics include references to becoming wealthy through drug peddling, such as the lines, “We just set a goal, talking matching Lambos / At 56 a gram, five a hundred grams, though.”