CENTRAL ISLIP, NY (AP) — Rapper Fetty Wap pleaded guilty Monday to a conspiracy drug charge that entails a five-year prison sentence, admitting that he participated in a massive drug trafficking racket. Who used to carry drugs from the West Coast to Long Island.
In Central Islip, the petition came before US magistrate Judge Steven Locke, who had two weeks ago revoked his bond and sent him to prison. Following the plea, he was returned to prison to await sentencing, although a date was not immediately set.
Locke revoked the rapper’s $500,000 bail, secured from property he owned in Georgia, after prosecutors said Wap, whose real name is Willie Maxwell, had threatened to kill a man. During a FaceTime call in 2021, his drug case violated the terms of his pre-trial release.
The “Trap Queen” rapper was initially arrested last October Charges abound that he participated in a conspiracy to smuggle large amounts of heroin, fentanyl and other drugs into the New York City area.
He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess controlled substances, the top charge in the indictment against him, although the plea pertained only to cocaine. It carries a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison, while federal sentencing guidelines recommend about two additional years in prison. The petition spared him a possible life sentence if he was convicted of all the charges he faced.
His lawyers did not immediately return messages seeking comment.
Maxwell and five co-defendants were charged with conspiracy to possess and distribute more than 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of heroin, fentanyl and crack cocaine between June 2019 and June 2020. Two codependents have also pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing.
Prosecutors said the plan allegedly involved using US Postal Service and hidden compartment cars to transport drugs from the West Coast to Long Island, where they were stored for distribution to dealers in Long Island and New Jersey. it was done.
Maxwell rose to prominence after “Trap Queen”, her debut single, peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in May 2015.
The Long Island arrest was not his first. In 2019, he was arrested for assaulting three employees at a hotel-casino in Las Vegas. He was also arrested on DUI charges in November 2017 after police said he was drag racing on a New York City highway.
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