2023-05-25 04:34:54
He will go behind bars. American rapper Fetty Wap, known for son tube « Trap Queen »was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison for drug trafficking by a federal court near New York, announced the American justice.
Real name William Junior Maxwell II, he was discontinued at the end of October 2021 by the federal police (FBI), at Citi Field, a baseball stadium in the borough of Queens in New York, where he was to perform at a festival. He pleaded guilty in August 2022 and is awaiting sentencing, which was handed down Wednesday by a federal court judge in Central Islip, Long Island.
“An organization that distributed over 100 kilograms of cocaine, heroin…”
The rapper was sentenced to six years in prison for distributing cocaine, in connection with a larger trafficking for which five other people had been arrested, including a prison guard. According to American justice, the rapper was part of “an organization that distributed more than 100 kilograms of cocaine, heroin, fentanyl and crack across Long Island and New Jersey”, between June 2019 and June 2020.
Born in Paterson, New Jersey, New York, Fetty Wap shot to fame with his 2015 hit “Trap Queen,” a romance and drug-dealing story in which he sings and raps. With this piece, he had risen to second place on the Billboard Hot 100, a benchmark ranking in the United States. Disabled since childhood by glaucoma, which had made him lose the use of one eye, he had displayed his disability on the cover of his album entitled “Fetty Wap”.
#American #rapper #Fetty #Wap #sentenced #years #prison #drug #trafficking