Fetty Wap.Photo:Kevin Mazur/WireImage
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Fetty Wapis headed to prison on drug charges.
The rapper, whose real name is Willie Maxwell,pleaded guiltyin August to conspiracy to distribute and possess controlled substances and was sentenced to six years in prison on Wednesday.
Maxwell, 31, apologized to the judge in court, saying, “Me being selfish in my pride put me in this position today,” per theAssociated Press. His lawyers argued that he had turned to selling drugs due to a financial strain that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic, the outlet reported.
“This is a sad day. This is a kid from Paterson, New Jersey who made it out,” said Macedonio, who added that Maxwell “accepts responsibility for his conduct.”
The “Trap Queen” rapper has been held in custody since his bail was revoked in August after he threatened to kill a man during a FaceTime call in 2021, which violated the terms of his pretrial release in his drug case.
Fetty Wap wasone of six people chargedwith “conspiring to distribute and possess controlled substances” in October 2021, according to a release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
He and the other men, including a New Jersey corrections officer, allegedly distributed more than 100 kilograms of cocaine, heroin, fentanyl and crack cocaine across Long Island and New Jersey from June 2019 to June 2020.
The men allegedly obtained the narcotics on the West Coast, then used the U.S. Postal Service and drivers with hidden compartments in their vehicles to transport them cross-country, where they were stored in Suffolk County, New York, according to the release.
The U.S. The Department of Justice said the rapper “was a kilogram-level redistributor” for a drug trafficking organization.
“The fact that we arrested a chart-topping rap artist and a corrections officer as part of the conspiracy illustrates just how vile the drug trade has become,” Michael Driscoll, FBI assistant director-in-charge, said in a statement at the time.
source: people.com
