Rapper Fetty Wap, 31, has been sentenced to six years in prison for trafficking heroin and cocaine in TWO states at the height of his fame
- The rapper was convicted of drug trafficking in New Jersey and Long Island in 2019 and 2020
- He was sentenced today to six years in prison and five years probation
Rapper Fetty Wap has been sentenced to six years in prison for drug trafficking.
The rapper, whose real name is Willie Junior Maxwell II, has been in custody since his bail was released last August.
He was convicted of distributing more than 100 kilograms of cocaine, heroin, fentanyl and crack on Long Island and New Jersey.
As part of the investigation, police seized $1.5 million in cash and multiple guns from multiple homes.
Fetty Wap was sentenced today to six years in prison for trafficking cocaine and heroin in New Jersey and Long Island
Wap appeared Wednesday before Judge Joanna Seybert in federal court in Central Islip, New York, where he was sentenced to one year more than the minimum sentence.
In a letter to the judge last week, prosecutors pleaded for the rapper to be given a longer sentence, alleging he used his celebrity status and song “Trap Queen” to promote and glamorize drug sales to young people.
Prosecutors alleged that the music video for “Trap Queen,” released in 2015, used children as extras.
The rapper was arrested at the Rolling Loud music festival at Citi Field in October 2021, just before he was due to take the stage.
Prosecutors say he was part of a large Long Island drug ring that supplied drugs across the state.
According to the original indictment, the group used the US Postal Service to distribute the drugs.
In court, he admitted to conspiring to distribute cocaine, telling the judge, “I made arrangements with other people to distribute cocaine.”
“I knew the behavior was illegal.”
He pleaded guilty in August 2022 and faced up to 40 years in prison.
Defense attorney Elizabeth Macedonio asked the judge to recommend to the Bureau of Prisons that he serve his sentence in a Northeast prison, but did not name a specific prison.
Some of the drugs seized as part of the investigation
In a memorandum sent out on behalf of the rapper from New Jersey last week, Wap’s attorney blamed the pandemic on the rapper’s “Bicoastal Drug Distribution Organization,” which led to his arrest.