FETTY WAP ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH DRUG TRAFFICKING

American rapper Willie Maxwell popularly known as Fetty Wap has been arrested and charged on a federal drug charge for participating in a conspiracy to smuggle large amounts of heroin, fentanyl and other drugs into New York City region.

The rapper was detained at Citi Field baseball park, where the three-day Rolling Loud hip-hop music festival was taking place.

FETTY WAP ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH DRUG TRAFFICKING

Fetty Wap and five other men are alleged to have distributed more than one hundred kilograms of cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, and crack cocaine across Long Island and New Jersey between June 2019 and June 2020.

The five other defendants except for the ‘trap queen’ crooner are also being charged with one count of using firearms in connection with a drug trafficking crime, and one of the defendants is a New Jersey corrections officer. If convicted they face a maximum of life imprisonment.

FETTY WAP ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH DRUG TRAFFICKING

This is however not the first time Fetty Wap has had issues with the law, in the past he has been arrested and charged for crimes, which includes allegedly assaulting three employees at a hotel-casino in Las Vegas in 2019 and also in 2017 where he was charged for Driving Under the Influence (DUI) with a suspended New Jersey license in what authorities described as a drag race on a New York City highway.