Rapper Fetty Wap has been sentenced to six years in prison for drug dealing.
The rapper, whose real name is Willie Junior Maxwell II, has been in custody since last August when his bail was revoked.
He was convicted of distributing more than 100 kilograms of cocaine, heroin, fentanyl and crack cocaine across Long Island and New Jersey.
As part of the investigation, police seized $1.5million in cash and multiple weapons from a series of homes.
Fetty Wap was today sentenced to six years in prison for dealing cocaine and heroin across New Jersey and Long Island
Wap appeared before before Judge Joanna Seybert at the federal court in Central Islip, New York, on Wednesday, where he received a sentence one year longer than the minimum.
Prosecutors argued for a longer term for the rapper in a letter to the judge last week, claiming that he used his celebrity status and his song ‘Trap Queen’ to push and glamorize selling drugs to young people.
‘Trap Queen,’ released in 2015, used children as extras in the song’s music video, the prosecutors claimed.
The rapper was arrested at the Rolling Loud music festival at Citi Field in October 2021 moments before he was due to go on stage.
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Prosecutors say he was part of a large Long Island drug ring that supplied drugs across the state.
The group used the US Postal Service to distribute the drugs, according to the original indictment.
In court, he admitted to conspiring to distribute cocaine, telling the judge: ‘I agreed with other people to distribute cocaine.
‘I knew the conduct was illegal.’
He pleaded guilty August 2022 and had been facing 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 at a prison in the Northeast, but she did not specify a particular prison.
Some of the drugs that were seized as part of the investigation
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