{"id":70405,"date":"2023-05-24T20:45:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T20:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/24\/american-rapper-fetty-wap-sentenced-to-6-years-after-pleading-guilty-to-drug-dealing-charge\/"},"modified":"2023-05-24T20:45:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T20:45:29","slug":"american-rapper-fetty-wap-sentenced-to-6-years-after-pleading-guilty-to-drug-dealing-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/24\/american-rapper-fetty-wap-sentenced-to-6-years-after-pleading-guilty-to-drug-dealing-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"American rapper Fetty Wap sentenced to 6 years after pleading guilty to drug dealing charge"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/p>\n
\n
Rapper Fetty Wap was sentenced to six years in federal prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to a drug dealing charge, the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Eastern District of New York\u00a0announced.<\/p>\n
The artist, whose real name is Willie Junior Maxwell II, pleaded guilty in August to conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine.<\/p>\n
According to court records, Maxwell and five acquaintances were indicted in October 2021 on conspiracy to distribute and possess controlled substances and use of firearms in connection with alleged drug trafficking in 2020.<\/p>\n
In a 33-page memorandum filed on May 17, Maxwell\u2019s lawyer Elizabeth Macedonio asked that he be sentenced to five years in prison, the mandatory minimum sentence, saying Maxwell only resorted to trafficking drugs as a result of personal issues in his life that limited his income, including a divorce and a lack of opportunities to perform during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n(STEVEN FERDMAN VIA GETTY IMAGES)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Maxwell\u2019s defence said the rapper\u2019s judgment became impaired and he became desperate to find a way to support his nine children and others close to him.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is described as a people pleaser and a person who gains great satisfaction from taking care of others,\u201d Macedonio wrote. \u201cSuddenly it felt like life was going in reverse and he became ashamed when he began to struggle to keep up the lifestyle that he created for so many.\u201d<\/p>\n
Federal prosecutors, however, said that Maxwell should serve at least seven years, arguing that he didn\u2019t need to traffic drugs for income and \u201cdid not act out of financial duress.\u201d<\/p>\nFetty Wap arrives at the MTV Video Awards on Aug. 26, 2019. (CHARLES SYKES\/INVISION\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u201cHe had a lucrative career as a rap artist and the ability to make an honest living and provide for himself and his family. Indeed, the defendant told the Probation Department that he made $5 million during his music career,\u201d prosecutors wrote. \u201cNevertheless, this defendant chose to supplement his income by trafficking large quantities of drugs \u2013 drugs he knew would ruin lives.\u201d<\/p>\n
Macedonio painted Maxwell as a model citizen who has been working hard to set aside money for his kids after he was released on bail on Nov. 5, 2021. She said that her client took any performance he could get.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe work was not glamorous. Travel to and from these events often involved all night road\u00a0trips and the venues were not what they once were,\u201d Macedonio wrote. \u201cThat being said, Mr. Maxwell performed whenever he could and he put the money aside to provide for his children in his absence.\u201d<\/p>\n
But prosecutors argued that Maxwell\u2019s character did not change after his arrest, saying that two months after being released, Maxwell had his bail revoked after he threatened someone over FaceTime with a gun and called them a \u201crat.\u201d<\/p>\n
DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rapper Fetty Wap was sentenced to six years in federal prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to a drug dealing charge, the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Eastern District of New York\u00a0announced. The artist, whose real name is Willie Junior Maxwell II, pleaded guilty in August to conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"\n
American rapper Fetty Wap sentenced to 6 years after pleading guilty to drug dealing charge - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/24\/american-rapper-fetty-wap-sentenced-to-6-years-after-pleading-guilty-to-drug-dealing-charge\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"American rapper Fetty Wap sentenced to 6 years after pleading guilty to drug dealing charge - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rapper Fetty Wap was sentenced to six years in federal prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to a drug dealing charge, the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Eastern District of New York\u00a0announced. The artist, whose real name is Willie Junior Maxwell II, pleaded guilty in August to conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/24\/american-rapper-fetty-wap-sentenced-to-6-years-after-pleading-guilty-to-drug-dealing-charge\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-05-24T20:45:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Fetty-Wap.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ghana News\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ghana News\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/24\/american-rapper-fetty-wap-sentenced-to-6-years-after-pleading-guilty-to-drug-dealing-charge\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/24\/american-rapper-fetty-wap-sentenced-to-6-years-after-pleading-guilty-to-drug-dealing-charge\/\",\"name\":\"American rapper Fetty Wap sentenced to 6 years after pleading guilty to drug dealing charge - Ghanamma.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/24\/american-rapper-fetty-wap-sentenced-to-6-years-after-pleading-guilty-to-drug-dealing-charge\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/24\/american-rapper-fetty-wap-sentenced-to-6-years-after-pleading-guilty-to-drug-dealing-charge\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Fetty-Wap.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-05-24T20:45:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-05-24T20:45:29+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/6f91dab2e50bbbfe895c93e7e84e7f74\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/24\/american-rapper-fetty-wap-sentenced-to-6-years-after-pleading-guilty-to-drug-dealing-charge\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/24\/american-rapper-fetty-wap-sentenced-to-6-years-after-pleading-guilty-to-drug-dealing-charge\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/24\/american-rapper-fetty-wap-sentenced-to-6-years-after-pleading-guilty-to-drug-dealing-charge\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Fetty-Wap.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Fetty-Wap.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":480},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/24\/american-rapper-fetty-wap-sentenced-to-6-years-after-pleading-guilty-to-drug-dealing-charge\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"American rapper Fetty Wap sentenced to 6 years after pleading guilty to drug dealing charge\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/\",\"name\":\"Ghanamma.com\",\"description\":\"Ghana mma provides breaking news, top stories in Ghana, Africa, business, entertainment, politics and more.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/6f91dab2e50bbbfe895c93e7e84e7f74\",\"name\":\"Ghana News\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Ghana News\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/author\/ghanamma\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"American rapper Fetty Wap sentenced to 6 years after pleading guilty to drug dealing charge - Ghanamma.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/24\/american-rapper-fetty-wap-sentenced-to-6-years-after-pleading-guilty-to-drug-dealing-charge\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"American rapper Fetty Wap sentenced to 6 years after pleading guilty to drug dealing charge - Ghanamma.com","og_description":"Rapper Fetty Wap was sentenced to six years in federal prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to a drug dealing charge, the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Eastern District of New York\u00a0announced. The artist, whose real name is Willie Junior Maxwell II, pleaded guilty in August to conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of […]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/24\/american-rapper-fetty-wap-sentenced-to-6-years-after-pleading-guilty-to-drug-dealing-charge\/","og_site_name":"Ghanamma.com","article_published_time":"2023-05-24T20:45:29+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":480,"url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Fetty-Wap.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Ghana News","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Ghana News","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/24\/american-rapper-fetty-wap-sentenced-to-6-years-after-pleading-guilty-to-drug-dealing-charge\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/24\/american-rapper-fetty-wap-sentenced-to-6-years-after-pleading-guilty-to-drug-dealing-charge\/","name":"American rapper Fetty Wap sentenced to 6 years after pleading guilty to drug dealing charge - Ghanamma.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/24\/american-rapper-fetty-wap-sentenced-to-6-years-after-pleading-guilty-to-drug-dealing-charge\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/24\/american-rapper-fetty-wap-sentenced-to-6-years-after-pleading-guilty-to-drug-dealing-charge\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Fetty-Wap.jpg","datePublished":"2023-05-24T20:45:29+00:00","dateModified":"2023-05-24T20:45:29+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/6f91dab2e50bbbfe895c93e7e84e7f74"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/24\/american-rapper-fetty-wap-sentenced-to-6-years-after-pleading-guilty-to-drug-dealing-charge\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/24\/american-rapper-fetty-wap-sentenced-to-6-years-after-pleading-guilty-to-drug-dealing-charge\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/24\/american-rapper-fetty-wap-sentenced-to-6-years-after-pleading-guilty-to-drug-dealing-charge\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Fetty-Wap.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Fetty-Wap.jpg","width":720,"height":480},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/24\/american-rapper-fetty-wap-sentenced-to-6-years-after-pleading-guilty-to-drug-dealing-charge\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"American rapper Fetty Wap sentenced to 6 years after pleading guilty to drug dealing charge"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/","name":"Ghanamma.com","description":"Ghana mma provides breaking news, top stories in Ghana, Africa, business, entertainment, politics and more.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/6f91dab2e50bbbfe895c93e7e84e7f74","name":"Ghana News","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Ghana News"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023"],"url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/author\/ghanamma\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"American](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-288.png\" "\\"American")
![\"Fetty](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/646d43852600003500099b94.jpeg\" "\\"American")