American rapper Fetty Wap, arrested and prosecuted since the end of October in New York for drug trafficking, was released on bail and placed under judicial supervision, the American justice announced on Friday.
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The 30-year-old artist, real name William Junior Maxwell II, must pay $ 500,000 bond, will be subject to GPS surveillance, unannounced drug checks and his passport deprived Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Joanna Seybert said in a brief statement.
The rapper has been implicated since October 29 alongside five individuals in a New York court.
They are accused of transporting, distributing and selling more than 100 kg of drugs, including heroin and fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opiate, in Long Island, near New York, and in New Jersey in June 2019 to June 2020, according to the Department of Justice.
During the searches, the police seized nearly $ 1.5 million in cash, 16 kg of cocaine, two kg of heroin, many fentanyl pills and several weapons.
Arrested by the FBI on October 28 on Long Island in the area of a festival where it was to occur, Fetty Wap is accused of having served as a “distributor” within this drug trafficking.
Fetty Wap, who made a name for himself in 2015 with his hit “Trap Queen”, is not at his first run-in with the law. Accused of assaulting three hotel employees, he was arrested by police in 2019. He was also charged with drunk driving in 2017.