28 after an indictment alleged that the New Jersey-born artist was part of a nationwide drug trafficking ring.

Maxwell II was arrested at Citi Field on Oct. The latest incident comes after the rapper's run-in with the law back in October, when he was arrested on federal drug charges in New York City. Attorney Andrew Wenzel said.Rapper Fetty Wap Arrested in NYC on Federal Drug Charges “This defendant is part of an organization that systematically distributed 100 kilograms of fentanyl and heroin across Long Island,” Assistant U.S. Maxwell's lawyer entered a not guilty plea on his behalf during an arraignment at the Central Islip federal court.įederal prosecutors asked that he be detained pretrial, which the defense did not contest. “The fact that we arrested a chart-topping rap artist and a corrections officer as part of the conspiracy illustrates just how vile the drug trade has become,” the FBI’s Michael Driscoll said.

Maxwell was a kilogram-level redistributor for the trafficking organization, prosecutors said. “As alleged, the defendants transported, distributed and sold more than 100 kilograms of deadly and addictive drugs, including heroin and fentanyl, on Long Island, deliberately contributing to the opioid epidemic that has devastated our communities and taken too many lives,” U.S. The defendants obtained the drugs on the West Coast and used the United States Postal Service and drivers with hidden vehicle compartments to transport the controlled substances across the country to Suffolk County, where they were stored, according to the indictment. He was charged with five others, including a New Jersey corrections officer, with conspiring to distribute and possess controlled substances across Long Island and New Jersey.

Maxwell, 30, of Paterson, New Jersey, was arrested Thursday during the Rolling Loud Music Festival in Queens, New York, on charges stemming from a drug-related conspiracy involving heroin and fentanyl, a law enforcement official told ABC News. William Junior Maxwell II, better known as the rapper Fetty Wap, pleaded not guilty to federal drug charges in a New York court Friday.

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