ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia officers have arrested an 18-year-old who they are saying threatened on-line to kill a sheriff and his spouse over the arrest of rappers Younger Thug and Gunna and others.
Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat, alleged to be the goal of the threats, introduced the arrest Friday. Quartavius Mender was booked into the Fulton County jail final week on 23 counts of creating terroristic threats, data present. He’s being held with out bail. It’s unclear if Mender has a lawyer to talk for him.
Native information retailers report Mender threatened to kill Labat, his spouse Jacki and the Atlanta faculty district’s police chief on varied social media pages if they didn’t launch Younger Thug, whose authorized identify is Jeffery Williams.
“#freethug or Imma sh00t u and your spouse,” Mender wrote, based on arrest warrants reviewed by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He allegedly wrote on the sheriff’s Instagram web page a second time hours later, saying, “Imma assassinate you.”
Among the many 28 individuals charged within the racketeering indictment is Tenquarius Mender. It was not instantly clear Friday if he and Quartavius Mender are associated.
“We take these sorts of brazen threats severely,” Labat mentioned in a press release. “Social media cyberbullying, and hiding behind a keyboard, is not going to defend somebody from legal prosecution.”
Officers allege Younger Thug leads the Younger Slime Life gang, arresting him and 27 others in a sprawling indictment introduced beneath Georgia’s state racketeering legislation. It fees the gang members engaged in murders, shootings, carjackings and different crimes.
Younger Thug was denied bond Thursday after a Fulton County choose expressed “important issues” about letting him go residence on home arrest.
Prosecutors mentioned they plan to supply plea offers to among the defendants in trade for testimony, however mentioned some witnesses are already being threatened.
“Our witnesses on this case are being threatened with violence, critical violence and demise,” Fulton County prosecutor Don Geary mentioned.
Younger Thug’s legal professionals strongly deny that he participated in any crimes.
