Atlanta rapper Young Thug was arrested Monday as a part of a sweeping grand jury indictment, one in every of 28 individuals charged with gang-related crimes and violations of Georgia’s legal racketeering regulation.
The indictment alleges Younger Thug, whose actual identify is Jeffery Williams, is a founding father of the Younger Slime Life avenue gang. Williams, 30, is charged with conspiracy to violate Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations, or RICO Act, and participation in gang exercise. 27 others had been charged within the 56-count indictment, which additionally contains prices of homicide and tried armed theft.
Williams was arrested Monday in Atlanta’s upscale Buckhead neighborhood and booked into the Fulton County Jail. His prices hyperlink to allegations in 2013 and 2018, in accordance with data obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Structure.
The rapper’s first court docket look is scheduled for Tuesday.
The New York Occasions notes Williams’ report label has been known as a number of names, together with YSL Data and Younger Stoner Life Data. The label calls its artists the “Slime Household.”
Working as Younger Thug, Williams has shot to stardom lately and gained his first Grammy in 2019 for his work on Infantile Gambino’s “That is America.” He launched his newest album, “Punk,” in October, performing on “Saturday Evening Dwell” later that month.
Williams was arrested on drug prices in 2017.
