The lawyer for a 460-pound gangbanger awaiting sentencing is asking for his client to be moved from federal lock-up to home confinement, arguing that his weight and high blood pressure put him at high risk for catching coronavirus.

Terrill Latney, 40, who goes by name “Motis,” is locked up in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center and could face a maximum sentence of life in prison, after copping to racketeering and cocaine distribution charges.

Latney’s attorney is asking for his client to be able to wait for his sentencing at his mother’s house in Riverhead while COVID-19 spreads through New York City jails — and assured Central Islip federal Judge Joanna Seybert in court papers that his hefty defendant is not a flight risk.

“It is not a matter of whether the COVID-19 virus will be transmitted to inmates in his unit, but when,” attorney Neil Checkman wrote.

According to the BOP’s latest numbers posted on its website, one inmate at MDC and three at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center have tested positive for coronavirus.

Checkman said in the filing that Latney and another inmate say that 10 prisoners and eight staff at MDC either have COVID-19 or are showing symptoms of having the deadly bug.

Latney was charged alongside nine fellow purported members of the Suffolk County-based Red Stone Gorilla set of the Bloods gang.

On Nov. 17, 2015, Latney drove three members of the gang on a search to find a rival gang member.

The group pulled alongside a 2005 Mercedes and fired 39 shots into the vehicle, erroneously thinking the rival was inside. Instead they killed 27-year-old Thomas Lacolla, a friend of their target.

Prosecutors oppose Latney’s release from MDC, citing a lengthy rap sheet of drug convictions going back 20 years.

“Latney has made a career of selling poison on the streets of Suffolk County,” prosecutors argue.

Seybert is holding a hearing on Thursday on Latney’s request.