Rapper Fetty Wap was jailed on Monday after being arrested in New Jersey for allegedly threatening to kill someone and flashing a gun on a FaceTime call, federal authorities said.
The hip-hop star, real name William Maxwell, had been out on a $500,000 personal recognizance bond on charges he allegedly worked with a crew of five other people to traffic more than 100 kilograms of drugs on Long Island.
He pleaded not guilty after his October 2021 bust in the sprawling drug-trafficking case.
During a FaceTime call, Fetty Wap allegedly called an unidentified man a “rat” and threatened to kill him. USDC Eastern DistrictProsecutors from the Eastern District of New York said the rapper violated the conditions of his release with the threatening video call on Dec. 11, 2021, leading to his arrest on Monday.
The “Trap Queen” rapper rang up a man identified only as John Doe, called him a “rat” and repeatedly threatened his life, according to an affidavit filed in his case Monday.
“Imma kill you and everybody you with,” the Paterson, NJ, native said, according to the court documents. He then repeated: “I’m gonna kill you.”
Fetty Wap is out on bond on charges he allegedly worked with a crew of five other people to traffic more than 100 kilograms of drugs on Long Island. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department via Getty Images“This was a direct violation of both state law and the condition of his release,” an FBI agent wrote in the affidavit.
At a bail revocation hearing in Central Islip federal court, Magistrate Judge Steven Locke revoked the rapper’s bond pending trial in the drug trafficking case.
Fetty Wap’s attorney, Elizabeth Macedonio, said her client was entrapped on the phone call by someone who had, days earlier, posted a photo of his dead 4-year-old daughter.
“I”m happy she’s dead because her father is a rat,” the person who the rapper allegedly threatened had written in the caption.
“He was very manipulative in trying to get a rise out of Mr. Maxwell, to agitate him in a way no parent would have to face…the death of one’s 4-year-old daughter is something no one should use as a ploy,” Macedonio told Judge Locke.
The judge said he was sympathetic to anyone who lost a child, but ordered the rapper detained because he was “clearly deploying a gun to threaten to kill someone.”
Fetty Wap’s daughter with singer Turquoise Miami, Lauren, died in July 2021 of complications caused by congenital heart arrhythmia, TMZ reported at the time.
