Fetty Wap went to federal prison for his role in a large-scale drug trafficking conspiracy involving heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, and crack cocaine distributed in parts of New York and New Jersey.

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Fetty Wap (real name Willie Junior Maxwell II) was arrested in October 2021 on federal drug charges linked to a bi-coastal trafficking ring that moved drugs from the West Coast to Long Island, New York. Prosecutors said he was a kilogram-level redistributor in a conspiracy that handled more than 100 kilograms of heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, and crack between 2019 and 2020.

In August 2022, he pleaded guilty to a federal charge of conspiracy to distribute and possess controlled substances, which carried a mandatory minimum of five years in prison. In May 2023, a federal judge sentenced him to six years in prison plus supervised release for that conspiracy. He later had his bail revoked in 2022 after allegedly making a death threat, which violated his pretrial release conditions and kept him in custody until sentencing.

As of early January 2026, he has been released from federal prison to home confinement, where he will serve the remainder of his sentence under community supervision.

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