FILE – Fetty Wap arrives at the MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Center on August 26, 2019 in Newark, NJ Rapper Fetty Wap was sentenced to six years in federal prison on Wednesday, May 24, 2023 for his role in a drug trafficking program based At New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
Rapper Fetty Wap (legal name Willie Junior Maxwell II) was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison and five years of post-release supervision for conspiracy to distribute cocaine. He is the second of six defendants to be convicted in this case.
“On March 7, 2023, Judge Seybert sentenced Maxwell’s co-defendant, Anthony Cyntje, a New Jersey corrections officer, to 72 months in prison for his role in the drug trafficking conspiracy,” district attorneys wrote. east of New York. “Maxwell’s four other co-defendants have pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing.”
The other four are Anthony Leonardi, 49, Robert Leonardi, 28, Brian Sullivan, 27, and Kavaughn L. Wiggins, 28.
Defendants distributed more than 100 kilograms of drugs — cocaine, heroin, fentanyl and crack cocaine — across Long Island and New Jersey from June 2019 to June 2020, prosecutors say. Obtaining the substances on the West Coast, they had the drugs shipped or driven and then stored in Suffolk County, New York, authorities said.
“The drugs were then distributed to dealers, who sold them on Long Island and New Jersey,” prosecutors wrote. “Five of the defendants also used firearms to protect their drug organization and distribution chain. Defendants Anthony Leonardi, Robert Leonardi, Brian Sullivan and Kavaughn Wiggins participated in the purchase and transportation of the narcotics from the West Coast to the East Coast where they were processed, stored and eventually resold. Maxwell was a kilogram-level redistributor for the trafficking organization, and Cyntje transported kilograms of cocaine from Long Island to New Jersey.
In search warrants, authorities discovered approximately $1.5 million in cash, 16 kilograms of cocaine, two kilograms of heroin, “numerous fentanyl pills”, two 9mm handguns, a rifle, a .45 caliber pistol, a .40 caliber pistol and ammunition.
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