Rapper Fetty Wap released from prison early in drug trafficking case
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Key Points:
- Rapper Fetty Wap, born Willie Maxwell, has been released from federal prison to home confinement after serving just over half of a six-year sentence for his involvement in a New York-based drug trafficking scheme.
- He was transferred from Federal Correctional Institution Sandstone in Minnesota to community confinement overseen in Philadelphia, though the Bureau of Prisons did not specify the reason for his early release.
- Fetty Wap was arrested in October 2021, pleaded guilty to conspiracy drug charges in August 2022, and was sentenced in May 2023 for conspiring to distribute over 100 kilograms of heroin, fentanyl, and crack cocaine.
- The drug operation involved using the U.S. Postal Service and vehicles with
