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 to home confinement after serving just over half of his six-year federal prison sentence for involvement in a drug trafficking scheme.
- He was transferred from Federal Correctional Institution Sandstone in Minnesota to community confinement managed by a bureau office in Philadelphia, with no explanation provided for the early release.
- Fetty Wap was arrested in October 2021, pleaded guilty in August 2022 to conspiracy to distribute heroin, fentanyl, and crack cocaine, and was sentenced in May 2023; he had his bail revoked in August 2022 due to threatening behavior.
- The drug operation involved trafficking over 100 kilograms of narcotics from the West Coast to Long Island, using
