Young Thug

He was was one of 28 people indicted in Georgia. Also among them, rapper Gunna.

Charges include "Preserving, protecting and enhancing the reputation, power and territory of the enterprise through acts of racketeering activity including murder, assault and threats of violence." YSL is affiliated with the national Bloods gang, officials said. He was being held at the Fulton County Jail.

Grammy-award winning rap artist Young Thug was arrested Monday in Atlanta and indicted on conspiracy and gang charges.

Kitchens is also among the defendants to be named in the indictment filed Monday. Performing as Young Thug, Williams has been hailed as one of the most influential hop-hop artists to emerge in the past two decades. Williams pleaded not guilty, and the case is ongoing, according to court records.

Young Thug, real name Jeffery Lamar Williams, was booked on Monday in the Fulton County Jail in Georgia, records show.

Investigating officers determined that that incident "began with a dispute over a bowling ball which escalated to gunfire" as Jackson was leaving the bowling alley, per the statement. The "Go Crazy" rapper's arrest comes after a tragedy earlier this year, when LaKevia Jackson, the mother of one of his children, was shot and killed at an Atlanta bowling alley. Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free weekly newsletter to get the biggest news of the week delivered to your inbox every Friday.

The rapper is alleged to be one of three founding members of street gang Young Slime Life that is centre of criminal investigation.

He also earned a Grammy nomination for his rap hit "The London", in 2020. The rapper, who won a songwriting Grammy for Childish Gambino’s hit This Is America in 2019, is alleged to be one of three founding members of YSL, according to the indictment. The rapper is alleged to be one of three founding members of street gang Young Slime Life that is centre of criminal investigation

Rappers Young Thug and Gunna have been charged along with 26 other defendants in a 56-count indictment in Fulton County, Georgia.

LAPD booking documents showed the rapper was arrested just before midnight and held until the early hours of the morning with bail listed at $35,000. Young Thug is allegedly one of three founders of the Young Slime Life, “a criminal street gang that started in late 2012” in Atlanta. YSL is affiliated with the national Bloods gang, officials said. Young Thug's lawyer Brian Steel maintained his client's innocence telling USA TODAY in a statement, "Mr. Williams has committed no violation of law, whatsoever.

Born Jeffery Lamar Williams, the “Bad Bad Bad” performer was booked into jail and charged with conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt ...

He was release after six days in custody. Young Thug, 30, was arrested at his Buckhead home, a spokesman for Fulton Conty District Attorney Fani Willis confirmed. Mr. Williams will be cleared.”

He was indicted with about two dozen others, including some accused of murder and attempted armed robbery. The county's district attorney has vowed to crack ...

She has also raised the possibility that Mr. Trump and some of his allies may have violated state RICO law in their alleged efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 presidential election. The rapper, whose real name is Jeffery Williams, was charged in a sweeping grand jury indictment that identified him and 27 other people as members of the same criminal street gang and charged some of them with violent crimes including murder and attempted armed robbery. His arrest comes as District Attorney Fani Willis of Fulton County — a Democrat best known for investigating whether former President Donald J. Trump and his allies committed election fraud in Georgia — has vowed to crack down on street gangs in Atlanta, a city reeling from violent crime.

Rapper Young Thug was arrested in Atlanta on alleged gang-related charges after being named among 28 people, including rapper Gunna, in a 56-count grand ...

It is unclear if he has been arrested. Record label Young Stoner Life was announced in 2016 by Young Thug and is an imprint of 300 Entertainment. More than a dozen artists are signed to the Young Stoner Life label, including Gunna. ABC News has reached out to representatives of the music label but a request for comment was not immediately returned. Atlanta-based rapper Gunna, whose real name is Sergio Giavanni Kitchens, was also named in the indictment on one count of conspiring to violate the RICO Act. ABC News has reached out to representatives for Gunna but a request for comment was not immediately returned. “Mr. Williams has committed no violation of law, whatsoever. Steel said that Young Thug is currently in custody and the court will set a hearing in the near future to consider bond. The rapper was among 28 people allegedly associated with the Atlanta-based Young Slime Life (YSL) gang, which authorities say he founded in 2012, who were charged with conspiring to violate the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) act, according to charging documents obtained by ABC News. YSL is also the name of his record imprint, Young Stoner Life, and a number of those charged are associated with the label.

On Monday, police arrested 28 people on gang-related charges, and Atlanta rapper Young Thug was one of them. Currently, hes booked and being held at Fulton ...

Currently, Young Thug is charged with only two counts: being involved in criminal activity and violating the RICO act. Currently, Young Thug is charged with only two counts: being involved in criminal activity and violating the RICO act. The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). ET does not guarantee, vouch for or endorse any of its contents nor is responsible for them in any manner whatsoever. Fulton County Jail records state that the state police booked Thug on Monday, but there’s no mention of any release date. Fulton County Jail records state that the state police booked Thug on Monday, but there’s no mention of any release date. On Monday the Georgia state police booked rapperYoung Thugon charges of criminal activity.

Grammy-winning rapper Young Thug has been named in a sweeping 56-count gang indictment, according to court documents obtained by CNN.

Other alleged members of the YSL enterprise are accused of violent offenses in the indictment, including murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and armed robbery. As of Tuesday morning, Kitchens was not in police custody, police said. Jeffery Lamar Williams, who performs as Young Thug, was arrested at his home in Atlanta on Monday, according to police.

Young Thug, birth name Jeffery Lamar Williams, was arrested in Atlanta on May 9.

The indictment claims Williams is one of the three founding members of YSL or “Young Slime Life,” a rap collective that the court alleges operates as a guise for a Bloods-affiliated gang. “Mr. Williams has committed no violation of law, whatsoever. The “Pushin P” rapper has not been booked yet.

ATLANTA (AP) — Rapper Young Thug co-founded a violent street gang and promoted it in his songs and on social media, prosecutors allege in a sprawling ...

In April 2021, Young Thug and Gunna posted bail for 30 low-level inmates who were unable to afford the costs themselves. He wore a dress on the cover of his 2016 mixtape “Jeffery” and said there’s no such thing as gender as part of a Calvin Klein campaign. Gunna, who is signed to Thug’s Young Stoner Life record label, scored his second No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart with “DS4Ever” this year. Fulton County prosecutors say that in late 2012, he and two others founded Young Slime Life, a violent criminal street gang that's commonly known as YSL and is affiliated with the national Bloods gang. For at least some of them, that could mean life in prison. The indictment also accuses members of the gang of trying to kill rapper YFN Lucci, whose given name is Rayshawn Bennett, by "stabbing and stabbing at" him with a shank in the Fulton County Jail. YFN Lucci was among a dozen people charged in another gang-related RICO indictment in Fulton County a year ago.

Atlanta rapper Young Thug co-founded a violent street gang that committed multiple murders, shootings and crimes over a decade, prosecutors allege.

In April 2021, Young Thug and Gunna posted bail for 30 low-level inmates who were unable to afford the costs themselves. He wore a dress on the cover of his 2016 mixtape “Jeffery” and said there’s no such thing as gender as part of a Calvin Klein campaign. Gunna, who is signed to Thug’s Young Stoner Life record label, scored his second No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart with “DS4Ever” this year. Fulton County prosecutors say that in late 2012, he and two others founded Young Slime Life, a violent criminal street gang that’s commonly known as YSL and is affiliated with the national Bloods gang. For at least some of them, that could mean life in prison. The indictment also accuses members of the gang of trying to kill rapper YFN Lucci, whose given name is Rayshawn Bennett, by “stabbing and stabbing at” him with a shank in the Fulton County Jail. YFN Lucci was among a dozen people charged in another gang-related RICO indictment in Fulton County a year ago.

Over the last decade, the Atlanta rapper Young Thug has dropped a steady barrage of tracks about pistols and snipers, mob life and gangsters.

A Black Democrat who was elected in 2020 and swiftly found herself in the center of the firestorm over whether former President Trump and his associates committed election fraud in Georgia, Willis has consistently said her number one focus is targeting gangs. “However, the 1st Amendment does not protect people from prosecutors using it as evidence if it is such,” she said. “These artists often express dramatizations of stories and events that persist in their communities,” he said. After spending two years in jail, Drakeo was acquitted of the murder charge and later released on a plea deal. The indictment charges Williams with renting a silver Infiniti Q50 sedan that was used in the commission of Donovan’s murder. Then they have to demonstrate that those crimes were carried out by two or more people as part of a broader enterprise of racketeering activity that the defendant controlled or was employed by. “The indictment is frivolous,” he said. Under RICO, a complicated statute closely modeled on the 1970 federal law that was used to convict top mobsters and gangsters who engaged in organized crime, a defendant need not have committed a crime to be found guilty. Mr. Williams will be cleared of any wrongdoing.” “It does not matter what your notoriety is, what your fame is,” she said. They also shot at the tour bus of Dwayne Carter, Jr., the New Orleans hip-hop star also known as Lil Wayne. On Monday, Georgia prosecutors arrested Young Thug, whose real name is Jeffery Lamar Williams, on felony charges of participating in gang activity and violating Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute.

The rapper Young Thug is in jail after being accused of co-founding a criminal street gang in Atlanta that prosecutors say committed multiple murders and ...

The hip hop artist, whose real name is Jeffery Lamar Williams, was also charged under Georgia state's "Conspiracy To Violate The Racketeer Influenced And ...

He also earned a Grammy nomination for his rap hit "The London", in 2020. Some were charged with violent crimes including murder and attempted armed robbery. Williams is best known for his albums including "So Much Fun" and the 2021 hit "Punk", both of which topped the Billboard 200 charts.

According to court documents, the rapper was arrested in Georgia on Monday and is being charged with participation in criminal street gang activity.

The rapper's lawyer, Brian Steel, responded to the charges, saying, "Mr Williams has committed no violation of law whatsoever. - His first appearance hearing was scheduled to take place on Tuesday. - The rapper is one of 28 people named in a 56-count indictment pertaining to a street gang formed in Atlanta in 2012.

Young Thug, Gunna, and other artists on YSL Records have been charged in a RICO indictment. Based on the 88-page indictment & other reports, here's what we ...

In “Part 2” of the RICO charge, the enterprise is broken down in great detail. In January 2015, 26-year-old Donovan “Big Nut” Thomas Jr., a YFN affiliate who YFN Lucci named his 2017 Long Live Nut project after, was shot and killed outside of a barbershop in Atlanta. Young Thug is accused of renting the car that was used in the murder. “These are serious times, they are serious allegations, and it is my opinion that violence in our community deserves maximum penalties.” During a press conference on May 10, Fulton County DA Fani Willis stated that the people indicted in this case could be facing life imprisonment. The RICO act has been around since 1970, it’s been used to combat organized crime in the United States. Essentially, it’s a way for law enforcement to bring charges against gangs and other criminal organizations. Young Thug is facing two charges: conspiracy to violate the RICO act and participation in criminal street gang activity. On May 10, a press conference was held in Fulton County, in which members of the District Attorney’s office and Fulton County sheriff’s department listed the charges against Young Thug, Gunna, and associates. “It is our allegation that they operated as a criminal street gang and commits to do havoc in our community,” DA Willis said during a press conference. He was named in connection to several criminal acts throughout the 56-count indictment. Young Thug is among the individuals listed in a 56-count indictment that was filed on May 9. The 56 total charges include conspiracy to violate RICO, murder, armed robbery, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, possession of a firearm, theft, violation of the Georgia Controlled Substances Act, and participation in street gang activity. There is a one-minute video circulating social media that shows the scene of Thug’s home raid, where he’s seen walking with his hands behind his back.

Indictment quotes multiple music videos as evidence and accuses alleged gang members of targeting other high-profile rap artists.

YFN Lucci was among a dozen people charged in another gang-related Rico indictment in Fulton county a year ago. For at least some of them, that could mean life in prison. Fulton county prosecutors say that in late 2012, he and two others founded Young Slime Life, a violent criminal street gang that’s commonly known as YSL and is affiliated with the national Bloods gang.

An indictment filed Monday in Georgia quotes lyrics from multiple music videos as evidence and accuses alleged gang members of violent crimes.

In April 2021, Young Thug and Gunna posted bail for 30 low-level inmates who were unable to afford the costs themselves. He wore a dress on the cover of his 2016 mixtape “Jeffery” and said there’s no such thing as gender as part of a Calvin Klein campaign. Gunna, who is signed to Thug’s Young Stoner Life record label, scored his second No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart with “DS4Ever” this year. Fulton County prosecutors say that in late 2012, he and two others founded Young Slime Life, a violent criminal street gang that's commonly known as YSL and is affiliated with the national Bloods gang. For at least some of them, that could mean life in prison. With his squeaky high-pitched rap vocals, Young Thug became best known for his hits including “Stoner” and “Best Friend.” In a hypermasculine hip-hop scene, Thug refused to play by traditional gender rules.

Young Thug was arrested Monday at his home in Buckhead, an upscale neighborhood north of downtown Atlanta. He was being held at the Fulton County Jail on ...

He wore a dress on the cover of his 2016 mixtape “Jeffery” and said there’s no such thing as gender as part of a Calvin Klein campaign. YSL is mainly active in southeast Atlanta and the Cleveland Avenue area but is expanding its activity into the surrounding metro area, prosecutors say. In addition to specific charges, the indictment includes a wide-ranging list of 181 acts that prosecutors say were committed as part of a conspiracy to further the gang’s interests. Fulton County prosecutors say that in late 2012, he and two others founded Young Slime Life, a violent criminal street gang that’s commonly known as YSL and is affiliated with the national Bloods gang. In April 2021, Young Thug and Gunna posted bail for 30 low-level inmates who were unable to afford the costs themselves. Gunna, who is signed to Thug’s Young Stoner Life record label, scored his second No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart with “DS4Ever” this year.

Young Thug has been charged – alongside fellow rapper Gunna and 26 others – with numerous counts of racketeering. Prosecutors in Georgia allege that the ...

Real name Jeffery Lamar Williams, he is accused of drugs and weapons-related crimes, and renting a vehicle which was used in a drive-by shooting. “It does not matter what your notoriety is, what your fame is”, said Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis at a press conference yesterday. Young Thug has been charged – alongside fellow rapper Gunna and 26 others – with numerous counts of racketeering.

ATLANTA — Popular rapper Young Thug faces a slew of accusations from Fulton County's district attorney, including that he was allegedly a founder and active ...

Young Thug made his first court appearance as part of his RICO indictment on Tuesday (May 10), while Gunna was taken into police custody on Wednesday (May ...

His next court appearance has yet to be scheduled. “And we will fight to my last drop of blood to clear him.” In RICO cases, individuals can be punished for crimes carried out by the larger criminal organization. While Young Thug (Jeffery Williams) is in the Fulton County Jail, his attorney has now filed a motion for him to receive a bond. WSB-TV‘s Michael Seiden posted a photo of Gunna’s mugshot on Twitter on Wednesday. The 28-year-old faces one count of conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. The 30-year-old rapper appeared via video in front of Judge Rashida Oliver and was formally read his charges, which include conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act and participation in criminal street gang activity.

RAPPER Gunna has been arrested as part of an investigation into a violent street gang that has seen 28 alleged members charged. The artist, real.

Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TheSunUS and follow us from our main Twitter account at @TheSunUS Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TheSunUS and follow us from our main Twitter account at @TheUSSun. In the indictment, Williams is accused of theft by receiving a stolen handgun in 2013 and threatening to kill a mall employee after being barred from the premises in 2015. YSL is an Atlanta criminal street gang that formed in 2012 and is linked to the Bloods, prosecutors allege. Brian Steel, Young Thug's lawyer, said the rapper is innocent and vowed to vigorously defend him until it is proven. Gunna, who is signed to Young Thug's YSL Records, was booked into Fulton County Jail and is set to appear in court on Wednesday.