Atlanta rapper Young Thug was booked into jail Monday in Georgia and accused of felony gang exercise.
Fulton County Jail data point out that the Grammy-winning rapper is being held on felony charges of violating Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations, or RICO, Act and collaborating in felony road gang exercise.
Additional particulars concerning the allegations had been unavailable Monday evening.
The RICO allegation is said to an offense in 2013, and the road gang rely stems from a May 12, 2018, incident, data confirmed.
Representatives for Young Thug didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark Monday evening.
Like the federal RICO statute, Georgia’s model of the legislation was designed to quell organized crime.
The authority behind the allegations wasn’t listed. Atlanta police, the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office and federal prosecutors in Atlanta didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Young Thug, 30, whose actual identify is Jeffery Lamar Williams, is a local of the town. Last 12 months his album “Punk” turned his third to debut at No. 1. He earned a songwriting Grammy for Childish Gambino’s “This Is America.”
He has appeared in two releases of the “Fast and Furious” film franchise.
Last month, LaKevia Jackson, 31, the mom of a kid she shared with Young Thug, was fatally shot in a dispute over a bowling ball, authorities mentioned.
Cristian Santana contributed.