The performer also known as Jeffery Lamar Williams, 30, faces a charge of violating Georgia's RICO statute designed to quell organized crimeRappers Young Thug was one of 28 people indicted Monday in Georgia on conspiracy to violate the state's RICO act and street gang charges, according to jail records.
The Atlanta rapper, whose name is Jeffrey Lamar Williams, was arrested at his home in Buckhead, an Atlanta neighborhood just north of downtown. He is being held at the Fulton County Jail.Young Thug is allegedly one of three founders of the Young Slime Life, “a criminal street gang that started in late 2012” in Atlanta, the indictment says. YSL is affiliated with the national Bloods gang, officials said.
The guy on the left... it's Dan Ackroyd before SNL, Coneheads! Thug arrested on gang related charges...oxymoron? 🧐
He's innocent
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