Rapper Fetty Wap has requested that the judge merely impose the mandatory minimum sentence on him in his federal narcotics trafficking case.
After pleading guilty to a conspiracy to distribute at least 500 grams of cocaine originating from his arrest in October 2021, Fetty is asking for a 5-year sentence.
He “accepts full responsibility for his crimes,” his attorneys told the judge, “but his conduct here does not and should not define him.” They included a number of supportive letters from relatives and friends who claimed that Fetty was merely attempting to support them financially by dealing drugs.
Despite the rapper’s plea, the prosecution wants Fetty to serve 87 to 108 months in prison. They asserted that he was a part of a big cocaine-supply network that operated on Long Island.
Leniency isn’t really called for in this case, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York, Breon Peace, who also claims that the rapper “has used, and continues to use, his fame, sizeable platform, and influence to glamorize the drug trade.”
When the feds apprehended Fetty Wap and a number of other people in 2021, they were allegedly using USPS trucks to carry cocaine. They were on their way to Rolling Loud New York at the time. In their probe, the feds claim to have found 16 kilograms of cocaine.
