Fetty Wap Arrested For Allegedly Threatening Person On FaceTime

Fetty Wap was arrested in New Jersey for bail violations after he reportedly flashed a gun and threatened to kill an unnamed caller on FaceTime. His attorney argued that the caller was entrapping the rapper, whose full name is Willie Junior Maxwell II, and manipulated him by posting a photo of his deceased daughter online.

He was indicted in the Eastern District of New York and is in particularly hot water because he is out on a $50,000 bond for drug trafficking charges from October 2021. Maxwell pled not guilty and was granted a pre-trial release in November on the condition he does not violate any laws or possess a firearm.

Court docs reportedly say that the state obtained footage of the video call, which took place on December 11, 2021. Fetty Wap allegedly said he would kill the caller, referred to as John Doe and flashed a gun on the screen. Since this was a violation of his bail conditions, he was arrested and his bond subsequently revoked by a New York judge.

The person Maxwell was threatening had recently posted a photo of his dead four-year old daughter and allegedly wrote in the caption “I’m happy she’s dead because her father was a rat,” according to the rapper’s attorney Elizabeth Macedonio.

Fetty Wap is best known for his hit 2015 single “Trap Queen” which became a massive success on SoundCloud and secured the rapper a record deal. His follow-up tracks “679” and “My Way” enjoyed their own success and the latter even got a Drake remix. Unfortunately, his latest album which dropped in October of 2021, The Butterfly Effect, has been overshadowed by the rapper’s mounting legal troubles and family tragedies.

He was accused along with five other men of transporting and redistributing drugs including heroin and fentanyl from the West Coast to Long Island. He was arrested by FBI agents in New York before his set at the Rolling Loud festival. One of the five other men arrested in this case, Robert Leonardi, accepted a guilty plea in June, and awaits sentencing this November.