NJ Corrections Officer Sentenced In Connection To Fetty Wap Drug Ring

PASSAIC COUNTY, NJ—A former New Jersey corrections officer has been sentenced to federal prison for transporting $200,000 worth of cocaine in the same drug ring that rapper Fetty Wap is accused of assisting.

Court records show Anthony Cyntje, 25, of Passaic, was sentenced in New York federal court to six years in prison on March 8.

Cyntje pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute heroin, fentanyl, cocaine base, and cocaine, as well two counts of possession of a firearm in connection with a drug trafficking crime, according to Eastern District of New York court documents filed with the Long Island office.

Cyntje brought kilos of cocaine from Long Island to New Jersey, indictment documents said. He was a state corrections officer at the time of his arrest, federal officials said, and worked at NJ State Prison according to state records.

Officials arrested and charged Cyntje in Oct. 2021. He was charged along with five other men and William Junior Maxwell II, whose stage name is “Fetty Wap.”

Officials say that for about a year beginning in June 2019, the men doled out over 100 kilograms of cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, and crack cocaine across Long Island and New Jersey. The drugs came from the West Coast and the group used the U.S. Postal Service, a well as drivers with hidden vehicle compartments to move them across the country to Suffolk County, N.Y., where they were stored, prosecutors said.

In August 2022, Maxwell pleaded guilty in federal court in Central Islip to intentionally conspiring to distribute and possess controlled substances, but pleaded not guilty to the firearms charges. Shortly before his plea, the rapper had his bond revoked after he was arrested for threatening to kill a man over FaceTime, violating the conditions of his pre-trial release.

Maxwell currently faces a five-year mandatory minimum sentence.

The court recommended Cyntje be housed at FCI Fort Dix, and he will have a three-year term of supervised release. Cyntje must also pay a $1,500 fine and $200 assessment, court records show.

This story contains reporting from Patch's Maureen Mullarkey in Long Island.