NJ Rapper Fetty Wap Indicted For Cocaine, Heroin Conspiracy: Feds

CENTRAL ISLIP, NY — Fetty Wap's big break came from "Trap Queen," but it turns out, he may have really been the Trap King. The New Jersey native and rapper was indicted Friday in Long Island for his role in distributing more than 100 kilograms of drugs, along with a New Jersey corrections officer, authorities said.

Fetty Wap, whose real name is William Junior Maxwell II, was arrested Thursday and arraigned Friday before United States Magistrate Judge Steven J. Locke.

Six people have been indicted for the alleged conspiracy, including Anthony Cyntje, a corrections officer from Passaic. The six defendants were indicted for conspiring to distribute and possess controlled substances.

“These defendants ran a multimillion-dollar bicoastal drug distribution organization with Suffolk County as their home base,” said District Attorney Timothy D. Sini. “They were wholesale drug dealers who pumped massive quantities of narcotics into our communities."

The indictment alleges that the defendants distributed more than 100 kilograms of cocaine, heroin, fentanyl and crack cocaine across Long Island and New Jersey from June 2019 to through June 2020. Maxwell, of Paterson, was a kilogram-level redistributor for the trafficking organization, according to authorities.

In a statement to Patch, Maxwell's attorney, Navarro Gray, of Hackensack, said he is praying that the arrest is "all a big misunderstanding."

"He does see a judge today and we're hoping he gets released so we can clear things up expeditiously," he added.

Search warrants during the investigation yielded $1.5 million in cash, 16 kilograms of cocaine, 2 kilograms of heroin, numerous fentanyl pills, two 9mm handguns, a rifle, a .45 caliber pistol, a .40 caliber pistol and ammunition, authorities said.

Also indicted were New York residents Anthony Leonardi, Brian Sullivan and Kavaughn L. Wiggins and Pennsylvania resident Robert Leonardi.

With reporting from Peggy Spellman Hoey and Montana Samuels/Patch Staff

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