ATLANTA (WSB-TV) — The Fulton County District Attorney’s Office says a new indictment brings new charges against famous hip-hop artist Jeffery Williams, who performs as Young Thug.
The district attorney’s office believes these charges add to the prosecution’s claim that Williams performed for years as a leader of a criminal street gang.
Channel 2′s Investigative Reporter Mark Winne got the new indictment & learned one of the charges involves a machine gun.
An earlier indictment in May charged Williams & more than 2 dozen others with conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) act.
Williams was also charged with participation in criminal street gang activity.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ office said the new indictment includes all 28 defendants from the May indictment & still focuses on YSL, an organization allegedly founded by Williams & 2 others.
“YSL is an acronym for ‘Young Slime Life,’” Willis said. “It is a hybrid gang that operates here in Atlanta & it’s an affiliate of the Bloods gang.”
The district attorney’s office said the new charges are against Williams & 4 other defendants & arose from arrests on March 17 & May 9.
Many of those new charges against Williams & 2 of the other defendants stem from what the DA’s office & Atlanta police found in Williams’ home in Buckhead the night of his arrest in May.
Williams now faces a new gang charge, new drug charges, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony & possession of a machine gun.
Prosecutor Don Geary said the other 2 defendants in the machine gun count, Martinez Arnold & Deamonte Kendrick, who performs under the name Yak Gotti, have both pleaded not guilty to the May indictment, as has Williams.
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