According to jail records, Atlanta rapper Young Thug was one of 28 people indicted Monday in Georgia on counts of street gang membership and conspiracy to violate the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) act.
Why was Young Thug arrested? Gang-related charges explained
RICO is an act that “provides for criminal prosecution of racketeering actions as part of an ongoing criminal organization,” according to the US Sentencing Commission.
Jeffrey Lamar Williams, the rapper’s real name, was apprehended at his house in Buckhead, an Atlanta neighborhood just north of downtown. The Fulton County Jail is where he is being kept.
According to the jail record, the conspiracy charge was filed in 2013 and the gang charge was filed in 2018.
According to WSB-TV reporter Michael Seiden, Young Thug is charged in a 56-count indictment.
According to the indictment, Young Thug is one of three founders of the Young Slime Life, a “criminal street gang that began in late 2012” in Atlanta.
