{"id":99104,"date":"2022-05-10T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/young-thug-arrested-on-gang-related-charges\/"},"modified":"2022-05-10T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T04:30:00","slug":"young-thug-arrested-on-gang-related-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/young-thug-arrested-on-gang-related-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Thug Arrested on Gang-Related Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p>Young Thug was arrested Monday afternoon in Georgia on gang-related charges, according to online jail records.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cGo Crazy\u201d rapper, legal name Jeffery Lamar Williams, is accused of conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act and participation in criminal street gang activity. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/crime\/breaking-young-thug-arrested-in-atlanta-charged-with-2-gang-counts\/BIYGW7E37NDABA5N74QYLF3BYA\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">According to the <em>Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/em><\/a>, the RICO act charge comes from an alleged offense committed in January 2013, while the gang activity charge is from an alleged May 2018 incident.<\/p>\n<p>Young Thug\u2019s arrest comes in the wake of a 56-count grand jury indictment filed in Georgia\u2019s Fulton County that names 28 members or associates of YSL \u2014 including fellow rapper Gunna, legal name Sergio Giavanni Kitchens, who is also charged with one count of conspiring to violate RICO. The indictment refers to YSL \u2014 which also shares the same initials as Young Thug\u2019s YSL Records imprint \u2014 as a \u201ccriminal street gang that started in late 2012\u201d that \u201cclaims affiliation with the national Bloods gang.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 88-page grand jury indictment reveals Young Thug is accused of renting 2014 Infiniti Q50 sedan from Hertz, which was later used in connection with the murder of rival gang member Donovan Thomas, Jr. on Jan. 10, 2015.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/atlanta\/rapper-young-thug-young-slime-life-syndicate-arrested-buckhead\/76BJUDSW2REPNNEUCBFJNGPNBI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Atlanta\u2019s WSB-TV reports<\/a> Young Thug\u2019s will make his first court appearance Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. Young Thug\u2019s attorney Brian Steel <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeidenWSBTV\/status\/1523863347711594500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">told the news network<\/a> that the rapper \u201ccommitted no crime whatsoever\u201d and that he would \u201cfight to my last drop of blood to clear him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for Young Thug and Gunna have not responded to requests for comment from <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a breaking news story and will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Thug was arrested Monday afternoon in Georgia on gang-related charges, according to online jail records. The \u201cGo Crazy\u201d rapper, legal name Jeffery Lamar Williams, is accused of conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act and participation in criminal street gang activity. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the RICO act charge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":99105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Young-Thug-Arrested-on-Gang-Related-Charges.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}