ATLANTA —
The Atlanta hip-hop artist Young Thug was arrested Monday on felony charges of participating in gang activity and violating Georgia’s criminal racketeering law.
The 30-year-old rapper, whose real name is Jeffery Lamar Williams, was charged in a sweeping 56-count grand jury indictment that identified him and 27 other people as members of the criminal street gang Young Slime Life, or YSL, according to Atlanta news outlet WSB TV Channel 2. Some defendants were charged with violent crimes such as murder and attempted armed robbery, as well as participation in criminal street gang activity.
Fulton County jail records show Williams was booked on charges of conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act for an offense dating January 2013. In addition, he is charged with participating in criminal street gang activity for an offense dating May 2018.
The 88-page indictment alleges that Williams is a founder of Young Slime Life, which claims affiliation with the national Bloods gang. According to WSB TV, it charges Williams with renting a 2014 Infiniti Q50 sedan that was used in the commission of the 2015 murder of Donovan Thomas Jr., a rival gang member.
The indictment also brings charges against Sergio Giavanni Kitchens, 28, a chart-topping Atlanta rapper who goes by Gunna.
Williams, Kitchens and more than two dozen others listed in the indictment are charged with conspiring to violate Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statute, closely modeled on the 1970 federal law that was used to convict top mobsters and gangsters who engaged in organized crime and frequently evaded conviction.
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