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(CNN)Rapper Fetty Wap was indicted on with 5 others connected a cause trafficking conspiracy complaint Friday.
Federal prosecutors accidental the men allegedly transported and distributed drugs, including heroin and fentanyl successful Long Island, according to an indictment obtained by CNN Friday.
The signaling artist, besides known arsenic Willie Junior Maxwell II, was arrested Thursday astatine CitiField successful New York City and is expected to beryllium arraigned Friday day astatine Brooklyn national court.
CNN has reached retired to an lawyer representing Maxwell.
The indictment, which was filed connected Sept. 29 and unsealed Friday, charges Maxwell with 1 number of conspiracy to administer and person controlled substances.
The 4 others were besides charged with an further number of usage of firearms successful transportation with a cause trafficking crime.
In a property release, authorities allege that a pipeline of drugs ran from the West Coast to the East Coast, "contributing to the addiction and overdose epidemic we person seen clip and clip again teardrop people's lives apart."
"As alleged, the defendants transported, distributed and sold much than 100 kilograms of deadly and addictive drugs, including heroin and fentanyl, connected Long Island, deliberately contributing to the opioid epidemic that has devastated our communities and taken excessively galore lives," stated United States Attorney Breon Peace. "We volition proceed to enactment nonstop with our instrumentality enforcement partners to support our neighborhoods harmless from the scourge of unsafe drugs and weapon violence."
In 2016, Maxwell was arrested by Cedar Grove, New Jersey constabulary aft a postulation halt and months later brought an estimated stack of $175,000 successful currency to tribunal to wage immoderate imaginable fines.
CNN's Melanie Schuman contributed to this report
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