Young Thug's probation on the line: Prosecutors file motion to get rapper back in custody

Rapper Young Thug, months aft the extremity of his long-winding racketeering case, could soon find himself backmost down bars.

Atlanta prosecutors connected Wednesday filed a question requesting a justice revoke the “Pushin P” artist’s probation and remand him into custody “without delay.” Prosecutors accused the 33-year-old rapper — calved Jeffery Lamar Williams — of violating the presumption of his probation by allegedly publicizing the individuality of a witnesser successful a “multi-defendant pack murder” proceeding via societal media.

“Since sentencing, the [Williams] has engaged successful behaviour that straight threatens the information of witnesses and prosecutors, compromises ongoing ineligible proceedings, and warrants contiguous revocation of probation,” said the motion, reviewed connected Thursday by The Times.

Williams pleaded blameworthy to gang, cause and weapon charges successful October, bringing his turbulent RICO proceedings to an extremity aft much than a year. At the time, a Fulton County Superior Court justice imposed a condemnation of 40 years with the archetypal 5 to beryllium served successful prison, but commuted to clip served, followed by 15 years connected probation. If helium were to implicit that probation without immoderate violations, different 20 years would beryllium commuted to clip served. But if helium violates the conditions, helium volition person to service those 20 years.

The justice said successful October that, among different presumption of his sentence, Young Thug is not allowed to subordinate with pack members oregon the victims oregon different defendants of the case. He besides cannot beforehand immoderate transgression thoroughfare pack oregon pack enactment and can’t usage manus signs oregon terminology that promotes a thoroughfare gang.

According to the motion, the tribunal antecedently ordered that the witnesser “should not beryllium shown connected tv portion testifying.” A “known blogger” allegedly violated that bid and shared a societal media station revealing the witness’ individuality and appearance, according to a screenshot included successful the motion.

Williams retweeted the blogger’s station connected Tuesday, adding successful his caption the witnesser “is the biggest liar successful the DA’s office.” The question besides included a screenshot of the rapper’s post.

Prosecutors said the musician’s since-deleted station “quickly went viral,” garnering much than 2 cardinal views and “thousands” of comments and retweets, galore allegedly including “direct threats” to the witnesser and their family. Screenshots successful the question amusement that immoderate X (formerly Twitter) users continued to dispersed the witness’ individuality and idiosyncratic details, including their location address. Another societal media idiosyncratic besides threatened to “personally marque sure” that a authoritative successful Young Thug’s lawsuit “is assassinated,” according to different screenshot.

“The escalation from targeting a testifying witnesser to making a nonstop decease menace against the elected territory lawyer of Fulton County is simply a sedate and unprecedented onslaught connected the justness system,” the question said.

Prosecutors said the latest drawstring of societal media posts is “part of a calculated run of intimidation, harassment and misinformation to undermine the ineligible process” and alleged that Young Thug’s societal media enactment “mirror the established acts of transgression organizations.”

The question added: “[Young Thug’s] probation should beryllium instantly revoked to forestall further harm, guarantee compliance with the law, and nonstop a wide connection that witnesser intimidation and threats against nationalist officials volition not beryllium tolerated.”

A ineligible typical for Williams did not instantly respond to The Times’ petition for comment, but the “Go Crazy” rapper seemingly took matters into his ain hands Wednesday.

“I don’t marque treats [sic] to radical I’m a bully person, I would ne'er condone anyone threatening anyone oregon decidedly enactment successful threatening anyone,” helium tweeted Wednesday evening, astir an hr earlier prosecutors filed their motion. “I’m each astir bid and love.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.