American rapper Fetty Wap was released on Friday from custody on a $500,000 bond after being arrested on drug trafficking charges last week, according to US media reports

The rapper, whose real name is Willie Maxwell, was arrested from Citi Field last Thursday. That is the venue where the three-day Rolling Loud hip-hop music festival was taking place. An indictment that had previously blacked out Maxwell’s name was unredacted after his arrest to publicly add his name to a case involving five other defendants, including a New Jersey corrections officer.

Maxwell and his co-defendants are charged with conspiracy to possess and distribute more than 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of heroin, fentanyl and crack cocaine between June 2019 and June 2020, according to the indictment. The scheme involved using the US Postal Service and cars with hidden compartments to move the narcotics from the West Coast to Long Island, where they were stored for distribution to dealers on Long Island and in New Jersey, authorities said.  

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“The fact that we arrested a chart-topping rap artist and a corrections officer as part of the conspiracy illustrates just how vile the drug trade has become,” Michael J. Driscoll, an official with the FBI’s New York office, said, according to the Associated Press.

US District Judge Joanna Seybert approved his release with conditions including GPS monitoring, random drug testing, that he surrender his passport and receive approval before travelling, according to John Marzulli, a spokesman with the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, according to CNN reports.

In a press release, authorities allege a pipeline of drugs ran from the West Coast to the East Coast, “contributing to the addiction and overdose epidemic we have seen time and time again tear people’s lives apart.”