Young Thug Sentenced to Time Served in YSL RICO Trial

Young Thug has been sentenced after pleading guilty in the YSL RICO case.

Young Thug Sentenced in RICO Case

On Thursday (Oct. 31), Fulton County Judge Paige Reese Whitaker handed down Young Thug’s sentence immediately after the rapper pleaded guilty to charges of participating in a criminal street gang, violation of Georgia’s controlled substance act and multiple gun crimes. Young Thug was sentenced to 40 years, with 5 to service, but commuted to time served with 15 years of probation followed by backloaded 20 years.

The conditions of his probation include several stipulations. The rapper has to pay multiple fines and abstain from going to his Cleveland Avenue stomping ground unless visiting immediate family. He must also stay away from gang members and cannot promote gangs in any way. Thug will also be mandated to do 100 hours of community service for each year of probation. He will be released from custody today. For a detailed list of his conditions, see below.

The sentence came following a lengthy hearing in which the prosecution and defense laid out shortened versions of their cases. The State recommended a sentence of 45 years, with 25 in custody and 20 on probation and also recommended the rapper’s property be seized. Thug previously turned down a plea deal for a 43-year sentence, which would have seen him released today to serve 15 years of probation.

Young Thug, born Jeffrey Williams is the fourth codefendant to enter a guilty plea in the trial in the last few days, following codefendants Quamarvious Nichols, Rodalius Ryan and Marquavius Huey. Deamonte “Yak Gotti” Kendrick and Shannon Stillwell are the only three defendants left on the case. Kendrick and Stillwell have been charged with the 2015 murder of Donovan Thomas.

On May 9, 2022, Young Thug, Gunna and 26 other affiliates of Thugger’s YSL collective were arrested in a large-scale RICO case in Georgia accusing the group of racketeering, murder, armed robbery and participation in criminal street gang activity. After initailly pleading not guilty, Thug and five codefendants took the case trial, with everyone else associated with the case taking plea deal.

The, which has lasted almost a year, has been the longest trial in Georgia state history. However, following a witness revealing information on the stand that should not have been known to the jury last week, a mistrial was considered, opening the door for the remaining suspects to enter pleas.

Deamonte “Yak Gotti” Kendrick and Shannon Stillwell are the only three defendants left on the case. Kendrick and Stillwell have been charged with the 2015 murder of Donovan Thomas.

Check out Young Thug being sentenced and the conditions of his probation below.

Watch Young Thug Receive His Sentence in YSL RICO Case

See Special Conditions of Young Thug’s Probation

• Stay away from the metro Atlanta area for the first 10 years with the exception to attend weddings, funerals or graduations from high school, college or graduate school of immediate family members.
• Each year of probation come to the metro Atlanta area make a live anti-gang and anti-gun violence presentation four times a year at a grade school, middle school or boys and girls school. It can include a benefit concert and be counted toward his community service hours.
• Each year of probation perform 100 hours of community service.
• Shall not knowingly have contact with a member of any criminal street gang. The exception is his brother, Quantavious Grier a.k.a Unfoonk, and Gunna as long as Thug is contractually obligated to him since Gunna is signed to Young Stoner Life Records, which Thug owns.
• Cannot promote any criminal street gang or any criminal street gang activity including on any social media platform. No hand signs, terminology or language that promotes any criminal street gang.
• Have no contact with victims listed in the indictment or their family members.
• Submit to random drug screens and not use any drugs unless prescribed by a licensed physician.
• Execute a fourth amendment waiver that will permit the search of his person, residence, vehicles and electronics for any firearms, criminal street gang paraphernalia or illicit drugs.
• No possession of a firearm unless but can be in arms reach of a firearm that is in possession by licensed law enforcement or licensed security he hires.