Rapper Young Thug was indicted with more than two dozen others on charges of gang crime and racketeering.
Fani Willis said Young Thug reposted a social media post about an investigator in the DA's office with a caption calling them 'the biggest liar in the DA's office.' More
April 4, 2025
Rapper Young Thug, whose given name is Jeffery Williams, pleaded guilty Thursday to gang, drug and gun charges. More
October 31, 2024
Rapper Young Thug and five others are standing trial for charges including racketeering, conspiracy and murder. More
August 12, 2024
Jurors returned to the trial of rapper Young Thug to find a new judge presiding from the bench after the original judge was removed. More
August 12, 2024
The judge overseeing the prosecution against Young Thug and others has been removed from the case after two defendants sought his recusal. More
July 15, 2024
The racketeering trial for rapper Young Thug is on hold until another judge can review alleged misconduct in the case. More
July 2, 2024
Judge orders attorney Brian Steel, who represents rapper Young Thug, to spend the next 10 weekends in jail after finding him in contempt. More
June 11, 2024
Trontavious Stephens is back on the stand in the RICO trial against rapper Young Thug and five of his associates. More
January 8, 2024
The trial for rapper Young Thug and five co-defendants is on hold until January after one of the defendants was stabbed in jail. More
December 12, 2023
One of the five co-defendants on trial with rapper Young Thug has been stabbed in jail, delaying the proceedings for at least a day. More
December 11, 2023
Young Thug's attorney said lyrics are nothing more than art as opening statements continued for a second day in the rapper's trial. More
November 28, 2023
When rapper Young Thug goes to trial on gang and racketeering charges, prosecutors will be allowed to use rap lyrics as evidence against him. More
November 9, 2023
After 10 months, a jury has been seated for the trial of rapper Young Thug, who is accused of participating in a gang behind violent crimes. More
November 1, 2023
The video of a 2021 interview that was posted online about two weeks ago shows a witness offering to provide information in the investigation into Young Thug in exchange for leniency, the AJC reported. More
March 2, 2023
The alleged drug exchange with Young Thug occurred Wednesday, Jan. 18, and was captured on court surveillance video. More
January 20, 2023
By: Judge Ashley Willcott FULTON COUNTY, GA. (Court TV) – Popular Grammy-winning rapper and singer Jeffery Lamar Williams, known as Young Thug, along with eleven other defendants, are facing multiple state RICO charges in Atlanta. Young Thug, 31, began rapping as a teenager and has become tremendously successful — performing around the world and […] More
January 13, 2023
The original indictment charged 28 people, including rappers Young Thug and Gunna, with conspiracy to violate Georgia's RICO law. More
January 9, 2023
Rapper Gunna, who was arrested along with rapper Young Thug and more than two dozen others, pleaded guilty in Atlanta to a racketeering conspiracy charge. More
December 14, 2022
Atlanta rapper Young Thug, who’s accused of conspiracy to violate Georgia’s RICO Act and participation in a criminal street gang, is facing six new felony charges along with four others linked to the case. More
August 10, 2022
Georgia officials have arrested Quartavius Mender, an 18-year-old who they say threatened online to kill a sheriff and his wife over the arrest of rappers Young Thug, Gunna and others. More
June 3, 2022
A Georgia judge denied bond Thursday evening for Atlanta rapper Young Thug, who's accused of conspiracy to violate Georgia’s RICO Act and participation in a criminal street gang. More
June 3, 2022
Rappers Young Thug and Gunna remained jailed on racketeering charges Monday in Atlanta following a court hearing in a case in which prosecutors have accused them of being members of a violent street gang that committed multiple murders, shootings and carjackings. More
May 23, 2022
The rapper Gunna was booked into a jail in Atlanta on a racketeering charge Wednesday. More
May 11, 2022
Rapper Young Thug was one of 28 people indicted Monday in Georgia on conspiracy to violate the state's RICO act and street gang charges, according to jail records. More
May 10, 2022
By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — A jury in Italy convicted two American friends in the 2019 slaying in Rome of a police officer in a tragic unraveling of a small-time drug deal gone bad, sentencing them to the maximum life in prison. More than 12 hours after deliberations began, the jury of […] More
May 6, 2021
A jury in Rome on Wednesday began deliberating the fates of two young American men who are charged with killing an Italian police officer. More
May 5, 2021
By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — As days turned into years, Brett Woolley came to accept that his father’s murderer would never be found — and that his family’s private tragedy had become a Wild West legend, the kind of thing folks shared when they were a few too many drinks deep. […] More
December 7, 2020
ROME (AP) — A 20-year-old California man charged with murdering an Italian police officer apologized in court Wednesday, saying he was “filled with remorse” and hoped one day the slain man’s family would forgive him. Finnegan Lee Elder, who has been on trial in Rome since February along with a fellow American, asked the court […] More
September 17, 2020
