ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia officers have arrested an 18-year-old who they are saying threatened on-line to kill a sheriff and his spouse over the arrest of rappers Younger Thug and Gunna and others.
Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat, speculated to be the objective of the threats, introduced the arrest Friday. Quartavius Mender was once booked into the Fulton County prison remaining week on 23 counts of constructing terroristic threats, data display. He’s being held with out bail. It’s unclear if Mender has a legal professional to talk for him.
Native information retailers record Mender threatened to kill Labat, his spouse Jacki and the Atlanta college district’s police leader on more than a few social media pages if they didn’t unencumber Younger Thug, whose criminal identify is Jeffery Williams.
“#freethug or Imma sh00t u and your spouse,” Mender wrote, in step with arrest warrants reviewed by way of The Atlanta Magazine-Charter. He allegedly wrote at the sheriff’s Instagram web page a 2d time hours later, announcing, “Imma assassinate you.”
A few of the 28 other folks charged within the racketeering indictment is Tenquarius Mender. It was once no longer right away transparent Friday if he and Quartavius Mender are similar.
“We take some of these brazen threats severely,” Labat stated in a observation. “Social media cyberbullying, and hiding at the back of a keyboard, is not going to give protection to any individual from legal prosecution.”
Officers allege Younger Thug leads the Younger Slime Lifestyles gang, arresting him and 27 others in a sprawling indictment introduced underneath Georgia’s state racketeering legislation. It fees the crowd individuals engaged in murders, shootings, carjackings and different crimes.
Younger Thug was once denied bond Thursday after a Fulton County pass judgement on expressed “vital considerations” about letting him pass house on area arrest.
Prosecutors stated they plan to supply plea offers to one of the defendants in alternate for testimony, however stated some witnesses are already being threatened.
“Our witnesses on this case are being threatened with violence, critical violence and dying,” Fulton County prosecutor Don Geary stated.
Younger Thug’s attorneys strongly deny that he participated in any crimes.
