Young Thug waived his preliminary hearing yesterday (July 27) according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
At a preliminary hearing, officials outline the case against the defendant and a judge decides if there is sufficient evidence to go to superior court. If a defendant chooses to waive this hearing, as Young Thug has done, the case proceeds.
The Atlanta rapper is facing charges for making terroristic threats and drugs and weapons charges after a search of his home.
UPDATE #2 (July 16, 2015): Young Thug posted $10,000 bail and was released from jail yesterday (July 15), Fader reports.
TMZ also reported what drugs are involved in the charges added onto the initial terroristic threats charge for yelling at a mall security officer. Young Thug is facing a felony charge for cocaine possession, a felony charge for marijuana possession and three counts of felony gun possession.
Young Thug’s mug shot is below via Fader.
(The original version of this story was updated July 16, 2015. The complete thread is as follows.)
UPDATE #1 Additional charges have been added to Young Thug’s “terroristic threats” charge after police searched his home, WSB-TV reports.
It has not been reported what exactly was found in the Atlanta rapper’s house, but the charges are drug and weapons related.
(The original article in this thread was published July 15 and is as follows.)
Atlanta artist Young Thug was arrested this morning (July 15). The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reports that the “Lifestyle” rapper was taken into custody for allegedly threatening to shoot a Perimeter Mall security guard in the face and is being charged with making “terroristic threats.”
The publication says that the artist born Jeffrey Lamar Williams and a mall security guard got into a dispute on July 7. According the arrest warrant, Thugger threatened the security guard while being escorted from Perimeter Mall.
Jim Joyner of the US Marshals Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force says Young Thug was arrested this morning at 6 am in Sandy Springs, Georgia. He was booked into the Dekalb County Jail and is currently awaiting his bond hearing.
According to Legal Match, “The crime of ‘making a terrorist threat’ is a creation of the last decade, enacted at both the state and federal levels, after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. It is a very general law that can be used to prosecute terrorists, but has been used far more often to prosecute other violations of criminal law such as domestic violence, hate crimes, bomb threats, and school violence. Indeed, in many states, the term ‘terrorist’ has been amended to mean simply ‘criminal.'”
Young Thug released his controversially entitled project Tha Barter 6 earlier this year. The project received a 4 out of 5 from HipHopDX.
For more on Young Thug, view the DX Daily below:
Retard lol
Defense = you have a substance abuse problem and guns for security due to fearing for your life. Right to bear arms..you should not lose your rights if you have already served sentences for previous crimes and been allowed to re enter society. Verbal assault is more appropriate than using terrorism laws. They don’t view it as that bad if they let you out on bond. Not sure why you were escorted out of mall.sounds like racial profiling.
another idiot rapper who never had any home training from his parents..what a loser, not to mention he’s a horrible rapper..
Welcome to America, the Land of… TERRORISTS.
Nowadays everybody and their grandmother will get charged with TERRORIST charges.
Go get that ISIS mf! I mean… Al Qaida, wait… where are we?
Lol right where he wanted to be. He going to get all the D he wants now smh
This fucken rapper who’s next Yg
Birdassniggaman type broke to bail you out dogs maybe you will sue him to for not helping you, Lil wanye bitch…
He was in the women’s clothing section and the guard told him to get out, thus causing him to get mad.
Looooooooool
is “Terroristic” even a word??!
Why use the word terrorist threats
Plz give him Life sentence to That young homo thug
A stinking,bullshit gay thug…..
The best part of that article was they gave barter 6 5 stars. Hahaha
Please don’t let out that retard that got himself into jail
Thugger much than better now ,since he sued wayne to his documentary
safe to say he wont be doing an album with maybe west now lmao
Kayne west**
Kanye**
Young thug is fucking big time he need s to be giving another chance if he fuck up again he should be gone for ever.
Young thug needs to leave cash money so do rich homie quan they r good rappers but wrong person to lead them money not nothing if ur talent been stolen from you lil Wayne made cash money wat it is today after hotboys left cash money birdman just using talented rapper to live his life style he’s not a rapper
B.G. Made CashMoney records.. He built that empire on his back..
dats true birdman aint no rapper he is jus using other rapper to get wat he gets…lil wayne saw dat n made the right decision indeed big up@Tunechi weezy
free thugger. Thugger changing the game right now. In a rap game full of lames that bring nothing new or unique young thug came up and changed everything. Barter 6 bumps hard free my nigga thugga
You are stupid
was he at a barber shop? this pussy is gone in 6 months.
rofl dudes 146 6 more lbs than me and hes got a good 6 inches….crackhead
this clown already out? women always get out quicker
Fuck younghomothug and fuck his new pal birdassniggaman them two dicks got it coming to them for plottin on wanye..
Young thug guity or no guity they let the young nigga out the is the main thing and stop all this bullshit accusation on the him.
wet booty ass nigga
The next pillow talk between homo thug And dickman will be interesting
all this cause the man talked to Farrakhan
What a fucking idiot.
This nigga is one of the wackest artist anyway, I could care less if he dies.