After spending over a year in police custody, Young Thug has accepted a plea deal and been sentenced to time served as part of a highly publicized case.
He was released on Thursday evening. As the world has responded to the news, so has singer Mariah the Scientist, who shared her gratitude at the court’s decision to release her boyfriend.
What Mariah the Scientist says about Young Thug being released
“Thank you God, thank you God,” Mariah said in a statement shared with WSB-TV reporter Michael Seiden via text, per Vulture. “This is more than what we prayed for. We are so grateful, this is the greatest opportunity we’ve ever been presented with. I cannot say it enough, I cannot repay you for this. You have changed our lives, Jeffery’s life and mine.”
The couple have been linked since 2021, celebrating their third anniversary earlier this month ahead of Thug accepting the aforementioned deal, which included that he’ll be on parole for 15 years and is banned from metro Atlanta, CNN reported.
Along with two dozen others, including several fellow major artists, Thug was charged in 2022, prosecutors citing violations of Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, known by its acronym “RICO.” Prosecutors claimed the rapper was spearheading a criminal street gang responsible for many violent crimes in the Atlanta area for the past decade.
While Thug pleaded guilty to six charges (one count of participation in criminal street gang activity, three counts of violating the Georgia Controlled Substances Act, and one count of firearm possession during commission of a felony and one count of possession of a machine gun.), he plead no contest to racketeering and leading a criminal street gang. He could still be sentenced for those charges.
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