Younger Thug and co-defendant made hand-to-hand drug change in courtroom, prosecutors say

Atlanta rapper Younger Thug, charged with felony gang exercise in Georgia, was handed medicine in a hand-to-hand change with a co-defendant throughout a courtroom listening to Wednesday, prosecutors stated.

The act was caught on digicam, in accordance with a movement filed Thursday by prosecutors in Fulton County.

The artist, whose actual identify is Jeffery Lamar Williams, was in courtroom with co-defendant Kahlieff Adams when Adams walked unattended to the place Younger Thug was sitting along with his lawyer and put one thing in his hand, the movement stated.

Younger Thug tried to hide his hand with the contraband, Percocet, beneath the desk, prosecutors stated.

A sheriff’s deputy seen the change, walked as much as Younger Thug and seized the Percocet, in accordance with courtroom paperwork.

Deputies additionally searched Adams, who resisted, and located Percocet, marijuana, tobacco and different contraband “wrapped in plastic and meals seasonings to masks the odor of the marijuana,” the movement stated. 

Adams was taken to a close-by hospital after he appeared to “ingest different objects of contraband that he held on his particular person, in an effort to hide the extent of his crimes throughout the courtroom,” the submitting stated.

Adams is serving a life sentence for homicide, prosecutors stated within the submitting.

Courtroom was delayed after the interplay. Courtroom paperwork described it as the “unlawful acts of possession and distribution, respectively, of contraband contained in the Fulton County Courthouse.” 

Keith Adams, an lawyer for Younger Thug stated the movement is filled with misrepresentations and inaccuracies.

He disputed the account that the artist hid the tablet beneath the desk, noting his consumer was not charged with any wrongdoing.

“Mr. Adams will get up and walks towards the restroom and walks previous him and goes to present Mr. Williams a handshake and places this tablet in his hand which Mr. Williams hadn’t requested for, didn’t know what it was and turned it over instantly to the deputy,” the lawyer stated. 

“We’re disenchanted as a result of it’s a distraction. , Jeffery’s in there. He’s preventing for his life,” he stated. “The very last thing that he desires to do is have interaction in any type of habits that will jeopardize our possibilities to trial or solid a foul mild on him in a courtroom with 4 cameras and two totally different TV cameras.”

An lawyer for Kahlieff Adams, Teombre Calland, instructed Atlanta Journal-Structure, “These allegations are merely that: mere statements made by the State in an effort to thwart the lengthiness of the jury choice course of. Mr. Adams adamantly maintains his innocence and appears ahead to the conclusion of this trial.”

Younger Thug, 31, a Grammy-winning artist and main identify within the hip-hop world, was arrested in Could. He was certainly one of dozens of individuals accused in a sprawling indictment of violating Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corruption Organizations, or RICO Act, and taking part in felony road gang exercise, courtroom paperwork stated.