Corrections Officer In Fetty Wap Drug Ring Gets 6 Years In Prison

LONG ISLAND, NY — A former New Jersey corrections officer has been sentenced to six years in federal prison for transporting $200,000 worth of cocaine in the same drug ring that Fetty Wap is accused of assisting.

Anthony Cyntje was sentenced March 8 after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute heroin, fentanyl, cocaine base, and cocaine, as well as possession of a firearm in connection with a drug trafficking crime, according to indictment documents.

On Oct. 13, 2021, Cyntje, who was 23 at the time, was arrested and charged along with three Long Island men and William Junior Maxwell II, who is the rap artist known as “Fetty Wap.”

For about a year beginning in June 2019, the men doled out over 100 kilograms of cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, and crack cocaine across Long Island and New Jersey. The drugs came from the West Coast and the group used the U.S. Postal Service, a well as drivers with hidden vehicle compartments to move them across the country to Suffolk County, where they were stored, prosecutors said.

Cyntje brought kilos of cocaine from Long Island to New Jersey, indictment documents said.

Investigators recovered about $1.5 million in cash, 16 kilograms of cocaine, 2 kilograms of heroin, and numerous fentanyl pills, prosecutors said. They also recovered weapons including two 9 mm handguns, a rifle, as well as .45- and .40-caliber pistols and ammunition, according to prosecutors.

Cyntje, along with the other men, knowingly and intentionally used and carried one or more firearms “to protect” the distribution ring, prosecutors said

Patrick Brackley of Manhattan, Cyntje’s attorney, previously said that he was a "good kid" and would vigorously defend the charges.

When asked how his Cyntje got mixed up in the criminal allegations, Brackley said: “It's a very good question. That's what we're trying to figure out.”

Cyntje does not have any long-term association with Maxwell and is not included “in that part of the case.”

In August 2022, Maxwell pleaded guilty in federal court in Central Islip to intentionally conspiring to distribute and possess controlled substances, but pleaded not guilty to the firearms charges. Shortly before his plea, the rapper had his bond revoked after he was arrested for threatening to kill a man over FaceTime, violating the conditions of his pre-trial release.

Maxwell currently faces a five-year mandatory minimum sentence.

Patch could not reach Brackley for comment.