---
title: "Rapper Fetty Wap Arrested for Drag Racing in New York City"
description: "Willie Maxwell, aka Fetty Wap, was arrested early Friday morning on a slew of charges."
date: "2017-11-03"
modified: "2017-11-03"
authors:
  - name: "Brian Beers"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/brian-beers"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/15725/rapper-fetty-wap-arrested-for-drag-racing-in-new-york-city"
categories:
  - "Culture"
  - "News"
  - "People"
  - "Racing"
tags:
  - "Crime"
  - "Fetty Wap"
  - "Musicians"
  - "New York City"
---

# Rapper Fetty Wap Arrested for Drag Racing in New York City

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Rapper Fetty Wap was arrested early Friday morning after police spotted his Mercedes allegedly drag racing down a highway in New York City, according to multiple news outlets.

The New York Police Department reported to the *Associated Press* that Fetty Wap, whose real name is Willie Maxwell, was on a highway in Brooklyn around 1 a.m. when officers observed Maxwell's car "clearly racing another vehicle."

After the rapper was pulled over, he reportedly showed police a suspended New Jersey license and failed a sobriety test registering a blood-alcohol level of .09, just over the legal limit of .08 in New York.

Fetty was arrested on 15 charges, [according to *TMZ*](<https://www.tmz.com/2017/11/03/fetty-wap-arrested-drunk-driving-dui-drag-racing/>), including "reckless endangerment, drag racing, DUI, driving without a valid license, unsafe lane changing, aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, following too close, and speeding."

The rapper, who rose to fame after the successful release of his debut single "[Trap Queen](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_kF4zLNKio>)" that peaked at No. 2 on the U.S. *Billboard* Hot 100 chart back in 2015. He also had two top 10 hits with the tracks "My Way" and "679."

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