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The authorities said that the men imported the contraband from the West Coast using the United States Postal Service and drivers with hidden vehicle compartments, before storing the drugs in Suffolk County. Maxwell was among six men, one of them a New Jersey corrections officer, accused of distributing more than 100 kilograms of drugs between roughly June 2019 and June 2020. Maxwell appeared on a runway inside the New York Public Library’s main branch on Fifth Avenue wearing a black shirt emblazoned with a skull and crossbones by the German designer Philipp Plein. (The following year he was arrested and accused of drag-racing a police camera was said to have recorded him weaving through traffic on the Gowanus Expressway in Brooklyn while reaching speeds of over 100 miles per hour.)ĭuring Fashion Week in 2017, Mr.

Maxwell was collaborating on a video game in which users control cars that drag-race through urban streets. Still, he found ways to stay in the public eye.

Maxwell was not able to match his earlier success. Although collaborations followed with Nicki Minaj, Snoop Dogg and the Canadian rapper Drake, Mr. The song, which The New York Times later described as “shimmering and yelping and borderline whimsical,” was nominated for a Grammy in 2016.įetty Wap’s self-titled debut album, released in 2015, made it to the top of the Billboard 200. Maxwell, who is from Paterson, N.J., rose to fame in 2015 with the single “Trap Queen,” in which he sang and rapped about cooking and selling drugs, mused about buying a Ferrari and a Lamborghini, and declared: “In love with the money, I ain’t never lettin’ go.”
