Witness admits to being high while testifying in RICO trial against Young Thug and YSL gang
A witness for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ office admitted to being high while testifying on the stand in the RICO trial against rapper Young Thug and the alleged YSL street gang. Adrian Bean, who is testifying in the case for the prosecution, asked for water while on the stand, telling the court, ‘I’m so high right now, y’all I’m about to go to sleep on y’all.’
Bean, who is answering a subpoena to testify, has been on the stand since February 29. He has repeatedly told the court he doesn’t remember anything from an armed robbery, a shooting, and a car chase in September 2013, during which prosecutors say he was the alleged getaway driver for Young Thug, whose legal name is Jeffrey Williams, and other defendants in the case.
Willis indicted Williams and 27 others in a sweeping RICO indictment in May 2022, accusing Williams of being the kingpin of Young Slime Life, an Atlanta-based street gang affiliated with the notorious national Bloods gang. Williams’ attorneys have argued that YSL simply stands for the name of the Grammy winner’s record label, Young Stoner Life.
The YSL trial has been underway since November and is expected to go well into 2024. The jury selection process alone lasted ten months. The charges against the 28 co-defendants were brought under Georgia’s expansive Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, which is the same law Willis used to indict former President Donald Trump and 18 of his allies for their alleged efforts to overturn the results of the state’s 2020 election.
Bean reached a breaking point while being cross-examined by the defense on Friday. He told Fulton County Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville he had been threatened and harassed after his phone number was revealed in court and accused, ‘I don’t remember nothing from 2013, I keep telling y’all that. Y’all got my name on a recorder, my phone number on a recorder. These people are threatening me. They’re calling my phone, your honor. I done lost my job. I got a lot going on.’
Young Thug attends the 2021 BET Hip Hop Awards on October 01, 2021 in Atlanta, Geo