Mack Mulla’s collaborations with Jim Jones and Cassidy couldn’t save him from a 20-year federal sentence tied to a multi-state fentanyl ring.

Mack Mulla teamed up with Jim Jones, Cassidy and Albee Al earlier than his rap goals collapsed in a federal courtroom, the place he was sentenced to over 20 years for working a multi-state drug ring.

The 32-year-old New York rapper, born James Rodriguez Jr., was handed a 242-month federal jail sentence by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani.

The conviction capped off a sprawling case that linked his Hip-Hop persona to a fentanyl and marijuana trafficking operation stretching from Pennsylvania to New York.

According to federal prosecutors, Mulla used his music connections and a storefront known as Mulla Fashion on Scott Street as a entrance for his narcotics enterprise.

The constructing doubled as a clothes store and recording studio, however behind the scenes, it served because the command middle for a drug enterprise that moved over a kilogram of fentanyl and eight kilograms of marijuana between 2021 and 2022.

During coordinated raids, regulation enforcement uncovered 800 grams of marijuana, 37 grams of fentanyl, firearms and tactical gear on the Scott Street location. A second stash home in Wilkes-Barre turned up 159 grams of fentanyl, 400 grams of marijuana and extra weapons.

Investigators additionally found that Mulla had worldwide ties, together with documented journey to Mexico, the place he allegedly met with members of the MS-13 gang to safe provide strains.

The case practically escalated additional when prosecutors charged Mulla with drug supply leading to loss of life.

They claimed that the medicine he equipped led to the deadly overdose of Luzerne County resident Anthony Greskewicz in October 2021. However, a jury acquitted him of that cost and one other associated to firearm possession throughout drug trafficking.

The investigation was a joint effort involving the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Homeland Security Investigations, Kingston police and the Luzerne County Drug Task Force.

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