Wait, What? A YSL Defense Lawyer Was Just Arrested on Gang-Related Charges

A lawyer for one of the co-defendants charged alongside rapper Young Thug in Georgia’s sprawling YSL racketeering conspiracy case has been arrested on suspicion she called a suspect in a different case and warned him he had active warrants and should ditch his phone. Nicole Fegan was taken into custody in Gwinnett County and transported to Fulton County on charges she participated in criminal street gang activity and urged someone to tamper with evidence, a spokesperson with the Atlanta Police Department said Friday.

“During the investigation into the September 27, 2022 shooting of two males at Williams Street and Baker Street, in Northwest Atlanta, investigators received information that Nicole Fegan contacted a suspect in the shooting, advising him of active warrants for his arrest,” police said in a statement. “Fegan provided information she had learned during a preliminary hearing related to the shooting and advised the suspect to dispose of his phone as police were going to arrest him.”

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Police say Fegan was not representing the suspect she allegedly called. Her arrest comes one year after a suspect identified as Keiontay Davis was arrested for alleged aggravated assault and murder in the fatal shooting, police say. Two people wounded in the 2022 incident arrived at a hospital by private vehicle, police say, but only one survived the “exchange of gunfire.”

Fegan, 34, represents defendant Tenquarius Mender in the YSL RICO case, though Mender was severed from the main prosecution last May and will have a separate trial from the one now underway for Young Thug in Atlanta. Mender was pregnant at the time her client was placed on a separate track last May. Attempts to reach her were not successful Friday.

Young Thug, whose real name is Jeffery Williams, is currently on trial for racketeering conspiracy in Fulton County along with five other defendants after a jury selection process that lasted a grueling 10 months. Prosecutors allege Williams led a street gang called Young Slime Life that was a violent criminal enterprise responsible for shootings, carjackings, drug dealing and murder.

Williams has pleaded not guilty, saying YSL stands for Young Stoner Life and his enterprise is running a record label. Sergio Kitchens — the rapper Gunna — pleaded guilty to a racketeering charge in December 2022.

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