Young Thug Wins Court Order to Reclaim Seized Property After State Appeal

Key Takeaways:

• A Georgia judge ruled in favor of Young Thug, officially ordering the return of his seized assets.
• The ruling follows a dismissed forfeiture complaint and a failed state appeal.
• The property must be returned by 5 p.m. on Friday (Jan. 9) per the court’s order.

It took some time,but Young Thug is officially getting his property back – even after the state appealed the initial ruling. On Wednesday (Jan.7), a judge ordered the State of Georgia to return all the property seized in connection with the Atlanta rapper’s YSL RICO case.

According to 11Alive, Fulton county Judge Paige Whitaker ordered prosecutors to return the assets taken from Thugger during the trial. the items included multiple cars, jewelry, firearms, and almost $150,000 in cash.

This has been a long process for the UY SCUTI artist. In October 2024, he pleaded no contest to RICO and gang leader charges. The trial lasted over a year (he was arrested in May 2022), and Whitaker sentenced him to time served and 15 years of probation. Prosecutors had asked for a sentence of 45 years – 25 years in prison and 20 on probation.

In September 2025,the State of Georgia appealed a previous ruling from whitaker, which ordered his seized property to be returned. In her latest ruling, the judge stated that the law supported Thug’s case.

“The Court finds that the plain language of statute requires that Claimants’ property be returned promptly, free of liens and encumbrances,” she wrote, per 11Alive. “The State has not identified any authority that would allow it to retain custody of the property where the forfeiture complaint has been dismissed and now the State’s appeal of that dismissal has been dismissed.”

Judge Whitaker ordered Thugger’s property returned by 5 p.m. on Friday (Jan.9).

Things are looking up for Thug. In December, he proposed to Mariah the Scientist, after the couple worked through a challenging period caused by his jail phone calls. She said yes.