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As in the movie, the Chambers Brothers were also known for taking over an apartment complex known as the Broadmoor on E. Grand Blvd and Ferry St. on the lower east side in Detroit (name was changed to "The Carter" in the film), which was used to house the gang's drug-selling operations.
Young Boys Incorporated, also known as Y.B.I., was a major drug organization in Detroit, Michigan, who were among the first African American drug cartels to operate on inner-city street corners. The Young Boys were innovative, opening franchises in other cities, promoting brand names, and unleashing extreme brutality to frighten away rivals.
Demetrius Edward "Big Meech" Flenory Sr. (born June 21, 1968, in Detroit, Michigan) and his brother Terry Lee "Southwest Tee" Flenory (born January 10, 1970, in Detroit, Michigan) began selling $50 bags of cocaine on the streets of Detroit during their high school years in the late 1980s. [11] [12] Hence their original group was known as "50 Boyz".
The St. Clair County Sheriff's Office said the arrest was the biggest drug bust in the Drug Task Force's history. The drugs were estimated to have a combined value of $16.5 million in market value.
DETROIT (AP) - A Detroit police lieutenant and an officer robbed drug dealers and stole drugs and money obtained in police searches, prosecutors said Thursday. An indictment against Lt. David ...
When he was arrested, Steel had the phone used to manage the drug deals, police said. This article originally appeared on Beaver County Times: Detroit man pleas guilty to drug trafficking ...
The Chaldean mafia originated in Detroit, Michigan in the early 1980s. [1] The Metropolitan Detroit area is home to the largest population of Chaldeans outside Iraq. [5] Louis Akrawi, known as the "Godfather of the Chaldean Mafia", fled Iraq in 1968 following an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party and settled in Detroit, where he became a crime boss and an ...
Fifty-nine Detroit postal workers were attacked by stray dogs in 2010, according to a Detroit postmaster. [18] Detroit had faced many cases of arson each year on Devil's Night, the evening before Halloween. In the 1980s a number of residents noted that they had turned to arson of abandoned homes to keep drug dealers from using the empty buildings.