An ex-Detroit Police officer's side gig just cost him his freedom: He was hauled off to jail Tuesday after a jury convicted him of being a drug dealer. The attack was committed in front of Dionne Peterson, Dayquan Johnson, Davis and other IJU members, federal officials said. Big Man was out front, a little more outgoing and willing to engage with people outside their inner-circle. If a man couldnt do what he did for me, there was no point talking to him. To his credit, he was very business savvy for a kid his age. Johnny had met the 14-year-old kid through his brother, and he immediately became a favorite of the family. Sept. 4, 2015: Deshawn Peterson possessed a handgun in Detroit, court documents say. During the height of his power, Davis was an international drug smuggler, supplying Detroit heavyweights like Young Boys Incorporated. They were "get money" dudes. LOUIS, Ill. - A U.S. District Court judge sentenced an East St. Louis man to 16 years and six months in prison after he pled guilty to several drug charges for his involvement in a national trafficking ring as the Metro East St. Louis leader. In this full-length interview, former drug queenpin and BMF affiliate Brandi Davis elaborates on her upbringing as the daughter of an infamous drug dealer from Detroit, Mr. Davis. She signed with BMB after the label paid for her $15,000 boob job, according to court records. The Detroit News. Minus the flashy handle and juvenile preening, the press didnt want to write about the Currys. Agents learned the rent for the Skokie home was being paid for via money orders. Next The Detroit Drug Wars (Part 2) The DEA would not discuss the case but confirmed the ongoing investigation. Campside Media / Sony Music Entertainment, Suspicion | The Billionaire Murders: The hunt for the killers of Honey and Barry Sherman. He declined comment Tuesday. And any large-scale drug investigation inevitably takes many twists and turns along the way, Gabel said. However, the Curry brothers ruled for almost a full-decade, acquiring equal riches with far less fanfare and acquiring the type of highly-placed connections in both local politics and law enforcement that his contemporaries like Jones or Buttrum could only dream of. We were moving, like, 60 keys a week. I am not convinced that these artists are actually making him that much money. A Detroit fugitive once characterized by federal officials as among the top 10 heroin dealers in North America was arraigned Wednesday in U.S. District Court after being captured in an Ann Arbor hotel room with about 2.2 pounds of suspected cocaine. Powered by WordPress.com VIP. Court records allege they helped each other cover up the crimes to avoid successful law enforcement investigation. Inside, investigators found 6 kilograms of heroin. One early afternoon, we were in bed sleeping and the US Marshals showed up in my front yard. I know you're going through what you're going through, but you can't keep living your life like that." A business dispute with one of Browns rappers, Kash Doll, offers a peek inside Browns entertainment company. June 8, 2017: Duane Peterson possessed a .40-caliber Glock handgun in a car he was driving, authorities said. Previous The Story of Detroit's Chambers Brothers & The REAL 'Crack Commandments'. The lanky, mop-topped, almost gawky, fresh-faced 15-year old was Johnny Currys right hand man and that said it all. At the time, Richard was instructed by the FBI to infiltrate the Curry organization, and he did exactly that, gathering intelligence regarding their criminal activities and their drug empire. Duane Peterson and Brown are charged with racketeering conspiracy and conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances. Brown buys the drug from a group in California that has direct ties to Mexican drug cartels, the informant said. He had a good reputation in the streets. According to Curry him and Cathy met with Hill in his office the day after the Lucas murder and were informed that a member of Currys crew was the top suspect in the crime. Johnnys contacts and Cathys influence made it a profitable enterprise. Dionne Peterson, Deshawn Peterson, Luther Peterson, Dayquan Johnson and Davis are charged with conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances. 2:05. The roots of the drug case date to 2012 and investigators have seized $550,000 in cash, 8 kilograms of heroin and the fentanyl. Cathy wasn't arrested, but named as an . The references to drugs and and raids, however, are echoed in the DEAs overview of the investigation outlined in the federal search warrant document. The dealer also identified cars used to haul drugs money between California and Detroit. I was surrounded by the lifestyle. We got busted in a sting set up by one of my drivers. IJU operated primarily on Detroits east side, but also distributed drugs in Flint, Jackson and West Virginia -- specifically Huntington and Parkersburg, officials said. April 17, 2018: Dionne Peterson got a text from another IJU member that a drug house in West Virginia was being searched and IJU members had been arrested, according to officials. Duane Peterson followed the man until he fell face-first on the ground, and then he and another member fired handguns at the back of the victims head while standing over him, officials said. 2023 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. "We were moving like 60 keys a week. Resources. At Davis Food and Drug we have everything you need, and expect, from your local grocery store. Akia Brown is a real estate agent, motivational speaker and author. Cathy wasnt arrested, but named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the case, which mapped out her husbands airtight control of numerous Eastside drug houses and increase in power and territory acquisition after the incarceration of Butch Jones and Le Roy Buttrum. Reginald Davis, 32, of Detroit, was convicted of distributing carfentanil, a synthetic opioid that is used on elephants and other large mammals. maintained a delivery service to more easily connect with their patients also supplying home health aids in Paducah. Unlike the Buttrum brothers and their Pony Down crew who looked to challenge top dog YBI at every opportunity or DFG which did an end-around and went out of state to move the bulk of its drugs, the Curry brothers were content to play second-fiddle to Butch Jones and his Young Boys empire. All 12 defendants have to forfeit any money or property obtained through the conspiracy, if convicted, the indictment says. The list of properties included Browns home in Warren, the house on Tracey, a Detroit riverfront loft and a home on West Parkway in Detroit used by Brown. And since January 2015, more than $345,000 was deposited through ATMs in Detroit and Baltimore. It wasnt out of the ordinary, it was just how I grew up. Brandi Davis, 36, grew up around the drug game in Detroit. 0:04. I grew up down the street from Marlon Welch. Aug. 22, 2018: A Facebook photo showed Dionne Peterson holding a handgun, officials said. I met my sons father, Wonnie, around Thanksgiving 2000. The 50-page federal court record contradicts Browns redemption story crafted after he emerged from a decade-long prison sentence for drug conspiracy in 2010. That's something I deal with every day. We both pled out and I got sentenced to ten years. Moving along, she details the trouble that she got into as a high school student before detailing how she met the guys from BMF after she relocated to Atlanta. They were asking where Wonnie was. That is especially true when, like the Brown investigation, the probe spans states, delves into financial records and relies on informants, search warrants and wiretaps, said Jones Day law firm partner Louis Gabel. They would also ask women to hide drugs on their person, according to the indictment. Aug. 3, 2017: Dionne Peterson got a text about law enforcement searching the Huntington, West Virginia, home, officials said. One of the people who knew Richard during his time within the Detroit drug circle was Johnny Curry, another drug kingpin. The detail was apparently asked specifically not to interfere with Johnnys activities. She was an unemployed mother of four and $540,000 in debt when she filed bankruptcy in 2009, the year before her husband finished his prison sentence. "K{^wssE?_HRD^&z=:=nWU}Si67"u#x.Af` MN'tCCm{lug_qJVoM;m:`k+aj 55-tg^A] LLS~(slwjmw~OgFUkO`5\p470H\tx?xr6VTb33J@)8=ITxFZe1;*`W_T_t2KNo+.#%Z:qv2! +\&GeIozgvWA3hB&B\@9StvrO,\E{OZi+y\=5Z6*&,WXvLKV:a? In May 2014, DEA agents interviewed a drug dealer who was ordered to travel from Los Angeles to the Chicago area and stay at a home in Skokie, Ill. Authorities linked 400 grams of the fentanyl mixture/substance to Demarco Johnson, Maurice Johnson, Gary Johnson, Carlouse Johnson, Deantez Johnson, Janard Thomas, Jackson and Moses, the indictment says. Lucas uncle had allegedly screwed the Curry brothers on hotel reservations in Las Vegas for the Marvin Hagler-Tommy Hearns fight the gang had attended fight weeks earlier. IJU members convicted in the case have to forfeit money or property gained through the operation, officials said. Federal authorities believe he possessed a handgun that day. The caption was, Dont compete with the N***** you eat with," court records show. He had no business holding as much weight as he did, but somehow he climbed to heights in the urban underworld few his age or skin color have ever achieved. The Cadillac was registered to Browns wife, Akia, according to the DEA. Davis was one of Detroit's largest drug kingpins in the 70s and 80s. They were an odd coupling, said one former highly-placed member of federal law enforcement of Johnny Currys association with the teenage drug dealing wunderkind Wershe. Little Man was real slick, a behind the scenes guy who got things done, Boyd said. Investigators seized 1 kilogram of heroin, three firearms, $2,365 and three Harley-Davidson motorcycles, according to court records. When I got to be about 16 years old, I finally realized what my dad did. The roster also includes rapper Kash Doll, a former exotic dancer. That was fine by them. Id get paid for my services like anybody else. New York. Wonnie was indicted out of St. Louis in 2004 and went on the run. Two drug kingpin brothers who went on the lam just before their guilty verdicts were read were sentenced to life in prison today for running . [s8%UF}^0(8eY~Bgp~(YosnYbMY6-u z'*CSLQmw!.Z hC#tgFOla:(Fj]}"rhCRAqH 'nrW. She served almost eight years in prison; meanwhile, her dads health failed him shortly after his own early release. I thought men were supposed to take care of women like that. 0:02. Everybody looked at them like these drug kingpins, but I looked at them like my homies. Anybody who made a living in the drug trade at that time would tell you that Johnny, known as Little Man and Leonard, known as Big Man were as well-respected and feared in the Motor City underworld as Butch Jones, Gun Buttrum, Reggie Davis and Frank Usher. I knew him from a while back and he came in and swept me off my feet. On March 6, 2018, Duane Peterson choked and repeatedly punched someone inside the Liquor Island convenience store in Detroit, officials said. My dad bought us fur coats and designer clothes. We offer prescriptions, lift chairs, medications, durable medical equipment, greeting cards, diabetic shoes, insoles, first aid kits, canes, wheelchairs, vaccinations, compression sizing, gifts, medical equipment rentals, baby supplies & accessories, and much more. Along with family and friends, Davis began organizing 25-kilo shipments of cocaine from Chicago to her home turf of Detroit. The informant told DEA agents that Brown was one of the largest heroin dealers in the Midwest and had accumulated millions of dollars in cash, luxury vehicles and expensive jewelry, according to court records. Rewards. Nobody outside of the game back then would have been able to tell you who Little Man and Big Man were. May 15, 2017: Another IJU member had more than 75 grams of crack cocaine, 260 grams of fentanyl-laced heroin, manufacturing and packaging materials and two firearms with extended magazines at his home in Jackson, the federal indictment says. Copyright 2023 ClickOnDetroit.com is managed by Graham Digital and published by Graham Media Group, a division of Graham Holdings. Though one condition of his release was that Brown was not supposed to commit any new crimes for five years, Brown allegedly resumed his drug-dealing career, graduating from cocaine to heroin, according to court records.
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