Demetrius “Big Meech' Flenory, the co-founder of the Black Mafia Family, was arrested in 2005 and later sentenced to 30 years in prison after he was convicted on charges related to drug trafficking and money laundering.
Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory, the infamous co-founder of the Black Mafia Family crime enterprise, has been released from jail and will finish his sentence at a halfway house, TMZ reported Wednesday. The Federal Bureau of Prisons tells the entertainment media outlet that Flenory was transferred Tuesday from FCI Coleman Low in Wildwood to community confinement overseen by the Bureau of Prisons Miami Residential Reentry Management Office.
Newsweek reported that BMF had over 500 members nationwide and made more than $270 million between 1989 and 2005. In 2000, the Flenory brothers built a cocaine distribution network through their Los Angeles–based drug sources and their connections to Mexican drug cartels. According to Newsweek, Demetrius also launched BMF Entertainment, a hip-hop music business that served as a front for the brothers' money laundering and other sources of income.
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