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The Bmf Documentary: Blowing Money Fast - Season 2 Episode 2 - With The Streets Comes The Violence
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00:00Demetrius and Terry Flannery were very close growing up.
00:19Terry was the boss. He was the Don.
00:22Just like in any business, you got to climb the ladder.
00:25Terry had to have the business part, I had the street part.
00:28Demetrius had all the cruisings hit.
00:31They were getting rich and getting rich quick.
00:34Naturally, this breeds rivalries.
00:37The first couple chapters of the BMF story,
00:40the number one villain is Leighton Simon.
00:43Leighton, at the time, we looked up to.
00:46Leighton Simon saw his brother murdered in cold blood.
00:50Sometime retaliation is a must.
00:53One night, someone ran up on me with the pistol
00:56and tried to place it to my temple.
01:03Everybody move like brothers.
01:06Everybody shining like little money.
01:18There ain't no other fool like this in the world that never will be.
01:21There ain't no other fool like this in the world that never will be.
01:31I was getting into my Mercedes, and the guy was laying in the bushes across the street by the church.
01:52The guy had the pistol pointed here, so I slapped the pistol away from me.
02:05As the pistol was leaving, he shot me here.
02:08Right up under my eye.
02:21I heard gunshots.
02:23And I'm still in the door looking.
02:26All kind of things run into my head.
02:29I was praying he wasn't dead.
02:31And I'm worried about having to follow this child.
02:36The nudging of the gun woke me up.
02:39He was nudging me at my side, checking to see if I was dead.
02:42And when I jumped up, I wrestled for the gun.
02:46And he panicked and ran back and just started shooting the car.
02:52I think I shocked him still being alive.
02:54Eventually, Thierry got up.
02:56It was a sight of relief, and he ran up to the house.
02:59Obviously, my heart's racing.
03:01The adrenaline's going.
03:03I'm still alive.
03:04I'm blessed to still be alive.
03:06Ran to the bathroom, started throwing water on my face, rinsing the blood, thinking that was going to stop the blood.
03:12When he went into the restroom and realized he was shot in his eye, that's when an adrenaline started running and racing and blood started shooting out.
03:20She kept saying, you got to go to the hospital.
03:22She's pregnant.
03:23You got to go to the hospital.
03:24And I said, I'm not going to the hospital until my brother get there.
03:27I called Rich, tell him he had been shot and wanted to meet him at the hospital.
03:33Back then, you felt a person could get you to the hospital.
03:36You're not safe even in the hospital.
03:38Because the talk of the town at that time was when Maserati Rick got killed at the hospital.
03:44Maserati was famous in Detroit for hustling drugs.
03:48Maserati was taken to the hospital and was alive and well.
03:54Someone entered the hospital and executed Maserati.
03:59This is the first time in the hospital's 50-year history there has been a shooting inside.
04:05So I wasn't going to the hospital the night I got shot until my brother came.
04:09Rhonda says, Misha's going to meet us at the hospital.
04:12We got to go.
04:13We got to go.
04:14I didn't even think about a gunman outside that just shot my kid's father.
04:18And we jump in the car and pull it off.
04:21I put him in the car and I rushed him to the hospital.
04:25I ran every stop sign.
04:28When we got to the hospital, the police was pulling up and Misha's pulling up with Mac 11s in the car.
04:34It's crazy.
04:36Trying to walk into the hospital with machine guns.
04:40I was kind of getting the phone calls as a buffer for my mom.
04:47It was quite a shock to the family because you're traumatized each and every time.
04:52No parent wants to go through that.
04:54You know, that's a nightmare no parent wants to experience.
04:59When he got to the hospital, he rushed him into surgery.
05:03This doctor's looking into my eye and he's going, hmm, hmm, hmm.
05:09And I'm seeing the weariness and the look on his face.
05:13And I'm saying, what's wrong, doc?
05:15And he's not telling me.
05:16And he says, I'm going to tell you the truth.
05:22He has glass still in his eye.
05:24And the gunshot wound left his retina permanently damaged.
05:29Terry lost vision due to the retina detached.
05:34Now, my mind's racing.
05:36And I'm thinking, who could have did this?
05:40We only had one beef at that time.
05:42So, automatically, it points to Mr. Sideman.
05:48So now you're thinking revenge.
05:51I had a saying, policemen get shot, firemen get burned, and gangsters go to prison or get killed.
06:01So, I knew what I signed up for.
06:04With the streets, comes the violence.
06:07It wasn't never a thought to lead a game.
06:10It was more, we got to do more to protect ourselves.
06:19It's really a tough thing to deal with permanent damage and deformity to your body.
06:25I started always trying to keep a pair of glasses on.
06:29Just walking with my head down.
06:31You become self-conscious in a sense.
06:34Just overall, it changed everything for him.
06:37I really, really had low self-esteem issues from the incident.
06:43I went back in the mindset.
06:47I was back in my younger days when my parents used to argue and I tried to not be seen from being a nervous child.
06:55I can look at old pictures and then look at the difference.
06:59People always compare you to your brother.
07:02To where, you know, I once looked a certain way.
07:05I guess that's why during the course of our journey of hustling, I kind of stayed more out the way.
07:13Out of the lamplight.
07:14That probably definitely played a role.
07:19I think trying to continue to provide for his family, his self, and then you have a child.
07:26So, I think it was a lot of different factors that played a part in him standing the game.
07:35After Terry was shot, things were falling apart pretty quickly in Detroit in terms of stability.
07:43Detroit once was called the city beautiful.
07:48It is now called the murder capital of the United States.
07:51Law enforcement was going after low-level street dealing.
07:55So, for the 50 boys, there was an inevitable meeting of the minds about where do they go from here.
08:01They decided to go from retail to wholesale.
08:04Because when you're wholesale, you make more money and there are buffers between you and the street.
08:10And that makes things safer for you.
08:12Our motivation was to break away from Edric.
08:16But a lot of guys back then didn't sell weight to younger guys.
08:20They kind of just wanted them as workers.
08:22This call is fine.
08:24Deletrious plenary.
08:25An inmate at a federal prison.
08:27We was trying to get it.
08:29We weren't trying to stay down there, just selling no fucking rocks.
08:32Terry, Meach, and Derrick wanted to leave.
08:36They wanted me to give them weight.
08:39Okay?
08:40I wasn't ready to give them weight.
08:42We start saving our money and we starting to buy.
08:45You know, let me get a half a brick.
08:46Let me get one brick.
08:47Let me get two bricks.
08:48Let me get three bricks.
08:50Then it started being a problem.
08:52Meach said, you have a problem with us.
08:55We want to do our own thing.
08:56I said, man, go for it, man.
08:58Because, you know, we still cool.
09:00By us buying, now we're able to run around to whoever got it.
09:06At this point, they aligned with a single wholesaler in Detroit by the name of Harold Mills.
09:13Harold was a cool guy.
09:15Ran his operation from early in the morning to five o'clock.
09:19He taught Meach and I, action is in the weight game.
09:23You need to just save your money and work for yourself.
09:27Harold Mills was a mentor in the drug world in terms of really teaching them the wholesale drug game Detroit.
09:34The ins and outs.
09:36A graduate course on wholesale drug dealing.
09:41First met Cherry and Meach through Harold.
09:43So we got to talking.
09:45Name ringing in the streets.
09:46My name ringing in the streets.
09:48So Harold was the supplier.
09:50Harold knew the game really good.
09:53Always had a plug.
09:55Always had the best stuff.
09:57Now they were big time players in a big time game.
10:01Making a lot of money.
10:02But this put both Terry and Demetrius on the radar of law enforcement.
10:11I studied criminal justice science in college and planned to go into law enforcement.
10:18Went to Quantico to the academy and then was assigned to the Detroit division as a first assignment.
10:24I'm going to tell you that it wasn't very long after I arrived in Detroit.
10:29Southwest T, Terry Flinnery, Meach or Big Meach, Demetrius Flinnery.
10:35Their names came up and came up a little bit like mythological figures, almost like ghosts.
10:41So this is one of those cases.
10:43There were no smoking guns.
10:44There were no well-placed informants that could go talk to Terry Flinnery, get recordings or buy drugs.
10:51This was an investigation that was going to take time, persistence, methodical approach.
10:57So there was a lot of work to be done.
11:04At this point, Harold takes a liking to Meach and I, but Harold wasn't a tough guy at all.
11:11He had a situation where some guys had robbed him that worked for him.
11:16He called for assistance to try to get his drugs back.
11:20Meach and I took a couple of guys from the neighborhood and we went to deal with the situation.
11:25We had some guys with us that was going to run in the house with guns, drag the guy out and throw him in the truck of the car with us.
11:33But Harold, he was scared.
11:36He didn't want to go through with it.
11:38So the guys that Meach and I had with us, they were mad because he didn't want to go through with it.
11:45So they filled up pop bottles with gasoline and they just burnt up the new car the guy bought with some of the money that he stole the drugs with.
11:56And we had the car that was on fire in front of the house.
11:59Harold said, y'all crazy, y'all crazy.
12:01And we took off.
12:03Harold drops the two guys with us off and he takes us to his girlfriend's on the west side.
12:12That's when I first see Tony.
12:16We get over there, I see this brown-skinned lady running out the house, nice looking and lively.
12:22Harold comes to the car and he's panicking, telling her what we did.
12:26And she's joking with us, saying we crazy.
12:31I said to Meach, man, we'll get his girl when he's soft.
12:35That was the first time Meach really heard me react about a woman.
12:39And he said, man, you know, it's the fastest girl.
12:47Tony Montana.
12:48Tony Montana.
12:49Hello.
12:50It was kind of like a scar-faced Tony Montana told his right-hand man about Frank.
12:55He's soft.
12:56Man, that's the boss's lady, okay?
12:58He's gonna get us killed already.
12:59Fuck you, man.
13:00The boss's lady.
13:01That guy's soft.
13:04I said, man, he's soft.
13:05He can't even defend her.
13:06He's scared we're gonna blow up the car.
13:08He says, shh, you're talking too loud.
13:10That was the first time I seen it.
13:12When I first met Terry and Meach, he probably was about 17, 18, and Meach probably about 19.
13:22At this point, I'm already a mature woman with children, with a home, credit cards, bills, responsibilities.
13:31Before that, I grew up middle class from Detroit, Michigan, on the west side.
13:37I was my mom's only daughter, and she kind of sheltered me.
13:41But then, one day, I go to this beautiful party.
13:45This big club.
13:47It's called the Rooster Tell.
13:49And it just turned my whole life around.
13:52I had never had champagne.
13:54And they had champagne.
13:56And the colors.
13:58And the big bar.
14:00Everybody looked so fly.
14:02It was all the players in there.
14:04You know, the pimps, the drug dealers, and that, like, this is the life I want to be.
14:09It was like I went in that door and came out, and I was a whole different person.
14:13This is where I first met Perel.
14:17Perel, he was like a mid-level drug dealer.
14:20I wanted to be a part of his life, whatever he was doing.
14:23But then, the more power he had, the more money he had, he changed.
14:28He's getting paranoid.
14:30Every little thing would set him off.
14:31It really got physical.
14:33I'm feeling like, almost like his property.
14:36Tony and I got close, and I knew her was abusive.
14:40Her and I just would talk, all innocent.
14:44She never probably really knew at that time that I was trying to pursue her.
14:49She would tell me a lot of her personal, controversial things.
14:53Some things I didn't want to share with my friends or my family, because I still was selling drugs with Terel.
15:00So, Terel was always a great listener.
15:02And I guess I was always venting about something.
15:05So, he was like, he just became somebody that I could trust and I could talk to, not knowing that he's infatuated with me.
15:14But I'm still looking at him like a little young kid, not anybody that I would date.
15:24Then, Perel was arrested when he was sentenced to seven years in state prison at that time.
15:32Perel goes to prison, and he's out of the way.
15:39So, Tony and I would hang out.
15:42I started going out with her and the kids.
15:45Sometimes, I just take the kids to the arcade with my son and give her a break.
15:51Eventually, we become a couple.
15:54When I decided to be with Terry, I really set my boys down and asked them, are they okay with it?
16:00And it was like, yeah.
16:02Terry was smart by taking my cousin, Tony, and being with her.
16:07She became a prize to him, because she knew the streets.
16:12She sees things that you don't see.
16:14I'm quite sure they had pillow talk at night, how stuff is running.
16:19She's raising her son, and it's kind of her and mine's thing, but I'm still going back and forth with Rhonda.
16:28I knew she was interested in him, because, you know, he had that women intuition, the way she was acting.
16:34When I'm sneaky, using the phone and calling Rhonda.
16:37Hey, yo, how's the kids? How you doing?
16:40It was heartbreaking, you know.
16:42I took it in my own hands and told Terry he can go ahead and live his life,
16:47because I'm not going to be disrespected.
16:49And women come with the game.
16:51In the early 90s, Errol Mills takes a big federal bust and has to go to prison.
17:03Their go-to wholesaler is now locked up, and they have to then go cultivate other supply lines.
17:10Demetrius left to go find supply sources in other parts of the country.
17:17You know, we used to just be so thirsty to make as much money as possible.
17:23When it came time to leave Detroit, that was just, that was more of my decision to take my show on the road.
17:29As Demetrius is going around the country, Terry's minding the shop back in Detroit, financing Demetrius' travels.
17:38At this point, I had a nice group of guys already, and I was actually moving things around the city myself in Detroit.
17:46He was pushing to change. He wanted to change. He didn't no longer want to be little Terry anymore. He wanted to evolve.
17:54But Demetrius leaves Detroit and kind of lives a nomadic existence, jumping between Atlanta, Cleveland, LA, St. Louis, New York.
18:07Throughout his travels, he's networking, and he's starting to envision an infrastructure for this colossal drug empire.
18:20But he didn't have the supply line to actually do that.
18:23Demetrius had the intuition to understand that the new drug game in the 90s was coming out of Mexico and took a trip to L.A. to try to sniff out a new source and ended up meeting Wayne Joyner, a.k.a. The Wayneiac.
18:42They had a plug back in the day, and he always told them, if there was ever a drought on the East Coast, always go west.
18:52It was just like the gold mining days. Go west, young man. Go west.
18:55And they kept that in the forefront of their heads, and they did it.
18:58At the time, Terry was sending money from Detroit.
19:03We didn't have no nothing, man.
19:05I think we had six pieces of Popeyes for about three days between both of us.
19:10Shit, my roof was leaking. Transmission went out in my car. I was going through a divorce.
19:14No air condition, you know, so it was rough. By the time we buy a little weed, get some gas in the car, pay for the rental car, get something to eat, that money was gone.
19:24Terry was like, I can't keep sending money. Just got to come back, you know.
19:29They were both at a low point. Just a few here and a few there, you know, just trying to get their teeth on at that time.
19:36Harold called me on a three-way from prison, and he said he don't like the idea that Tony and I was friends while he's away.
19:49I hung up on him.
19:51When Harold became aware that Terry and Tony were together and it was public, he became incensed and wanted to try to undermine his protégés as much as possible.
20:05Through some sources.
20:07We learned that a former husband of Tenisa Welch was incarcerated.
20:13He had been caught with several kilos of cocaine. He was charged, convicted, sentenced.
20:18And while he was incarcerated, I went to interview this person hoping that maybe we could garner some information that would help us.
20:24What we learned was that Tenisa and Terry started a romantic relationship.
20:30The former husband was extremely jealous, scornful.
20:36Part of the information we gathered also was that this person used to be a supplier of multi-kilos of cocaine to Terry Flinnery.
20:46Which gave us, the investigators, the opportunity to try to crack the surface.
20:52Try to build a case around Meech and Terry.
21:00Last few years before Hell came home, the buzz was around that I was with Terry.
21:05And as time went on throughout his sentence, I told him, like, you know, when you come home, I don't want to be with you.
21:11I'm thinking, okay, this man is okay with it.
21:14I know we got other women coming to see him on his visits.
21:17I didn't think the punch would be that hard.
21:20Eventually, when he comes home, Harold is telling me, we don't have any issues.
21:25Life goes on, and he's moved on.
21:28But in the back of his mind, he has another plan.
21:32One night, my girlfriend called me.
21:35We had this brief conversation, not knowing that Harold and her, they are dating.
21:43He's only dating her to get back at me and to find out information about me and what I'm doing in my whereabouts.
21:52She asked me to meet her at a bar.
21:56Get to the bar.
21:58And something told me in my spirit, don't go in.
22:03I drove off.
22:06He must have seen me.
22:08He beat me back to my street.
22:11He came one way, and I came the other way.
22:13And he took his car and ran dead into me.
22:24He pulled me out the car and was beating me with a gun.
22:27His intent was to probably kill me that day.
22:30Somebody told him, stop, don't do it.
22:33And then he just walked away and left me there.
22:37I was out of town.
22:38And I flew back in town the next day after I found out that it was an argument and a fight.
22:45I was trying to be reasonable about the situation, but when I go see how she's all beat up, we got an issue.
22:53I was really messed up.
22:54My arm was broken.
22:55My nose just really beat up.
22:58My stepdad came in, my mother, and my stepdad cried.
23:03That's when I knew it was bad.
23:05Terry was very upset, and they were getting into this squabble of, we gonna do this and that.
23:11And I'm like, you can't do that because that's still my kid's father.
23:17How do it look like you're gonna kill their father or their father's gonna kill you?
23:25Her being more mature, she was trying to assess the situation.
23:30I never talked about that incident with nobody.
23:35And even if Terry tried to bring it up, didn't want to talk about it.
23:38I wanted it to go away like it never happened.
23:52You know, everyone thinks surveillance is easy, and it's not.
24:00You're following a car, and you're looking at the guy.
24:05He looks up, and he looks in that rearview mirror, and you know you gotta take the next turn.
24:09You wanna get intel on these guys.
24:11You gotta know who these guys are, who they're connected with, where they go.
24:17Then you start watching their players.
24:20One day, I started seeing some funny things going on with, like, surveillance.
24:27We paid close attention to our surroundings.
24:30But at the time, I didn't know if Peril was working with the government,
24:35trying to help them build a case against us.
24:38I ended up going to the jury store one day.
24:41I see the agents in the parking lot of the jury store.
24:46When I leave out, I drive to Tony's house, and I tell her,
24:50listen, I've seen some things I don't like.
24:53And she looks out the window and says,
24:54yo, and now they're outside my house.
24:57Meech is in L.A.
24:59I call Meech, and I say, yo, I see some things I really don't like.
25:05Surveillance on various cribs.
25:08So Meech says, hey, it's sunny out here, man.
25:11Every day, I don't see nothing.
25:13So the next day, I tell Tony to come get me, and we're gonna go to dinner.
25:19We were going to this restaurant to eat.
25:22And I'm telling Terry, like, we're being watched.
25:25We're being followed.
25:26And he's like, you sure?
25:27I'm like, yeah, I'm sure.
25:28We're being followed.
25:29So I said, what are we gonna do?
25:31We're gonna eat.
25:32We're gonna act really normal.
25:34And I said, what you're gonna do is, you're gonna get up and go to the bathroom and go out the back door.
25:40I'm gonna stay here because they're gonna think, you're gonna come back and join me.
25:46But you leave.
25:48I slide out the back door and I disappear.
25:55Let's just leave and never look back.
25:59Let's go.
26:00Let's go.
26:01Let's go.
26:29Let's go.
26:31Let's go.
26:32Let's go.
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