- 4 hours ago
Category
📺
TVTranscript
00:15Since we were kids Meech just wanted to be recognized we were invisible so long you can
00:23see me now look at me I win it the life gets addictive it was just like so much money
00:29so
00:29much jokes it was crazy Demetrius starts putting up billboards in Atlanta VMF the world is ours
00:36what the hell is he doing what the fuck was he thinking Demetrius Flannery held without bond
00:41on motor charges you get to dropping them bodies that's a whole different type of attention you
00:47all of a sudden the break we needed happened quit doing what you want to do and do what I
00:53tell you
00:53to do we knew at that moment that we had Terry's phone Meech brought the heat to me
01:02everybody move like brother
01:16everybody's shining like little money
01:26there ain't no other fool like this in the world that never will be
01:45the counts are 136 out the gorgeous one and did the black card get there yet 68 out of black
01:56all right there's good after months and years of struggling we had a wiretap on Terry Flannery's
02:07cell phone I can remember talking with some of my law enforcement partners and team on the case
02:14thinking how ironic it was that Meech was running around with his hair on fire and Terry tried to be
02:21so disciplined but yet he was the one being intercepted the wiretap helped us fill in the
02:35gaps and fill out the structure of the organization helped show us who was who and how they operated how
02:42they spoke but that said even when we were on his phones he was difficult to track the early 2000s
02:52we
02:52was setting up shops in different states so we can make money constantly when they start following us
02:59that's when we start really start moving like that Terry was moving around the country he was always going
03:11somewhere you can't actually tell at that time we didn't have the resources to say oh the phones tap or
03:18is not tap we were just really just trying to say less on the phone as possible for years Terry
03:26insulated
03:27himself from the day-to-day hands-on operations to protect himself from law enforcement detection he
03:35always had a bunch of phones that always switching out how did they even keep up with the wiretaps Terry
03:44was so careful and so discreet but then we learned that Terry was going to be back in the Detroit
03:50area
03:51for one of his driver's funeral this was a big opportunity to gather intelligence on Terry so this
03:59was a break we were looking for a man was killed in the early hours of Sunday after police say
04:08he
04:08was driving at high speeds down Collier Hills Road Berger was one of the first drivers who drove the drugs
04:16when it was small when we were starting out he was always reliable always trustworthy and a tragic
04:25moment was when he got killed tonight he was supposed to do a run Terry arrived at the funeral home
04:32and
04:33throngs of people surrounded the limo that Terry was in as if he was a celebrity his window came down
04:39a
04:40little bit he was reaching his hand out shaking hands touching the little people and it was just it was
04:47an
04:47interesting image I think the funeral got people's attention it looked as if he was worshiped by all these
04:54people they all went to the funeral that's so powerful because that puts everybody in the same
05:00room you cannot deny that oh I don't know Terry Fenori I don't know Demetrius Fenori yes you do you
05:06went
05:06to the funeral here's a picture of you talking to him they sent surveillance agents there and they took
05:11pictures of all the different people so as you put the puzzle together you have to figure out what puzzle
05:16pieces you're missing and then create them at this funeral I started seeing some funny things going
05:23on with like surveillance I see the helicopters was following me and I knew something major was going
05:32on Terry was on the phone and they were intercepting Terry's calls I was talking to my sister about the
05:39the heat that my brother was bringing on complaining about how he was going to bring the police on the
05:45mall and they're all going to end up in prison during the call I started to hear weird noises but
05:54I realized
05:54that that funeral was under surveillance somehow Terry made the surveillance and before the funeral
06:03procession was even over that phone was toast so we threw the phone away and took off we lost Harry
06:11and then it was
06:11back to the drawing board we didn't get him but it was a great opportunity for us to not only
06:18see the people
06:19he surrounds himself with but to actually see and hear him use the phone in which we were intercepting in
06:25that phone
06:25call the brothers had angst against each other competing against each other and kind of drawing the line in the
06:32sand
06:32that's an opportunity for us
06:45by the early 2000s the BMF entourage was growing even larger than the organization I would say in
06:55the BMF family it had to be about six or seven hundred people and it was growing some known and
07:02some
07:02unknown you know what I mean
07:04Meech lived life to the tilt you would have a caravan of 50 cars 100 cars showing up at a
07:10venue
07:11the scope and size of this had never been seen before
07:15it's getting out of hand
07:18you got a friend with a friend with a friend with a friend
07:27and who are all these people you don't even know
07:35I drive up to one of these stash houses there's a few guys I never seen before and they're all
07:41staring at me I just know it's cruel so it was getting stupid big
07:47BMF went from just people in the neighborhood to just anybody I tried to keep the circle small so to
07:57speak naturally Meech had other plans I did see growing and getting out of hand but again he ran things
08:05one way I ran things another way
08:07we knew we knew from our investigation Terry was complaining about Meech about how everything he did was flamboyant put
08:16them all at risk
08:17and at this point we started to exploit that unhappy relationship between the brothers
08:24there's cars getting pulled over and certain people are getting arrested we're playing the chess game
08:29if you get an informant that wants to cooperate send them back out with misinformation
08:33this one said something about this one maybe this one's trying to kill that one
08:38I heard somebody saying like oh well I felt like if I get under this brother I was making more
08:44and I get under this brother I was making more so they divided them
08:49misinformation is crucial whatever you can do to bring chaos into the organization because that's when alliances break down
08:56and it also begins to weigh on the organizational leaders mind because they don't know who to trust
09:03it got out of hand because you're watching people telling him fuck your brother fuck this brother oh he said
09:10this for me said this for some people it became if I can keep them separate it's the more I
09:15can get so
09:16never underestimate another guy's greed some would be with Terry for a little bit and then get pissed off
09:22about something how long I get to stay there and rest none keep it moving because I need you out
09:26here all right yes sir and then they go to Meech or they wanted to be a party person and
09:32they were at
09:32Meech and they're like we're gonna get caught and they went to Terry's you could see the stress coming
09:37on Terry sometimes just worn out you don't know who to trust it's a great technique to take two leaders
09:45of
09:45an organization and pit them against each other and that's where they become extremely vulnerable and
09:52people make real mistakes I don't think Meech took business serious enough he was right back partying and
10:07getting careless and sloppy and the feds was watching the whole time I was really upset and one day we
10:17were leaving one of my stash houses that was around the corner from Meech house so I pulled up so
10:22I see
10:23this big tour bus in his yard we go over there and we ringing the doorbell on the gate no
10:30one's answering
10:33we're approaching the house doors unlocked when I walk in all I see is massive scales of drugs massive
10:43piles of money everybody's high on ecstasy the music's loud Meech is not there
10:52it was over there you know having a little party or whatever had a few chicks over there
10:57I didn't even know T's going over there and it's like eight of us nobody hears us walk in the
11:02house
11:03and when I turn to right go in the kitchen I see half naked strippers cooking popping bottles drinking
11:10and when they finally see me everybody's eyes just kind of got big and looked at me
11:19so I yelled at J-Bo being second in command they were doing sloppy business nobody's paying
11:25attention and the ships about to sink out here J-Bo was thunder boss or second in charge
11:32which is where the nickname J-Bo comes from junior boss he was more tied to Demetrius than he was
11:39to
11:39Terry Terry got married and came over to the to the mansion took his chain back from me I got
11:45a chain
11:46that I was going to buy from but I haven't paid for it yet I don't know what was said
11:51or how it went but
11:52T ended up taking his chain he's like man you don't deserve the chain boom boom snatch the chain
11:57back whatever and told him you know they had some words you know what I mean I ain't motherfucking
12:02get my chain back here take your chain I don't need it he got Meech on the phone and Meech
12:08said hey
12:09man whatever going over there that's my house get the fuck out of my house Meech told me and Wayne
12:17and
12:17fucked he was that was his words I definitely felt like the domino effect was gonna happen with that
12:25incident in California I just was upset hurt to see my brother my big brother going out like that
12:35this was the straw that really broke the camel's back
12:39at that point they really divided I knew that was the end
12:47this call is from an inmate at a federal prison Demetrius Flannery this is some bullshit
12:54he's making me responsible for whatever J-Bo and his crew you know what I'm saying
12:59they figure like my flamboyance they're gonna fuck everything up when it was them
13:03my brother running his big mouth on the fucking phone you know what I'm saying
13:07that's when we kind of totally went our separate ways
13:11I never understood how people could sit around and watch the division of two brothers
13:20my brother died in 2003 once I lost my brother tragically I realized dang I'm not gonna hear
13:30from him again we're not gonna hug we're not gonna laugh and I would always share that with Terry if
13:37something happens to your brother you'll really understand and that was the thing they never understood
13:44good Tony's from losing her brother I guess she would try to push for me tonight to kind of rekindle
13:51our relationship because we never knew the feeling of a loss so I could definitely give her credit for
13:58that trying to keep us close actually giving us a heads up we're gonna need each other later so we
14:06should speak again at the time I didn't understand it you know you could see the decline in the
14:12relationship decline and everything even with me and Terry it was like a person that that I didn't
14:20know anymore I was just once he lost that relationship with his brother too it took the turn Terry and
14:30Demetrius were no longer on speaking terms in the last year or two of BMF's reign they were operating
14:36underneath the same black mafia family umbrella but we're operating from that point forward completely
14:43separate when you divide like that police it this is what they mean it's what we need you know thank
14:51thanks guys the schism between the brothers was the next big huge watershed moment with all the stuff
14:59the meets got going on and I got going on I figured we was being investigated and I'm trying to
15:07duck the heat
15:08when Demetrius and Terry officially split Terry rebranded himself 263 when I came with the idea to say hey man
15:19let's just chill with the BMF stuff for a minute and do 263 at a certain point we started seeing
15:27references to
15:29three-digit number that Terry was using it changes the name if it changes the name of the organization
15:35they gotta start a new investigation so we can stop doing BMF for a second and just do 263 yeah
15:43to be
15:43frank I'm not sure how they've got that information names or what you call the organization has nothing
15:49to do with it at all it gives no clean start whatsoever we never stopped looking at this as one
15:54criminal
15:54organization and I'm like 263 what is like a birthday a security number combination to a lock or something
16:04BMF is 263 on the keypad it was a way to buy time and discreetly still called the same thing
16:13those who
16:15knew knew those who didn't didn't as soon as that fractured happened and you start believing you're
16:23above the law me and my guys are doing this you and your guys this is like counterproductive man you
16:28know I mean you know we just mad at each other call ourselves mad at each other right now for
16:33for bullshit really they're separate coalitions of people and the armies are starting to posture
16:42against each other and that's when we come in and we come in and we just push that apart in
16:47any way
16:48that we can so Demetrius at this point was seeing life through a kind of a hazy lens of his
16:55own making
16:57he was popping a couple pills of ecstasy every day it went from just doing it at the club to
17:04doing it
17:04when you wake up in the morning and things were going off the rails
17:14a distraught mother talking about her 23 year old son after he'd been shot to death in a midtown
17:20parking lot Atlanta police tell us it started with the fight between four or five people behind the
17:26velvet room on peach tree so in 2004 the velvet room was a really big popular club in Atlanta I
17:35went there myself so I know that the velvet club was big Neil Daniels was Demetrius Flannery's number
17:42three in charge L Daniels was a man that was very diminutive in stature but had a volcanic temper
18:01they called him Joe Pesci or Tommy D because L Daniels behavior reminded them of the Joe Pesci
18:09character in Goodfellas why don't you go fuck yourself Tom
18:17Bill Daniels had drove his Porsche into the parking lot and bumped into an individual
18:24Roshanable Prince Drummond and there was a dispute words were exchanged and then they started to fight
18:31during the scuffle I think Roshanable fell to the ground somebody fired a shot in the air
18:37I'lls Daniels went to his car and got his gun and shot Roshanable dead Bill Daniels executed him
18:43in front of the entire parking lot of people put him on the ground and put two bullets in the
18:47back
18:47of his head it was only 23 years old and he was a very good kid Bill Daniels was one
18:56of the top
18:57echelon guys at BMF so that was something that the government could hold against him
19:10probably was the beginning of the end because now you got violence with it so you kind of put a
19:14spotlight on yourself the velvet shooting was more chaotic it was more violent it had no purpose
19:22there's pressure on the top we got to wrap this up because the shooting also symbolizes the unraveling
19:28of the organization people starting to take things into their own hands and law enforcement saw that
19:33and it was time to get moving really at the very beginning of the BMF investigation it was like
19:41crawling and walking and uphill and at a certain point we got to the top of the hill and then
19:48you're
19:48rolling the boulder down the hill and then you're running to try to keep up it went from zero to
19:54a hundred
19:55in the blink of an eye you had years if not a decade when there weren't arrests there weren't raids
20:00to
20:03stop after stop I look in the rearview mirror the fucking state police is like a little to my bump
20:10bust after bust confiscation after confiscation police pulled me over in the car and they took
20:20like over a little over $600,000 I believe we're in a high-end store when I start seeing these
20:29agents
20:29like you know peeking around the corners and watching us and I'm telling Terry we're being watched we're
20:36being followed we actually just bagged up and actually fled throughout 2004 and the first half of
20:422005 you had BMF lieutenants being pulled over arrested on a regular basis this is serious they're
20:52here we got to start pulling back as the BMF case started to mature we had a nucleus of agents
21:02around
21:03the country at the same time there were tremendous partnerships that don't often exist in drug
21:10investigations we convened coordination meetings where we'd have everybody fly into different
21:15locations to get anyone who had an important part of the case so that might be 10 different offices or
21:22more and everybody would put their cards on the table talk about what they had
21:34all these agencies actually cooperating with each other meeting with each other sharing the
21:39information following the money was my job putting together pieces of a puzzle you know looking at all
21:46the different financial transactions and trying to paint the big picture that damn tax guy Frank was
21:52something else man sheesh jewelry money everything same thing did with Al Capone and we started to pull all
22:01those reports and realize that this this thing was out of control it was it was pretty massive we coordinated
22:08arrests you coordinate your enforcement activity we had wiretaps from other districts we had informant
22:14testimony we had surveillance and phone stuff to put people together started to build a really really good
22:21historical conspiracy and it went on for another year and a half we had information we had gathered
22:33you're trying to get organized and all of the evidence all the seized evidence the arrests if you look at
22:40each one of those violent acts gun arrests drug arrests started to get a little bit of shape to the
22:44thing all
22:45the money seizures gun seizures drug seizures when you have a drug organization where they had a they
22:50had a CCE which is a continuous criminal enterprise it's Ricoh or CCE neither statute is used a lot they're
22:58reserved for very high-level complex criminal organizations the Teflon Don may now spend the rest of his life in
23:05prison El Chapo found guilty of drug trafficking and money laundering the BMF investigation was crying out for a CCE
23:13when you have a CCE case the ingredients in need is is an organization you have to have someone who's
23:20a
23:20director of the individuals part of the group for example you have a leader who has drugs or who can
23:26get
23:27the drugs there needs to be a substantial amount of drugs distributed we're talking about hundreds of
23:33kilograms and thousands of kilograms another element that's required is that there must be wealth to
23:46generate it we're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars millions of dollars that element was there
23:51some of the estimates are 260 270 280 million dollars that's a pretty substantial company so the
24:00smaller arrests the bigger arrests it builds a jigsaw puzzle sometimes we have to create the pieces
24:05sometimes we have to find the pieces we put the puzzle together and it creates this picture of
24:10the organization and that's our main goal all of the difficult work early on to scratch and claw for
24:18every piece of evidence once in a while good developments occur on their own Eric Slim Bivens who
24:26was a Detroit lieutenant that come out to get Terry and take him to a video shoot Terry wasn't a
24:33big fan
24:34of flying so Terry Slim Bivens and Marlon Little Dog Welch they drove from LA to Detroit a local police
24:44officer found a legal reason to stop a vehicle Terry Flinnery was in and I don't believe the officer
24:50initially knew that Terry was in the car Terry had in his possession half a dozen different driver's
24:56license in a half a dozen different names none of them saying Terry Flinnery he did a very nice
25:02roadside investigation found probable cause to search the vehicle so they pulled us over and they're
25:10searching the car they were going through our bags they find the Bible and five million dollars worth of
25:16jewelry and 20-something cell phones I mean this was diamond encrusted jewelry much of it that had
25:23been designed and made by Jacob the jeweler for Terry Flinnery and others how did they get the jewelry was
25:30the
25:30jewelry stolen was it purchased but with drug money if you don't have a paper trail of legitimate income
25:36to explain to the government how you paid for that according to the law you are automatically assumed to be
25:43doing something illegal and they say yo we gotta take you in after running the computer so they take
25:50us to the jail and they uncuff everybody with me they leave me handcuffed to a chair and we're in
25:58this
25:59station six hours and finally I said what's the hold up and they said well we were waiting on somebody
26:06and they
26:08uncuffed me and I go in this room and I see this agent flipping my ID is this you I
26:17said no my name is
26:19Terry Flinnery so he said man I couldn't believe it was you I had to come see myself I flew
26:25down from DC
26:26DC you're a ghost man you don't get stopped it's good to finally meet you anytime they hold you in
26:34a police
26:34stop for six to eight hours and two agents fly in there's something major going on
26:50keep going
26:53so
26:53so
Comments