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08:35It wasn't until I was extradited back to Michigan that I had a clear understanding of what
08:42was going down.
08:43My attorney had briefed me how this whole thing was planned out.
08:48Terry and Demetrius were charged by a federal grand jury as principal administrators of
08:54a continuing criminal enterprise.
08:56That put them in a position that if they went to trial and lost, the sentence would be mandatory
09:00life.
09:01The case against Demetrius wasn't nearly as strong as it was against Terry.
09:06Demetrius was never caught with drugs.
09:08He was never caught on tape.
09:10For somebody that had a reputation for being reckless, in some ways, he was actually pretty
09:16buttoned up.
09:17We were more in the Terry vein, if you will, the way the evidence came in and sometimes
09:24you have to run with what you've got.
09:27Terry could take a plea or roll the dice at trial, but if he's found guilty, Terry's
09:33in there for life.
09:34When you get an indictment that says the United States of America versus you, and that is exactly
09:38what it means.
09:39The entire resources of the police authority of the United States of America are coming
09:43down on you.
10:07There was a firm belief within the DEA, as well as the U.S. Attorney's Office, that they would
10:13eventually be able to get Terry to flip on Demetrius.
10:17Let's see if we can get him to eat each other.
10:19It's just an insidious game.
10:21You could be friends and co-millionaires tomorrow and Joe and I come knocking on your door and
10:27all of a sudden you realize the gig's up and now you're flipping on your best friend.
10:31I thought that there was a chance that the pressure would cause them to cooperate on the entire
10:37organization and importantly up the food chain and back to Mexico and to the Sinaloa cartel.
10:45On the day the trial was supposed to start, the defense attorneys arranged for Terry and Demetrius
10:51to be able to have a face-to-face conversation for the first time in almost two years.
10:56When I met him by myself, I said, well, you know, they offered me a deal to try to tell
11:01on you and the cartel, he said, well, they didn't approach me.
11:07I mean, I remember being in the courtroom and the walls are pretty thin.
11:12And within five minutes, you could hear people hollering at each other.
11:16The perception in the courtroom was that Terry and Demetrius were yelling at each other,
11:22threatening each other.
11:24The prosecutors that were sitting there, I could kind of read their lips.
11:28They were like, this is it.
11:29Terry's going to flip on him and we're going to be able to put Demetrius away for the rest
11:33of his life.
11:37We know that's not true.
11:39That's just malarkey.
11:42It was never any argument, despite what law enforcement or attorneys, wherever they got
11:48that from, that they had us arguing and they knew they had us going against each other.
11:54That never happened.
11:55This call is from an inmate at a federal prison.
11:59Demetrius Flannery.
12:01I told T.S., unless mom and dad don't need to see us get no life sentence, life been good
12:07to us.
12:08It's going to take 30.
12:10Meech would never turn on me and nor would I turn on him because we were just too close
12:16and we were just against everything to do with ratting, snitching, whatever you want to call
12:23it.
12:24That was the least of our worries.
12:25I simply told Demetrius, I told him I wasn't interested.
12:29They underestimated the constitution of a man like Terry Flannery.
12:35And as the roof caved in on them, both Terry and Demetrius were true to their code of honor and
12:41neither
12:41gave up the other.
12:44I don't know if I was surprised, but I was a little let down that they did not choose
12:48to cooperate.
12:49They each decided to plea and the plea deals were 30 years incarceration each.
12:58When he was sentenced, I was there.
13:01The courtroom was kind of quiet.
13:02It was difficult because you had both of them taken away.
13:07It was like a drop of a ball moment because I guess I never really realized that you could
13:11get that much time for doing something like that.
13:16It's the beginning of the end for the BMF in Atlanta.
13:20DEA alleges brothers Terry and Demetrius Flannery are founders who began their drug trafficking
13:25career selling crack in the mid-80s.
13:29It was a hard pill to swallow, but I told them, you got to remember what I always taught
13:37you.
13:37You got to stay prayerful and you got to stay strong no matter what.
13:41Even though it was very traumatizing to hear that your boys are going to spend 30 years
13:47away from you.
13:49I was concerned for their well-being, worried about them going to prison.
13:54And their safety, yeah.
13:57This was real tired.
13:59We were going to be gone for a while.
14:01Meach and I was doing this so long that it was the inevitable either going to go to prison
14:06or die in the streets.
14:08I was tired.
14:09I was really just tired of having to run this operation every day, of having to be so evasive
14:17and hide from law enforcement.
14:20It was a form of relief in the arrest knowing that it was over.
14:26I didn't have to do it anymore.
14:31There were about 66 defendants indicted federally in Detroit as part of BMF.
14:37But then there were people indicted all over the US.
14:42When all said and done, probably upwards of 125 or more defendants charged.
14:49About 500 kilograms of cocaine were seized as part of the DEA Detroit investigation.
14:56When the whole case was through, millions of dollars worth of assets were seized by the
15:01government.
15:03They took everything.
15:05My houses and cars, jewelry worth millions of dollars.
15:09Yeah, man.
15:12The charges against Tanisha were money laundering in nature.
15:15She moved money.
15:17She facilitated money laundering.
15:18She enjoyed the lifestyle that a lot of money affords.
15:24And I got 57 months.
15:26In prison time, that's not that long.
15:27So when I first got there, I'm in a whole new world.
15:30No more 1,000 count sheets.
15:33No more king size bed.
15:34No designer clothes.
15:36It was like I had been stripped of everything.
15:43Prison was pretty rough, but not rough for me.
15:46I had ties to everything, good alliances.
15:49So I never had any problems with anybody.
15:53Prison is a place where if you know a lot of people, which Meech and I did from all over,
15:59not just one state, you pretty much had things your way with the officers and the inmates.
16:05You would think because I lived in Bel Air, Mulholland Hill, that it was some heck of an adjustment.
16:12It really wasn't.
16:13We come from nothing.
16:15Growing up in poverty like Meech and I grew up in, prison was a step up from that.
16:21I spent most of my time in prison studying the Bible.
16:25My focus was getting home to my children and not being an old man when I got home to them.
16:32I spoke with my son and daughter every day until the minutes ran out on the phone.
16:38They sent cards and letters.
16:40My daughter would send pictures.
16:42And they just was always there for them.
16:44And I think that helped them get through it.
16:47That was a hard time in his life.
16:50I wasn't allowed to talk to Meech all those years in prison.
16:55We would send messages to the kids.
16:58He sends his love, I send my love.
17:01Terry would get visited every year or two by DEA or a prosecutor.
17:06And they would promise him the world and tell him,
17:08we'll give you a get out of jail free card if you tell us all the secrets of the Black
17:11Mafia family.
17:12They were fruitless endeavors.
17:13Terry was never going to do that.
17:15He never did.
17:16I was focused on doing my time and going home.
17:20I always knew I wouldn't do 30 years.
17:24During the course of prison, it didn't take me long to put the mirror to my face and self-reflect.
17:30I didn't choose to blame others for my actions.
17:35My peace came in accepting the fact I did this to me.
17:43We are in the midst of a serious financial crisis.
17:47Congratulations, Mr. Pratt.
17:52The U.S. now leading the world in deaths with the coronavirus claiming more than 20,000 American lives.
18:05Prisons are scrambling to safeguard a population living in close quarters.
18:09So we're hearing about people in the streets passing from this virus.
18:13Over 2,600 inmates and almost 3,000 staff members of prisons and jails nationwide have now contracted COVID-19.
18:22COVID-19 is sweeping through the country's jails and prisons.
18:26We're seeing officers are taking off from work and not wanting to be around, telling people to not stand next
18:34to each other.
18:35People catching these viruses and actually passing away in the system.
18:40It created a sense of panic.
18:42Thursday, U.S. Attorney General William Barr said he has directed federal prisons to expand its use of home confinement
18:50for inmates.
18:51In 2020, I had about 15 years in, I was on the phone with a friend of mine and we
18:59were talking and the administration asked me to step to the back.
19:03They were all standing there with my file on their desk.
19:06I said, yeah, you're going home.
19:12Finally happened. My miracle happened.
19:14They're the leaders of the Black Mafia family and they're from Southwest Detroit.
19:19Terry Flannery is being freed because of the virus.
19:22This is the post on Instagram from Curtis 50 Cent Jackson saying Black Mafia boss Southwest T is out.
19:28Take your time getting to the bank. No hurry. Just have what you owe him by Monday.
19:40We're here in the house where it all started.
19:43That's a lot of memories in this house.
19:46My father Demetrius and I built this house from studs.
19:52We put the electricity in the plumbing, walls, the whole nine.
19:56It's a beautiful thing to be home and out of a prison cell and back where it all started.
20:03It was unbelievable. We were overjoyed that we got the opportunity to put our eyes and our arms around him
20:13again.
20:15So in 2020, I ended up coming back to Detroit.
20:19I heard that T was home. So I'm thinking I'm single.
20:23Maybe we can rekindle something, you know? And we started talking.
20:29We had been apart so long that we just would be better as friends.
20:35I got a chance to get my closure. I understood that our time and our season was over with and
20:42it was done.
20:45It's amazing that I can kill somebody and get 10 years or less. And here it is, drugs, nonviolent crime,
20:53you're giving me 30 life sentences.
20:56You know, it just, it don't make no sense.
20:59Just over the last year, you've had members of the mafia that have been convicted of 5, 10, 15, 20
21:09murders.
21:09And somehow they're walking out after 20 years. Black mafia family, you know, give them 30 years.
21:17Terry had no violent crimes. There is an institutional racism baked in to the American justice system.
21:25I hear a lot of talk about nonviolent drug crimes. And I have to tell you, I don't think there's
21:31such a thing.
21:32The drugs cause addiction. They cause overdoses. They cause overdose deaths. It causes misery.
21:42Did I play my part in that? Yes. At the time we was ignorant to what was being done.
21:48Me, tonight are the first generation crack dealers. We hustled through the eighties, the nineties and the two thousands of
21:58the coke business.
21:59I don't like to use the word regret. I use the word remorse because there are some things I wish
22:09I could have done another way.
22:12They did so much damage across the United States in terms of addiction, all based on greed.
22:19They are intelligent. They have leadership ability. They have charisma. They had business sense.
22:25They could have been anything they wanted. Maybe it's not too late for a redemption.
22:35Coming home, I realized when you come home, you don't have to find a job. You're going to have to
22:39find a place to live.
22:40You're going to have to learn to live what's really called normal.
22:45When I came out, I had no skills. I didn't have a college degree. I didn't have any of that.
22:50So what was I going to do?
22:52Did you consider going back to that life?
22:54Yeah, lots of times, you know, you consider it, but I knew I changed. I said, God wouldn't want me
23:00to do that. I changed my life and I'm going to stick it out.
23:03I've been home for a while now. My relationship with my brother Demetrius is great. We don't have any differences.
23:11Life's too short for that.
23:13I'm looking for my brother to enjoy life like I've been doing since I've been home.
23:18God forgives, but sometimes it's hard for man to forgive. Demetrius could be doing much more good out here.
23:27It's a lot of youth out here that are robbing and stealing and killing, and Demetrius could show them that
23:34this is not the route to go.
23:35You know, it's a different era now. I done changed my way of thinking a lot. Now I just want
23:41a chance to be able to live the legitimate life just as good as I did when I was doing
23:47a lot of things illegally.
23:49You got the same sentence. You should be able to get out in the same circumstances. Free Big Meech today.
24:00This week, after serving nearly 20 years in prison, Big Meech, who headed up the Black Mafia family, is out
24:07of prison.
24:09Big Meech will serve the remainder of his sentence at a halfway house in Miami.
24:14Big Meech is home, y'all. And now he has the opportunity to begin a new chapter.
24:19What you had from BMF from 1990 till 2005 will never happen again. Nobody will ever be able to reach
24:26those heights. Nobody will even try.
24:29For the next 50, 100 years, people are going to be talking about what Terry and Demetrius did.
24:34Some people might glamorize the things Demetrius and I did.
24:38When the story gets told, it's going to be BMF.
24:40You hear it in the music sometimes. But what the music don't reveal is the losses in your life.
24:49The glist and the glamour may look appealing to you. You may think, was the money worth it? I can
24:56honestly say no.
24:58The BMF legacy shows you that if you put some structure together and stick together, you can be successful.
25:06Now you get a chance to turn a negative into a positive and do positive things.
25:12BMF!
25:13BMF just changed a lot of people's lives in so many ways.
25:17I'm just proud to be their sister.
25:21And they deserve to come out of this on top.
25:25I wouldn't change nothing because everything was a learning experience, good or bad.
25:30Experience is the best teaching.
25:33I'm proud of everything. You know what I'm saying? My whole life.
25:37I am the man that I always wanted to be. And I'm him.
25:42Life today for me is pretty easy. I can share my story with people.
25:47I can educate the youth and people in the streets to try to help them realize that it's another way
25:54to value family, value freedom.
25:57In the end, we're choosing a new way of life.
26:02It ain't over for Black Mafia family.
26:33life in the end, we are currently a new school, a new one.
26:53¡Gracias!
27:16¡Gracias!
27:40¡Gracias!
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