Black Mafia Family Members Sentenced to 30 Years SEPT 12 -- (Detroit, MI) - Robert L. Corso, Special Agent in Charge of DEA’s Detroit Field Division joined Acting United States Attorney Terrence Berg today to announce that Terry Flenory and Demetrius Flenory, the two brothers who led the large scale drug trafficking organization known as the Black Mafia Family were sentenced in United States District Court. Both brothers, originally of southwest Detroit, were sentenced after having pleaded guilty to being the leaders of a continuing criminal enterprise involving the large scale distribution of cocaine throughout the United States from 1990 through 2005. United States District Court Judge Avern Cohn sentenced Terry Flenory, 38, and Demetrius Flenory, 40, both, to 30 years for being the leaders of the BMF criminal enterprise. The brothers were also sentenced to 20 years for money laundering. According to the charges in the indictment, Terry Flenory, 38, and his brother, Demetrius Flenory, 40, operated a drug organization, named the "Black Mafia Family" (BMF), which dealt in multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine in the Detroit metropolitan area beginning in the early 1990's. By the mid 1990's, the organization extended its drug trafficking activities into other parts of the country, including Missouri, Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, California and Texas. USA.GOV | NDIC | ONDCP | DARE | REGULATIONS | FOIA | LEGAL POLICIES AND DISCLAIMERS |
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