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Starting in the 1970s and going in the early 1980s, a prolific heroin organization known as Young Boys Inc., or YBI, rose to power in the streets of Detroit, using underage kids as carriers. The idea was that the kids would have far less exposure to criminal charges and penalties than adults.
But the local police and federal agents used all their might to bring down the organization. In 1982, the group's leaders, Raymond Peoples and Butch Jones, and 41 top lieutenants were indicted. Jones was released after serving 12 years in federal prison, but was busted again for murder and drug charges. Some other members of the organization were later busted again, as well.
Subsequently, in the post-YBI era, other notorious gangs like the Chambers Brothers, Maserati Rick, the Curry Brothers, Pony Downs and Best Friends stepped up to fill the gap left by YBI. They turned to peddling cocaine and crack.
Now, comes this.
Darryl Terrell, a former member of YBI, has returned to drug dealing 35 years after the feds took down the organization.
Authorities charge in court papers that he built a cocaine empire involving his relatives, a grandmotherly drug mule and a soul food restaurant, Robert Snell of the Detroit News reports:
Federal court records and prosecutors allege Terrell applied a sophisticated business acumen to build a drug empire in Detroit that imported cocaine from Arizona and generated millions in profits.
The narcotics ring laundered drug profits through his family’s soul food restaurant, Café Sonshine, near the New Center area, prosecutors said.
“It looks like a café. It’s got a name on it that says Café Sonshine but it does not operate,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Kenneth Chadwell said. “You can’t go to dinner there tonight. You can’t go to lunch there tomorrow, either. It’s a fake business that Mr. Terrell and his organization uses to take possession of drugs, to have meetings and that sort of thing.”
