‘Big Meech,’ Black Mafia Family co-founder, released from jail, finishing sentence in halfway house: report

Demetrius “Massive Meech” Flenory, the notorious co-founder of the Black Mafia Household crime enterprise, has been launched from jail and can end his sentence at a midway home, TMZ reported Wednesday. 

The Federal Bureau of Prisons tells the leisure media outlet that Flenory was transferred Tuesday from FCI Coleman Low in Wildwood to group confinement overseen by the Bureau of Prisons Miami Residential Reentry Administration Workplace. 

Flenory was arrested in 2005, and in 2008 he was sentenced to 30 years in jail after being convicted on costs associated to drug trafficking and cash laundering. In 2024, a decide shortened his sentence by nearly three years.

In keeping with the Federal Bureau of Prisons web site, Flenory is anticipated to be launched on Jan. 27, 2026.

Who was the Black Mafia Household?

The BMF was based in 1985 in Detroit and was led by brothers Demetrius and Terry Flenory. The crime syndicate was a drug-trafficking and money-laundering operation.

Newsweek reported that BMF had over 500 members nationwide and made greater than $270 million between 1989 and 2005. 

In 2000, the Flenory brothers constructed a cocaine distribution community by way of their Los Angeles–primarily based drug sources and their connections to Mexican drug cartels. 

In keeping with Newsweek, Demetrius additionally launched BMF Leisure, a hip-hop music enterprise that served as a entrance for the brothers’ cash laundering and different sources of revenue.

However in October 2005, the Drug Enforcement Company performed a drug raid, arresting 30 members of the BMF. Throughout the raid, $2 million in money and property, together with weapons and cocaine had been seized. That very same yr, the Flenory brothers had been indicted on a number of costs. 

Citing court docket paperwork, Newsweek reported that the brothers pleaded responsible in 2007 to working a seamless felony enterprise “involving the large-scale distribution of cocaine” within the U.S. from 1990 to 2005. 

Demetrius and Terry had been sentenced to 30 years in jail for being leaders of the BMF felony enterprise.