Full Movie Miles in the Life: The Story of a BMF Drug Trafficker

[Music] my name is jabari hayes i'm the proud father to a seventh grade honor roll student i'm the husband to a beautiful inside and out wife i'm a caretaker to my father who has parkinson's i'm the fortunate son of a mother who has 18 years clean from crack cocaine and alcoholism i'm a business partner in a collision center in atlanta georgia allegedly i was a member of black mafia family and trafficked thousands of kilos of cocaine across america [Music] this corner right here on baltic and hoyt like when you came home from school and you had your band instrument the dudes used to hustle the kids like yo shorty let me hear you play something dude get out with a sax he play something they give him a pass they were like trolls dude come home with a drum pump i came home with the oboe so i had to either fight or be fast i was lucky i was fast in the 1970s the drug of choice among the american public was powder cocaine however in the 1980s drug dealers began to convert powder cocaine into crack by 1984 crack had spread through america like a wildfire no area was more affected by the crack epidemic than new york city in the boroughs of manhattan the bronx queens and brooklyn crack cocaine took over entire sections of new york's low-income communities crack offered a longer high and was cheaper to purchase causing thousands of people to become addicted seemingly overnight no one saw this epidemic coming especially not the children of the parents who were sucked in by this addictive narcotic [Music] one of those children was jabari hayes jabari was born in brooklyn new york on november 16 1972. to lorraine hannah and mike hayes jabari has an older brother jerry from his mother's previous marriage not long after jabari was born his parents separated due to irreconcilable differences initially jabari's father did not know the condition in which his sons were living in [Music] the name of the projects i grew up in is gowanus projects in brooklyn new york specifically downtown brooklyn life in gowanus projects was like living in a war zone you always had to be prepared and in war zones when you speak people get killed you see people get stabbed you see people get shot you see people get stomped out you see people get beat upside the head with lead pipes it's just a regular day in the projects the last place i lived in brooklyn was in these projects i left from here to manhattan and gowanus projects i left from right here and then i went because uh you know the ordeal was living down here with her but the drug was just too much so i had to make a move when you pan and you look at the projects these projects are anywhere from four to 25 or more stories same bricks kind of same windows a little different but on every one of these windows there's bars when you go to the upper east side or west side when there's a condo it could be the same building there's no bars what's the difference and the doors that you hear in the projects in prison you've got to go through one big door because you're trying to keep people in and stop people from going out and then you just go through a series of doors when you first go into projects you go on the first big door it's a big heavy steel gauge door and then you go through another door if you walk up the steps you go through another door when you go to your project apartment you go through another big heavy steel door and it's the same prison mentality it's like you're preparing people from the projects so when they do go to prison that it'll be normal for them the crack epidemic affected people and myself and my family and the rest of my family that didn't live here it was the scourge of the earth it was worse than for all people it didn't matter if you were black latino or if you were west indian it was the scourge of the earth and crack basically decimated almost every family that lived in these projects it was it was no rules nobody cared because to get beamed up for scotty it didn't matter what was in your way you would get that hit it was different from heroin at least when people got on heroin they nod it out they nod it out and they would go feening for it but crack was all day all night till they collapsed and when they got back up they were on a mission they want a mission to get beamed up to scotty every second of their life you know we did a lot of little things that normal kids would do but then in the same note we would go home and have to deal with that ordeal with like you know 12 13 years old and your mom's a smoking crack and the house is full of people and meanwhile earlier he was at football practice or he was at school and then you got to go into the house to a whole another different world and it's 24 7 and it's seven days a week no it's nine days a week and it's 30 hours a day and it never stops we have food on the table before crack um my mother would go up to the school if there was an issue she would make meetings before crack my mother never stole my money before crack i didn't need television i lived it and then my mother was always candid and always up front and always straightforward and she told you look this is what i'm doing either i'm smoking crack either you like it accept it or reject it or move on when your mother is on crack she's not worried about if you've got clean underwear on if you ate today what you're doing at school if you brought a gun home she's not worried about if you stole a bike crack is primary for everything in her life as i walked home i knew crack was everywhere around me because i could see people feeding i could see the crack vials the red tops the black tops the blue tops the dudes leaned up against the fence all on the basketball courts on the handball courts you can see the rocks and i had to go through those doors and kids were playing but your mom was someplace else what i was thinking was who's in the house how long am i going to have to wait to get in the house and what's going down like is mommy home did mommy get busted did mommy get arrested where is she at what is she doing can i not come in the house because they're not opening the door because there's bullet holes in the door cause somebody to shout out the house so we're not coming home i can't even come home to my own house and the beginning of the 80s was really rough you know and i had to um i had to put my children with my mother i had to run from the place of comfort that i lived and i i just ran into all different type of snails and traps before crack my mother would never let people in the house when crack came everybody was in the house we had a booming crack house here you know drugs are communalistic people want to get high with other people that get high and every day it wasn't a day that went by that somebody wasn't getting high in my house the people i hung out with they all got high and so did i so in that project i let anybody that got high come in there and do whatever they need to do for all of us just to continue that insanity you know my biggest thing is why it has to be my mother i don't give a [ __ ] about anybody else it could be anybody else's mom but why mom you know she got why she got to smoke every day all day why i got to come home to a crack spot why i got to come home to 30 people i got to come home to people in the bathroom people in my room people sitting on their beds people sitting on the floor i would hang out all times at night because who wants to stay in a crack house i could hear people inside of the house when i'm out there and i still kick on the door because i lived there that was my house i don't care if they were smoking crack that was my house i put my key in the door and the chain would be on or the lock from only inside boom boom boom boom boom open up open up open up my mother would do the craziest thing i guess it was her last thread of dignity she was like what you want so i want to come home so she'd open the door and she put my hands over her eyes over my eyes and um she would escort me to her room my room and i never understood it because i could smell the the the butane lighter and the cracked pipeline and i could hit a sizzle of the crack cocaine when they were lighten it up and smoking it she walked me to my room and i stay in my room i couldn't come out the room because i guess she she felt like even if i'm smoking crack i still don't want my child to see me smoke and crack he used to scream in the hallway paper like he was a paper boy and i had company in the house we was trying to get out and i said everybody put everything up but they wasn't going they got their stuff up because they already took they hit and had they drink and i couldn't get mines and when he walked in the door slapped them that was the voice that was one of the bottoms for me it was one of the worst times of my life slapping him in his face like that for nothing tupac said you know even as a crack fiend you're a queen and even when my mother was wrong it didn't matter she was always right so if she was stealing we were stealing and even still to this day if you uh think you're going to do something to her in any magnitude that's that's not going to happen so we defended her yeah you know we had situations i'm not proud of that we had situations where we went in the storm when she was shoplifting we called it you know slang term boosting violence was fun for us that's all we did we practiced it every day because we had to be prepared for the streets and the projects you you can't be weak my mother would keep walking because we was all trained and drilled and as he's going low i would come with the tomahawk high and then we would cuff the guy and then at the time by the time he realized it mean jabari was down the block because we were lightning fast we were gone and my mother was gone and it just looked like some kids were playing around harassing you know [ __ ] with the security and then that's that little did they know that you know my mother had half the store in her girdle or bag or whatever the case may be and we you know he tried to stop her and we dealt with him i can remember waiting outside of that store understanding that mommy's [ __ ] coming home tonight and it didn't matter what security guard who it was how big how tall how strong we want to do whatever we had to do to wreck him so that my mother can come home eventually jabari's father had had enough he decided to remove the boys from the awful environment in an attempt to give them a better quality of life i was caught up in the grips i couldn't do nothing about it well actually i didn't want to do anything about it because i knew it was better for him to take him someplace so he can live normally than to be there with me and my insanity but he wanted to take my oldest son but he wouldn't go he stayed right there with me and he went through some insane stuff jabari went to saint louis because his father we have different fathers sons and to his family out there there was nowhere else to send me so i stayed [Music] going into his freshman year of high school jabari traveled over 900 miles from new york city to st louis missouri where he would come to live with his grandmother and his aunts when you're used to certain kind of people even though you go to a better environment my best friends were the toughest roughest say anything do anything ready to fight at the drop of a hat those are my best friends when i first became familiar with who jabari hayes was i was in i was a freshman in high school and he was a sophomore and he was from new york so he was different so everybody knew who he was i remember him hanging out with a crew of guys that were very first of all it was an odd mix of guys jabari had this group of wild guys it was stefan williams jermaine andre and anybody else they picked up jabari was was very nice and that's why we say when i say i don't want to call him a kiss ass you know what i'm saying because we still kind of you know knuckleheads you know he wasn't on that knucklehead [ __ ] he was very polite very nice polite to everybody but you can still tell he has something about him that he wasn't no punk he didn't even though you thought like these guys know everybody these guys are popular he would talk to anybody be be friends with anybody like he was good like that and jabari was smart he didn't he didn't get into stupid stuff you know we getting the stupid stuff he always kind of steered away from it you know he wasn't hanging with us on those nights the first time i met jabari hayes he had applied for pal's class and a lot of people said you don't want him he's a he's not a good kid he had applied i overrode everybody else and we accepted him into the class first time i met him i liked him he had a warm smile he had a lot of enthusiasm for life and he was funny he was bright and i just knew that there was potential there in pals we shared like life stories and we it's basically peer counseling inside the class as well when you're sharing you become closer because you're sharing and people would cry and all of that the first time i ever and only time i ever cried in that class is when jabari shared his story about his mom's you know drug problem and him and how he would respond to those situations issues that other teachers saw was that he had trouble focusing being quiet he was a little bit too exuberant too enthusiastic he was always respectful so i didn't ever see that as an issue with them but i think they just wanted quieter more malleable and students i remember going to uh going off to college i went to i started off at central missouri state and jabari and another friend andre they stayed home and i remember always coming home and when i came home i hung out with them and when i came back home to go to school they left and moved to atlanta after high school and a brief time at community college where he was a standout sprinter jabari landed himself a track and field scholarship to the prestigious morehouse college in atlanta georgia i was really very pleased with that very proud that he had even tried jabari came to morehouse on a uh college visit and um you know we was very excited uh about uh jabari because he was a person of a lot of interests you know he had a lot of uh energy and um what i seen that he was a young man that had a lot of potential not the potential to be the greatest runner in the world but a young man who could help a lot of the young men that was here at morehouse when i first came on my recruit visit a lot of the schools recruited me to run track but they recruited me to run track morehouse recruited me because they believed i had something to give and morehouse wanted me here because they wanted to build men and out of every coach coach hill was the only coach who didn't talk about track he talked about being a man being accountable being accountable for yourself and your community when i first met jabari literally you know it was like you somebody knew coming in somebody knew coming in right and you look at it you look at these cats and you try to find out you know is this a character or there's somebody you know whom really going to be down for what we're here for jabari understood some things about life he did understand about wrong and right so that means jabari had a chance he was real instrumental in actually me coming to atlanta and running for clark atlanta because he politic with the coach and he you know would take my times over to the coach and let him know what i was doing telling him who i was and talking me up and so he got me i got a scholarship you know it was partial but it was money uh to clark basically because he did that some students today feel that hey um i am privileged but you know jabari you know wasn't like that you know he knew that uh life was something he needed to take control of you know but he was going about it in the wrong way track gave me uh it gave me a purpose it gave me something every day that i could take all of my aggression out on through lifting weights through running whether it was throwing up or almost passing out from mileage or sprint workouts it gave me that that team that bond that camaraderie that brotherhood with my teammates that are still my friends today i got here didn't have anywhere to stay because my apartment wasn't ready so he uh was in new york when i arrived and he had a place that was set aside for him to stay um on morehouse's campus a school i ain't even go to and i came in and i crashed there until he got here and even a little bit after this brotherhood that morehouse has no other school has it no other place in the world is like that there's no other school in the world that is predominantly black men all college educated all trying to do the right thing one thing i try to have is the ears and eyes that are out there looking over these young men and it was about you know alcohol and stuff being around people that was getting high being around people that was uh uh doing some things they didn't need to be doing as far as uh selling selling items that they didn't need to be selling such as just such as marijuana also in atlanta was jabari's older cousin quentin known on the streets as cute q made a name for himself in st louis's underworld by allegedly selling high grade cocaine he used to come to one of the restaurants that we you know one of the nicer restaurants that we used to work at and um he you know he would come in driving porsches and stuff and tipping us twenty dollars and he started he started taking us out he would take us out and you know take us to strip clubs mostly and pay for everything he was real trustworthy at the time so it was easy for everybody to trust him we knew that that he was a drug dealer but it's so weird like how different people could like people could be different like obviously he was doing things that were not good but all we ever saw was this dude that loved crack jokes and have fun you know and show up in exotic cars with different women now the position was was quick and the position was uh on point you know approaching him approaching him letting him know why we brought him here letting them know that you know it wasn't it's not going to be tolerated before long jabari had to find a way to explain the money he was making so utilizing his passion for cars he started working for a local valet company and brought a few friends along with him for the moment the money jabari was making seem legit you know the point that i seen you know he made sure he covered his back and he didn't let anybody find out what was going on with his personal life the interesting thing about the whole valet situation is that we worked at a company that all the black guys that worked at the company were us you know all our friends but what we did know is they had a lot of accounts and we didn't get the good accounts in fact one some of the accounts that weren't so great we when we started working them we made them money making accounts i think that jabari i know jabari and some some of the guys felt like you know we were kind of getting shafted three of my jabari and two others two of my other friends uh started deciding to start their own valet company someone says hey how's your bar he got this valet company he's awesome i'm thinking it's amazing now granted looking you know you see the he had the s-class mercedes doing his time and you know and we had friends that thought he got a s-class mercedes because he had his ballet company and he had all these different accounts one of the first businesses jabari had was the valet parking that i recall and with that you know you just figured that you know wow i never knew valet parking would can you know do what i was doing for jabari you know for anybody you know i was like you know you're making some money doing that those contracts you know must be really nice you know so for me in the beginning it was about you know that's what it is you know and then you know the limit out of the out of that it was the limousine services and then i was like okay you're really doing it now it was a night i was at this club called the industry doing a limousine job and i saw my homeboy and my homeboy he saw the limo he saw me we dabbed up and he was like hey man uh i might have something for you call me so he gave me his number i knew what it was i knew what the call meant uh it was that time so i waited a little bit i kept contemplating it like i had a valet business that was doing good in the limousine business that was doing good plus i was doing what i always loved coaching kids in high school track and field and then i made the call by the end of the phone call jabari was invited to meet with some of the members of the notorious group black mafia family prominently known as bmf led by demetrius big meech flenery and his brother terry bmf was the largest african-american drug cartel in the country jabari would soon be hired to transport millions of dollars in cash and cocaine across the country jayboy sent them something down to what was out in dallas they had sent them down there and around that time he this is the first time we met he pulled up in a limo and he was you know dressed like a limo driver would be dressed so my first interpretation of him was he was kind of a square compared to what we would usually see on a daily basis you know you got to see how he how you adapt to his co-workers okay so that was a screening for jabbar he he come in there suited and booted people looking at them like man y'all show this the right dude for the job but the whole persona told you know he had the right persona about it he come in with the dress shirt the no the foiling wool jacket and all this here so the biscuits i guess what they call the shoes the hard bottoms so he i'm looking at them like man what the hell they hide that dude from where he come from what the hell he about to do but he was the right man for the job it never crossed my mind before that jaboy would get involved in an organization like that i always thought he was the one out of all of us that was gonna go straight that's gonna go the right way you know i never saw anything like that um you know just because of his personality whoa you got a new car now is 300 z mustard and black i was like sweet all right i just asked him i said let me help a brother out man i need some side gig or what whatever i remember today he we walked off the track and he said you know at the time walking up to he said come here let me talk to you for a second and he just flat out asked me he said um can you do 25 to life my face looked my total face just like nah bruh i can't do 25 a life he said then you don't want to do what i'm doing i mean he was fascinated with that because that's the life that we grew up with we grew up in a crack spot we sold drugs i brought them around people who sold drugs then i guess he figured it was his turn to return the favor but at a bigger bigger bigger scale i guess i could you say he one-upped me you know because he was teenager and i was doing it big but when we were young adults they were doing it like astronomical numbers that we couldn't even foresee like millions a million dollars a day so i've never seen anything to that magnitude i personally think and always have that the reason one of the biggest reasons why jabari ended up dealing with the bmf is because it was just too perfect like these guys were innovating what they were like how they the drug trade in america and so they were moving large amounts and so when you do that like you gotta send guys have to drive this stuff and all the guys that i ever met associated with them you know what they look like drug dealers and jabari did not like they called him you know they called us college boys and they called him nerd and that's but somebody smart said yeah he's he's a nerd and that's what we need we need somebody who can drive and not look suspicious and if he does get pulled over guess what he speaks like he's got a college degree and that's what we need i think the bmf would have what was attractive to him was definitely the brotherhood you know the loyalty you know which is like we were with our crew you know true loyalty doesn't know the law you know that's how it goes you know you're my boy somebody do something to you i'm coming to help you i don't care about whether it's against the law or not you know so i think he saw that laws he died he saw an opportunity to better his future you have billionaires who still want more so it's it's the nature of a human being it's the nature of a human being to always strive to want more so for me in that dynamic listening or hearing one of the people that i know that i care about tell me this is what i'm doing in so many words you know i understood it probably the thing that i liked the most or loved the most was the brotherhood the brotherhood and the invincibility that i felt and that we all felt you've got a hundred men that are ready to die for you is intoxicating there was a point when jabari just i don't know if there was a conversation where he just said hey i'm doing this but he didn't it was a point where he just wasn't hiding it like he was like this is what what i'm doing and i i believe that he did that so that you know like it's not so now at that point you're choosing to be around him or not when i first started making money with bmf i said i'm not going broke like all these other people that i saw i was just on save mode save mode save mode and meech pulled me to the side and said hey you're living in a 700 a month apartment and you've got four cars outside you can't throw in these people's faces man buy you a house get you something nice you didn't work hard you didn't risk your life and your freedom to live in a 700 apartment i bought a 330 000 house on 2.66 acres um 6 300 square feet out in the country so that when the robber boys came they wouldn't be able to find me when everybody else was buying million dollar houses i was like i'm not spending all of my money in the beginning i thought it could end at any day at that time i thought you know nothing lasts forever in the beginning and then as time went on and more money was made everything went out the door it didn't matter it was christmas eve christmas day and rewind every day anything and everything you could think of you had going to bed and waking up early even though you only got three hours worth of sleep because you could go in the gucci store and buy out the store whatever money could afford and you wanted it that's what it felt like in bmf you started to see like places that he would go or you know what kind of you know how much he would spend on dinner or you know and then take you out like you know we've been we've been friends for a long time and yeah we paid for a lot of things for each other because i didn't have money or he didn't have money but then when he couldn't just pay for everything if it's a you know it is a red flag so to speak everybody kind of heard of the bmf and then all of a sudden you're like in the vip with them so then it's like you kind of know like on some level you just know you know any time uh a hot brand new car come out it could be the hummer 300 z whatever it was jabari had it you know and it was nice a typical night out with bmf uh would probably start at the white house or would start from justin's restaurant and buckhead the attention would mainly be on us because at that at that time there wasn't a lot of bottles being bought it wasn't a lot of jewelry being worn so the attention was easy to be grabbed and we grabbed it every day is a party so you know a monday night could turn into a magic city monday so you know how that is you got money at you you got money at your will countless amount of money you got ladies you name it it's done the american life coming from a hustler point of view you know it's american life we were at a concert for one of the guys that my partner managed and i think we we might have been you know we're out of state somewhere and only so many people could get in they were talking about this crew was coming and they saying security needs to stop and they said you can't it's like a hundred of them or something and they say that name the black mafia family and i was just thinking how you know man would nobody ever roll up on my place talking about you know that they we have to let them in and i looked up and there's all these cars rolled up you know just wrote i mean just i was like wow you wouldn't be able to stop them every club that we went to if you were to vip there when we came you became a regular just like a regular patron of that club because we took over the club we've had twenty thousand dollar nights we've had fifty thousand dollar nights we've had hundred thousand dollar nights it just depends on the situation and the part of yourself they loved us for that and they hated us because if anything popped off it was going bad he threw a sly comment about a pharmaceutical salesman and i and i go oh [ __ ] he's saying he's a pharmaceutical salesman in front of andre's mother but at that time he was so confident in the world that he was in that he would never it would never end he felt like that time he was invincible he started to sort of as far as in a money sense he started to kind of act like all the drug dealers that we knew by all accounts life for jabari was going well he seemed to have it all except someone to share it with i met my ex-wife when i was in the atlanta university center the colleges in atlanta and what i liked about it was she was just a regular she was just a student she was trying to get a grade so she could do something better with her life she wasn't out there she didn't want my money she didn't care about my car she was happy with the little hyundai elantra that she had at the time [Music] her family wasn't pushing her to be with me because i had money she was just a regular girl who didn't know anything about anybody that didn't know me from just a guy that met her while she was walking down the street jabari immediately fell for the college beauty and if he wasn't doing runs for bmf he was spending every minute he could with a new woman in his life no matter what we were doing how great of a time we were having how bad of a time we were having always had at least two phones no more than four or five phones but one phone was dedicated to the mob and when that phone rang everything stopped if we were arguing argument was cease and desist once i got that call wherever i was at i was getting home or i was getting everything i needed if i was in a city i would buy a new bag i'd buy new clothes i'd buy new everything to create the profile of a limo driver there was never any goodbyes it was i'll see you later there was never any tears in front of each other and it was like she was sending me off to war and i was ready i drive myself where i'd have somebody drive me that i trusted usually my brother or my ex-wife a lot of people think that drug deals big drug deals go down in some dark alley or underneath some barely lit uh uh bridge near a train track near a river but they happen and you know quaint multi-million dollar or eight hundred thousand dollar houses you know you can't expose yourself and you've got a hundred bricks of cocaine and some squared off bag and you're passing it it looks too obvious so you do it right underneath their noses and quaint houses like this this is a house we call the club kitchen we love this house cause everything was centered around the kitchen it had a pool in the backyard this is one of our favorite places because the things that the elements that we needed we needed a we needed a house that was relatively close off the highway wasn't too many twists and turns a place where we could have a whole bunch of parking like on his cul-de-sac and a place where we could blend in when i would get to the house or whatever business that we were working out of it was everything rides on me i'm the one who straps the whole team all of the mob on my back all the mobs money is in this car all of the mobs work drugs cocaine is in this car so the the the atmosphere is is really relaxed but it's tense as soon as i opened the door i would check and i would smell for any weed that weed smell that real loud smelling weed it it permeates through your clothes and the worst thing you want to do is you're driving and you get pulled over and the officer says he smells or she says they smell weed you never want to get busted so as soon as i go through the threshold of the door and i smelt it i'd be like i'm not coming in that house i'm not touching nothing in that house i'm not setting my bag in that house i'll stay out in the garage bmf inconspicuously transported cocaine and money from atlanta to california using the fleet of limousines jabari's company had in its inventory a stretch limousine would probably be around seventy to eighty thousand dollars on the high end ninety thousand dollars well we would purchase that limousine but we'd spend an extra seventy to a hundred thousand dollars into building the compartments for the limousine it had a bunch of pumps actuators and uh they would basically disassemble the whole car they would gut the whole car and they would put in lines that looked exactly like the factory everything had to match all of our cars looked drove and everything just like a factory limousine just eyes were 70 to 100 000 more and mitch's thing was this vehicle was priceless if it cost us 300 000 we don't care because each time this driver gets pulled over and makes it away it's priceless to us you would go look through the car like the dog would look through the car and look for anything left out of place anything that shouldn't be there and make sure it's not there before you send him out there alone i look for every irregularity in that limo that car that van that truck that rv because i've got to think like a state trooper i've got to think like a sheriff i've got to think like a local yokel cop i've got to think what irregularities would make them want to search more so what i would do is i'd go back over and i'd make sure that i cleaned uh with ammonia i would go in between the seats and i would taste crumbs it would look i would see if it was lent or if it was drugs if it were drugs i'd make sure we cleaned the car again all the way through that little crumb outside of those sealed tight airtight compartments that chrome could send me to prison lawyer fees and we would lose the load millions of dollars in cocaine or two or three million dollars in cash so we took a a clinical approach to traffic and drugs because the dog smells the the air of the cocaine but if it's compressed and everything in there is airtight they can't smell it if they can't smell it they can't get it or hit to where it's at i took that very seriously i took it seriously for my life for my family's life and more importantly for the mom's money and for the mob's cocaine twice a week jabari would drive out to california 4 600 miles round trip alone along the way jabari would make stops at other bmf locations in alabama detroit st louis texas and tennessee [Music] i'm always thinking about where the police are where did somebody else get pulled over am i speeding i never go maybe a mile over the speed limit but i never want to go too low under the speed limit because who drives the speed limit so you've got to stay right there maybe a mile over my mind goes into what i'm gonna do with my money how much fun i'm gonna have with my money role playing in my head if i get pulled over how's my body language how is my hand is my hand shaking how do my facial twitches look when i'm talking to the officer i role play out loud and rehearse everything like you're uh um like you're an actor jabari would call me sometimes in the middle of the night in los angeles and i would like he would call me i would wake up and he would start he'd just start talking and i would know that that meant he was driving and he was tired when you're in a car for 40 hours and you're going non-stop your mind is like truckers say your mind starts playing tricks on you and late at night like on the back of the semi trucks they're aluminum the refrigerated uh semi trucks how i started seeing skeletor skeletons in the back of these aluminum pickup trucks and on the ground it looked like phantoms just floating away and out new mexico in the mountains is just so surreal your mind is going crazy it's four in the morning and you can only listen to so many cds i started having passengers in the car and stuff and i had one passenger at first and then i snapped out of it and then maybe two weeks later i'd have two passengers new mexico and utah it might be a hundred plus miles between one exit to the other no food no water no rest stops no uh bathrooms or anything so the lines just start boom [Music] sometimes i would even call home and start arguing with a family member said about something in the past just so i could have some stimulation not to go crazy sometimes i would call a crew and meech would i don't care if it was four in the morning he would always answer he talked to me real cool real calm he dropped some jewels on me about what i was doing and cause i had i had everybody's money i had everybody's drugs so everybody was my best friend then he'll call you at 4 3 4 in the morning talking like it's 12 o'clock in the afternoon and i talked to him because i know at that time he just needs somebody to talk to to get through the moment he's going through your mind goes crazy when you're out there you lose part of yourself when you out there on the road each time jabari drove the threat of being pulled over in search was never far from his mind one of the craziest stops i ever had uh i was on the western portion of oklahoma city going out to california from atlanta i'm going to speed limit i'm watching all these police i'm behind a tractor trail and i get over i use my blinker and woo they pulled me over okay be cool it's time to shine don't panic everything your life depends on it so i say be cool man be cool on the low i check my hand hands not nervous i look up i'm not panicked so they say sir can you step out of the car sure no problem step outside the car they were like we were curious how did these limos look on the inside can we look in he said look not search it's a difference he said looking sure no problem i slide in the car and i turn on the lights i'm like look you've got the mirrored ceiling with the fiber optics like the solar system there you've got the mood lights right here and so but i notice them when i get in the middle they feel on the seat they feel on the seat to see if the drugs is in the seat drugs ain't in the seat is behind the seat then they feel on the back seat the bench seat they feel on that seat so then i sit in the back i'm showing them how the what i'm really doing is i'm showing them that this stuff works this isn't fake so i'm showing them how the the private privacy glass goes up and down and i'm like look well maybe if you're in this limo and a driver is cool you can look up at yourself when she's doing and then i have them laughing they're laughing oh i'm having fun with the police they felt the seats and they looked inside then they say well what does the trunk look like is it the same like my crown vic i say yeah they're basically the same as a v8 4.6 engine everything's basically the same let me show you so i pop the trunk they go to the trunk and they pull back the the little carpet to see if they can see anything back there and then they feel the tire to see if the tire's too hard if i put some drugs in the tire and then i'm like look i've got a lot of space but i let them see my bag is open i keep it like that on purpose so they don't have any reason to look even further they say wait right here i'm thinking always going down what do they have me waiting for guy comes back he's like look i'm gonna give you a warning this time and i told him i was going to my friend's wedding he said look you have fun at that wedding he gives me a warning you know what i do i give him my card and tell him if you ever in atlanta i sure will take you and your friends out but the story didn't end there when i get in new mexico i get a call pull over pull over i'm like i'm not good what what i'm not going to pull over i'm thinking man i just got away from the police i'm cool he said man pull over you got to go back to the spot i pull over at this holiday inn it's in indian country and then he's like man we forgot something forgot something i'm thinking i'm i'm i'm spun right now what did they forget i didn't check the car what happened but the police were in the car so soon as i go out pulling the holiday inn i open up the door and i see it it's blending in but i know what i'm looking for is 50 100 bills and i was showing this officer and that officer everything they were focused on me and the lights and squeezing the seat and squeezing the bottom part of the seat and the back part of the seat they missed it my career would have been finished right there five thousand dollars because they wanted to go to magic city we joke about it now but it wasn't funny then most times jabari was stopped he was able to talk his way from suspicion but him eluding police only further boosted his confidence and eventually his luck would run out the time i got stopped with 586 000 that was the fifth time i had been stopped um it's a bad night i was i wasn't prepared um the house that i stopped at it was taking them too long getting all the money together i had to wait for some hours i didn't get any sleep so i got on the road i got about half hour outside of st louis and fenton missouri and i was crashing it was probably maybe two or something in the morning so i went to this hampton inn and i talked to a little zip-faced uh guy and i told him i wanted to keep my limo up front i wanted to make sure it was safe so i got about four hours sleep when i came out i saw the st louis county squad car they were just circling i thought something about it but i thought maybe they're just circling because they always go through hotels to make sure nothing is happening so when i drove out i saw that he was kind of following me says nothing i've been stopped four times before it's just police and then soon as i went down the entrance ramp and i got on the highway the lights the cherries were popping and i pulled over this was no regular stop i pulled over a squad car squad car conversion van uh suv another car was probably like within two minutes and i could see the cop was nervous when he asked me for my driver's license and my insurance and i was like this ain't i knew it wasn't right police usually aren't the nervous ones it's usually the driver and when they pull me over it was instant it got me out of the car and they put me in this old like 1987 with like shag carpet van and the guy's trying to profile me and ask me all these questions hey buddy he's like real nice like hey man that's a nice limo thank you sir he's like where you going i tell him where i'm going oh yeah really been out there too how long are you going to stay so i'm playing along i know what he's doing he's like so do you have any contraband or any large sums of money in a car or u.s currency i'm like of course i got money in the car i was like i probably have about three four hundred dollars on me oh he's like then i seen that that cynical look you know what i'm talking about everything changed and i knew what it was then i was like i've got i played along i've got 3 400 in my pocket i've got some money in the car but what do you mean he's like you don't have any large sums of u.s currency no sir he's like look you can really make this easy on yourself right now and i'll help you as much as i can help me help me with what i don't understand what you're saying so then i see a bunch of them walking towards the car they don't look like police they don't look like uniform cop they've got plain clothes on hunting gear everything so then i see him go to the car so the guy says look you ain't gonna try to run away from here are you say run away run away for what so he gets out the van and he starts talking to the guys he says you want to tell us where this money is at i said yeah the money's in my pocket what do you mean what i wanted to tell you it's a money in a car but if you want 10 i'll give it to you now say you're a [ __ ] wise guy huh so then they're in the car for another half hour i could see the the limo just moving back and forth one's in the front on this side another one's in the front they're in the trunk they've got the doors open so i'm like then the moment when the world fell out when i saw him with that saw when i saw him pulling it open i stayed cool but i knew it was going down they got that saw out and i could hear it what they were doing they couldn't they couldn't get to the compartments the car held up they cut the car open i seen one guy come out he had like a trucker hat on but some hunting thing on it and he had the bag of money he had the saw he came out banged on the door [ __ ] you [ __ ] you i looked like something was wrong with them like what so the guy says you sure you don't want to talk to me i said i have no idea what you're talking about so they took me to st louis county jail they let me out now if i was ever nervous that was the time i was nervous i didn't know what was gonna happen like because i was free but i had been busted and i didn't know how the how the family would react towards me and it wasn't it was a different cold shoulder it was a just no communication so i didn't know if somebody was coming to get at me or it was i was retired or i was left out to i just didn't know any things the funny thing about nietzsche's he didn't move he didn't say anything he just sat and waited he's a smart guy because fools rush in and if i had snitched or if i was bad they would already been at them they just showed up in my house and then picked me up drove around the city switched cars did those old secret squirrel stuff they got me to the house and i didn't know what it was mitch was so cool he said my [ __ ] plans doesn't change less than four weeks after being stopped jabari was back on the road instead of using limos this time big meech made the switch to luxury rvs because they could hold a larger quantity of cocaine i was in this for life it wasn't uh i'm gonna make ten thousand i'm gonna get out i'll make a hundred 000 i'm gonna get out [Music] it was this life prison death wasn't nothing else in the rv jabari made five successful round trips to la and with that jabari got back in the good graces of the organization and his confidence returned once he was released from his first arrest he proposed to his longtime girlfriend and was one trip away from retirement easter sunday april 11th easter sunday and i was i had plans to go home and spend easter sunday my son's first easter sunday he was on this earth i was soon i was like 100 something miles outside of uh st louis in a little town called ralla missouri phelps county when i got pulled over by a phelps county uh police officer the next week it was i was just shocked that he was back in the car that fast like really maybe back in the car at all but definitely that fast i believe i talked to him at some point between those times i remember thinking when i was talking to him that he didn't sound like he was done and he didn't sound like it was like huge like it was almost like no problem it's all good it was like almost like it was a mistake like oh yeah you know that was kind of the tone he was talking to him he didn't say those words but it was kind of like you know it was it's good i'm cool you know and i was like wow that's like i wouldn't have been cool i'm coming down the hill and then i see this local cop he pulls out for some reason i just didn't think he was pulling out for me so he pulls me over when he pulls me over he asks if he can step in says sure you can step in no problem he says well better yet you come out no problem i give him my id give him the registration uh it's a tennessee id he takes it back everything checks out uh while i'm on the while i'm inside of the we just have the the the chirps it's the next tails so i chirp everybody and let them know what mile marker i'm at i just got pulled over but i'm i'm being cool so he asked me to come to the car then he starts talking same good cop thing oh man yeah you know just recently i pulled over britney spears's uh driver to her bus and he had 1500 pounds of weed i'm like really hmm he's got me in his car he's like you like to party i was like yeah of course i'd like to go out to the clubs he's like no do you like to party so what kind of party do you mean he's a real grease ball so he's asking me his questions i mean like what do you mean he's like you know and he's talking about for a lot of people partying means do you like to sniff coke i was like no he's like do you have any of that stuff in there it's like no sir he starts asking more questions and he asked me if he can search the fear i said no sir that's my personal that's my home right there this has been my dream i'm traveling cross-country he says you're not giving me permission i said no sir i was like this is my home so he calls up another car and i could see it's a guy he looks like he's ex-military the way his hat is pulled down on his head he's got a dog and the dog is cranked up he's smacking the dog around and getting the dog they get the dog hype so the dog goes around and the dog sits and barks or something then he goes on there and he finds the drugs he's like yeah you should have told me the truth you should have told me the truth so i'm gonna tell you i've got a hundred plus kilos of cocaine in the vehicle so then they start they take me down to the station the name was uh kenneth tory collins that was me and that was my story and i was sticking to it she says he sits me down i said so you're going to take me to whoever you were going to take those drugs to i lean back in the chair lean down i say if you want to if you want to take me back to the cell you can i don't know anything about anything he said you're you're a wise [ __ ] guy said no sir i just don't have anything to say he says okay he gets a pen gets a white piece of paper and he draws he writes 360. scratches it and draws a line with an arrow to zero he said you're gonna get between 360 months he said and that's 30 years in prison just so you know if you can't count between zero months you sure you don't want to help yourself [Music] i don't know what you're talking about officer you can take me back to my cell i was sleeping pretty good so that's your story and you're sticking to it then about an hour later [Music] you can tell the respect that people give to other people to know who's the boss then the fed the federales came everybody in mind said was get him out that's the that's the i mean that's the like the main thing everybody worries about when anything happens because it happens i mean it's just all a part of what we're doing so the main thing is the driver get the driver i mean everything else is i mean it's gone anyway so the main thing is get what you can get and that's the driver my heart dropped it was it for the for the amount he had got we thought it was over for everybody but you know you can't really say what a man gonna do in that situation when i found out that he had been arrested and i was very disappointed but i thought he can overcome this too because i know he has he has the heart to do that after i got to the county jail back in those days people still had home phones and i never forgot a friend of mine's home phone number and i called them and i i didn't give them specifics but i said hey i've been i've been busted man and i need a a lawyer and i just remember saying call scott rosenberg because i remember getting out of bed and i was like call scott rosenblatt make sure maybe the next day after i was in the county jail it seemed like scott rosen blew more scot-free rosenbloom was like a giant i got a call probably at night it was probably on my cell phone somebody reached out i think probably for him because he was incarcerated and i met jabari started working on the case it was pretty evident to me i sort of knew the players because he was stopped at a location that i was familiar with and obviously you know it was a noteworthy because the allegation was that there was a significant amount of narcotics contained within the vehicle he came in there like matlock he was like bigger than life he came in there it's like hey man how you doing i was surprised because he seemed not who i would have connected to be involved in that organization he was seemed to be an athlete well-spoken soft-spoken you know sort of a nerd he sure was happy after i had sat and rotted in the county jail and he just exuded confidence and he was just like hey so what's going on you all right he's like i'm scott rosenbloom you heard of me and so because in every county jail in saint louis this guy is the biggest lawyer um the biggest celebrity super attorney the biggest thing in the midwest and he's like yeah i was like yeah i heard of you he says i'm your lawyer he's like a lot of [ __ ] drugs huh did you talk to anybody i said no don't don't talk to anybody not anybody on the phone anybody there they got jailhouse snitches everything don't talk to anybody did you talk to anybody said no yeah i read the report i know you did good job buddy look once you get out we'll be in touch i was like i'm thinking in my head stay cool i'mma get out i just got caught with 586 thousand dollars and then i had a fake id and 103 kilos of cocaine i didn't think it was possible and next thing you know two days later i was out we met a block away from his office in uh clayton missouri and we went to morton's for dinner and i'll never forget he was cool as the fan he's like yeah we're gonna work this case you want to fight so we can do it he said you know i've beat him before he said you know i beat this cop cop on a one ton uh weed case he's like what he's like yeah i beat the cop yeah i beat him before he was just so confident and it wasn't even arrogance this guy was like he just told me he beat the feds on a one-ton weed case and it was the same cop i felt like man i might could beat this i won't have to go to prison so he's like yeah just just go home get everything together and i'll give you a call it was just like that after zubair gets released he's planning a wedding and i'm i'm reading in a newspaper about him being having all these drugs of at the time they didn't say how much they just said um over a million dollars worth of cocaine 103 kilograms of cocaine in what i believe was a maserati mobile home then he asked me to be in his wedding and i'm like i couldn't he's my friend so i can't say no but in my in my gut i want to say no because i'm like why is he alive and jabari explained to me that he was not he his position was not jeopardizing their position whoever there is and we didn't talk about who there was but he just said his position is not jeopardizing them which means to me in layman's terms he's not snitching okay i understand that and so because i understand he's not snitching he i felt safe for being in his wedding we're preparing for the wedding flowers celloists food everything else and she gets the call i i knew her heart had to drop when i got out it was just elation she had probably cried multiple times every day that i was in jail waiting for bond but when i got out she was she was just all in she was all at that time she was all in for me the only strategy we had was to attack the stop because it would be hard to persuade a jury that you didn't realize that there was 103 kilograms of cocaine in your mobile home so absent that we had to attack the stop the probable cause of the stop which is what we did i was familiar it was in phelps county and there was a particular i think it was called the sugar tree exit and you know it was just a local sheriff that would set up like a trap there so i was sort of familiar with his techniques and i knew that he had some issues and he was just he drove around with his pet dog who was not qualified to make hits my first sentence was interstate trafficking and aid of racketeering in the eastern district of missouri st louis missouri jurisdictionally they can sometimes get a couple shots at the at the apple so to speak so what happened was because of the amount of the of the cocaine and this was before 2006 so the guidelines were mandatory so what that means is 103 kilograms would equal x amount under the sentencing guidelines unless you snitched you were going to get that amount i think without i think his guidelines would have placed him 50 and his guidelines probably would have placed him right around 15 years where this hearing took place is we we were able to expand what was called the detention hearing where they were trying to hold him without bond and we had sort of like a mini motion to suppress so the judge recognized some of the issues and suggested to the government that they're going to have issues on a motion to suppress at that point the government offered him i think what's called a phone count and a phone count is significant because instead of 15 your maximum sentence would be 48 months and because there was no weapon you qualify for the drug program so eventually you know that could lop off enough where you wind up getting out in like two years unfortunately unbeknownst to us he was involved in another prosecution out of detroit where they could prosecute him for other conduct involved with bmf they could not prosecute him for this particular 103 keys because that was litigated already that was essentially suppressed so because of that he was you know he got a he got i think a significantly reduced sentence on that too again without cooperating it was like it was nothing for him so when a news story broke it broke for like five days it was kenneth tory collins gets caught in a million dollar rv outside of st louis it wasn't jabari hayes and then three days later it came out jabari hayes this this this that and the way my picture was taken i took it like this so it didn't look like me plus i had a beard and everything else so people didn't think it or they didn't want to believe it was me and um so my cousin asked me she said would you do it again and i still was ignorant and arrogant i tell her of course i would you know why wouldn't i do it again what do you mean why wouldn't i do it again so i wish i would have lied to her then the day i was sentenced uh was november 19 2004 and i had been out on house incarceration house arrest so i went to the plea hearing they didn't uh remand me locked me up then and when i went to sentencing i thought that they would let me self-surrender like okay you've been sentenced to this amount of time and we'll send you a certified mail saying that you're going to go to this prison on this date at this time because i have been out for seven months and i remember having a conversation with him prior to going jabari was expecting to be sentenced go home and wait probably 30 to 45 days before reporting but what happened was on that day jabari was sentenced and surprised to the entire crowd he had to go that day so he didn't walk back out me personally i didn't think he'd snitch because i mean during the time me and him we we really got to know each other and really got to understand what we was doing and the consequences that came with it it was obviously a criminal enterprise but what was unusual about it is the people involved were not your typical gang-bangers they actually were very bright entrepreneurs that had they applied their brains and their effort to something legal i'm sure they would have been just as successful after jabari got picked up and arrested i remember telling my wife that i he had visited me in los angeles and i went to a house with him you know compound gate you know guys in there got a bunch of guys with white t-shirts and playing video games smoking weed there's pistols on the on all on the counters and i remember thinking after he went to jail like i got mad at myself i was like because that house got raided at some point and i remember thinking to myself if i if it had got raided the day i was there i would have went to jail i would have went to jail and i don't know if i had enough money to prove that i was innocent and no one would have cared like as far as prosecutors police they would have been happy to send me to jail it became serious when he got arrested i was like okay this is not this is really not a game and i thought i was only going to do 22 months with good time halfway house and the sentence reduction for boot camp because i was a first-time offender i didn't have a gun charge i had never been in trouble before i had never been in jail or prison before so i thought man 22 months i could do that on my head it's nothing and i can get in shape in the process but when i got there it was totally different i didn't do 22 months when i first was uh busted i had communication with meech and almost everybody else in the crew as time went on after i went to prison i had less communication but for us our bond is so strong with so many people that are in bmf we don't have to communicate a lot because we know where each other is and we know how we're cut i was extremely surprised there was that'd be like saying the valedictorian went to prison you know what i'm saying because that's what he was to me he was the he was the pure one out of out of all he was he was the good one out of all of us and i but i knew he could do wrong and i knew he could do something crazy you know like i said he wasn't a punk to me but to me he was a pure one and when i heard that i just i couldn't believe it you're not just like wow him out of all of us jabari when i heard it i was like and they told me the details there in the details of it i was like wow so is he okay you know um he said he's fine he's he's all right you know i said did they what did they do i mean i wanted to know i really wanted to know the details and on how jabari got caught but i got mad at him like how could he know he got a baby and this that like like forgetting that i knew all this time now i'm just like you know how and really because he had gotten caught like so recently like how could he be that stupid so i went to there too in my mind i'm getting angry you know like you know this is you know i'm mad at him probably you know again in retrospect i'm looking at it i'm probably mad cause i'm thinking i'm about to lose my friend forever so i tried to tell him to the best of my ability how to jail how to stay alive and how to stay out of trouble i mean yeah i knew what he was getting and i knew the facts of it and we just had to deal with it oklahoma city transfer center otc and i was so happy to be in a clean place it was coal i was on a steel bunk the room was real dark but it it was each room had a camera in it so they would never let the lights go all the way out and the guy was in the cellwood was on the he was back on a violation i didn't want to ask too many questions i definitely wasn't going to say anything about me my case or anything else and i couldn't sleep in them it felt like the minute i got to sleep it was the cell opened up and the guy hit the bunk like yo it's time to eat man [Music] i didn't want nothing to eat i didn't want to come out to sell i just wanted to get some sleep he's like nah man you got to eat man but once i got my wits about me i went straight to the phone and i didn't care the collect calls were 17 for 15 minutes i didn't care nor did my wife care and she was trying to stay strong first 15 minutes she cried maybe one minute of it and said call me right back call me right back we probably charged i don't know almost 75 dollars just in calls the first day and the second second night it really hit me that i'm in jail this is a hard bunk and this is real and i'm gonna be here for a while we did communicate i think uh maybe we he he he wrote me some letters i read his book he sent me his book i read it um and we talked sometimes you know not a ton but we did talk we didn't do no communicating he did his time he get it over with when i do my time i get it over with he didn't communicate with me my first bidding or either too much my second one but me and my brother my relationship was not a strength because of that it was understanding when jabari was away we talk let's say quarterly i i'm not really there's no you know definite time but we talk often i've got a theory when you first go to prison you've got all of these friends you've got this circle that's a hundred percent then after that first year goes down to like 75 50 then after that second third year out of sight out of mind it goes down to like a quarter percent and that's your that's your nucleus of people that are in your life and because when you first go in everybody's still like oh we miss him this this this this that and then it be you get all these letters you get all these cards keep your head up stay strong come on man keep it real we appreciate you then it starts shrinking and shrinking and shrinking and shrinking and you're left with this core the real people that need to be in your life uh my 11th month in prison and i was having such a good time the federal government the eastern district of michigan indicted me on a conspiracy to distribute five or more kilos of cocaine and the conspiracy to launder monetary instruments money laundering so i had two counts after i was 11 months in prison up in the eastern district of missouri you learn real quick you keep your eyes straight ahead you don't talk to anybody because you don't want nobody to say nothing to you and you keep it moving i'm never going to romanticize prison it's not the place to be i don't wish it on anybody but i was blessed to have prison jabari and i when we were talk he would talk about the glamorous part of what he was living when he was out like you know when i come home i'm gonna have this car when i you know i got that i got a i still got that watch and that you know i got this watch over here and it was it was that material stuff that stuff that he he had pride in my first 10 months when i was in prison i thought ah when i get back out i'll get a luxury car rental business and i'll just count money and i'll probably sell some weed or something like that i had no plan i still had plans to sell drugs to be involved with drugs some type of way like i i never thought that i would be away from bmf i never thought that i would ever get out i would ever be totally free and not that it was a bad thing i didn't think it was a bad thing either i just thought this is my life this is what i chose and i can never leave this you never leave this it's just a death so there's nothing to leave i'm just what i'm not around them but i'm still like i'm still and so is he whether he want to believe it or not we are still with the family so we'll never stop that it took me literally my third year in prison to say that i wasn't gonna sell drugs i wasn't gonna be around drugs i wasn't gonna do anything to get me back in prison it took it literally took me three years to actually say it and believe it that's when i started to turn my life around it was one of the first times i ever used my college degree i started teaching classes i would host slam poetry in prison i would host the talent shows i participated in plays i started singing in the choir i started attending church regularly but i think at some point in that vacation he realized that stuff didn't mean as much to him as his son did that stuff didn't mean as much as to him as seeing his father again at the time that stuff didn't mean as much to him as seeing his wife again and so i think as when he got closer to the end date he started to cherish that family time as opposed to that material crap he acquired while he was in that world at first i actually thought somebody asked me is like what do you think he's gonna do when he come home i go he's gonna go right back to the same business he was in private and to see him today is amazing because i also i i'm telling you i thought he was going to be a drug dealer again that's when i really decided that i was going to come home i was going to be the best man of god i could be and the best father i could be upon entering prison and after paying for his defense jabari reportedly gave over two hundred thousand dollars in cash to his wife for living expenses for the next seven years probably after my 18th month i was like so where's the money at like what's up because i'm still my mom is like where's the money at she's like we don't have any money i was just like when she said that it took the like we don't have any money like how could we not have any money like what did you do with it like you you don't have any money and that's when the visits started from every weekend to once a weekend to once every two weeks to once every three weeks to once a month then it went from talking every day every other day once a week so when the money went she went to charge it to the game it's it's part of the life [Music] after everybody was locked up and there was no more bmf members that were free i was in shock i just couldn't believe it you know because we really thought that it would never end that we were really above the law and we were really invincible and we weren't we were all in prison and we were scattered across the country on may 27 2010 jabari was released from the federal bureau of prisons in atlanta georgia no longer prisoner 309-57-044 jabari walked out on probation after serving five years six months and 19 days when he was released going into the halfway house i want to say i was probably one of the first persons he contacted if i'm not mistaken because i remember him calling me and saying hey thomas was cracking lacking you know saying something that nature and i was like oh man what's up brother you know and we talking and we talking he was like yo i'm gonna be home i'll be home by zabaa um you know i'm gonna come by because i got at this time what's a good time to come see you all and you know and that's the opportunity when he when you know outside of me telling coach hill that telling coach hill that he got locked up that was the second time i told then i talked to coach hill about jabari him being released and kochio being whom he is says thank god is he okay do we need anything and i was like well coach he's gonna come by he's gonna come by he'll say okay i knew a guy who owned a body shop and i had plans to go to work for him and so i i put everything in place and in motion so that as soon as i got out i'd have a job i knew jabari was a member of the bmf and didn't really know or understand what bmf stood for um he was just always a good person to me drug traffickers usually seem to be somewhat hood type of people rough gangster kind of kind of people which was totally different than jabari hayes was he was a regular nice family type of guy never never having weapons or anything to do or say mean about anybody well he was absolutely not the what would be stereotyped as a drug dealer or trafficker kind of person i was fortunate that my father moved back to atlanta so i had a place to live and i said whatever i did i don't care i used to always say i don't care if i'm under a bridge as long as i've got my son and i i can live under a bridge but i'm not going back to prison um i found him a job at a body shop and the job wasn't working out wasn't jabari's deal why it wasn't working out and i said hey jabari why don't you and i do a body shop together and he said yeah let's let's try doing a body shop and let's do all makes and models and that's what we did some four or five years ago still on house arrest but employed jabari fought for custody of his only child the child he rarely saw during his last years in prison after numerous court battles the judge awarded jabari with primary custody of his son with child support as he planned jabari was putting his life back on the path of the straight and narrow all we did was give that big brother hug we crack jokes on a little piece that was ron's ankle i mean that's how we did you know crack jokes about that you know i got this you know hey you know you know they i'm still locked up but you know but um we find humor in distress i understand and um there was no love loss i mean to me it was it's still the same jabari with the now he has another experience on this and it's that he can talk about you know that when i seen jabari i was very happy to see him that he wasn't destroyed while he was doing you know his time you know like i can see that the purpose that god has had for jabari had been learned why he was uh in there and i was happy for that that jabari was still strong and still had the the smile if you if you look at jabari jabari god they always have a there's always a smile it was really a home coming from me and that feeling i'll never forget it was probably one of the greatest moments in my life because it affirmed that i made some wrong choices but people still loved me unconditionally and it was a it was an incredible time now i've seen what i believe to be true you know what i'm saying he is a good guy who was a badass you know i mean he he showed that he will take that step and he can go gangsta you know and then he showed that he's got to take that step to be a real man and take accountability and responsibility for what he's done and straighten his lifehouse people may not know that there was something inside of him searching for for meaning in his life and and yearning to make something of himself that was positive he always had a good heart he cared about other people and i don't think most people recognize that it doesn't surprise me the life that he has now so when i see him now i'm proud of him that he was able to take that small piece of his life and make that into springboard after that being a successful father a successful businessman you know so that's amazing jabari he was a man you know he went and served his time and he came back and he's very constrict very helpful in his community and he comes back over and you know and speak to the young brothers here and let them know that guess what you know you may think something is easy there's easy money out there but there's nothing easy about making money when you're doing it the wrong way they they lay with us as as this this notorious gang like we were just out there just wrongfully just doing bank robbery and killing and all this still but that ain't no nothing like that all we did is just made a little money and and celebrated celebrated the good life could i say anything bad about bmi yeah i could say something bad we stop going we don't exist no more demetrius in jail they uh prosecuted us that's what i can say bad you about the crew no i can't say anything bad about them why would i i missed them i loved them meech is probably and still is one of the smartest people i know one of the sharpest businessmen that i know we were just in a different business a not legal business eventually law enforcement agencies from five different states arrested and indicted tried and convicted over 300 members and associates affiliated with the organization known as black mafia family it was different people who started telling that's what really got them once they got a snitch they they basically got inside the organization so all they did was have a story already that they had in their mind and once you got a snitch just make him tell my story and there you go you got an indictment after that if i had to say any last words i'd say for all of those kids that live in crack apartments heroin houses meth trailers or their parents and alcoholics if if i can make it i know you can pain is pain whether it's arkhadelphia arkansas willacucci georgia brooklyn new york san francisco california if your parents on drugs their parents on drugs it's all relative like the hurt is there i know you're hurt i've been there i know how it feels but if i can do it i know you can like you can go to college you can become a plumber you can become the president it's whatever you want to do you can do it you've got to make a decision to say i'm going to be different i don't want that life for myself you have to put in a whole lot of work but [Music] i think you can do it and for the parents like you've got a lot of wreckage you've heard a lot of people let your past be your past blessed is the man and woman who's been corrected like you can change your life you're gonna have to work hard and maybe your kids right now or the next year or the next five years they may not want to be in your life but hopefully one day they will but they've seen you say you're going to change so much but you've got to be about it and i love my mother i never stopped loving my mother but she's worked hard she's got 18 years clean and sober from the evils of alcohol and drugs she was homeless for 10 years my mother can be homeless for 10 years every minute second of her life was addicted to crack cocaine and alcohol and if she could have 18 years clean and have a sponsor and sponsees and go to women's conferences and all of these things you can too you know just several decades ago i was a thief with my mother i was living in a crack house i thought my future was only gonna be that i made i i made some good decisions and i made some bad ones you know here i am today i've got acronym agency groups for the government that put people in prison as customers magistrate judges county judges city judges police departments sheriffs everything and you can change your life and god never left you you know god was always with you he just had to put you through some things to get someplace you know so at the end of the day if if i can do it i know you can too i never felt there was no more bmf i just felt that meech and t got locked up and the show must go on i mean it's play your part to you have no part to play [Music] [Music] [Music] um [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 96min 30sec (5790 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 29 2020