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Gunned down within The Broadway department store, a trendy clothier in downtown Detroit, Demetris Holloway (erroneously spelled as "Demetrius" by local newspapers) led an extensive wholesale cocaine operation, moving hundreds of kilograms weekly across the Midwest.

At the time of his murder, the Detroit Police Department deemed him the most influential drug lord during the peak of the crack epidemic, labeling him "Public Enemy No. 1." The FBI was on the brink of issuing indictments against Holloway under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a U.S. federal law targeting ongoing criminal organizations with severe penalties.

Trained in street affairs on Detroit's east-side by Francis "Big Frank Nitti" Usher and James "Jimmy Red" Freeman of the Murder Row crew (the Black drug and enforcement wing of the Tocco-Zerilli Crime Family), Holloway, after a brief prison term, seized control of Detroit's underworld with childhood friend Richard "Maserati Rick" Carter Sr. and the Brown brothers, known as &q

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This Metro Detroit writer and author reports on organized crime and runs the website Gangster Report, This is republished with permission.

By Scott Burnstein

Demetrius Holloway

Black Mafia Family boss Demetrius (Big Meech) Flenory, born and raised in Detroit and America’s most notorious dope boss of the last three decades, is alleged to have taken his nickname from Demetrius Holloway, who was the king of the coke game in Motown during the late 1980s. Flenory, a genuine hip hop icon, has been in prison since November 2005 and is name-checked in rap lyrics by Drake, Lil’ Wayne and Jay-Z.

The sly, cultured and fastidious 32-year old Holloway was gunned down inside The Broadway, a trendy urban clothier in downtown Detroit, on October 8, 1990. At the time of his murder, Holloway was under assault on multiple fronts; the federal government was on the verge of dropping a drug and racketeering indictment and he was said to be at war with at least three separate crime factions.

“If you heard the words Big Meech back in the Wild West day

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