Nearly three years later, alleged BMF member indicted in Velvet Room murder
June 6, 2007 at 12:30 pm by Mara Shalhoup in BMF
Fleming “Ill” Daniels (right), who’s believed to be one of the top-ranking members of the alleged multistate cocaine ring the Black Mafia Family, has been indicted in a July 2004 murder that took place in the parking lot behind Midtown’s now-defunct Velvet Room.
The shooting death of Rashannibal “Prince” Drummond had frustrated Atlanta police, in part because a blanket of silence surrounded the incident. Witnesses in investigations involving BMF often have been difficult to track down, and according to investigators, several BMF members — including the crew’s alleged leader, the charismatic and widely revered Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory — were at the club that night.
Daniels, 33, figures prominently in a mini-documentary about the BMF crew, which is headquartered in Atlanta, Detroit and L.A. The video, part of the DVD magazine Smack, shows Daniels regularly at Flenory’s side.
Flenory, who is accused of running BMF’s Atlanta hub, and 40 other alleged BMF members were indicted on federal charges in Detroit in 2005 and are scheduled for trial later this summer. Daniels is not charged in the Detroit indictment.
To read CL’s three-part series and follow-up stories on BMF, click here. For more info on the murder case against Daniels, check out the June 7 issue of Creative Loafing.
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June 9th, 2007 at 8:38 am
What is your fascination with these alleged “black gangstas”?!?!?
You completly ignored Jacob The Jeweler’s money laundering case which is tied into this Black Mafia situation, as well as Mayor Diaz and his aides sitting there at the same meeting on the SMACK dvd, throwing up gang signs with Fleming and J-Bo………..
Why is that???…is it because both Jacob and Diaz are of European heritage?? (white)…….
But you did your best to try to connect African American mayor of Atlanta , Shirley Franklin with this scandal…
There are so many holes in your story, obviously there is a larger conspiracy that involves politicians, but we wouldn’t know that cause you’re not a journalist ….you’re a GOSSIP COLUMNIST fascinated with the fast life of rappers and dope dealers.
June 11th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
I am so tired of people in Atlanta pulling out that tattered and overplayed “Race Card” argument point because they can’t conceive any other valid reason. Does it ever occur to some people that maybe…just maybe…it isn’t about race at all. Nope - of course not. Mara only wrote about black people - she’s a racist! The gas station clerk gipped me out of some change - he’s a racist! Some guy stepped on my toe yesterday - he’s a racist! I’ll say it again, since perhaps the idea of stuff going on with nothing to do about race eludes you — it isn’t about race at all. Maybe…just maybe…the guys who got caught are actually stupid enough to get caught.