Black Mafia Family co-founder Big Meech is seen inside Miami halfway house after release from federal prison

Big Meech, the infamous co-founder of the Black Mafia Family crime syndicate, has been spotted wrong a Miami halfway location pursuing his merchandise from national prison. 

Demetrius 'Big Meech' Flenory, 56, was pictured Saturday wearing an all-black outfit with his limb astir different antheral wrong the installation wherever helium volition service retired the remainder of his condemnation for helping to physique a nationwide wealth laundering and cause trafficking operation.

He was arrested successful October 2005, erstwhile the Drug Enforcement Agency took down his and his brother's nationwide cause trafficking operation, and was sentenced successful 2008 to 30 years down bars.

But earlier this year, a justice shortened his condemnation by astir 3 years, aft his lawyer argued that helium remained an upstanding national portion serving time, including by obtaining his GED, performing good successful different classes and staying retired of trouble. 

The lawyer, Brittany K Barnett, told TMZ Meech used his clip successful situation to absorption connected idiosyncratic growth, and said helium present has the accidental to commencement a caller section successful life.

His merchandise was celebrated by Lebron James who took to societal media to constitute 'Welcome location Big Meech!!' with a salute emoji. 

The praise from the Lakers prima caused backlash from fans who were disappointed that the Lakers prima would congratulate a convicted cause trafficker.

'Lebron supporting cause dealers?!?!?!?! Not my goat,' 1 idiosyncratic wrote connected X. 

Meech founded Big Mafia Family, aka BMF, successful 1985 arsenic a originative bureau and hep hop statement with his brother, Terry Lee, besides known arsenic 'Southwest Tee.'

It promoted and was associated with up and coming hep hop artists similar Jay Z, Newsweek reports.

But successful the aboriginal 2000s, national agents determined that the institution was conscionable a beforehand for a nationwide cocaine trafficking and wealth laundering scheme, successful which the brothers raked successful much than $270million.

They said Demetrius was based successful Atlanta, handling distribution, portion Terry was successful Los Angeles handling shipments of the cause from Mexican cause cartels. 

The Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force and the Drug Enforcement Agency's Special Operations Division relied connected information from low-level dealers and high-level distributors that worked for BMF successful their investigation, arsenic they seized ample quantities of drugs.

By October 2005, the DEA carried retired a large-scale raid, arresting 30 members of the operation.

Agents besides seized $2million successful currency and assets - including weapons and 2 and a fractional kilograms of cocaine, portion different instrumentality enforcement agents seized $21million worthy of assets - including cash, jewelry, 13 homes successful metropolitan Detroit, Los Angeles and Georgia, arsenic good arsenic 3 twelve vehicles.

Agents had besides wiretapped Terry's phone, and overheard a speech successful which helium raised concerns astir Demetrius' excessive partying and the harm it was doing to their enterprise.

The 2 brothers were aboriginal indicted, with prosecutors presenting 900 pages of wiretapped speech transcripts from Terry's telephone implicit the people of 5 months.

They were charged nether the Continuing Criminal Enterprise Statute, conspiracy to administer 5 kilograms oregon much of cocaine, possession with intent to administer much than 500 grams of cocaine, conspiracy to launder monetary instruments and 2 counts of possession with intent to administer much than 5 kilograms of cocaine.

Meanwhile, the Treasury Department reported successful 2006 that 16 others had been charged with conspiracy to administer cocaine and with wealth laundering, bringing the full fig of those progressive successful the transgression syndicate to 49. But by 2009, that fig roseate to 150. 

The Flenory brothers yet pleaded blameworthy to moving a continuing transgression endeavor 'involving the large-scale organisation of cocaine passim the United States from 1990 done 2005,' according to tribunal documents.

They were each past sentenced successful November 2007 to service 30 years down bars.

'The BMF was a violent, blase cause smuggling and wealth laundering enactment that began close present successful Detroit, Michigan,' Special Agent successful Charge Robert Corso said astatine the time.

'Terry and Demetrius Flenory expanded what was a small, section cognition into a multistate, multimillion-dollar transgression endeavor with nonstop links to Mexican-based cause trafficking cartels.

'Today's sentencings show that nary substance however ample the operation, oregon however overmuch wealth a cause trafficker makes illegally, yet the instrumentality and justness volition drawback up,' helium said. 

The cause added: 'This assemblage and communities crossed the United States are safer with the Brothers Flenory down bars.' 

Terry was released from location confinement connected May 5, 2020, aft being granted compassionate alleviation for sick wellness amid the COVID pandemic, and Demetrius was transferred from FCI Coleman Low successful Wildwood, Florida last week to the halfway house overseen by the Bureau of Prison's Miami Residential Re-entry Program.