From 1995 to 1999 Volusia county Florida witnessed the growth of the biggest and sophisticated cocaine rings they have ever seen and it was ran by a man known as Dreddy D. Bassil "Dreddy D" Rhoden was born in Jamaica in 1970, and moved to Florida with his family in 1984. He started in the drug game selling weed then eventually cocaine in college. When he graduated with a degree in criminal justice from Daytona's Bethune-cookman college in 1995, he graduated in the streets as well to the cocaine distribution business. After being arrested for a cocaine sale in 1995 he jumped bail and went on the run, it was then that Dreddy got a line on some major weight for cheap in South America. He
got it in the states through Miami then sold it wholesale to a nework of dealers in Florida and other states including Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama and D. C. He cornered the market because he was bringing in so much coke that he sold it for much cheaper than the compettiton. Dreddy D took over thr coke game which forced other dralers to lower their prices from $900 an ounce to $325 in order to keep some of their customers and stay in business. The Orlando Sentinel reported that Dreddy became a multi millionaire selling close to 5000 bricks of raw cocaine and crack from his house in Titusville Florida within the 4 years he was in business. .
"He had dozens of employees... They called him God because they knew he existed but never saw him"... it took multiple law enforcement agencies to catch him because "he was too smart for just one to catch him" said the head of the DEA in Orlando. Fresh out of college, Dreddy put his education to use using business management and marketing strategies to run his empire, like his "buy 12 pounds of coke and get a free pound of crack" incentive, or how he did transactions on Daytona Beach at events like spring break- bike fest- and Daytona 500 similar to a company seminar. His business structure kept him invisible as he would supply other suppliers who distributed to street level bosses who gave the product to the street dealers to move. His criminal justice degree came in handy with avoiding the law as he used his knowledge of the legal system to counter their investigation methods and stay off the radar. He had numerous different passports and drivers licenses, which he bought from corrupt government officials, that he switched at will as well as undergoing plastic surgery to keep his identity a mystery and leave the cops chasing a ghost.
In January of 1999 federal authorities finally caught Dreddy D in an apartment in Sanford Florida putting an end to one of the biggest and organized cocaine distribution operations that Orlando Florida has ever known. It took a task force made up of 10 different law enforcement agencies, federal, state and local, 4 years of intense investigations to dismantle Freddy D's empire seizing over a million dollars in cash, $150, 000 in jewelry, 24 kilos of cocaine and 28 kilos of crack from storage lockers and secret compartments in his cars. The DEA said that "He was one of the most resourceful dealers we have ever encountered... only through a group effort were we able to put a stop to Mr. Rhodes". Dreddy D escaped a life sentence by cooperating with the Fed's to bring down the distributors that he supplied, in return he received 17 years in prison and deportation back to Jamaica. Authorities said that when Dreddy D was a taken off of the streets, the price of cocaine shot through the roof to $1, 000 an ounce, and that the percentage of drug arrest as well as drug related crimes dropped tremendously.
got it in the states through Miami then sold it wholesale to a nework of dealers in Florida and other states including Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama and D. C. He cornered the market because he was bringing in so much coke that he sold it for much cheaper than the compettiton. Dreddy D took over thr coke game which forced other dralers to lower their prices from $900 an ounce to $325 in order to keep some of their customers and stay in business. The Orlando Sentinel reported that Dreddy became a multi millionaire selling close to 5000 bricks of raw cocaine and crack from his house in Titusville Florida within the 4 years he was in business. .
"He had dozens of employees... They called him God because they knew he existed but never saw him"... it took multiple law enforcement agencies to catch him because "he was too smart for just one to catch him" said the head of the DEA in Orlando. Fresh out of college, Dreddy put his education to use using business management and marketing strategies to run his empire, like his "buy 12 pounds of coke and get a free pound of crack" incentive, or how he did transactions on Daytona Beach at events like spring break- bike fest- and Daytona 500 similar to a company seminar. His business structure kept him invisible as he would supply other suppliers who distributed to street level bosses who gave the product to the street dealers to move. His criminal justice degree came in handy with avoiding the law as he used his knowledge of the legal system to counter their investigation methods and stay off the radar. He had numerous different passports and drivers licenses, which he bought from corrupt government officials, that he switched at will as well as undergoing plastic surgery to keep his identity a mystery and leave the cops chasing a ghost.
In January of 1999 federal authorities finally caught Dreddy D in an apartment in Sanford Florida putting an end to one of the biggest and organized cocaine distribution operations that Orlando Florida has ever known. It took a task force made up of 10 different law enforcement agencies, federal, state and local, 4 years of intense investigations to dismantle Freddy D's empire seizing over a million dollars in cash, $150, 000 in jewelry, 24 kilos of cocaine and 28 kilos of crack from storage lockers and secret compartments in his cars. The DEA said that "He was one of the most resourceful dealers we have ever encountered... only through a group effort were we able to put a stop to Mr. Rhodes". Dreddy D escaped a life sentence by cooperating with the Fed's to bring down the distributors that he supplied, in return he received 17 years in prison and deportation back to Jamaica. Authorities said that when Dreddy D was a taken off of the streets, the price of cocaine shot through the roof to $1, 000 an ounce, and that the percentage of drug arrest as well as drug related crimes dropped tremendously.
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