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Flippa Moggela, (real name Andrew
Davis), faces several charges in the United States in relation to a major
international drug bust, that law enforcement officials allege he was the
mastermind of.
According to reports from various news agencies, Davis 34 faces charges of cocaine distribution, money laundering, leading a
drug trafficking network and conspiracy. Also charged were his brother Kemar Davis, 22 and Marsha Bernard, 28. Six others were arrested by New
Jersey police and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) as part of a two-and-a-half year long investigation into the ring, dubbed Operation
Next Day Air, which involved
the trafficking of drugs across various American states.
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| Flippa Moggela (l), Kemar Davis(c), Marsha Bernard (r) |
Investigators
allege that Davis, from his home in Kingston, would order
Kemar to send drugs from California, where
his younger brother was based, to Bernard, who was based in New Jersey. Bernard would then allegedly distribute cocaine
shipments to other drug dealers, collect the proceeds and send them to the Davis brothers.
Investigators
were tipped off about the drug ring thanks to two packages seized by detectives
from the Camden High Intensity Area Drug Trafficking Task Force and the Burlington County Prosecutor’s
Office in March 2011. The packages, sent to a
New Jersey facility, contained 8kg of cocaine. Flippa and his brother were
purportedly the recipients of this package.
In March of this
year, search warrants were executed throughout New Jersey, later leading to the
arrest of Marsha
Bernard and Kemar
Davis. During those searches,
US$600,000 was seized as well as two guns and 26 kgs of cocaine worth
US$780,000, which police say was just a sample size of the amount of drugs
smuggled into the country.
Flippa Moggela was arrested on September 16 in Los
Angeles and later extradited to New Jersey on October 3rd.
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