EMBATTLED dancehall deejay Andrew ‘Flippa Mafia’ Davis is scheduled for a retrial in Camden County Superior Court in New Jersey, on May 23.
The date was set when the entertainer appeared before Superior Court Judge John Kelley for a status conference on Monday.
“The State will retry Andrew Davis on the first-degree charge of Leader of a Narcotics Trafficking Network, the one charge on which the jury in the last trial could not reach a verdict,” said Peter Aseltine, Division of Criminal Justice press officer in New Jersey’s Attorney General Office.
“He will not be sentenced on the other charges until he is tried again on the leader charge,” Aseltine continued.
Flippa Mafia is being represented by top-tier Philadelphia criminal attorney J Michael Farrell.
In December, the deejay was found guilty of first-degree distribution of cocaine, second-degree money laundering, and second-degree conspiracy. The first-degree rap carries a sentence of 10 to 20 years, while the second degree has an incarceration period of five to 10 years.
According to prosecutors, investigations began in March 2011, when agents from the Camden High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force and the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office seized two packages from a mail facility in Marlton destined for receipt by Andrew Davis and Marsha Bernard. Each package contained four kilograms of cocaine. It is believed the 37-year-old entertainer ran an international drug ring that used the United States Mail and other delivery services to ship cocaine from California to New Jersey. More than 26 kilos of cocaine and over US$500,000 in cash were seized from the network. He has, however, maintained his innocence.
Bernard is scheduled to be sentenced on February 5.
In September, the artiste’s brothers — Kemar Davis, 24, of Hollywood, California (formerly of Margate, Florida) and Roger Davis, 37, of Roslyn, Pennsylvania — pleaded guilty to participating in the operation. All the Davis brothers were arrested in September 2013.
In addition to the Davis brothers, six other persons have been sentenced.
Flippa Mafia, who in a 2012 Jamaica Observer interview said his banquet hall and nightclub in Philadelphia were his source of income, is known as the Flossing King. As part of his set, the flamboyant deejay hurls hundreds of dollar notes into the crowd.
He has appeared in movies including Shottas (2002), which stars Ky-Mani Marley and Spragga Benz. He is known for his songs
Hear Mi Hear and Unfinished House.
He is ONLY being retried on one of the charges. He is still facing 15-30 years on the other charges he was found guilty on. There was one charge the jury could not agree on as to whether is was guilty or not. They really want to put him away for a very long time to retry him on that one charge of being the leader (or one of the leaders) of a drug trafficking organization. The charge might carry a longer prison sentence.
Him better talk pan di real boss because he must have had one
Flippa caan bus pon him boss cause he would be putting his family at risk. Met the big boss right there in America watching whats happening
hmmmm
Good for him. So if him not the leader is who den? Marsha?
Prayers is working for him, how is it obeah unless he has someone doing it for him on the outside..
And I take it you do not think Flippa has anyone on the outside who would pay obeah persons for him? LOL Flippa flop so bad? NAH I don’t believe LOL
Met filp boss dead long time,so him a him own boss now.all the people that they hold on to work for filppa, the man from water house who bring filppa go philly and have him as one of the road youth got kill some years ago,so him branch off on his own.
So who was Flippa boss? He is dead, why not name him? The way I read the background information, the Cocaine was being shipped from Jamaica to the US (California?), so the boss is more than likely in Jamaica.
I’m still scratching my head as to why this case was a federal case to begin with. The were shipping stuff through the mail from one state to the next, so why no federal case?
dem fi talk
Anon 12:33 same thought I had after reading. From the looks of it he haven’t talked as yet.
All di flippa a pree now is fi find a way fi floss behind bars him caah throw money but him ago throw batty
F**k u bout f**k batty, latty watch yo mouth
So what he still will spend the rest of his life in jail. You are being retried for one charge not all. And what about Marsha
@anetalk anuh myrie you a talk frm waterhouse? Anything fi befall flippa! Myrie buss flippa and him set up myrie helicopter and po po surround di man a farin luckily dem naaay hold myrie wid nuttn! Badmind flippa! Sell out frm u dweet u move up frm ur red crv to x5 u fi rot!
a the real mafia sentance them want give im the one that going to lock im away for life . they find im guilty on those charge they could just sentance im but they know what they found im guilty on the judge can use is decresion on just run everyting concurant so he might just get about 10years which im all most serve half so he will get out soon. the feds not going to have that after they spend so much money to get im. that why they are retrying im on the more serious charge the charge them develope for all the italian mafias them .you dont have to get catch with noting as long as you is the big bose .sorry for im because im done he will never beat that charge.life sentence im going to get. no abeah an if a obeah it work against im .he should a pray them sentence now an forget about that charge that miss trial
Flippa dem can’t stop yo,all when yo lock down flossing never stop it lives on. Luv you. Weh obeah ago dat never inna it
Ah Laing dem say ah did real boss mi lub.
Finally! That is why they kicked him out of the JCF years ago. I thought he put that to rest?
Not a Laing. Laing bruck like wha. Him a live off a Sting money
The leader of narcotics network charge is really serious it carries a sentence of 25 years to life imprisonment.
Obeah will not get him out this one, flossing King will be the AARP King if he ever get released.
The next one the Feds gonna pickup is Bag White and is bredda sadiki they too selling cocaine from out of that building in the Bronx where they hung out but only hope obeah can help dem cause God give up pon dem
but sadeki is in jamaica so how dem selling??