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This was the last meeting we had before before a bunch of stuff went down. the royals had become too big, and federal agents were gunning for the boss. two feds from chicago came, sat me in a room with a big family tree on the wall of royals with an 8 by 10 picture of me at the top. they told me where i got my drugs from. they told me who i got it from, who i fronted it to, how much i paid for it, how much i fronted it out for. they told me routes i took to get to the drug house. they told me everything, man. the feds also told benny that they were building a case against him for racketeering, which carried a 30 years to life sentence. but they needed more evidence to bring him down. no charges were brought up on me yet. so that s when i retired. and it broke my heart. could you just retire like that? like i m out? well, i was a liability. ....
Locked up again for a charge, and i slept about three days getting the drugs out of my system. and when i woke up in that cell, the door was locked, and i walked i walked to the door and they ve got this little rectangular window in the door. i remember looking out across the zone, and something in me broke. i got on my knees that day and prayed that if god took that away from me and took me out of that life, that i would never let him down. and he came through. they let me go to rehab, and my life completely changed from that point forward. benny knew he had to get clean before anything could really change. ....
Bring him down. no charges were brought up on me yet. so that s when i retired. and it broke my heart. could you just retire like that? like i m out? well, i was a liability. that s the reason there wasn t any argument for me stepping down. the feds were on me so bad that i couldn t continue to be a part of the organization. but there was something else, a realization benny had in the room full of federal agents. all the information they had on me could have only came from my closest circle. you know what i mean? there was only a few people that knew that stuff. it hurt me more than anything. the brotherhood that had given him everything, not just status and money, but most of all a sense of family had betrayed him. so when i got out, i just drowned myself in drugs, just dope, dope, dope, dope, dope. ....
They let me go to rehab, and my life completely changed from that point forward. benny knew he had to get clean before anything could really change. he was admitted to a 12-month rehab program and started working as a contractor. it was the first steady job he d ever had. and the lady i worked with gave me lots of new recipes to try. that s when i met christina. at first she wasn t interested in me. christina had a young daughter and was wary of this wiry, tattooed ex-gang banger. i convinced her that i wanted a real life. no, it s still cuttable. it s cuttable. and she took a chance with me. benny and christina were married in 2013, and benny legally adopted natalie. barbecue ribs, mac and ....
how far up in the organization did you get? i become a central mississippi regional captain. there want any rank higher back then. as mississippi captain, benny was in charge of hundreds of royals, running a bustling meth trade throughout central mississippi. he had made it to the top. i had notoriety. i had respect and love from gang members, organization members, and they put me on a pedestal and made me feel greater than. you know what i mean? i had thought i had the highest stature that i could ever accomplish. it was a very proud feeling. what do the simon city royals mean to you? it was my life. i guess it defined me. but all that was about to change. i just wanted to show you this. ....