Terry Lee Flenory Release Date, Sister, Age, Now, Young, Eye Injury

Terry Lee Flenory is a well-known American entrepreneur, businessman, drug supplier, and investor from Detroit, Michigan, United States.

Terry Flenory is best known as the younger brother of Demetrius Flenory (aka Big Meech), and the founding fathers of a drug trafficking and cash laundering business enterprise named Black Mafia Family (BMF).

The BMF was a drug trafficking and money laundering organization in the United States founded in 1985 in Southwest Detroit by brothers Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory and Terry “Southwest T” Flenory.

By 2000, BMF had established cocaine distribution sales throughout the United States through their Los Angeles-based drug source and direct links to Mexican drug cartels.

BMF operated from two main hubs: one in Atlanta for distribution run by Demetrius Flenory and one in Los Angeles to handle incoming shipments from Mexico run by Terry Flenory.

BMF under Demetrius Flenory entered the hip-hop music business as BMF Entertainment in the early 2000s as a front organization to launder money from cocaine sales and to legitimize itself.

In 2005, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) indicted members of the BMF, ultimately securing convictions by targeting the Flenory brothers under the Continuing Criminal Enterprise Statute, and both were sentenced to 30 years imprisonment.

Prosecutors alleged the Black Mafia Family made over $270 million in the course of their operations.

Terry Lee Flenory age

Terry Flenory was born on 10 January 1970 in Detroit, United States.

Terry Lee Flenory young

Terry Flenory and his elder brother Big Meech began selling $50 bags of cocaine on the streets of Detroit during their high school years in the late 1980s.

By 2000, the Flenory brothers had established a large organization overseeing multi-kilogram cocaine distribution sales in numerous U.S. states including;

1. Alabama,
2. California,
3. Florida,
4. Georgia,
5. Kentucky,
6. Louisiana,
7. Michigan,
8. Mississippi,
9. Missouri,
10. North Carolina,
11. Ohio, and
12. Tennessee.

Around 2003, the organization experienced troubles when the Flenory brothers began to feud, with Terry Flenory moving to Los Angeles to head his own organization, while Demetrius Flenory remained at the main distribution center in Atlanta.

By 2003, the two had been involved in a major falling out and rarely spoke to one another.

In a conversation with his brothers caught by the DEA on wiretap, Terry discussed his worries that his brother Demetrius was bringing the wrong type of attention to their business with his excessive partying.

By the time charges were filed against the Flenorys, the government had 900 pages of typed transcripts of wiretapped conversations from Terry’s phone in a 5-month period.

Terry Lee Flenory eye injury

Terry Flenory is blind in one eye due to a retinal detachment that required surgery.

Terry takes several medications daily and has been prescribed compression stockings.

Terry Lee Flenory sister

Terry’s sister is Nicole Flenory.

Terry Lee Flenory release date

In 2008, Terry and his big brother Demetrius Flenory were sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.

Terry Flenory has an earlier release date, August 17, 2026, due to a sentence reduction from 360 to 292 months.