EX-DRUG KINGPIN INDICTED IN NEW CASE

Young Boys Founder Charged With Rep. Stallworth

DETROIT - For nearly a decade, Milton "Butch" Jones unleashed a marauding
group of youths who peddled heroin on the streets of Detroit and murdered
anyone who got in their way.

Young Boys Inc., the highly organized, outrageously profitable drug network
Jones founded, used kids as young as 9-years-old to sell drugs, terrorized
neighborhoods and frustrated police as late as 1987. After he left prison
in 1992, Jones wrote a book about his exploits, moved to Pennsylvania and
promised a life of honest work. Or so it seemed.

But on Monday, federal authorities and Detroit police charged Jones with
masterminding another drug operation strikingly similar to Y.B.I. He and 13
others, including state Rep. Keith Stallworth, are charged with conspiring
to sell cocaine, heroin and marijuana out of the Willard Hotel and houses
known as the "dog pound."

Jones is charged with ordering the murders of Mark Grice and Antoine
Carruthers, who died eight days apart in September 1998. Stallworth
laundered the money, the government contends.

Jones was arrested in Collingdale, Pa., where he lives with his wife,
Portia Sturdivant-Jones, who was also indicted.

The Joneses, both 46, are awaiting a court order transferring them to
Detroit. If convicted, those indicted face up to life in prison. Milton
Jones and his partners Raymond Canty of Las Vegas and Eugene Mitchell, a
Michigan prison inmate, could face the death penalty for ordering the
deaths of three men.

Young Boys Inc. remains an oft-mentioned symbol of the drug-related
violence that plagued Detroit in the 1970s and 1980s. Robert DeFauw, the
former head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in Detroit,
led the team that broke up Young Boys Inc. and indicted Jones and 41 others
in 1982.

"I'm not really surprised," DeFauw said Monday. "Nine times out of 10 the
(return to crime) is extremely high because of the money involved. He
claimed he was going straight and he had a landscaping business." Named in
the indictment are: the Joneses; Stallworth, 45, of Detroit; Dorothy
Burston, 39, of Detroit; Eric Canty, 31, of Detroit; Louella Canty, 28, of
Las Vegas; Raymond Canty, 30, of Las Vegas; Walter Jackson, 28, of Detroit;
Jamila Jones, 22, of Detroit; Clifford Mathews; Eugene Mitchell, 28, a
Michigan inmate; Ichard Oden, 23, also an inmate; Terrance Scott, 34, of
Detroit; and Althea Williams, 36, of Farmington Hills. Raymond Canty, known
as "H," gave the ring a base of operations in 1991, when he bought the
Willard Hotel at 448 Henry near downtown. Milton Jones took over the
operations by 1995 and continued through at least 1998, the indictment
says. Additionally, Jones controlled three drug houses in the 3700 block of
Monterey in Detroit, known collectively as the "dog pound."

Jones and his lieutenants used the houses to hide and sell drugs and cash,
the indictment says, "and the planning of robberies, kidnappings and
murders of rival cocaine and marijuana traffickers." Milton Jones and
Raymond Canty chiefly decided which drug dealers the group would rob of
drugs and money, authorities charge. To help hide their drug proceeds, the
group made hidden investments in Stallworth's adult nightclub, the "Tiger's
Lounge," which was later renamed the "Xanadu Lounge."

But the group had other business dealings, including buying houses in
Detroit and Eastpointe using aliases, the indictment alleges. Two years
after buying a Detroit house in 1996 for $8,900, Raymond Canty sold it for
$140,000. DeFauw, who retired from the DEA in 1987 and is now a detective
with the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office, remembered Jones as a tough
businessman who ran his operation through fear and intimidation. "He wasn't
above taking a bat to somebody if they shorted the dope or shorted the
money," he said.

Jones went to federal prison in 1983, where he continued to run his
operation until he was indicted again in 1987. Then, in 1989, Jones was
convicted of being an accessory to the murder of one of his drug
lieutenants. He was released from prison in 1992.

"Y.B.I. was a notorious drug organization in the 1970s which recruited
young boys, ages 9 and up, to sell drugs on the street and from houses
across the city," said Farmington Hills Police Chief William Dwyer, who
headed the Detroit Police Narcotics Section from 1975 until 1981. Jones
used youngsters and teens to peddle drugs because they were difficult to
prosecute and buffered those at the top. The gang also gave top-sellers
cash bonuses and presents, such as fur trimmed leather coats that became
extremely popular and known as Y.B.I. jackets. At its peak, Young Boys Inc.
sold $25,000 to $30,000 a day per street corner. "It was just like any
other business, such as Ford, or General Motors," Jones wrote in his
self-published autobiography, "Y.B.I." Jones lived in Oak Park and expanded
his drug crews into Pontiac and Flint. By the time he went to federal
prison in 1983, Jones estimated he had squirreled away several million
dollars, lost thousands in gambling, and had bought several houses and more
than a dozen cars.

DeFauw said he was recently contacted by filmmaker Marc Cayce, a former
Detroiter who is making a film about Young Boys Inc. He told Cayce he would
be a consultant to the movie, provided it didn't glorify Jones or his
lifestyle.