A 34-year-old Shelby Township man, Martaze Davis, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for trafficking methamphetamine and laundering drug proceeds.
Davis was a leader in a Detroit gang called the 42 Hustle Boys. The 42 Hustle Boys and a rival gang, the Seven Mile Bloods, engaged in a longstanding and deadly feud.
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The investigation and prosecution, which began in 2023, focused on Davis’s leadership of a drug conspiracy that sent members to California to purchase methamphetamine brought into the United States from Mexico and transport it across the country for distribution in Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, and Tennessee.
On Oct. 24, 2023, Davis and codefendant Alexander Polanco, 28, conspired to load a rental car occupied by codefendants Taneeya Richard, 25, and Dejon Howard-Henderson, 24, with 38.9 kilograms of methamphetamine.
On Oct. 25, 2023, officers stopped the rental car in Texas and seized the methamphetamine. Davis also laundered drug proceeds through his personal and business bank accounts, intending to conceal the nature and source of the proceeds.
