Beloved Brownsville basketball legend busted for leading heroin ring
A 65-year-old former NCAA and “beloved” American Basketball Association (ABA) Brownsville basketball player allegedly ran a major heroin distribution ring that came crashing down on Wednesday after a nearly eight-month-long investigation, officials said.
Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez stood in front of $185,000 in cash, six guns and more than two kilos of heroin to announce the major bust of a $20 million heroin drug operation that operated across the Bronx, Brooklyn and upstate New York, allegedly led by professional basketball player James “Fly” Williams.
“Avid basketball fans have heard of him. In the 1970s, he was a high school superstar and college basketball prodigy who grew up in Brownsville Brooklyn,” Gonzalez said. “His popularity and status in the community may have ironically helped in operating and hide this elaborate criminal enterprise.”