Back then to Now: The Story of Vegas Don

My street life continued filled with drug selling, drive by shootings, stick ups, shoot outs and fights. My younger brother got locked up for murder, and was serving a 17 year sentence. By age 20, almost every police officer in Durham knew me by my first name. I had numerous felony charges and four different court dates. My charges ranged from drug selling to attempted murder. Whenever I went to court the court room would be packed with the NDV gang. My girlfriend also came to court with my four month old baby boy. I was on trial for shooting two guys in the leg outside a local night club. I expected
that I would get some time but not much, since I hadn’t killed anyone. The verdict was guilty and before the judge sentenced me he stated; “I see
that you have a lot of followers and because of that fact, I’m going to
make an example out of you.” The judge sentenced me to 30 years in prison.

At that time, I blamed the judge, the DA and my lawyer. I felt like they put me in a jam but in reality I did it to myself. I thought prison was the worst thing that could ever happen to me but as I look back at my life. Prison was the best thing that happened to me, it saved my life. All the gang members that I ran the streets with are now dead, most of them brutally murdered or either drug addicts.
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