![]() Street dealers stood along the blocks to make sure drugs were divided evenly. Local cops said the neighborhood was "anti-police" and considered impenetrable to surprise raids. There were days when as many as 30 dealers would stand on the sidewalk, or at the corner of Talton Avenue and Belzise Terrace, selling to regulars. He rarely if ever touched his product.Ĭorey "Blue" Holmes made the deliveries to the Fish Bowl, and once there, it was cooked into crack by Bell and Spencer, according to court testimony. Lewis supplied the cocaine - about 20 kilograms a week - that eventually made its way to the street. And after a while, other crack dealers would vouch for him, and true to his word, when larger amounts of drugs were available, he had the money to make the buys. If cops came near, any guns and drugs on the street would quickly disappear.īut Tee could walk in and do business. Lookouts were posted near the two entrances to the small neighborhood - called the Fish Bowl - on the western edge of Cobb Park, bounded by Colvin Street, Belzise Terrace, Glen Garden Drive and South Riverside Drive. The people drawing attention to them get busted. I could call Bertrand Bell at 6:30 in the morning and he'd be doing business. But over the next year, Tee became a regular buyer in the neighborhood, and as he was introduced to leaders higher in the gang's chain of command - Michael "MD" Lewis, Kelvin "Lil K" Spencer and Bertrand "Bee Bee" Bell - he found that they were mostly businessmen, too. Tee never acted the part of a gang member - he was just a businessman. That was April 2005, when he started hanging around a tightly knit east Fort Worth neighborhood controlled by the Crips, talking to the crack dealers on the street. But his supplier had just been taken down by the cops, so he needed a new source. He could foot the bill for big purchases if need be. ![]() He was a dealer from the west side of Fort Worth who sold dope near Texas Christian University.
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