Dancehall DJ and convicted drug dealer Flippa Maffia, real name Andrew Davis says he is not a snitch and does not regret being a drug smuggler.
Speaking with Anthony Miller of ER via video call, the ‘Real Mogler’ artist says, “People have been saying Flippa is an informant with no evidence, no proof. Ever since Flippa got locked up, who can they say Flippa sent to jail? You know how we Jamaicans are; the community is small but we are big and abundant, so somebody would come forward and say, ‘Flippa told on me or Flippa take the stand on me.’ Nobody can come forth.”
He recalled the time when two men died at his house. “I get in some trouble in 2006 when an incident happened at my house, with two guys died. I didn’t set it up; I wasn’t a part of it. That is what people are talking about because I speak my side of the story, which is the truth which allowed me to walk free from that double homicide,” he explained passionately.
He added, “someone told on me,” he said. “I don’t hear nobody talking about who told on Flippa”
Flippa spent nine years and ten months in prison, after a multi-agency investigation by the New Jersey State Police, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the Division of Criminal Justice, titled “Operation Next Day Air,” led to his conviction on December 17, 2015, for possession of a dangerous and controlled substance (cocaine), conspiracy to distribute a dangerous substance, and money laundering.
On the say he was sentenced, acting Attorney General Lougy after Flippa said, “Andrew Davis thought he could live the good life in Jamaica with the hundreds of thousands of dollars he and his brothers reaped by shipping cocaine from California into New Jersey.”
“I did accepted my guilty plea and did my time. I just want to rehabilitate and do what I have to do, and teach the young youth dem so that they don’t make the same mistakes weh I mek,” he declared.
Lougy also said, “His (Flippa’s) big mistake was underestimating how far we would go with our law enforcement partners to bring them to justice and stop them from trafficking their poison into our communities.”
Miller asked him during the interview aired on Friday May 31, 2024 how he kept safe in prisoned he said it was the Jamaican community that kept him safe.
“How I kept safe in prison because I’m a real youth, and I was around a lot of Jamaicans too. They know and hear my side, and I have paperwork to prove it,” he said.
Law enforcement describes Flippa as a major player in the drug trafficking game.
“Andrew Davis should have stuck with his music career instead of shipping cocaine because now he’ll be performing in the prison hall instead of dance halls,” said Colonel Rick Fuentes, Superintendent of the New Jersey State Police.
“I was at the top of the food chain; is was me they wanted, nobody else. A me have the name a me the fame… there was nobody to tell on,” Flippa said.
“Even if there was somebody bigger me, they were only interested in getting me,” he added.
The “Dem Yah” also mentioned he got into a problem with officers while locked up, was beaten, and sued the officers, which is part of the reason he was paroled early.
As for why he got involved in the lucrative drug trade Flippa explained his side of the story saying, “when me deh in a Jamaican and a grow up Inna my community, even though we have the biggest recording studio we nah get no recognition, nobody nah come help we, me did haffi do what me have to do, and me do it and me nuh regret it.”
Detectives recovered more than 26 kilograms of cocaine, worth more than $960,000, two handguns, and over $500,000 in cash and in total, seven persons were sentenced in “Operation Next Day Air.”
The state presented testimony and evidence at trial that his then-girlfriend received large shipments of cocaine in New Jersey and distributed them to other drug traffickers under Davis’s direction. His two brothers, who were part of this drug trafficking network, also pleaded guilty.
“The dismantling of this international drug trafficking organization is a great success for law enforcement, and our communities are safer as a result of this investigation,” said Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, New Jersey Division. “The DEA and our law enforcement partners will continue to pursue drug violators wherever the investigation leads us.”
Flippa was also charged with leading a narcotics trafficking network, but the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict on that charge.
Upon his released in 2022, the Water House deejay is on parole until 2030.
