Musician gets 25 years for role in drug ring

Andrew K. Davis, a Jamaican recording artist known as "Flippa Mafia" and "Flippa Moggela," was sentenced Friday to 25 years in a New Jersey state prison on drug charges, including his role in an international drug ring that shipped cocaine from California to New Jersey, the state Attorney General's Office said.

Superior Court Judge John T. Kelley also ordered Davis, formerly of Swedesboro, to pay a $250,000 money-laundering penalty. Davis' sentence includes 12 years of parole ineligibility.

Davis was arrested in Los Angeles in September 2013 through "Operation Next Day Air," a multiagency investigation that discovered more than 26 kilograms of cocaine - worth over $960,000 - as well as two handguns and more than $500,000 in cash.

Operating from Kingston, Jamaica, as well as locations in California and New Jersey, Davis worked with partners including Marsha G. Bernard, 34, of Cherry Hill, and his brothers, Kemar, 25, of Los Angeles, and Roger, 38, of Roslyn.

Bernard, who was tried alongside Andrew Davis, was responsible for receiving large shipments of cocaine and distributing them to other drug traffickers in New Jersey. She was found guilty of cocaine distribution, money laundering and conspiracy, and sentenced in February to 21 years in state prison.

Kemar Davis and Roger Davis both pleaded guilty and were sentenced in March, Kemar to 20 years and Roger to 10 years in prison.

Andrew Davis was found guilty in December of first-degree distribution of cocaine, second-degree money laundering, and second-degree conspiracy. The Camden jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict on the charge of leading a narcotics network. He will face a new trial on that charge.

Six other defendants in Operation Next Day Air were sentenced to state prison sentences ranging from three to 16 years.

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