Earlier this month lawyers for reputed Detroit drug kingpin and music-label impresario Brian (Peanut) Brown filed a motion with the U.S. District Court looking to retain jewelry and vehicles seized in raids two years ago, which were promptly answered with a response brief filed by the government hoping to block the request. The 47-year old Brown is the target of a giant federal narcotics and money laundering inquiry, but has only been charged with a gun case as of yet and remains free on bond.
Peanut Brown owns BMB Records, an independent label based out of Michigan and home to Motor City rap staple Trick Trick, R&B lothario Ray-J, hip-hop diva Charli Baltimore and up-and-comer Bre-Z, who acts on the hit television show Empire. Back in the 1990s, Brown was busted for drug offenses and did a decade behind bars.
According to court records, the feds are asking the court that the $55,000 worth of jewelry, a classic Cadillac Seville and a custom-built motorcycle Brown seeks to recover be forfeited to the government because they were bought with dirty money. The property was confiscated in multiple raids conducted in Atlanta and suburban Michigan, respectively, in 2015. The car (a 1976 model) and bike are part of Brown’s half-million dollar luxury fleet of automobiles. Since the investigation began over four years ago, the government has seized more than $500,000 in cash and eight kilos of uncut heroin.
Prior to word of a federal criminal probe into his affairs hitting the media in the spring (first reported by The Detroit News), he and his wife were slated to be the stars of a reality TV show on the Lifetime network. The show is currently being kept on-hold by the network until the investigation concludes.
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