http://gawker.com/5602563/chef-arres...his-restaurant
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| Fred Wills, Jr.—chef and owner of Virginia Beach restaurant Big Daddy's: A Touch of the South—has been charged with running a cocaine and marijuana drug ring in four states, Eater.com reports. Turns out that Virginia Beach's Big Daddy's: A Touch of the South was serving more than just soul food! After keeping a close eye on him for almost ten years, federal agents arrested Fred Wills, Jr., aka "Big Daddy," the restaurant's chef/owner on Friday, charging him with running a $9 million drug ring involving cocaine and marijuana spanning four states. The 26-page federal indictment lists a series of ever-escalating drug deals dating back to 2002. The DEA alleges that Wills, his wife, and a co-conpirator sold over 240 pounds of cocaine and laundered money through the various restaurants Fred Wills has owned over the past eight years under the "Big Daddy" name. At one point they even "distributed one kilogram of cocaine in a Styrofoam take-out food container" for $23,000. Wills, however, was also known for his charitable activities: He would "open his restaurants to the homeless at Thanksgiving, feeding hundreds of people for free." |
