was shot dead as he sat in a car on the city's west side in 1985. The lieutenant that Davis sent to Boston, James Cooper, better known as "Pep", followed the YBI blueprint and what he learned from his mentors, Dwyane Davis, Raymond Peoples, and Butch Jones in Detroit. He and his crew eventually took over the vast majority of that city's heroin trade. Pep came back to Detroit after Davis' death and took over what was left of Y.B.I. They operated for about another six years, taking the group to another level until crack cocaine quickly surpassed heroin as the inner-city drug of choice. One of the members who came back from Boston with Pep was Steven Sealy. Sealy is best known for being gunned down and killed as he sat in Whitney Houston's Bentley in front of a Boston club. In the car with him was Bobby Brown. Butch Jones was released after serving 12 years in federal prison. He was eventually indicted again on drug and murder charges. Jones cooperated with federal authorities for a lesser sentence. Young Boys Inc. is the subject of hundreds of newspaper articles, dozens of documentaries, and at least two published books. "YBI": The Autobiography of Butch Jones and Bound By Honor, Torn by Greed: The True and Untold story of The Young Boys Inc. Y.B.I'.s reputation and system of organization impacted and influenced drug gangs nationally during the 1980s and 1990s. Consequently, after their downfall, other black Detroit drug cartels copied their organizational structure. Many gangs, such as "Best Friends", "Pony Down", "Black Mafia Family", and "The Chambers Brothers", rose to prominence in the wake of the YBI and were featured together in a Black Entertainment Television documentary series entitled American Gangster. References Further reading Butch Jones, Raymond L. Canty, Y.B.I.: Young Boy's Inc. : The Autobiography of Butch Jones. H. Publications, July 1, 1996. External links How a Detroit Gang got to New Castle Former gangs in Detroit African-American history in Detroit African-American organized crime groups