Ex-YBI Drug Leader Milton Butch Jones, the ‘Henry Ford of Heroin,’ Dies From Heart Attack

Milton Butch Jones, a leader of the notorious Detroit heroin gang Young Boys Inc. (YBI) in the 1970s and 1980s, died this week of a heart attack, according to The Gangster Report, which covers organized crime. He was 70.

Jones had been released from a federal prison to a halfway house about two months ago, according to The Gangster Report. The U.S. Bureau of Prisons’ website shows he died Wednesday.

Scott Burnstein, editor and founder of The Gangster Report, writes:…

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