“Many of the defendants charged in this case, as you’ll see in the indictment, were brazen, in fact, disturbingly even proud of their criminal exploits,” said U.S. Attorney Stephen Dettelbach in last week’s press conference announcing the largest ever heroin bust in Northeast Ohio. “Some boasted, some bragged, one even made a movie where he called his activities ‘the game.’ While some of these defendants may have publicly pretended to play glamorous movie roles, their real activities are nothing at all to be proud of, and are certainly no game.”
That was the only mention of a movie created by one of the indicted drug traffickers in the press conference or the documents: the person and movie were not identified. But we did a little digging and found the trailer of the exact movie he was referring to.
Maceo Moore, 37, was one of the ringleaders of the 92 people swept up in the multi-year investigation into heroin trafficking in Cleveland (pages 15-18 of the indictment, below, has transcripts of a conversation Moore had with an undercover police over that describes a lot of what he did). We found he was also a rapper and actor.
Moore, known as “Chase” or “Paper,” wrote and starred in “The Game Ain’t For Everybody” in 2008 (its IMDB description: “When America’s economy crashes, three individuals create their own underground economy. But what happens once the risk is no longer worth the reward? Step inside today’s inner city”). The movie is shot in the actual location where the drug ring was based (East 117th Street and St. Clair in Cleveland), tells the story of activities that the drug ring is actually accused of doing, and uses both Moore’s full legal name and street names in the movie. Here it is:
“Chase” also has several music videos online, all from about five years ago. Here’s a video for his song “Out Tha Roof” featuring Cleveland rappers Chip The Ripper and Young Ray, shot at the same location:
Again, here’s the full indictment:
Heroin Bust Indictment (PDF)Heroin Bust Indictment (Text)
This article appears in Sep 18-24, 2013.
i guess the game isnt for everyone including them since they got busted.
Yeah, too bad we didn’t get to see the one with the Cleveland Police and the part about paying them off.
Daniella, do you have proof to back up this claim? I have many CPD friends & family & your slanderous remarks are uncalled for.
the game? maybe you mean GAME OVER ha ha ha busted
Cpd is as crooked as they come how else could they be on st.clair killing and robbing and pushing drugs at that quantity with out the help of the crooked cpd….. Honestly be honest with your sensitive self people in the city starving and homeless and their making millions selling a product that’s killing our city one better our life form or specie…
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! smh poor Boo-e smh so sad for this kid. Lord my prayer goes out to our young men & women. The devil got them so caught up in evil they don’t even realize how bad they are being used by the enemy! Until it is to late…Lord have mercy on Boo-e & protect them all from harm & danger. My prayers are with the family, still smh, my heart goes out to all who are caught up in the drug life…..it is a lie of satan…..and causes nothing but self-destruction no matter how…seller, user….you are doomed. You can only be free if you “Surrender” all to Jesus & repent to the Lord!