A convicted drug dealer who was friends with Jam Master Jay told a Brooklyn jury Monday that the slain rap icon occasionally sold him kilos of cocaine to “make ends meet.”
Ex-con Ralph Mullgrav’s time on the stand kicked off a day of testimony in Brooklyn court that included Jay’s business manager, who witnessed the Run-DMC co-founder’s murder, and a former NYPD detective known as the “Hip Hop Cop.”
Mullgrav, who spent 12 years in prison for running a Baltimore drug-dealing operation with two dozen underlings, initially defied a subpoena to testify at the trial of Karl Jordan Jr. and Ronald “Tinard” Washington, both accused of killing the rap star on Oct. 30, 2002.
But after seven days behind bars, he took the stand in Brooklyn Federal Court Monday to say how Jay, whose real name is Jason Mizell, sold drugs.
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Drug dealer tells NYC jury Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay sold cocaine
