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He operated in 21 states and supplied drug dealers throughout every region of the country. Matthews led a flamboyant lifestyle, with luxury homes, vehicles and clothing along with prime seats at sporting events and regular trips to Las Vegas to launder money and gamble. He hosted an African-American and Hispanic drug dealers' summit in Atlanta in and another in Las Vegas in to discuss how to break the American Mafia 's control of heroin importation.

Matthews was arrested in on tax evasion and drug charges but disappeared afterward. His mother died when he was four years old and he was raised by his aunt, Marzella Steele, the wife of a lieutenant in the Durham Police Department. He was nicknamed "Pee Wee" in his youth and attended the East End Elementary school but dropped out in the seventh grade.

At age 14, Matthews led a teenaged gang in stealing chickens from local farms. When confronted by a farmer, Matthews assaulted him with a brick. He was arrested in October and served a year for theft and assault at the Raleigh State Reformatory for Boys.

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Upon his release, Matthews moved to Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , where he worked as a numbers writer. He made contacts that would become his future Philadelphia drug connections, including Major Coxson and members of the Black Mafia. Matthews moved to the Bedford—Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn , New York , and became a barber, collecting numbers as he had in Philadelphia, as well as working as a loan shark and enforcer.