Cleveland Community Activist & Radio Host - Art McKoy arrested in Drug Investigation

Street Hustler turned community activist & radio host, Art "No Justice-No Peace" McKoy, was arrested by East Cleveland police as the result of a drug investigation. Several drug purchases were made out of Art's barber shop, Superfly, during the past year and 1lb of coke was confiscated during the raid.

McKoy, founder of Black on Black Crime, Inc. - a Cleveland activist group, also hosted a radio show at 9:00pm on WTAM. Like Triv is the white fool - Mckoy was the black fool. Art's radio was over the top and very amusing. Defining "whites" as "suburbanites," McKoy offered a forum of fun for some unintended hilarity on topics mostly for the Cleveland & Cuyahoga County area.

From the PD --

High-profile community activist Art McKoy was arrested Wednesday and is accused of running a major drug-distribution operation from his East Cleveland barbershop.

In addition to powder cocaine, officers bought crack cocaine and heroin in the shop, Mayor Eric Brewer said. The investigation began in February. Police made numerous drug purchases in the barbershop, Police Chief Ralph Spotts said.

Police declined to say whether McKoy personally sold any of the drugs or was present when the drugs were sold. More...

McKoy is a street hustler who hustled his way up and into the Cleveland media. That is not a shot at him - just the truth.

Though he may sound like it, McKoy is no fool when it comes to the "streets". Trust me, Art knows the "street". If the amount of drugs coming out of his shop is as police say - everyone on the street knew it - meaning Art was also aware.

The ruthless drug trade in this area, once protected by the PD, is handled by a select few & and their is no way anyone can tell me McKoy had no knowledge that his barber shop was being used as the main source of herion, crack and coke in this area.

I repoed furniture & cars in East Cleveland for many years. We called East Cleveland - "Dodge City" - as it was like the Wild Wild West. At one time I knew E.C. like the back of my hand and had established a "working relationship" with the major drug players. On some "one way in - one way out" streets like Page Ave & Wymore, it was common practice for the dope boys on the corner to charge a fee for securing safe passage in and out. If you knew who they slung for, sometimes the fee was dismissed.

McKoy, who plays the victim better than anyone, has yet to make a statement about the arrest -though his fellow community activists (No, not Obama) have bullhorned his innocence.