MIAMI – Luis Alfredo Malave was 19 years old when police officers arrested him for cocaine trafficking — twice in the same year in Miami-Dade County. He was known as “King Fufie.”
After violating a three-year probation, Malave was 20 years old when he was convicted of cocaine trafficking and sentenced to five years in prison, county and state records show.
The Florida Department of Corrections released him in 2014. He wasn’t arrested in Miami-Dade until recently when detectives said he got in the middle of a territorial dispute among drug dealers.
Malave, 33, was back behind bars in Miami-Dade. A judge denied him bond on Wednesday.
Detectives believe there were arguments for three days before Malave followed a drug dealer’s order to shoot rival Jim Pierre on Feb. 13, in the Brownsville neighborhood.
Malave wielded a “firearm in his right hand,” Miami-Dade Detective Victor Maduro wrote in a statement to support a warrant for Malave’s arrest.
Pierre, 47, reported Malave first witnessed an argument over a drug dealing debt on Feb. 11. Roscoe Jenkins, a rival, found out about the dispute and confronted Pierre about it on Feb. 12, according to police.
“I am going to show you! I bet you die,” Jenkins, 31, told Pierre, according to MDPD Detective Tiffany Mecias’s statement to support a warrant for Jenkins’s arrest.
Jenkins returned with Malave to confront Pierre on Feb 13 outside of the Mamy Quick, a convenience store at the corner of Northwest 51 Street and 23 Avenue, records show.
“Jenkins believed that [Pierre] was attempting to encroach on his drug sales territory,” Maduro wrote.
Malave was the passenger of a black Volkswagen that Jenkins was driving. Detectives later learned Jenkins’s mother had rented the Volkswagen from Hertz. They both got out of the car.
Pierre reported they argued and he pulled out his revolver from his left pocket after Jenkins shouted an order to Malave — “Man! Let’s go, man! Bust that [racial slur]!”
Surveillance video captured the conflict, and ShotSpotter technology reported nine rounds were fired at about 11:50 a.m. Pierre was shot in the abdomen; Malave was shot in the leg; and Jenkins was shot in the arm, according to police.
“Saw the man on the ground ... He lifted his shirt and he was shot ... He was talking. He wasn’t bleeding out, but he was bleeding inside,” a witness told Local 10 News about Pierre, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded to the convenience store and rushed Pierre to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center.
Jenkins used the Volkswagen to drive Malave to Memorial West Hospital in Pembroke Pines, according to police. Detectives later found the Volkswagen parked at a house nearby in Pembroke Pines.
After a Broward County judge signed a search warrant, Pembroke Pines Police Department detectives found a Taurus 9mm handgun in the house where the Volkswagen was parked.
Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Malave and Jenkins on Tuesday morning and took them to the main jail in Fort Lauderdale.
Deputies extradited them to Miami-Dade where correctional officers booked them at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Tuesday afternoon.
Malave was facing charges of first-degree attempted murder with a deadly weapon and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Jenkins was facing a charge of first-degree attempted murder with a deadly weapon, records show. The warrants do not name the shooter who wounded Malave.
Detectives were asking anyone with information about the case to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.
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