A Real-Life Gus Fring Was Selling Cakes From a Mix And $60,000 Worth of Cocaine Per Week Out Of His Bakery

Pilot - Most customers of a now-defunct Virginia Beach bakery probably didn’t know the cake shop was a front for a large drug ring.

But court documents filed this week in U.S. District Court in Norfolk revealed another secret: They were buying cake made from a boxed mix.

Vernon Norvell, a former owner of G’s Cake Shop on Auburn Drive, is set to be sentenced next week on one count each of conspiracy to distribute narcotics and conspiracy to commit money laundering. His wife, Cheron Marie Johnson, is set to be sentenced next month on related charges. According to court documents, Norvell, 43, of Portsmouth, was a big player in the Hampton Roads drug trade from about 2008 through 2015. He confessed to selling more than $60,000 of cocaine a week and dealing more than 125 pounds in all.

When federal agents raided the shop earlier this year, they found boxes of Duncan Hines cake mix and scant financial records, court documents said. In 2014 alone, the couple made over $322,000 in bank deposits while claiming in tax filings an average net loss of $6,500 a month, documents said.

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Well look what we have here, a little Gus Fring in action. I love real-life Gus Fring/Heisenberg stories. The world is good for 1 or 2 of these a year. And this one is top of the mountain (perhaps even on the Mount Rushmore of real-life Gus Frings, if you will). Because everything about this bakery is awesome, starting with the name, “G’s Cake Shop”. As Lil Wayne once said, real G’s move in silence like $60,000 worth of cocaine deals a week. Then you have the fact they are supposed to be this artisan bake shop, but they have their employees mixing water and eggs and powder in the back. People are coming in expecting some exquisite home made cakes and they are getting Betty Crocker. Not that boxed cakes aren’t delicious, but they expected fresh from G’s. And finally, the big mistake- using a bank. Gus Fring would slit your throat so fast if he knew you were putting your drug money in the bank. The bank!! You can’t put $300,000 in the bank, buy new cars, and have a lake house down the street from senators all while reporting losses of $6,500 per month. You keep that shit in a storage unit and hire a big black man to keep track of it. It’s insane that these people are smart enough to operate massive drug rings but can’t get away with it because they never watched TV.

h/t Camden