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Baltimore native Darrin Ebron, known to some in Hollywood as "the poor man's Puffy" for his fashion and entertainment businesses that endear him to stars such as Kanye West, Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake, has been accused in a suspected drug-smuggling operation that moved hundreds of pounds of cocaine to Baltimore, court records show.

Mr. Ebron, who "kept the guests dancing" as the disc jockey when actor Eddie Murphy exchanged wedding vows with Tracey Edmonds in 2008 on a private island off Bora Bora, is named in a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Los Angeles as part of a drug conspiracy that shipped cocaine aboard private planes from Los Angeles to Baltimore for later distribution along the East Coast.

As any fashionista, clubgoer or celebrity can attest, "when the art worlds collide, explosive things can happen," a mantra of Mr. Ebron's, who boasts on his website that music, art and fashion give his life "its fireworks." The owner and designer of Goodlife American Clothing and a graduate of the New York Hip Hop scene, where he cut his teeth at BadBoy Records and Def Jam and later was hired as a contractor by Ms. Edmonds of the Edmonds Entertainment Group, Mr. Ebron has lived that mantra.

"I believe living the Good Life means developing a self-awareness and having a daily spirit of gratitude," he writes on his website. "It's knowing what works for you and creating your own set of rules."

According to the complaint, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times, Mr. Ebron and eight suspected co-conspirators were caught on surveillance and wiretaps plotting to distribute "large quantities of cocaine" to Baltimore, where Mr. Ebron was described as one of the "primary distributors."

Mr. Ebron did not return calls to his public relations company for comment.

The complaint, which authorizes Mr. Ebron's arrest, says the drugs were received from a Los Angeles supplier named Heriberto "Big Dog" Lopez and flown to Baltimore in 100-plus pound loads in private planes chartered by a Maryland man, Ricky James Brascom, who then arranged for the cash from the sale of the drugs to be flown back to Los Angeles.

Mr. Brascom and another Maryland native, Charles Dwight Ransom Jr. — also identified in the complaint as a cocaine supplier in Baltimore — have separate apartments in the same complex in Hollywood, where detectives observed them in late September meet with "three Hispanic male occupants" in an underground, gated parking garage. Intercepted phone calls show that Mr. Ransom received nearly 40 pounds of cocaine from Mr. Brascom's supplier during that meeting and then left for Ontario International Airport in California.

During a refueling stop in Kansas, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents searched the baggage compartment under the ruse of a random police check and seized more than 100 pounds of cocaine. While still aboard the plane, Mr. Ransom called Mr. Brascom and was heard on a wiretapped call saying he was "scared" and he'd have "a big ass bill to pay," to which Mr. Brascom replied, "you and me both."

Later that day, DEA agents say they heard Mr. Brascom and Mr. Ebron discuss a purchase of more than 80 pounds of cocaine for which Mr. Ebron would owe $900,000, a sum he said he would have the next time he saw Mr. Brascom, the complaint said.