The founder and CEO of a Boston-based nonprofit focused on re-entry supported services has been charged with distributing cocaine, said the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.

Javan Tooley, 36, founder and CEO of Adapt & Evolve LLC, was indicted on Sept. 18 on charges of distribution of 28 grams or more of cocaine base and arrested Tuesday. Tooley was ordered detained until a hearing Friday.

Tooley, of Dorchester and Brockton, has a history of conviction on drug trafficking, engaging in sex trafficking and other charges, the U.S. Attorney’s office said.

The U.S. Attorney’s office laid out a long list of allegations against Tooley, including targeting victims with “acts of violence,” providing victims with access to drugs, and coordinating drug transactions with the nonprofit’s phone.

“Tooley allegedly targeted and recruited women, many of whom suffered from substance abuse disorders, to engage in commercial sex for his financial benefit and to distribute controlled substances for him,” said the feds.

The defendant allegedly “created a climate of fear” targeting his victims by claiming her had connections to law enforcement and other powerful officials through the nonprofit, prosecutors said.

The alleged criminal enterprise came to light after Sept. 10, when Tooley is accused of distributing 100 grams of crack cocaine near Fields Corner in Dorchester, close by Tooley’s non-profit , the U.S. Attorney’s office said.

While Tooley dealt the alleged crack from his car, a young child just 6 or 7 years old sat in the back seat, prosecutors said.

On Sept. 23, Tooley allegedly reached out to a cooperating witness again arranging another drug sale near Roxbury District Court.

At the meet-up, the nonprofit CEO was arrested in possession of approximately 160 grams of crack cocaine, prosecutors allege.

The defendant was first convicted of selling cocaine to undercover law enforcement in 2010 and sentenced to five years in prison and five years supervised release, the U.S Attorney said.

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Following his release in 2015, he violated “terms of supervised release on at least five separate occasions” and was sentenced to 22 additional months in prison.

Tooley faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years and up to life in prison, at least eight years of supervised release and a fine of $8 million, because of his prior federal drug trafficking conviction, the U.S. Attorney’s office said.

Tooley will return to federal court Friday at 11:30 a.m.