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Drug-Dealing Arkansas White Supremacist Gang Ordered Hits on Suspected Informants: Feds
Dozens of members of a white-supremacist gang in Arkansas dealt meth, attempted to commit murder, and kidnapped and maimed informants, according to racketeering charges filed by federal prosecutors Tuesday.
The indictment focuses on 54 associates of Arkansas’ New Aryan Empire gang, whose members were willing to commit violence to protect their criminal operations, prosecutors allege.
“New Aryan Empire associates maintained their criminal enterprise by engaging in multiple acts of violence—including kidnapping and attempting to murder one informant, and stabbing and maiming two others suspected of cooperating with law enforcement,” Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski said in a press release.
Law-enforcement officials first brought charges against the gang’s members over meth and guns in 2017. Some members of the gang indicted Tuesday were first charged two years ago, after law-enforcement raids on gang locations turned up 69 guns and 25 pounds of meth.
Prosecutors say top members of the New Aryan Empire leadership directed the group’s members to commit a series of crimes, including kidnapping, offering to pay for targeted murders, witness tampering, and drug-dealing.
Between 2014 and 2016, for example, Wesley “Bad Company” Gullett allegedly tried to commission the murder of a suspected government informant.
Gullett, the alleged head of the New Aryan Empire’s operations outside of the prison system, offered tens of thousands of dollars, pills, and even a Harley Davidson motorcycle to gang associates willing to help commit the murder, according to prosecutors.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/drug-dealing-arkansas-white-supremacist-gang-ordered-hits-on-suspected-informants-feds
The indictment focuses on 54 associates of Arkansas’ New Aryan Empire gang, whose members were willing to commit violence to protect their criminal operations, prosecutors allege.
“New Aryan Empire associates maintained their criminal enterprise by engaging in multiple acts of violence—including kidnapping and attempting to murder one informant, and stabbing and maiming two others suspected of cooperating with law enforcement,” Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski said in a press release.
Law-enforcement officials first brought charges against the gang’s members over meth and guns in 2017. Some members of the gang indicted Tuesday were first charged two years ago, after law-enforcement raids on gang locations turned up 69 guns and 25 pounds of meth.
Prosecutors say top members of the New Aryan Empire leadership directed the group’s members to commit a series of crimes, including kidnapping, offering to pay for targeted murders, witness tampering, and drug-dealing.
Between 2014 and 2016, for example, Wesley “Bad Company” Gullett allegedly tried to commission the murder of a suspected government informant.
Gullett, the alleged head of the New Aryan Empire’s operations outside of the prison system, offered tens of thousands of dollars, pills, and even a Harley Davidson motorcycle to gang associates willing to help commit the murder, according to prosecutors.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/drug-dealing-arkansas-white-supremacist-gang-ordered-hits-on-suspected-informants-feds
Well on the plus side there's 54 fewer Trump votes in 2020!
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Of course we did nothing then when we could have done something about it, and here we are. 
