It’s supposed to be a brotherhood that’s what it started out to be the area brotherhood of texas was formed in the texas prison system in the early 1980s we were seeing our own kind punked out and treated like just white folks and stood together we stuck with our own inside and of
Course anything you have inside any gang you’re going to get out you know when you get out a couple you get together and you start doing this and that and it grew it was all about business drugs prostitution sold a lot of drugs a lot of females grew up and down 35. if
You ran up 35 go to one of the motels he bought anything ex extracurricular money went in my pocket it went uncommon have really about about 70 000 a week in cash they had a constitution which essentially laid out everything that this particular group does in terms of the rank structure in
Terms of uh what their beliefs are in terms of uh everything from what happens when someone is disciplined to to what doesn’t happen when someone is disciplined they have different levels of discipline back in the day we would get tattoos with the of our shield
If you didn’t held up you held up and you got to expect them i’d compare your patch off of you so if you’ve got it tattooed on it you can imagine i’m going to skin a chunkier side robberies pounds of methamphetamine going up and down i-20 credit card fraud it’s all murders obviously
That’s kidnapping they talk about kidnapping between each other like it’s nothing like having somebody in the closet is nothing to them murder if it’s ordered it’s nothing to these guys they’re so loyal and that’s think this is the scariest part is how loyal they are and you don’t cross them getting georgia
Violence to each other mostly a lot to each other they were picking each other off one by one clearly they’re a very violent group and in order to institute and still discipline within the organization they need to ensure that they can go out and commit violence against each other
Look at me i’m going to tell you something you hear me yes sir if you ever say aryan brotherhood of texas or from colorado will kill you so use that to kind of set an example for uh for others that are thinking about perhaps swaying or straying from their blind faith
Commitment to the aryan brotherhood of texas a blind faith commitment is a document that a prospect signs stating in fact that he is going to be a member of the aryan brotherhood of texas and it’s a commitment that you take for life there was a homicide in the dallas fort
Worth area of briana taylor in 2006. she was tortured and ultimately she was dismembered and put in a plastic bathtub filled with quikrete and denton like ray hubbard there was no way thanks got so carried away there was no way she could once he once once things got out of hand
That was the only way it could end when we all were briefed on this particular homicide from the folks from dallas we all knew that something had to be done about the abt after hearing what happened to brianna teller In the summer of 2008 i was targeting an armed career criminal who we believe was providing silences and firearms to the bandito outlaw motorcycle gang in the course of executing a search warrant at this individual’s residence we obtained a number of different firearms and in doing so he was looking
At a mandatory prison sentence of 15 years or more it wasn’t long before he decided he wanted to cooperate with us and in doing so he said that not only did he know some leaders within the bandito outlaw motorcycle gang but he also knew the general of the area umbrella to texas
One of the things that the abt would typically do every month is they would hold what they call church meetings and in these church meetings what would occur is they would discuss their criminal activity they would just they would collect dues for the organization and they would discuss bank gang
Business a big part of this case was built on uh the development and cultivation of confidential informants some would become a ci for multiple reasons maybe they’re pending charges for one and the other reason is some do it for financial reasons so a confidential informative he’s actually in these church meetings
Could do a number of different things one he can record uh what was happening and secondly he can come back if he wasn’t recording he could tell us exactly what was being said by the leaders within the organization kicked in my hotel group door he charged me with identity theft
Prostitution i mean this could have went on and on and on and he went by tell me that’s exactly what they were going to do he says okay you need i need you to talk to these people and it was the fbi i was like oh
That’s when it got real so you always want to make sure that your ci’s identity is is never disclosed or that the abt in this particular case uh doesn’t know who your ci’s are if i was a snitch that he would torture me himself he would kill me himself
And that he would spend hours torturing me first the abt confidential informants for example a lot of them are hooked on methamphetamine and you can’t really be a confidential informant if you’re using narcotics if i if i wasn’t using and showing that i was doing drugs they wouldn’t have trusted me
We went after all the generals there were five journals within the abt just went through we also indicted a number of majors and captains and essentially all leaders within this organization was the first time in law enforcement history that the ricoh had been used to take down the entire leadership of a
Prison gang that had a nationwide presence we had 73 indictments of those 73 indictments 100 were convicted i believe that their command and control capabilities have been severely diminished they’ll continue to do what they do and obviously we’ll continue to do what we do it’s non-existent on the streets i mean
You have a few that have tried to step up and step in to put but there’s nothing i mean the head’s cut off there’s a green light on me and she just find me and kill me pretty much at all costs no matter where i will be in fear my
Whole life he told me they’ll be coming for me and i told him straight up that when they do just like the last time they did when you send somebody slick you better send somebody this time
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