Recent intelligence obtained by law enforcement suggest that that high-ranking members of the “Aryan Warriors” are working closely with Nevada public officials, and doing so in an effort to launder drug proceeds for the Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTOs). The drug operation is elaborate, controlled by the Mexican Mafia, and other street gangs which profit from drug distribution. Street gangs previously known to be rivals are collaborating in their drug trafficking efforts.

The multi-jurisdictional operation involves public officials from various sectors, including Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC), Nevada Highway Patrol (NHP), Carson City Sheriff’s Office (CCSO), Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), Nevada Gaming Control Board, City of Reno, United States Bureau of Reclamation (Hoover Dam, Boulder City, NV), and spans across state lines to California Highway Patrol (Barstow, California), and the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department (SBSD).

Correctional intelligence has confirmed a strong link between the “Aryan Warriors” and Hispanic gangs, including the “Surenos,” after intercepting coded written communications between members of the “Aryan Warriors.” (Correctional Intelligence Task Force Bulletin Number: 2016–10- 06-GK)

Investigators with NDOC’s Correctional Emergency Response Team (CERT) received a report that members of “Aryan Warriors” are working with state and local officials, including Carson City Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) staff, more specifically Sheriff Ken Furlong, with the “Aryan Warriors” providing officers intelligence for unauthorized law enforcement activities related to structured cash deposits of drug proceeds, including those made to the Bank of Nevada, and the Greater Nevada Credit Union.

The intelligence is then unlawfully disseminated by public officials; to obstruct, dissuade, and hinder authorized federal law enforcement activities within their respective jurisdictions locally. Statements from Jeremy Kenneth Nuckles, NDOC offender #53628, during a 2016 interview with FBI Special Agents unnamed, revealed Nuckles’ work as a Confidential Informant (CI), and “enforcer,” for State of Nevada investigators, including NDOC’s Inspector General (IG), and other LEOs at the local and county levels, including Washoe County Sheriff’s Office (WCSO), Douglas County Sheriff’s Office (DCSO), and the Carson City Sheriff’s Office (CCSO), and that Nuckles had received payments from investigators since 2005, of bulk cash obtained from asset forfeitures which were either never properly logged into evidence, or from bulk cash seizures checked-out of evidence under a false pretense.

In exchange for work as a CI, Nuckles also obtained intelligence from LEOs locally on federal law enforcement activities in the area, and surrounding the 2007 indictment of 14 defendants belonging to the “Aryan Warriors,” which Nuckles has been a member of since 2005. Being an active and validated member of “Aryan Warriors,” Nuckles managed to stay-off the federal governments “radar.”

In turn, LEO officers would access the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) to conduct research for Nuckles, which would further criminal activities, either to obtain property for personal gain (ex. firearms), or license plate numbers which were then used as leads, or targets, to the narcotics trafficking activities, whereby, innocent persons are targeted as unwitting accessories, or what is also known as a “blind mouse,” or “blind mule,” to the drug conspiracy.

Conversely, subjects who were not volunteer drug traffickers, nor selected to be used as “blind mice,” where coerced by the aforementioned LEOs, that is, subjects who are active criminals make for an easy target of extortion due to their affiliation with street crime, as for example is the case with many CIs.

During Nuckles’ incarceration at Nevada’s High Desert State Prison facility, Nuckles was ordered, by actors unknown, to carry out a