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Racist Bikers Busted in Undercover Florida Probe

Posted By Bill Morlin On March 30, 2012 @ 3:12 pm In Christian Identity,Extremist Crime | 17 Comments

Six members of a racist motorcycle gang in Florida face drug and bomb-related charges following a three-year undercover investigation, federal and state authorities announced Friday.

The suspects are affiliated with the Outlaws motorcycle club and the 1st SS Kavallerie Brigade Motorcycle Division [1], a racist gang formed by former Aryan Nations leader August Kreis III [2], according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office in Orlando.

“One of the goals of the organization was to blow up buildings and houses, as well as individuals associated with rival organizations,” sheriff’s spokesman Jeff Williamson told Hatewatch.

The suspects were arrested Thursday at locations in central Florida and the Chicago area, Williamson said. They initially were booked on state charges but also may face federal charges. “There also may be other arrests,” Williamson added.

Court documents associated with the investigation weren’t immediately available, and sheriff’s officials offered only limited information at a press conference in Orlando.

Those arrested and their charges were Harold Johnson Kinlaw, 54, threatening to throw a destructive device, attempting to solicit conspiracy and evidencing prejudice; Carlos Eugene Dubose, 54, Orlando, threatening to throw a destructive device and trafficking in oxycodone; Ronald Cusack, 47, St. Cloud, Fla., threatening to throw a destructive device and delivery of cocaine; Brian Klose, 49, St. Cloud, destructive device, manufacturing and selling drugs, possession of cocaine; Leah Clouse, 40, St. Cloud, possession of cocaine; and Deborah Plowman, age unavailable, Chicago, possession of hydrocodone.

The 1st SS Kavallerie Brigade Motorcycle Division, whose members are primarily outlaw bikers, takes its name from Hitler’s SS Cavalry Brigade, a horse-mounted unit that was part of the Waffen SS created for World War II occupation duties in German-occupied Poland. Later, while serving in German-occupied areas of the Soviet Union, the brigade was involved in the killing of Jews [3].

Kreis, who was briefly designated as the heir to founder Richard G. Butler, heavily recruited members of motorcycle gangs after he moved to Lexington, S.C., from Pennsylvania.

In 2010, Kreis [4] was involved in forming the 1st SS Kavallerie Brigade Motorcycle Division as a security crew. Some of those members also reportedly have affiliations in Florida with the Outlaws motorcycle gang.


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#1 Comment By Aron On March 30, 2012 @ 4:00 pm

I do love that these nincompoops style themselves SS-menschen. If Kreis is to be considered an example, there is no way ANY of them would have been accepted into SS service.

But great job, OCSO! Keep up the good work.

#2 Comment By Reynardine On March 30, 2012 @ 5:22 pm

Aron, in “War Against the Weak”, Edwin Black published a picture showing a banquet attended by a eugenics society that was dedicated to preventing inferior stock from breeding. Well, damme, if I had been a people rancher, I wouldn’t have permitted a one of these attendees to breed. They seem to all possess the reverse of a funhouse mirror: it beautifies their reflections in their own eyes.

#3 Comment By Shadow Wolf On March 30, 2012 @ 7:34 pm

“Individuals associated with rival organizations”

I assumed they must meant the Hells Angels. Their arch rival. Because we have many of them in Arizona with some of them supporting arpaio politically now. Besides the Vagos(mostly in Northern/Northwest AZ). The Mongols appear to be out of the show for quite some time with most of them in jail.

#4 Comment By Ruslan Amirkhanov On March 31, 2012 @ 5:26 am

Interesting that the compared themselves to cavalry, considering that virtually every Wehrmacht/Waffen SS division had a recon detachment with motorcycles.

#5 Comment By Reynardine On March 31, 2012 @ 4:00 pm

Well, you know, the horses they rode in on.

#6 Comment By Aron On April 1, 2012 @ 11:52 am

I’ll become nervous if they start toting around sabres and lances. Not that I would imagine any of them possess the skill necessary to use them effectively. (One of my particular interests in the field of Military History is that of cavalry. So this group is just beyond hilarious.)

#7 Comment By Reynardine On April 1, 2012 @ 12:09 pm

On this first day of April, 2012, I regretfully inform our gentle readers that the Wyoming legislature has floated a bill proposing that that august State must prepare for the eventual collapse of the United States of America, and, to that end, must acquire military self- sufficiency. The Wyoming Legislature is therefor making provision to fund and supply an Air Force, Army, and Navy for the state of Wyoming, the latter to be equipped with an aircraft carrier.

“We do not know when we might be called upon to engage the Navy of Kirgyzstan”, the bill’s author explained, “so we’re negotiating with the Swiss Navy for one of its carriers”.

Satellite photos report the construction of a bathtub of colossal dimensions near Laramie. Reportedly, a fleet of immense rubber duckies has been spotted barely concealed by camouflage netting.

The sorriest part of this post is that the first paragraph is not a joke.

#8 Comment By TheHitch On April 1, 2012 @ 10:10 pm

Aron, that goes without saying, because to be a member of the SS one had to be an actual GERMAN citizen, which meant “Greater Germany” (Germany, Austria, Sudetenland, Silesia, Alsace-Lorraine, etc etc, and some occupied European countries which had been “annexed”). There were “adjunct” formations to the SS made up of foreigners (even Indians and Muslim Yugoslavs), but they weren’t allowed to wear SS runes, and weren’t considered members of the SS. So an American of any stripe couldn’t have been a member of the Third Reich’s SS.

#9 Comment By Erika On April 2, 2012 @ 7:56 am

Here is my proposed summary for this story:

Nazi Dopes on Bikes

#10 Comment By Aron On April 2, 2012 @ 8:34 am

TheHitch,

One should never forget the American and British ‘Free Corps’ formations within the Waffen-SS. Though they likely never truly existed in any real capacity, there is certainly some evidence to support the theory that some Americans and English deserted to fight for the Germans on the Eastern Front.

Needless the say, the results were appreciably farcical. Also, regarding the volunteer SS divisions, it is because of their countrymen’s contributions to various ‘Einsatzgruppe’-type activities that I was rather opposed to American intervention in Albania. (That being said, the Albanians produced some of the finest Alpine soldiers in the Waffen-SS.)

#11 Comment By TheHitch On April 2, 2012 @ 1:38 pm

Aron,

Again, I am speaking of specifically being members of the SS. The American and British “Free Corps” formations, as well as many other foreigners that I mentioned, were as I stated, “adjunct” formations to the Waffen SS. HOWEVER, as I stated before, and will again now, they were NOT members of the SS. As I stated, and will again now, membership in the SS was restricted to GERMAN CITIZENS, or citizens of a very few occupied European countries. Don’t confuse belonging to Waffen-SS formations to being members of the SS, which required exhaustive proof of Germanic/Nordic parentage. That’s why those crazy Indian/Bosnian Muslim/American/British/whatever formations were not allowed to wear the SS runes. Big difference.

#12 Comment By TheHitch On April 2, 2012 @ 1:50 pm

Reynardine,

I have no idea what your post has to do with the topic at hand, but apparently that legislation was voted down. Except for the aircraft carrier bit, which would be silly of course, they were probably correct– the United States is probably on its way out, at least as we know it, and it might be prudent for the States to strengthen their individual capabilities, at least to be able to defend themselves if needed, with forces under their own command and separate from the Federal government. The downfall probably won’t happen in our lifetimes, but possibly in the lifetime of those children being born now… might as well prepare for the inevitable.

#13 Comment By Reynardine On April 2, 2012 @ 2:21 pm

Hitch, I agree, especially that drastic rise in sea level, which would give Wyoming its very own coastline. I myself am volunteering for Florida’s Mountain Division, for which I shall surely qualify, even though I am approaching seventy.

I am so glad you have acknowledged the threat of global warming.

#14 Comment By Aron On April 2, 2012 @ 3:40 pm

TheHitch,

I never stated that the adjunct divisions were true members of the Allgemaine SS. They were just that- adjunct. But they committed their more than fair share of atrocities, and that’s why I (knowing that it is fully irrational and hypocritical) still hold some degree of animus toward the Albanian people. They didn’t seem to merely join the Waffen-SS, but revel in it. Nice fezzes, though.

#15 Comment By TheHitch On April 2, 2012 @ 6:06 pm

Reynardine,

Again, I have no idea what you’re talking about. The discussion had nothing to do with global warming. Apparently what is warming, or hardening, are the blood vessels in your brain which is leading to apparent dementia due to advanced age.

#16 Comment By Reynardine On April 3, 2012 @ 9:58 am

Hitch, when I am senile, I will still have more sense in my left pinky than you can now muster with your whole cranium.

#17 Comment By Reynardine On April 4, 2012 @ 8:37 am

Wondering how many saw Rick Santorum call the President a “government n*gger”.


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URLs in this post:

[1] 1st SS Kavallerie Brigade Motorcycle Division: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/aryan-nations

[2] August Kreis III: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/august-kreis

[3] killing of Jews: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Cavalry_Brigade

[4] Kreis: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/summer/will-the-real-aryan-nations-please-st