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LAS VENTURAS SUN

 

FOUR CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH OILFIELD DRUG RING

 

Suspects used contractor credentials, bribery to evade security measures and smuggle drugs into "dry" oilfield camps

 

Posted June 3, 2016 - 3:31 PM
Amended June 5, 2016 - 4:11 PM (Click to view)
Amended June 14, 2016 - 11:48 AM (Click to view)

 

By Joshua Singh
[email protected] 

Las Venturas, SA — Over 20 pounds of methamphetamine, 5 kilograms of cocaine, thousands of both legitimate and counterfeit prescription pills, bulk amounts of regulated substances used in the adulteration of drugs, cash from the proceeds of criminal activity, vehicles and several unregistered firearms were seized in a series of early-morning raids across northern and central San Andreas on Friday. Working in close conjunction with the DEA and Los Santos County Sherriff's Department, the San Manuelino County Sherriff's Department and San Andreas District Attorney's office today unveiled state charges against the accused.

 

Travis Nyquist, 41, of Las Venturas; Moses Arias, 35, of Las Venturas; Preston Forni, 25, of El Quebrados; and Miguel Bone, 23, of the Black Kettle Reservation face a myriad of drug and firearm-related charges. Two of the accused are known to have ties to street gangs and organized crime groups operating in San Andreas.

 

The defendants are alleged to have orchestrated a distribution ring wherein vast quantities of drugs were smuggled piecemeal into "dry" inland oilpatch camps. Despite zero-tolerance rules prohibiting drug and alcohol use within many of these camps, the suspects used employee and contractor credentials and bribery to bypass security checkpoints. Vehicles seized in Friday's raids were also found to have aftermarket compartments added that allowed drug mules to secrete and smuggle their loads into these ostensibly "controlled" environments. 

 

The arrests come amidst an uptick in drug-related activity and violence already observed by law enforcement in communities and urban centers peripheral to the inland oilfields. According to the SMSD, the busts are symptomatic of a broader phenomenon facing the American oilpatch boom and the burgeoning underworld economy that is known to prey upon and accompany its expansion into new regions.  Oilfield workers are typically relegated to working far from home for long periods at a time, and with little else to spend their wages on while working or "on-hitch," many turn to drug use. This provides fertile ground for enterprising criminals through the cultivation of a localized customer base that has money readily available to spend. Investigators have referred to these market conditions as creating a "perfect storm" for drug traffickers and the diverse criminal groups that profit from their operations. 

To highlight this diversity, and of particular concern to investigators was the "almost symbiotic" degree of cooperation and unity that occurred between the defendants and the criminal entities they are said to represent. Organizational charts provided by the prosecution depict Travis Nyquist, the alleged leader of the ring, as a senior member of the Public Enemy No. 1 (PEN1) street gang. Nyquist has a lengthy criminal record dating back to the late 1980s and is believed to have informal ties to the Aryan Brotherhood through time served in several state penitentiaries. Moses Arias, similarly, is a high ranking-member of the Varrio Backwoods 14 Norteño gang and has familial connections to validated members of the overarching Nuestra Familia prison gang. It is alleged that Nyquist and Arias partnered in starting the drug venture and were responsible for production, processing and supply via their respective underworld connections. Co-defendants Preston Forni and Miguel Bone, themselves oilfield contractors, are believed to have overseen logistics and distribution. Both Forni and Bone are believed to possess "murky" street gang ties of their own dating back to the mid-2000s. Bone, notably, is the nephew of Antony Chainbreaker, the imprisoned founder of the Redskinz MC one-percenter outlaw motorcycle gang. Chainbreaker is currently serving a life sentence for the 2006 murder of nurse Danielle Huntinghawk that occurred outside a casino on the Black Kettle Reservation.  

 

According to investigators, such tangled webs of connections between criminal organizations comprise the "new normal." This overarching, profit-first ideology is said to dominate the modern criminal landscape, even in San Andreas where criminal organizations – notably prison gangs (or "Security Threat Groups" in correctional parlance) – are often formed along racial and ethnic lines. According to investigators, these organizations will readily flout their own prejudices in order to partner with other criminal organizations in pursuit of profit. "As long as the money is green, nothing else matters," concluded SMSD spokesman Romeo Saenz. 

 

If convicted, the defendants face significant sentences under San Andreas state law. Nyquist, notably, faces the possibility of life imprisonment owing to his extensive criminal record.

 

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