Susan Jacobson &
David A. Collins,
Orlando Sentinel
Those arrested and booked into jail in Central Florida include, from left, Brian Klose, Carlos Dubose, Harold Kinlaw, Leah Klose and Ronald Cusack. (Osceola County Jail; Orange County Jail / Mar 30, 2012)
A three-year undercover investigation led to the arrest Thursday of six people who are members or associates of the Aryan Nations, Kavallerie Brigade and the Outlaws motorcycle club, the
Law-enforcement teams hit several locations in Central Florida and Chicago to make the arrests, the Sheriff's Office said.
Those arrested were:
•Leah Klose, 40, of
•Brian Klose, 49, also of St. Cloud, on charges of trafficking in hydrocodone and oxycodone, threatening to throw a destructive device, manufacturing and selling drugs and buying cocaine.
•Ronald Cusack, 47, of St. Cloud on charges of delivery of cocaine and threatening to throw a destructive device.
•Deborah Plowman, age unavailable, on a charge of possession of hydrocodone. She was arrested in Chicago.
•Carlos Eugene Dubose, 54, of Orlando on charges of threatening to throw a destructive device and trafficking in oxycodone.
•Harold Johnson Kinlaw, 54, of east Orange County, on charges of threatening to throw a destructive device, attempting to solicit conspiracy and evidencing prejudice.
The Kloses, Cusack and Dubose are being held in the Osceola County Jail. Kinlaw is being held at the Orange County Jail.
Other agencies involved in the operation were the
The Aryan Nations is a white-supremacist group that splintered into smaller groups after it lost a civil lawsuit brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center and its founder died in 2004, according to the center's website, which lists the 1st SS Kavallerie Brigade Motorcycle Division as one offshoot.
The Outlaws motorcycle club has a long history in Central Florida with roots that reach back to the Chicago area.
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