Aryan Brotherhood members convicted in massive, multi-year Oklahoma prison drug operation
The leader of a violent Oklahoma prison gang, who is serving a 15-year sentence for injecting his teenage sister with a fatal dose of methamphetamine, recently spent his time behind bars by running a large-scale drug operation with dozens of associates in prison and on the streets.
Chance Alan Wilson, a 38-year-old member of the Universal Aryan Brotherhood who goes by the nickname “Wolfhead,” used contraband cell phones inside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester to send encrypted text messages to sources throughout the state, directing them to package methamphetamine, conceal the drug in gift bags and deliver them to customers, according to federal court documents.
During a multi-year investigation by federal and state authorities, Wilson and other United Aryan Brotherhood members used a network of people outside of prison to stash the drugs in apartments and houses. Some of the profits were used to pay for the properties.
Authorities seized 62 firearms, more than 300 pounds of methamphetamine and more than $400,000 in drug proceeds.
A total of 69 people associated with the operation have been convicted in federal and state court for crimes including drug trafficking, drug conspiracy, money laundering, maintaining drug premises and illegal firearms possession.
They have been sentenced to 418 years in custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons and 216 years of supervised release, authorities said.
After pleading guilty in federal court to drug conspiracy, Wilson was sentenced last month to an additional 30 years to be served in federal prison.
Authorities said some of Wilson’s customers were prison inmates. Others were people on the street who would meet with Wilson’s sources.
In 2012, authorities charged Wilson, of Purcell, with first-degree murder in connection to the overdose death of his 16-year-old sister, Saleda Wilson.
After the girl’s father discovered her body at a residence, Oklahoma City police found her lying on her back in a bathtub with wet hair and clothing.
Her cause of death was methamphetamine toxicity, the state medical examiner ruled.
Wilson admitted giving the girl “back to back” shots within 10 minutes of each other on the day she died and then driving to Norman with his girlfriend, a police investigator testified at Wilson's preliminary hearing.
A man detained at the scene told police he injected meth with Wilson and watched Wilson inject his sister twice the next morning, the detective testified.
Wilson’s defense attorney at the time said there was no evidence Wilson gave his sister any drugs.
Wilson entered a blind plea, letting the judge decide his punishment.
This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: Oklahoma prisoners and associates convicted in drug operation
