White Supremacist, Black Gang Member Unite To Run Meth Ring

St. Louis duo busted on conspiracy charges

Green has always been a color that brought black and white together.

Just ask white supremacist Richard Treis and black gang member Robert "Biz" Swinney of St. Louis. Together the forged a profitable meth sales operation until they were busted by the cops.

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They along with seven other people, face federal charges, including conspiracy to make meth, possess pseudoephedrine and drug-making equipment, distribution of meth and maintaining a drug-involved premises.

If you're wondering how these two even crossed paths, ask yourself where else could a white supremacist get crossed up with a black gang member? {We'll take JAIL for $400 Alex}

Treis joined the Aryan Nation while he was in prison on previous meth related charges. He met an associate of Swinney at a halfway house in St. Louis. Evidently some kind of talk was had and they decided to put differencesaside and get to the money. 

Together they would devise a plan to buy prescription medicines containing the ingredients to cook meth. Even though the state of Missouri has laws prohibiting people from walking out with an outrageous amount of drugs, they worked around it.

According to the STL Today, this is how their operation worked:

Police said Swinney had to mobilize at least 150 people over 24 months to comply with purchase restrictions while buying enough decongestants to support the needs of meth cooks like Treis.

Swinney recruited relatives, gang members, homeless people and random others Franklin County sheriff's Cpl. Scott Briggs said. "Just about every day, they were standing outside of stores handing out $20 bills asking people to buy a $10 box and keep the change."

Swinney sold to Treis and others at $50 to $80 a box. Swinney told police he lived off of the money for the last two years.

When word spread about the operation, police went out to investigate and witnessed Swinney and his team buying 200 boxes of pseudoephedrine at Walgreens stores last October and November. 

"The magnitude of it impressed us," Briggs says. "At first, we were shaking our heads like, 'No, this isn't going on,' because we hadn't seen people that could get their hands on 20 to 30 boxes at a time since 2006."

The local narcotics unit says this kind of partnership is a developing trend in the area.

"These are certainly groups of people that you typically wouldn't find in the same room hanging out together," says Tim Whitney, commander of Jefferson County's narcotics unit.

Who knew that meth could work wonders for race relations?