Aubrey Sakai Suzuki
Aubrey Sakai Suzuki was a Mississippi member of the National Socialist Order who pleaded guilty in June 2022 to interstate threatening communications after FBI monitoring of NSO chats, in which FBI informant Joshua Caleb Sutter's alias 'swissdiscipline' appeared, contributed to his identification.
Aubrey Sakai Suzuki (born approximately 2001), of Nesbit, Mississippi, was a member of the National Socialist Order (NSO), the successor organization to Atomwaffen Division, who was charged and convicted for posting online threats calling for the killing of Black, Hispanic, and LGBTQ Americans.
Case Overview
The NSO is the name Atomwaffen Division members adopted in July 2020 after AWD's public leadership collapsed following the federal arrests of 2020. Suzuki participated in NSO's online community and in 2020 posted to an NSO website that he wanted to "take part in a revolution and be on the forefront killing Blacks, Hispanics, and homosexuals" and "blowing up the system."1
The FBI began following Suzuki in September 2020 and arrested him on July 19, 2021, when he arrived to pick up a Smith & Wesson AR-15 rifle he had purchased online from a gun store in Sevierville, Tennessee.1
Sutter's Alias in NSO Chats
The case is notable in the context of Joshua Caleb Sutter's informant history because Sutter's operating alias "swissdiscipline" continued to appear in encrypted Wire chats from the NSO's network after Sutter transitioned from AWD to its successor organization. Rolling Stone reported that these chats, and Sutter's presence within them, contributed to identifying Suzuki as a member and tracking his activity.2 The precise degree to which Sutter's informant role drove the Suzuki case versus standard FBI surveillance of NSO communications has not been specified in court documents available to the public.
Charges, Plea, and Sentence
Suzuki pleaded guilty on June 30, 2022, in the U.S. District Court in Oxford, Mississippi, to one count of transmitting a threatening communication through interstate commerce. Prosecutors dropped two additional counts of posting threatening messages online and a count of threatening a federal law enforcement officer as part of the plea agreement.1
The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Clayton A. Dabbs. Suzuki was sentenced to two and a half years in prison followed by three years of supervised release.3
Sutter's Active Informant Status at Time of Arrest
The Suzuki case is one of the few documented instances where Sutter's continued presence inside the AWD/NSO ecosystem, as an active informant, generated a prosecutable lead that resulted in a federal conviction after the public revelation of his informant status. Because the revelation came in August 2021 and Suzuki was arrested in July 2021, the investigation of Suzuki predated the revelation by approximately one month, suggesting the FBI was still operating Sutter as an active source inside the NSO at the time the Cole motion was filed.
Sources
- U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-NDMS. "Nesbit Man Sentenced To Prison for Racist Threats." October 20, 2022. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndms/pr/nesbit-man-sentenced-prison-racist-threats ↩
- Winston, Ali. "Plea Deal in the Satanist Neo-Nazi Plot to Murder U.S. Soldiers," Rolling Stone, 2022. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/neo-nazi-1378280/ ↩
- Magnolia State Live. "Mississippi man admits he threatened to kill Blacks, Hispanics and homosexuals, then tried to buy an assault rifle." July 6, 2022. https://www.magnoliastatelive.com/2022/07/06/mississippi-man-admits-he-threatened-to-kill-blacks-hispanics-and-homosexuals-then-tried-to-buy-an-assault-rifle/ ↩
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