One of those videotapes showed Wilson being beaten by his gang brethren for an infraction of gang rules. District Judge Tom Varlan inked his approval Tuesday to a deal that puts Wilson, nabbed in 2002 along with two dozen fellow Vice Lords gang members, behind bars for another two years after he and fellow Vice Lord Jahmal Tory were stopped by police in September with more than seven ounces of marijuana packaged for resale.Ĭourt records show Wilson insisted Tory, who a decade ago ordered Wilson to take part in a plot to execute a Vice Lord the gang suspected was a snitch, was blameless and agreed without a court fight to return to prison in a bid to spare Tory further scrutiny.įederal prosecutors took down the Vice Lords in Knoxville in 2002 using federal drug conspiracy laws after the Knoxville Police Department's then-active gang unit managed to gain access to the "honeycomb," the gang's clubhouse, and set up a video camera to record the group's meetings. Imperial Insane Vice Lords gang member Scott "Stu" Wilson knows what it means to take one for the team.īeaten without resistance by his Knoxville gang brethren, readily agreeing to a plot to kill another wayward member, Wilson is now headed back without a fight to federal prison for two years to exonerate a fellow Vice Lord after the pair were nabbed recently with nearly a half-pound of marijuana. The penalty range was incorrect in an earlier version of this story. Editor's note: Scott Wilson faces two to four years in prison if convicted of possessing marijuana within a drug-free school zone.
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