New details from Stranger report on speakeasy drug bust

The story around the Pike speakeasy and the government's drug allegations against the man who ran it and the people he became entangled with is fleshed out in this week's Stranger - House of Cards: A Speakeasy, a Drug Bust, and One Cunning Undercover Cop. Jonah Spangenthal-Lee puts his crime reporting experience to full effect building on the details of the document prosecutors presented in charging Richard W. Wilson, Marshall Reinsch and three Honduran men, Carlos Zavala-Bustillo, Cesar Canterero-Arteaga and Edwan Fletes, with breaking federal drug and weapon laws.

There is some new information in the article -- Wilson and Reinsch are currently out of jail but under GPS monitoring, for one -- and a lot of color about what was driving Wilson and just how 'cunning' the undercover detective was who had infiltrated his circle:

One evening, one source says, Owens began telling them about being arrested at a May Day rally in 2008. "He said he came upon this protest and was crossing the street, and the cops were hassling him," the source says. "He started mouthing off and they arrested him. He [said he] never thought about being against the police until then, and then from that point on he wanted to fuck cops up. He really played up the 'fuck pigs' thing," the source says. Indeed, Seattle police bolstered their undercover detective's story by filing a fake report for the incident, in case someone went looking for it.