Ryan Nichols
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Enrique Tarrio Says It Was Thirty, Not Thirteen

In 2021 he told Reuters he did not recall cooperating with law enforcement. In 2026 he argued the number of people he helped put away was higher than reported. Both statements are his.

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Yesterday I published a piece laying out the court record on Enrique Tarrio. They Convicted a Police Lieutenant Over His Relationship With Enrique Tarrio. Every claim in it carries a link.

The central fact in that article is this: in 2014, in open federal court, a prosecutor said Enrique Tarrio's cooperation led to the prosecution of thirteen people on federal charges.

He responded to that article today.

He did not deny it. He said the number was higher.


What he posted

September 17, 2026, at 4:59 PM UTC, replying to me:

"13 of your friends you mean… I out away THIRTY…not thirteen sex trafficking pedophiles."

FACT. That is a verbatim public post from @NobleOne, preserved with permalink and timestamp.

Read the first four words again.

13 of your friends you mean.

He is not disputing that he cooperated. He is disputing my count. He is telling me the real number is thirty.


What he said in 2021

In January 2021, Reuters obtained the 2014 transcript and asked him about it.

He said: "I don't know any of this."

He said: "I don't recall any of this."

He told Reuters he never helped investigate other people, and that his sentence reduction came only from clarifying his own case.

FACT, as reported by Reuters on January 27, 2021, and carried by ABC, CBS, Fox News, Al Jazeera, HuffPost, and Law & Crime the same week.


The record itself

FACT. The 2014 proceeding was a federal fraud case out of the Southern District of Florida involving relabeled and resold diabetes test kits.

FACT. Federal prosecutor Vanessa Singh Johannes told the court his information led to the prosecution of thirteen people on federal charges across two cases, and assisted an investigation into a gambling ring.

FACT. His own defense lawyer, Jeffrey Feiler, described undercover work touching anabolic steroids, prescription narcotics, human smuggling, and three marijuana grow houses.

FACT. Judge Joan A. Lenard stated on the record that he "provided substantial assistance in the investigation and prosecution of other persons involved in criminal conduct."

FACT. His sentence was reduced from 30 months to 16.


Now put the two statements next to each other

2021: I don't recall any of this. I never helped investigate others.

2026: It was thirty, not thirteen.

Those cannot both be true.

A man who never cooperated does not correct the count.


The part I will not let him slide on

NEEDS AUTHENTICATION. He describes the people as "sex trafficking pedophiles."

Nothing in the reporting on the 2014 transcript describes that case that way. The case was fraud. The assistance described in open court was steroids, prescription narcotics, human smuggling, marijuana grow houses, and a gambling ring.

Human smuggling is in the record. "Thirty sex trafficking pedophiles" is not.

If it exists, it is a document, and documents can be posted. I will publish it here myself, in full, the day he produces it.

Until then it is a claim made in a reply, and it is labeled as one.


The lieutenant

This is the part people skip, so I will keep saying it.

FACT. Lieutenant Shane Lamond supervised the Intelligence Branch of the DC Metropolitan Police Department.

FACT. He was convicted in December 2024 on one count of obstruction of justice and three counts of making false statements.

FACT. The charges concerned his communications with Enrique Tarrio, including providing confidential information about the December 2020 banner investigation and notifying Tarrio that a warrant had been signed for his arrest.

FACT. He was sentenced in June 2025 to 18 months.

DOCUMENTED INFERENCE. A police intelligence supervisor went to federal prison over that relationship. Asking about the other side of it is not a conspiracy theory. It is the obvious next question, and I appear to be one of the only people willing to ask it out loud.


Fifteen posts in eighty four minutes

I want to show you the clock, because the clock says something the words do not.

Every timestamp below is FACT, read directly off the post metadata. All times UTC, September 17, 2026.

16:23. 16:35. 16:38. 16:42. 16:51. 16:56. 16:59. 17:00. 17:00. 17:06. 17:13. 17:30.

Then three more just after: roughly 17:36, 17:38, 17:47.

Fifteen posts in about eighty four minutes. One every five and a half minutes, sustained, for an hour and a half.

Four of them landed inside four minutes. Two of them carry the same minute stamp.

The accusation about my children was posted at 16:59. The post about my marriage was posted at 17:00. He wrote both of those inside sixty seconds.

And that was the afternoon shift. Earlier the same day he posted about me at 01:18, 01:41 and 01:44 in the morning.

He was posting about me at a quarter to two in the morning and posting about me again at five in the afternoon.


So is a machine doing it, or is he?

I am going to answer this the honest way instead of the fun way.

The fun answer is that it is automated. That would explain fifteen posts in eighty four minutes and it would let me say he is not even writing them himself.

I do not think that is what happened, and I am not going to claim it.

FACT. The posts carry human typing errors. "I out away THIRTY" instead of put away. "lol you're wife" instead of your wife.

DOCUMENTED INFERENCE. Those are the fingerprints of a man typing fast on a phone. A machine does not make those mistakes.

Which leaves the other explanation, and it is worse for him.

A man with a documentary in production, a book, a merch store, a podcast and a paid speaking calendar spent roughly ninety consecutive minutes of a Thursday posting about one person. Then went to bed. Then got up and did it again.

Here is the part that should embarrass him.

FACT. On September 10 he posted about me: "AI slop. Just like all your work."

FACT. On September 16: "You run your entire social media with AI."

FACT. On September 17 he personally produced fifteen posts in eighty four minutes.

I use software to run an archive of four thousand pages that is free to every January 6 defendant and family, permanently. He used his afternoon to tell forty people about my wife.

Whatever else that settles, it settles which one of us has time on his hands.


What it is costing him

FACT. His pinned post, the announcement for the documentary and the book he is selling, has 34,000 views, 475 likes and 158 reposts.

FACT. His posts about me on September 17 have a median of 87 impressions.

DOCUMENTED INFERENCE. He is burning his best hours on his best account producing material that performs roughly 390 times worse than the thing he is actually trying to sell.

The fight is not working as promotion. It is not working as an argument. It is just taking his day.

I did not do that to him. He picked it, and he picked it because the alternative was posting one page of a court transcript.


What he did instead of answering

Between September 8 and September 17, he posted about me roughly forty times.

Across all forty, he produced zero documents.

What he produced instead:

  • A racial slur, twice
  • Repeated posts about my marriage and my family
  • A public accusation that I committed a crime against children, with no filing, no report, no complaint, and no evidence of any kind attached to it
  • A threat to assault me on sight
  • A podcast invitation
  • A t-shirt

I am not going to repeat the accusation and I am not going to argue it. My children are not a talking point and they are not going to become one. It is preserved, timestamped, and filed, and that is the only place it belongs.

The threat is preserved too. I am not answering it. I have a pending matter and I have a family. I do not need to meet anybody anywhere, ever.


The merchandise

FACT. On September 17, 2026, he promoted a product from his own store titled "American Supremacist."

For five years the J6 defense argued that the supremacist label was a smear, invented and repeated to justify terrorism enhancements and to hold men without bond before any trial.

I sat in that. Thousands of families sat in that.

Today it is a product with a price on it.

RYAN STATEMENT. Every family that had to sit in a courtroom and hear that word used against their son should look at what is being sold this week.


What this does not prove

I am going to be as careful here as I was in the first article, because careful is the only reason any of this is worth reading.

  • This does not prove he has a handler. There is no record for that and I have never claimed it.
  • This does not prove the January 4, 2021 arrest was staged. There is no record for that.
  • This does not prove he entrapped anyone. There is no record for that, and I will not say it.
  • This does not prove he is cooperating now. I have no document for that and I am not going to invent one.

What it does prove

In 2021 he said he did not recall cooperating and had never helped investigate anyone.

In 2026 he said the number was thirty, not thirteen.

He said both. Publicly. Under his own name.

That is not gossip. That is not drama. That is not a rumor.

That is the record.


The Provider Standard

On September 17, 2026, he quote tweeted my post about being homeless for half a year after federal detention and wrote this:

"There's no excuse for not putting food on the table for your family... I expect this from a woman. A man is a provider. He hustles and does everything in his power to make sure his family is taken care of. He wakes up at 5am. He digs trenches or picks strawberries if he has to. You're able bodied. There absolutely no excuse. This is why the Proud Boys were made. Because of weak men full of excuses."

FACT. Posted at 5:46 PM on September 17, 2026, under his own name.

Here is what that same account said about itself.

March 13, 2025:

"For the record... lol it ain't my Ferrari. I'm broke as shit and probably can't even afford at Hot Wheels version of a 458."

April 6, 2025:

"I can't even buy the chips to go with it... I'm broke."

FACT. Both posts are live as of this writing. Both are under his own name. Permalinks are preserved in the case archive.

What this proves

Two men said the same thing about themselves.

One of them turned it into a character attack on the other.

What this does not prove

It does not prove he was lying about being broke. It does not prove anything about his finances today.

He said he was broke. I take him at his word. That is the entire point.

I did not call him weak. I did not call him a man full of excuses. I did not say the Proud Boys were made because of men like him.

Broke is not a character flaw. For men who walked out of federal custody with a record and no income, it is a consequence.

Same standard, or no standard.


What I am still asking for

One page.

Post the 2014 transcript pages. Not a summary. Not a podcast. The pages.

If they clear him, I will say so publicly, in my own voice, with the same reach I used to ask. I have made that offer every single time and it has never once been taken.

Name calling is what you do when the paper is not on your side.


What I need from you

Do not threaten anyone. Do not harass anyone. Do not contact anyone in my name.

Read it. Share it. Send receipts, evidence, and witnesses.

If you were a defendant in one of the cases described in that 2014 transcript, I want to hear from you and I will protect you.

Put eyes on the record.


Sources: Reuters, January 27, 2021. ABC News, January 28, 2021. U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia. CNN, December 23, 2024. The Hill, June 2025. DOJ Office of the Inspector General, December 2024. All posts cited are preserved with permalink and timestamp in the case archive.

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