On August 14, 2016, at the Jessup Correctional Institute, inmates located in Building F were returning to their cells after their recreation break. Freedom of Information Office, Paperless Archives, "Why I Fear the Aryan Brotherhoodand You Should, Too", "Racist gang caught in sting kept a list of Orange County police targets", Hells Angels Stage Funeral for Leader Killed in Bar Fight, "Commonwealth v. Chalue, 486 Mass. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. He was featured in two early 2000s TV documentaries on the Aryan Brotherhood, where he said he dropped out and began cooperating with authorities over outrage that the gangs other leaders authorized an Aryan Brotherhood member named Curtis Price to murder the father of a former gang member. I dont. Despite its racist philosophy, the Aryan Brotherhood had a drug smuggling partnership with the Mexican Mafia, prosecutors claim. The Aryan Brotherhood was founded in California's infamous San Quentin State Prison in the 1960s and has grown into one of the country's most feared and well-known white supremacist prison. [28], The initial motivation for the formation of the group in San Quentin in 1964 was self-protection against an existing black prison gang. But it is unknown by authorities if these two groups are officially linked together or not. Nuestra Familia. On the last entry of the 11-page report, it broke down the "white supremacist movement" into six categories: Neo-nazi, Ku Klux Klan, Christian Identity, racist skinhead, Nordic mysticism, and Aryan prison gangs. / CBS Baltimore. LAKEPORT Before being freed from state prison after more than 40 years behind bars, ex-Aryan Brotherhood leader Michael Lynn Thompson promised the parole board he'd dedicate his life to. Leissler, who is serving life in prison for his role in robbing and killing a disabled man in Kensington, faces two possible life sentences. The Aryan Brotherhood, also known as the Brand or the AB, is a neo-Nazi prison gang and an organized crime syndicate which is based in the United States and has an estimated 15,000-20,000 members both inside and outside prisons. Additionally, he was sentenced to another life sentence and 40 years to run concurrently. He's been wanted since October 2020, when the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles issued a warrant for a parole violation. [22][14], Other means of identification of group membership were the "blood in, blood out" motto symbolizing life-long membership with no exit other than death, and "the pledge", an eight-line oath that each new member had to swear. He not only granted rare public interviews about the notoriously secretive prison gang, but testified against its members, billing himself as a gang expert. Boone, of Cleburne, is affiliated with the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas. Plaintiff is facing a potential death penalty case and is not allowed contact visits with his legal team.. Much of the evidence is based on wiretapped conversations from contraband cellphones obtained by several Aryan Brotherhood members. A spokesman for Jones declined to comment to Newsweek, citing pending litigation. Heallegedly ran a years-long drug trafficking operation behind prison walls using smuggled cellphones. They were given 30-year sentences on top of the sentences they were already serving. [16], In November 2020, more than sixty individuals that were associated with the Aryan Brotherhood were arrested in a multi-agency operation that took place in California, Montana, and Nevada. [14] According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Aryan Brotherhood makes up an extremely low percentage of the entire US prison population but it is responsible for a disproportionately large number of prison murders.[15]. Practically since the cases beginning, several defense attorneys have argued in legal filings that the Sacramento Jail is ill-equipped to house the defendants, due to what they call a lack of soundproof visiting rooms and suitable phones. Leissler, the leader of the Aryan Brotherhood in Maryland, directed underlings Vincent Bunner, Calvin Lockner and Brian Hare to viciously attack OSullivan with homemade prison knives. Jimmy Jack Pinkley, 44, pleaded guilty before U.S. Chief Magistrate Judge David P. Rush to one count of possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. The case is a result of an investigation conducted by Homeland Security Investigations, the Internal Revenue System Criminal Investigations, and the Oklahoma City Police Department. They each have their [ruling] commission but they're allies." In OSullivans attack, there was testimony that Leissler, as the gangs leader, ordered the hit in direct retaliation for an assault committed on another member of the Aryan Brotherhood at another prison. By the late 1970s, these gangs had fewer than 100 members, but their membership grew rapidly as they absorbed other racist and skinhead groups, and today these gangs are estimated to have over 20,000 members in both the federal and state prison systems. In late 2002, 29 leaders of the gang were simultaneously rounded up from prisons all over the country and brought to trial under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. I am grateful for the efforts of the Maryland State Police Homicide Unit that investigated this crime, as well as the members of the Intelligence and Investigative Division of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services which assisted in the gang-related investigation and recovery of evidence in this case.. Evidence presented at trial showed OSullivan had wanted to keep the peace between the groups and avoid any confrontation. [4], In its early days, the group had a one-man, one-vote system, but this broke down as a result of the group's rapid expansion, and it was replaced by the establishment of a hierarchical structure, headed by a 12-man council, and overseen by a three-member commission. As authorities in Lake County are fighting to keep Thompson incarcerated he is being held without bail on a parole violation, on top of the 33-count complaint lawyers with the California Attorney Generals office are fighting to hold together a 1986 double murder conviction while acknowledging that one of its key witnesses, Thompson, is not to be trusted. 1,[35][36] and the national hate-based organization Aryan Nations. WASHINGTON A high ranking member of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) was sentenced today for his role in an aggravated assault that took place in Tomball, Texas, in September 2008, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department's Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth . 2021. He was paroled after turning on the group and cooperating with authorities in criminal cases. On June 1, 2021, a federal grand jury returned a twelve-count Superseding Indictment against Change Alan Wilson and Deanna Dannett Wilson. Several hours later, Fountain also killed an officer named Robert Hoffman. On Aug. 14, 2016, O'Sullivan, a member of Dead Man Incorporated, was stabbed by three members of the Aryan Brotherhood wielding homemade metal knives--Vincent Bunner, Calvin Lockner and Brian Hare--as he was retrieving the belongings from his cell before heading to the shower. The gang's purpose at that time was to protect white inmates from being physically attacked by Black and Hispanic inmates. If you enjoyed the episode, Subscribe to the Channel=====This channel covers corruption in the. It is alleged that Chance Alan Wilson, using contraband cell phones from his prison cell, organized and led a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine throughout Oklahoma and surrounding states. Yandell, serving a life sentence for a double murder, is described as one of the gang's three-member leadership commission, as is Troxell. LAKE COUNTY (AP) A one-time top member of the notorious Aryan Brotherhood who claimed to have turned his life around after 45 years in prison is now charged with defrauding Northern Californians out of nearly $400,000 in unemployment benefits. Plaintiff was never given written notice or any type of hearing to be heard on why he was being punished with extreme isolation, Yandell wrote in the suit. The case was closed in 1989. I dont agree with interracial [relationships]. The Aryan Brotherhood has members inside federal and state prisons, and outside on the streets. The gang was formed by white inmates in the mid-1960s and has a policy of 'blood in, blood out,' holding that full members must kill to gain entry. It is alleged that she accepted large sums of drug proceeds from Chance Alan Wilson and used those funds to purchase various assets, including a $138,000 manufactured home, purchased with cashiers checks and cash. 847 | Casetext Search + Citator", "Lawyer for Berkshire triple murder defendant David Chalue wants no mention of the Aryan Brotherhood at upcoming trial", "Why Was Jewish Radical Earl Krugel Slain in Prison? 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LAKEPORT Before being freed from state prison after more than 40 years behind bars, ex-Aryan Brotherhood leader Michael Lynn Thompson promised the parole board hed dedicate his life to philanthropy through his self-help program called Live, Learn & Prosper. In sum, no rational juror could have convicted anyone of anything solely on the word of the admitted perjurer and schemer Thompson, the prosecutors wrote. [4], The Aryan Brotherhood's communication and control has become so tight and efficient that they have been able to organize and direct major criminal enterprises on the outside, even from solitary confinement, much to the frustration of federal and state authorities.[4]. McGregor Scott answers questions concerning the charges against leaders of the white supremacist prison gang, the Aryan Brotherhood, during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., on June 6, 2019. SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal judge has allowed an alleged Aryan Brotherhood leader housed at the Sacramento County Main Jail to sue Sheriff Scott Jones and a jail chaplain over the alleged restriction of his Buddhist diet, according to documents filed last month. The SPLC has said that, although they clearly have a white supremacist ideology, the major motivation is money, and they have occasionally set aside racist views, such as by allying themselves with Latin American gangs, in order to make a profit.