Aryan Brotherhood
🇺🇸 Three Inmates Suspected in Fatal Attack on Aryan Brotherhood Member at California Prison
🇺🇸 Three California prisoners with alleged ties to organized crime are suspected of killing an Aryan Brotherhood member at Salinas Valley State Prison. Todd “Fox” Morgan, 57, of Santa Clara County, was fatally attacked with improvised weapons by Todd Givens, 56, Ray Waldron, 51, and Robert England, 61, on a prison yard shortly before 10…
Aryan Brotherhood on Trial: Prison Gang Leaders Ordered Five Murders
Kenneth Johnson, Francis Clement and John Stinson will stand trial on charges that they ordered murders as members of the Aryan Brotherhood. They have pleaded not guilty and denied membership in the prison gang. Prosecutors say they have traced seven homicides – two behind bars, five on the streets of Los Angeles County – to…
Aryan Brotherhood Leaders Were Sentenced to Life for Gang Violence in California Prisons
Two members of the Aryan Brotherhood were sentenced to two consecutive life terms for various gang-related crimes orchestrated from their cells at California State Prison, Sacramento (CSP-Sacramento), including the murders of a Latino inmate and a member of a rival white supremacist gang. With the use of smuggled cellphones, Ronald Yandell, 62, of Pinole, and…
State v. Were: Prison Riot Involving Three Rival Gangs
The prison riot was planned and started by a group of Muslim gang members. Once the riot began, two other prison gangs, the Aryan Brotherhood and the Black Gangster Disciples, joined in. Carlos Sanders, Stanley Cummings, and Were – who was also known as “Namir” – were leaders of the Muslim gang during the riot….
US v. Bingham, US v. Hevle: African American and White Prison Gangs in War
In December of 1996, at Lewisburg, the DC Blacks prison gang killed a white inmate. After this murder, Hevle gave a message to Dewey Lee, a prisoner transferring from Lewisburg to Marion, “to tell either Dave Sahakian or Michael McElhiney, specifically, nobody else, that they’d been having racial problems at USP Lewisburg and to get…
Dozens Charged in Case against California neo-Nazi Gang
In October 2024, Federal authorities have charged 68 members of a California-based white supremist street gang with crimes in an attempt to dismantle the organisation. At least 42 members of the SFV Peckerwoods, which is based in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles County, have been arrested so far. The 76-count indictment includes charges…
The US v. Abel: Admissibility of Testimony of one Prison Gang Member against Another Gang Member
In 1981, John Abel was indicted for robbing a bank in California. During Abel’s trial, the prosecution called one of his accomplices, Kurt Ehle, to testify that Abel had participated in the robbery. To counter Ehle’s testimony, Abel called a mutual friend, Robert Mills, to the stand. Mills, Abel, and Ehle knew each other from…
Aryan Brotherhood Prison Gang Member Sentenced in Federal Court
In September 2024, an Aryan Brotherhood prison gang member from Paradise, California was sentenced in federal court on Tuesday for murder in aid of racketeering. According to court documents, between 2011 and 2016, Aryan Brotherhood members committed several murders, conspiracies to murder and drug trafficking crimes. They oversaw a significant heroin and methamphetamine trafficking operation from prison cells, using smuggled…
Aryan Brotherhood Member Killed Inmate who Lied about Being in Gang
A member of the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood prison gang in California will spend the rest of his life in prison after admitting to stabbing to death an inmate for lying about being a member of the gang. On September, 25, 2024, Jason “Jake” Corbett, 52, was sentenced to life in prison for murder in aid of racketeering. A…
Dawson v. Delaware: Membership in the Prison Gang and Due Process
Dawson v. Delaware, 503 U.S. 159 (1992), was a United States Supreme Court decision that ruled that a person’s rights of association and due process, as granted under the First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, cannot be infringed upon if such an association has no bearing on the case at hand. Facts…