Prosecutors say he believed he could use McNamaras status as a lawyer to circumvent security measures in New Folsom Prison, where Yandell was housed started in late 2015 after a 10-year stay in a Pelican Bay solitary confinement module. Ive filed many lawsuits while I was at Pelican Bay. The charges unsealed Thursday, June 6, 2019, detail five slayings and accuse an attorney of helping smuggle drugs and cell phones. An alleged leader of the Aryan Brotherhood neo-Nazi prison gang is suing California officials after his requests for vegetarian meals behind bars were ignored, according to reports Wednesday. /Info 16 0 R Kristen Demar, the wife of Charles Demar, an inmate involved with the Aryan Brotherhood in Calipatria state prison, allegedly smuggles methamphetamine, cell phones and tobacco to Billy Sylvester in Folsom prison on Aug. 11, 2016 by holding a notepad over the contraband. A hand-written lawsuit, filed by Stockton in 2015, says that he once was housed in the segregated housing unit, or SHU, at Pelican Bay State Prison. The complaint, filed in June, alleges that in 2016 Stockton murdered another inmate, Douglas Maynard, on the orders of Aryan Brotherhood member Jason Jake Corbett, because Maynard owed a drug debt to the gang. Corbett is facing charges of murdering Pequeen in High Desert, and conspiring to kill an Aryan Brotherhood associate at the same facility two years earlier. Yandell,. Crime and Public Safety | Stockton was charged with two counts of murder in July 2018, according to Lassen County court records. The indictment accuses Yandell of being part of the three-man commission that runs the Aryan Brotherhood gang. Ronald Dean WIlliams. Ronald Joseph Walton, 82, of New Braunfels, Texas, went home to the Lord on February 4, 2023,with his family by his side in San Antonio. 'O _5l35(solLf'u@?qSV'Q:Q-"[ySs|'_#3WYt/z He is accused of recruiting members of Public Enemy Number 1, or PENI, a white supremacist gang whose founder was stabbed to death last year on a prison yard controlled by the Aryan Brotherhood. Theyve asked for in-person attorney/client visits, improved access to the law library, and even limited internet use, in a series of recent legal motions that have yet to be heard. Best news I ever got, Corbett allegedly texted back. He has since been transferred to California State Prison, Sacramento, which is also known as New Folsom. Corbetts alleged victim, Donald Pequeen, was stabbed more than 10 times on the prison yard. The evidence against Yandell and his co-defendants is largely based on wiretapped calls involving Yandell, with contraband cellphones he was able to acquire in New Folsom Prison, prosecutors say. (Right): Close up of the prison-made weapon Sylvester allegedly used in the Oct. 7, 2011 murder of Ronald Richardson. Ronald lived in 1930, at address, Oklahoma. I am white power: Aryan Brotherhood fugitive arrested in Costa Rica, hangs himself inside jail cell /Root 19 0 R Plaintiff is facing a potential death penalty case and is not allowed contact visits with his legal team.. The case is moving forward, albeit slowly. Prison officials, citing Yandell's membership in the Aryan Brotherhood, had kept him locked away in a modern-day dungeon; he had spent 15 years in solitary confinement at California's most notorious and secure prison, Pelican Bay. SACRAMENTO In the summer of 2016, Ronald Dean Yandell was as on top of the world as a man doomed to spend the rest of his days in a prison cell could be. The defendants include a California attorney as well as two alleged members of the Aryan Brotherhood's three-man commission that runs the gang: Ronald Dean Yandell, 56, a former Richmond. Visitation will be held from 9:30 am to 11:00 am on Thursday, March 2, 2023, at Our Redeemer's Lutheran Church in Benson, followed by the funeral service at 11:00 am. The charges unsealed Thursday, June 6, 2019, detail five slayings and accuse an attorney of helping smuggle drugs and cell phones. Photo sources: Facebook Contributed photo . 70. Alleged Aryan Brotherhood killer says foot is in constant pain, asks judge to order special jail shoes One of the plaintiffs in the suit was Daniel Troxell, another member of the gangs commission and a co-defendant in the racketeering case. >> 18 0 obj It contained two black USB charging cables, six grinding discs, seven lighters, one cellphone battery, seven small screwdrivers, two bluetooth earpieces, 10 small metal saw places, about an ounce of methamphetamine and 20 grams of heroin. /N 3 Dear Abby: Why do they imply my husband is a freak? The white supremacist also claimshe was transferred to unsanitary jail cells and subjected to extreme isolation, according to the suit, which names Sacramento Sheriff Scott Jones and other prison officials. SACRAMENTO In May 2018, wanting to consolidate their inmate-to-cell ratio, officials at High Desert State Prison decided to place an inmate named Rodney DeLong in a cell with Robert John Stockton, an Aryan Brotherhood associate who had stabbed someone to death for the notorious prison gang just two years earlier. 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In the years leading up to his trial, he allegedly ordered two associates to murder witnesses against him, but the plot failed, authorities said. My heart is swelled up right now.. The idea, according to the informant, was to kill two birds with one stone; get rid of Maynard, while ensuring Stockton would be removed from that prison housing unit. In 2019, prosecutors charged that Mazza was ordered to murder Trippe by Ronald Dean Yandell, an alleged Aryan Brotherhood commissioner who is the lead defendant in the case. 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He is facing multiple murder conspiracy charges, and prosecutors say much of the evidence is based on wiretaps from contraband prison cell phones acquired by Yandell and other Aryan Brotherhood members while they were serving life sentences in state prison. (Right): Close up of a weapon found at the scene. Prosecutors havent taken the death penalty off the table in Yandells case, according to Newsweek. FILE In this Aug. 17, 2011, file photo, a correctional officer works at one of the housing units at Pelican Bay State Prison near Crescent City, Calif. Federal prosecutors say leaders of a notorious white supremacist gang have been charged with directing killings and drug smuggling from within Californias most secure prisons. But in 2015, after statewide hunger strikes and law All the defendants are being housed at the Sacramento County Jail save for Daniel and Torres, who are at California State Prison Sacramento, known as New Folsom. Stocktons name comes up frequently in a massive racketeering case filed by the Eastern California Districts U.S. Attorney last year, which targets the Aryan Brotherhoods leadership. She told him she doubted he had the legal finesse to fight the U.S. Attorneys office, which has charged Yandell and more than two dozen other alleged Aryan Brotherhood members and associates with crimes ranging from murder to plots to smuggle drugs and other contraband into prisons across the state. A year later, Yandell allegedly discussed the murder in a 20-minute call with AB member Pat Brady, an inmate at High Desert State Prison who also had a cellphone, according to prosecutors. The custodial agency shall collect an initial partial filing fee and monthly payments . They love to play their cowardly games and knowing by doing so they are placing lives in direct danger. But prosecutors argue that the defendants own conduct warrants the unorthodox restrictions. Before Yandell decided to represent himself, Hitts prosecution team was in the process of moving to bar him and several co-defendants from attending non-criticalcourt hearings in person, an unprecedented restriction that prosecutors argued was necessary because of the unique danger Yandell and the others posed. 0 The suit, filed Jan. 27, alleges that a simple database check would have shown that DeLong was not to be housed with anyone whos a part of the Aryan Brotherhood, and that the California Department of Corrections failed to adequately train employees, monitor the cell, or keep violent prison gang members segregated from other incarcerated people, among other alleged failures. %PDF-1.4 In 2010, one of Yandells co-defendants, Jeanna Quesenberry, was allowed to be a legal assistant for a leader of an Aryan Brotherhood offshoot gang called the Family Affiliated Irish Mafia, or FAIM. 0000000828 00000 n A documentary we started creating in 2017 to bring racial unity across the prisons in Ca & ripple outward from there; the same way these men in the Doc came together in pelican bay hunger strike's (2011-2013) to get their freedom from the SHU after a decade or two. 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When the charges were filed, the incarcerated defendants were taken from their cells in prisons across California and placed in federal custody in Sacramento. My Videos 1; 2 15:08. Benson, Minnesota. In conversations on Aug. 21, 2016, Yandell and Corbett allegedly plotted to murder Aryan Brotherhood associate Paul Dreamer Diaz. Ronald D. Williams, 89, of Benson, died on Thursday morning February 23, 2023, at the St. Now, a suit filed by DeLongs mother alleges that prison officials either missed or ignored a crucial warning sign: that DeLong had been listed as an enemy of the Aryan Brotherhood, meaning that Stockton or any other member or associate of the gang would be expected to attack DeLong on sight, or face retribution themselves. /T 65766 Prison officials, citing Yandells membership in the Aryan Brotherhood, had kept him locked away in a modern-day dungeon; he had spent 15 years in solitary confinement at Californias most notorious and secure prison, Pelican Bay. Yandell has previously accused prison officials of retaliation after he led a statewide hunger strike that helped end California's implementation of solitary confinement as a punishment for gang membership. 110w. The four are among the 16 Aryan Brotherhood prison gang members who were charged Thursday, June 6, 2019, with killings and drug smuggling from within Californias most secure prisons, U.S. prosecutors said. Since the case was filed, one of Yandells co-defendants, Pat Brady, filed a similar suit that publicly exposed sheriff officials had violated the law by recording attorney/client meetings in the jail. 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Prosecutors conceded the request was unprecedented, and defense attorneys called it a clear-cut violation of an individuals right to face criminal charges in person. We've received your submission. << 0000009557 00000 n He grew up in Olton, Texas, and graduated from Olton High in 1968. Yandell was then caught on wiretapped conversations telling Demar that if she was questioned, to say the Aryan Brotherhood had threatened to murder her husband if she didnt comply, and to blame Yandell for the smuggling, as he was already serving a life sentence, according to the complaint. As a detailed description of Corbetts foot was put onto the record, Yandell leaned over and began hysterically laughing, while the armed guards near him shifted nervously. /Names << /Dests 6 0 R>> >> (Yandell) is a very dangerous dude. Magistrate Judge Allison Claire denied Corbetts motion at a Monday hearing in Sacramento, but she asked the U.S. A half-hour later, DeLong was dead, lying in a pool of his own blood in the floor of the cell. Ronald G L Yandell, 1926 - 1999. SACRAMENTO A Bay Area man accused by prosecutors of holding a leadership role in the Aryan Brotherhood has filed a federal lawsuit against the Sacramento sheriff, alleging he is being housed in inhumane conditions while awaiting trial on federal charges that are likely years away from being resolved. Ronald Dean Yandell, 58, filed the handwritten suit last week from his cell at the Sacramento County Main Jail, where he alleges he is being kept 23 hours a day. IRS delays tax deadline for Bay Area, but California hasn't followed: What should you do? Tattoos displaying Aryan Brotherhood symbols. /ProcSet [/PDF /Text] The four would-be murder victims were rescued and moved into protective custody thanks to the wiretap, according to prosecutors. 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The suit says Stockton was part of a statewide prisoner hunger strike in the early 2010s, which protested widespread use of the SHU and succeeded in getting prison officials to transfer hundreds of alleged prison gang members to general population yards. / No. Aryan Brotherhood leader, charged with five, Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Aryan Brotherhood leader, charged with five murders, to become his own attorney; move likely gives him unregulated jail phone, Aryan Brotherhood case: Alleged Mexican Mafia member caught with prison handcuff key as judge considers unprecedented restrictions, I am white power: Aryan Brotherhood fugitive arrested in Costa Rica, hangs himself inside jail cell, In bid for freedom, Aryan Brotherhood member has an unlikely ally: The man he allegedly plotted to murder, Feds: Aryan Brotherhood defendants caught with 43 prison cellphones in recent years, Alleged Aryan Brotherhood killer says foot is in constant pain, asks judge to order special jail shoes. They also discussed how Corbett had offered to murder an Aryan Brotherhood member named K-Bob while he was on the phone with Yandell, so that Yandell could listen to the murder, but that Yandell and K-Bob worked out their differences and it never came to that, according to prosecutors. Ronnie was a former employee of FMC in Jonesboro and worked the last . Stockton, meanwhile, was serving life, having been convicted of murdering Corning resident Todd Bates, 20, in 1995. He was one of 16 alleged Aryan Brotherhood members and associates indicted in four separate cases involving racketeering, murder and drug trafficking in 2019. Prosecutors allege Yandell and Troxell are part of the three-man commission that runs the California wing of the gang. The prison murders outlined in court records are in-line with this description. /ID [] Ronald Dean "Ronnie" Rickard 66 of Jonesboro, passed from this life into Heaven on February 27, 2023 at St. Bernards Medical Center.

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