Photo sources: Facebook Contributed photo . dIpLHIUuAc. Ronald G L Yandell, 1926 - 1999. He allegedly told others he learned that four other white supremacist prison gangs the United Society of Aryan Skinheads, Wolf Pack, Golden State Skins and American Front had all recently formed a secret alliance against the Aryan Brotherhood. According to prosecutors, Maynard was targeted because he had racked up debts for drugs, and ignored the gangs prior warnings about this. Yandell, a former Richmond resident, was in New Folsom State Prison, serving a life sentence in connection with a double homicide in El Sobrante. 0000041750 00000 n 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. By becoming his own attorney, Yandell will be granted access to certain pieces of prosecution evidence, including, potentially, names of witnesses; be assigned a legal assistant outside jail; and be given means to communicate with his legal assistant without the nuisance of knowing authorities are listening in. 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He joined the notorious Aryan Brotherhood prison gang in the 1990s in federal prison, after being sponsored by the gangs late leader, Barry Mills, according to a 2001 indictment. << 0000012971 00000 n 0000041497 00000 n Prosecutors allege Aryan Brotherhood member Billy Sylvester murdered Ronald Richardson in the small, concrete yard inside B-3 Security Housing Unit at Folsom prison, where the units inmates exercise, to gain entrance into the Brotherhood on Oct. 7, 2011. Officials seized over 40 . 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. They love to play their cowardly games and knowing by doing so they are placing lives in direct danger. 70. On screening the court accepts the professed sincerity of plaintiffs religious belief, as it must accept the truth of all factual allegationsA request for religious diet made for the first time after someone has been in custody is not necessarily insincere, Claire wrote in her recommendations. According to the complaint, McNamara, who is a paraplegic and confined to a wheelchair, listed Kristen Demar the wife of Aryan Brotherhood member and Calipatria State Prison inmate Charles Boots Demar as his paralegal. Obituary. 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. 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. The charges unsealed Thursday, June 6, 2019, detail five slayings and accuse an attorney of helping smuggle drugs and cell phones. 0000038349 00000 n /Resources << The prison murders outlined in court records are in-line with this description. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli), FILE In this Aug. 17, 2011, file photo, concertina wire and a guard tower are seen 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. 0000034449 00000 n Get Morning Report and other email newsletters. IRS delays tax deadline for Bay Area, but California hasnt followed: What should you do? 21 0 obj In June 2019, Yandell, a Richmond native, was one of nearly two dozen alleged Aryan Brotherhood members and associates indicted in four separate cases. It is known for carrying out particularly brutal stabbings, including beheading or disemboweling victims, and using tortuous levels of violence to dissuade others from crossing the gang. She said if he changes his mind down the line, she would likely feel disinclined to consider it. For instance, the U.S. Attorneys Office of Californias Eastern District filed a motion September that would keep the defendants from personally appearing in court during non-critical hearings, and instead appearing in videoconferences in from their cells. 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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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. (Yin, K) May 12, 2021: Filing 9 ORDER signed by Magistrate Judge Allison Claire on 5/11/2021 DIRECTING MONTHLY PAYMENTS be made from Prison Account of Ronald Dean Yandell. Corbett had been serving a life sentence in state prison for murder, but when he was turned over to federal custody, jail staff confiscated the shoes. /L 66250 After Stockton allegedly stabbed Maynard to death on a High Desert prison yard, a confidential informant described only as an ex-member of the Sacramaniacs prison gang told federal prosecutors that Corbett hired Stockton for the hits because he did not like him. The attack kicked off a riot between black and white inmates on the Folsom yard, which lasted roughly 20 minutes, according to the complaint. For example in one accident he suffered a severe concussion as well as broke his feet so grievously thathis bones were cut off in order to remove his boots, Corbetts attorney Kresta Daly wrote in a motion. 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. 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In the call, Yandell admitted to Brady that the AB had Beaver kill that n- Yogi and that AB members had been trying to kill him for years, according to the complaint. 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. Ronald Yandell, 58 a Sacramento Main Jail inmate who faces the death sentence claims his first amendment rights were violated when prison officials failed to provide him with meat-less. Nate Gartrell covers crime and corruption in Contra Costa County. ALLISON CLAIRE UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE ORDER ALLISON CLAIRE UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE Defendant's motions for pretrial discovery, ECF Nos. /E 56502 /O 20 Federal prosecutors charged them in 2019 with murder, drug smuggling in state prison, and various gang offenses. We've received your submission. 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Nate Gartrell covers crime and corruption in Contra Costa County. Meanwhile, another co-defendant who is being housed at California State Prison, Sacramento, Brant Daniel, has filed a motion to be transferred to the jail out of fear that prison guards will murder him. . Ronald Dean Yandell, 56, widely considered to be one of California's most influential gangsters, told federal Judge Kimberly Mueller at a hearing Wednesday morning that he wishes to go "pro per,". I promise you Im going to diligently fight this case, Yandell told Mueller during the questioning. Full-time students who complete 12 or more credits per . (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via AP). Yandell is asking a judge to order the jail to end its unconstitutional practices., 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. He was a 1975 graduate of Lake City High School. /Prev 65754 Ask your friends to light a candle or come back tomorrow to light another candle for Ronald. With a few more clips to come in near future, shining the light on what the . McGregor Scott, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California, answers questions concerning the charges against leaders of the white supremacist prison gang, the Aryan Brotherhood, during a news conference in Sacramento, Thursday, June 6, 2019. /ID [] >> (Right): Close up of a weapon found at the scene. stream It was a scary trial.. Holding cowards accountable. 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved, Anti-Semitic demonstrators protest Ben Platts Parade on Broadway, Hitler youth: Homeschooling network apparently teaching neo-Nazi ideas and theres nothing state can do, Amazon finally removes some Nazi paraphernalia after monetized hate slam, Teen charged with terrorism was exploited, radicalized by US white supremacists: doc. Prison officials, . A graveside service for Ronald will be held Friday, October 7, 2022 at 11:00 AM at St. Paul Lutheran Cemetery Bulverde. /Linearized 1 Get Morning Report and other email newsletters. But the Sept. 24 order by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez also throws out several more serious claims by 59-year-old Richmond native Ronald Dean Yandell that accuse the Sacramento sheriff of retaliation and harassment. The 59-year-old has claimed that the federal charges are an attempt at "payback" for his hunger strike. % 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. 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. He also alleges that since October 2020 he has been denied outside recreation altogether, and that since last June jail personnel have moved him to a new cell at least once every two weeks as a form of harassment. stream /P 0 0000032909 00000 n This combination of photos provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows, top row, Kevin McNamara left, and William Sylvester; and bottom row, Daniel Troxell, left, and Ronald Yandell. (Right): Close up of the prison-made weapon Sylvester allegedly used in the Oct. 7, 2011 murder of Ronald Richardson. He is being denied proper cleaning supplies and hasnt been given access to a chaplain or vegetarian diet, which he needs for religious reasons, according to the suit. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via AP). 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