0000043098 00000 n Beaver, Yandell allegedly said, earned his rock, meaning he earned a shamrock tattoo signifying Aryan Brotherhood membership, by committing the deed. Aryan Brotherhood members and associates are accused of running a criminal enterprise using contraband cellphones, encrypted chats, text messages, multimedia messages and email.The charges detail five slayings and accuse an attorney of helping smuggle drugs and cellphones to aid the white supremacist gang. stream Ronnie was a former employee of FMC in Jonesboro and worked the last . endobj The July 2020 incident in question occurred after Yandells co-defendant, William Sylvester, was caught with a batch of jail alcohol and responded by yelling, When I come out, Im f these b up, referring to jail deputies, according to a report written by Sacramento sheriff officials and filed in federal court. He joined the Bay Area News Group in 2014. In another conversation, Yandell said hed recommended Corbett for membership into the Aryan Brotherhood, telling Corbett it was his reward for running his prison yard effectively. Reply. He joined the Bay Area News Group in 2014. 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. At the next hearing next, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Hitt, the lead prosecutor, is expected to address Yandells move. 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. /Metadata 17 0 R The prison murders outlined in court records are in-line with this description. >> endobj I know its difficult, but I believe with my motivation, and I do have enough intelligence to handle it. McNamara and Kristen Demar wentto visit Sylvester in New Folsom Prison in August 2016. Judge Kimberly Mueller granted Torres an attorney to use as an adviser while he represents himself. Harriette Cole: I don't want the neighbor's kids at my house, Ask Amy: I'm your cabin housekeeper, and you apparently have no idea what I do, Pac-12 media rights: Our (final) predictions for the revenue, media partners, expansion decisions and more. Prosecutors havent taken the death penalty off the table in Yandells case, according to Newsweek. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File). 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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. 0000004123 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. All Access Digital offer for just 99 cents! The 10-page document accuses. 111w. 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. Dear Abby: Why do they imply my husband is a freak? /CropBox [-0.0000 -0.0000 612.0000 792.0000] Simply put, the current conditions obstruct (defendants) Sixth Amendment right to counsel, First Amendment right of access to the courts, and Eighth Amendment right to procedures which guarantee heightened reliability in capital proceedings, defense attorneys argued in one joint motion signed on by nine of 16 defendants in the main Aryan Brotherhood case. 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. 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. 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,". Prosecutors allege Yandell and Troxell are part of the three-man commission that runs the California wing of the gang. /S 147 to Cecil Rickard and Captola Holifield. What followed, according to federal prosecutors, was an attempted takeover of the state prison systems other predominantly white gangs, which has resulted in one of the biggest organized crime takedowns in California. (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. They argued that such allegations were often unsupported and based upon anonymous informants, and amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. Barry Mills, the leader of the Aryan Brotherhood, died July 8, 2018, at age 2 likes. California state prisoner Ronald Dean Yandell appeals pro se from the district court's judgment dismissing his 42 U.S.C. According to the complaint, Yandell was caught on a wiretapped prison cellphone talking about both smuggling schemes, and arranging for shipments of phones and drugs. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via AP). << Aryan Brotherhood members and associates are accused of running a criminal enterprise using contraband cellphones, encrypted chats, text messages, multimedia messages and email.The charges detail five slayings and accuse an attorney of helping smuggle drugs and cellphones to aid the white supremacist gang. The 10-page document accuses. A spokesman for Jones declined to comment to Newsweek, citing pending litigation. 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. First, (the U.S. Attorneys office) assumes the jail has determined Mr. Corbetts shoes somehow pose a safety issueThe more likely explanation for the jails failure to provide Mr. Corbett with his shoes is the Sacramento County Sheriffs chronic disregard of and deliberate indifference to the medical needs of the people living within the jail, Daly wrote. RONALD DEAN YANDELL, Petitioner, v. R. HOREL, warden, Respondent. Ronald Joseph Dean, age 60. /ProcSet [/PDF /Text] He grew up in Olton, Texas, and graduated from Olton High in 1968. Both motions were fully briefed. Ronald lived in 1930, at address, Oklahoma. Later, though, Yandell and others grew paranoid that McNamara was working for law enforcement and had set them up, the complaint says. 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Crime and Public Safety | 0000003872 00000 n ronald_dean_yandell. Daniel also allegedly told the guard he was targeting another inmate who had recently been moved to protective custody. Federal prosecutors charged them in 2019 with murder, drug smuggling in state prison, and various gang offenses. Yandell insisted that he was the right man for the job. Prison officials, who were wise to the scheme at this point, placed an audio-free camera in the meeting room and caught what appeared to be Demar passing something to Sylvester, who was Yandells cellmate at the time. Interment will be in the Our Redeemer's Lutheran . Ronald G L Yandell, 1926 - 1999. In a September legal motion, they cited several disciplinary issues that arose since the indictment was filed. The planned attacks and violence perpetrated by the AB against its enemies (such as DeLong) is longstanding, pervasive, and well-documented such that defendants, and each of them, knew that placing DeLong with a member of the AB would pose a substantial risk to his health and safety, attorney Eugene Chittock wrote in the civil complaint. Prison officials, . More than two dozen Aryan Brotherhood members and associates have been charged in four cases, with crimes that include drug sales, five prison murders and four murder plots. All Access Digital offer for just 99 cents! In his objection to Claires finding, Yandell said the cell transfers started after July 11, 2020, when he was involved in an altercation with three deputies. Now, Yandell and 15 other accused Aryan Brotherhood members and associates are fighting federal charges, alleging five murders, four murder plots, prison drug trafficking and other crimes. Obituary. 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. A half-hour later, DeLong was dead, lying in a pool of his own blood in the floor of the cell. 18 25 AB members are trained to commit brutal murders that will dissuade others from crossing the gang, according to prosecutors. Plaintiff is facing a potential death penalty case and is not allowed contact visits with his legal team.. It is assumed that they are mostly smuggled into prisons by visitors and staff, who can make thousands of dollars per phone. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli), 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. 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Prosecutors allege one of the defendants, attorney Kevin McNamara, was caught on camera smuggling four phones, 174 grams of tobacco and 20 grams of methamphetamine to Yandells cellmate at the time, William Sylvester, during a 2016 legal visit at Sacramento State Prison. 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. One of them, Ronald Dean Yandell, 57, an alleged member of the Aryan Brotherhood's three-man leadership commission, was caught with 10 cellphones from 2016 to 2019, according to the records. The complaint alleges that Corbett planned several killings with Ronald Dean Yandell, aka Renegade, an Aryan Brotherhood leader who prosecutors say sits on the three-man commission that runs the gang. 18 0 obj Another murder victim, Hugo Yogi Pinell, was stabbed to death, allegedly by AB associates Jayson Beaver Weaver and Waylon Pitchford on a Folsom yard in 2015. /H [ 929 333 ] Please know my appreciaton (sic) is huge. 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. According to prosecutors, Maynard was targeted because he had racked up debts for drugs, and ignored the gangs prior warnings about this. Federal prosecutors charged them in 2019 with murder, drug smuggling in state prison, and various gang offenses. www.youtube.com/channel/UCil6ZW8rMOKUfXqeJ9y_EZw Posts Videos Tagged For the first time this century, he had a cellmate, relatively easy access to other inmates and he managed to get something else: a contraband cellphone, and with it the ability to reach like-minded gangsters throughout California. Though the case was filed nearly two years ago, the trial is likely years away. Reply. You can add to Ronald's profile: Nickname: 14 Joey + Number of children: 11 2 + Personality: 24 Beautiful . /Prev 65754 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. 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