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. Get Morning Report and other email newsletters. 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. 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. 0000003872 00000 n IRS delays tax deadline for Bay Area, but California hasn't followed: What should you do? stream I was real careful about what I talked about in court, when he was around, Bruce Flynn, the prosecutor who handled Yandells 2001 murder case, recalled in a 2018 interview. This story has been shared 348,615 times. Plaintiff is facing a potential death penalty case and is not allowed contact visits with his legal team.. 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. /Prev 65754 Quesenberry was an alleged FAIM member, and had several felony convictions, including for drug possession and robbery, but was still allowed to take that role. 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. SAN ANTONIO - Twenty five men and women are in custody after authorities busted a drug distribution operation in the San Antonio area Thursday, according to officials. Misconduct investigation underway after federal judge in California has 13-year-old daughter of defendant handcuffed, DA updates details about deadly, high-speed car crash that killed 3 Bay Area teens, East Bay man convicted for killing supervisor at Marin job site, Man wrongly imprisoned for 38 years declared innocent in killing of California woman, Dear Abby: My wife said she doesn't like it, but it's part of my life. 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Brady then allegedly joined in the attack, ignoring guards commands to cease. One of them, Ronald Dean Yandell, 57, an alleged member of the Aryan Brotherhoods three-man leadership commission, was caught with 10 cellphones from 2016 to 2019, according to the records. 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. /TrimBox [0.0000 0.0000 612.0000 792.0000] Best news I ever got, Corbett allegedly texted back. BRISTOL, RI Delaney Meserve, of Waterford, has been named to the Fall 2022 Dean's List at Roger Williams University, in Bristol, R.I. But in 2015, after statewide hunger strikes and lawsuits challenging the use of solitary confinement, Yandell was transferred to New Folsom prison in Sacramento. Ronald G L Yandell was born in 1926, at birth place, Oklahoma, to Grady Yandell and Vervia Lou Yandell. Ronald lived in 1930, at address, Oklahoma. 0000034092 00000 n He was buried in 1999, at burial place. Maynards killing was one of five murders along with four thwarted murder plots that federal prosecutors charged Aryan Brotherhood members with ordering and carrying out. 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. 1291. They argued that such allegations were often unsupported and based upon anonymous informants, and amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. 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. He then attended West Texas State University. If Yandell beats the federal case, he will be returned to state prison, where he is serving a life sentence in connection with a 2001 double homicide in El Sobrante. Im pretty sure I can handle this, Yandell said, according to the transcript. After Southern Californias spate of rare storms, is Californias drought over? Cloud Hospital. 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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. /ID [] Ronald Dean WIlliams. /Type /Page 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. In the years leading up to his trial, he allegedly ordered two associates to murder witnesses against him, but the plot failed, authorities said. 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. 0000005071 00000 n /Font << /F13 22 0 R /F18 27 0 R /F27 32 0 R /F32 37 0 R >> 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. They were shackled, chained to their desks and surrounded by a team of armed U.S. marshals, who escorted them in and out of the courtroom. In 2004, he was convicted of murder and manslaughter and sentenced to 65 years to life. Thanks to the wiretap, authorities intercepted the package. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via AP). In October 2016, Stockton using a knife that had been smuggled to him by other Aryan Brotherhood associates attacked Maynard on a High Desert Yard. 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. The complaint has given the public a rare look into the Aryan Brotherhood also known as the AB and The Brand considered one of the nations most dangerous and secretive prison gangs. Opinion: Colorado farms going fallow? 18 25 Mendezs order upholds recommendations by a federal magistrate, which Yandell objected to. In 4 years, Lori Lightfoot went from breakout political star to divisive mayor of a Chicago beset by pandemic and crime, Florida lawmakers to consider expansion of so-called dont say gay law, Drone crashes at Disneyland after hovering over visitors heads See video, Rapper Travis Scott wanted for assaulting Manhattan club sound engineer, destroying $12K in equipment, Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. 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. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. 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. He has since been transferred to California State Prison, Sacramento, which is also known as New Folsom. 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. RONALD DEAN YANDELL, Defendant. 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. 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. Pinell was stabbed 20 times. 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. Before the coronavirus pandemic, prosecutors argued several of the defendants, including Sylvester and Yandell, were so dangerous they should be forced to attend court remotely via video chats. 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. Stockton became eligible for a parole hearing in 2018. IRS delays tax deadline for Bay Area, but California hasnt followed: What should you do? /T 65766 This type of legal tug-of-war is typical in a criminal case. 1983 action alleging that his constitutional rights were violated when defendants revalidated him as a gang member. He was born in Waldron, Ark. Tattoos displaying Aryan Brotherhood symbols. The complaint says that Weaver began the attack, stabbing Pinell and ignoring smoke grenades fired by guards to subduehim, and that after a few seconds Pitchford joined in. /Info 16 0 R Federal prosecutors, in the criminal case, have denied claims by Yandells co-defendants that the Sacramento jail cant facilitate confidential legal visits, calling such claims misleading and impossible to square with objective reality.. 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. (Left): Prosecutors allege California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials found Aryan Brotherhood member Billy Sylvester bloodstained on his hands, shoes and right sleeve. California state prisoner Ronald Dean Yandell appeals pro se from the district court's judgment dismissing his 42 U.S.C. Tattoos displaying Aryan Brotherhood symbols. 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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. Rebecca Ruth Soutter. 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. 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. (Left): Aryan Brotherhood associates hoping to join the gang, or earn their [sham]rock allegedly sanctioned the murder of rival gang member Hugo Yogi Pinell in the B yard at Folsom prison on Aug. 12, 2015. >> 70. A Sacramento sheriff spokeswoman told the Bee that medical staff determined the tennis shoes werent necessary. 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