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A memorial service will occur Saturday, October 8, 2022 at 11:00 AM at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 29797 US . RONALD DEAN YANDELL, Petitioner, v. R. HOREL, warden, Respondent. They argued that such allegations were often unsupported and based upon anonymous informants, and amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. The prison is under investigation by the FBI for alleged staff corruption, the Sacramento Bee reported last April. 1983 action alleging that his constitutional rights were violated when defendants revalidated him as a gang member. The four would-be murder victims were rescued and moved into protective custody thanks to the wiretap, according to prosecutors. The defendants have all waived their right to a speedy trial, ensuring the early stages of the case will last for months. endobj
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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. He grew up in Olton, Texas, and graduated from Olton High in 1968. /Type /Catalog
He was born in Waldron, Ark. 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. 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. Precisely how a pair of shoes poses a safety risk remains unclear.. 0000041497 00000 n
The 10-page document accuses outgoing Sheriff Scott Jones of violating Yandells constitutional rights. 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. 'O _5l35(solLf'u@?qSV'Q:Q-"[ySs|'_#3WYt/z 19 0 obj
After that incident, staff began rousing plaintiff in the middle of the night, where he was handcuffed, taken to intake for full body scan, and placed in a different, unsanitary cell, he wrote. 0000012971 00000 n
Stockton became eligible for a parole hearing in 2018. Ronald's Obituary. Tom Cruise's 'ditching' of Suri showcased by Judd Apatow's 'co-parenting' joke, ex-Scientology exec says, Ask Amy: I feel guilty for not speaking up about my co-worker's activities, Ask Amy: I had a good reason not to tell my friend I was moving, How Warriors' reported 10-day deal with Quinones helps Lamb-Jerome contract dilemma, Denver gang member gave 14-year-old permission to open fire on woman with AR-15 after fender-bender, DA alleges, 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. 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. 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. The defendants face a range of charges, including five murders and four alleged murder. trailer
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He aspires to visit all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums. In his objection to Claire's finding, Yandell said the cell transfers started. According to the complaint, Yandell and Corbett plotted to murder an Aryan Brotherhood associate named Paul Dreamer Diaz, and talked about using Bobby believed to be Stockton as a hitman. /CropBox [-0.0000 -0.0000 612.0000 792.0000]
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Jason Jake Corbett, 47, has been trying to get Sacramento County jail staff to turn over his tennis shoes ever since July, when he and 15 other alleged Aryan Brotherhood members and associates were indicted on federal racketeering charges. (Left): Prosecutors allege California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials found Aryan Brotherhood member Billy Sylvester bloodstained on his hands, shoes and right sleeve. Also included are minor offenses, such as tattooing, or failure to complete work assignments. AB members are required, when ordered, to kill without hesitation, the criminal complaint says. According to prosecutors, Maynard was targeted because he had racked up debts for drugs, and ignored the gangs prior warnings about this. And I truly believe, your honor, that Im going to do a good job.. The inmates Yandell, Daniel Troxell, William Sylvester, Travis Burhop, Brant Daniel, Donald Mazza, Pat Brady, Jason Corbett, Samuel Keeton and Michael Torres have all been singled out as high-risk defendants, and prosecutors are employing rare legal tactics to limit their movements as the case slowly makes its way to trial. 0000038349 00000 n
Corbett allegedly told Yandell hed tried to reason with Diaz about an unspecified issue, but that Diaz had a death wish and Corbett was willing to smoke his a if they ended up on a yard together. Corbett and Yandell were incarcerated 220 miles apart from one another, but regularly communicated through contraband prison cell phones, prosecutors say. In the early 2010s, Yandell was one of several alleged prison gang leaders who called a truce between races and led a statewide prison and jail hunger strike, which along with corresponding lawsuits ultimately succeeded in ending Californias practice of keeping people in indefinite solitary confinement simply for alleged gang membership. 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. He joined the Bay Area News Group in 2014. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File). /E 56502
Nate Gartrell covers crime and corruption in Contra Costa County. 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.. 42 0 obj
The indictment accuses Yandell of being part of the three-man commission that runs the Aryan Brotherhood gang. 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. Dannys Cineros letter i received a week ago. Selma Dean Newlon, age 76, of Canyon Lake, Texas passed away on Wednesday, January 25, 2023. It was a scary trial.. Yandells lawsuit echoes concerns raised by several of his co-defendants; he alleges the jails visitation and phone system is inadequate for purposes of meeting with his attorneys (Yandell is acting as his own attorney in the criminal case but has been assigned stand-by counsel). Please know my appreciaton (sic) is huge. 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. 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. Marshal Service to talk to the jail about the issue, according to the Sacramento Bee. 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. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via AP). Ronald Yandell, 56, is the alleged ringleader of a crime spree involving the Aryan Brotherhood gang. (Right): Close up of a weapon found at the scene. Ron was born July 1, 1940,to Talford and Helen Walton in Loogootee, Indiana. Ronald Joseph Dean, age 60. She said if he changes his mind down the line, she would likely feel disinclined to consider it. /Length 259
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. 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. 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. %PDF-1.4
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. Crime and Public Safety | 70. 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. Whats unusual is the prosecutions unwillingness to give any ground; the U.S. Attorneys office recently successfully fought a motion to let Corbett wear tennis shoes, which Corbetts attorneys argued were medically necessary because of their clients severe foot injuries that leave him in constant pain. SACRAMENTO A federal judge has allowed a lawsuit filed by an alleged leader of the Aryan Brotherhood to proceed on grounds that the jail is improperly withholding a religious vegetarian diet, court records show. /Type /Page
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