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Member of Aryan Brotherhood Indicted for Bias-Motivated Assault With Intent to Murder

Last update: 3:34 p.m. EST Nov. 18, 2008
WASHINGTON, Nov 18, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- A federal grand jury in Dallas, Texas, indicted Timothy York, a member of the United/Universal Aryan Brotherhood, on two counts of bias-motivated assault.
According to the indictment, on Dec. 28, 2007, Timothy York assaulted his prison cell-mate with intent to commit murder, by using a ligature made from his prison clothing. At the time, York was detained at Seagoville Federal Correctional Institution. The grand jury further alleged that York targeted his cell-mate, who was Jewish, because of his actual or perceived race, religion, national origin and ethnicity.
If convicted, York faces up to 30 years in prison, a $500,000 fine and five years of supervised release.
An indictment is merely an accusation, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
The case is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It will be prosecuted by Jared Fishman, Trial Attorney for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, and Sarah Saldana, Assistant U.S Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
SOURCE U.S. Department of Justice
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/M ... aspx?guid={501AC238-282D-40AF-AA76-9550C00DC327}

Here ya go troll:

Convicted killer adds another murder



November 22, 2008
By RuthAnn Krause Post-Tribune correspondent
Convicted killer Ronnie Dontell Drane has added another murder conviction to his already extensive criminal record — along with a life sentence plus 30 years.

The 35-year-old serial killer from Gary, who already has 180-year and 85-year prison sentences for three murders in Northwest Indiana, was convicted of murder, attempted murder and two counts of wanton endangerment Thursday in Kentucky.

“It took the jury about five minutes before they came back with life plus 30 years," said Franklin County, Ky., Commonwealth Attorney Larry Cleveland, who prosecuted Drane for the March 7, 2003, murder of his cousin, Herman Marcel Buchanan, and the attempted murder of Simeon Bradley.

Buchanan, 31, was wounded in the face on Oct. 12, 2002, when Drane fatally shot his aunt, Delores Buchanan, 50, and a family friend, Larry Peaches, 27, of Indianapolis, at Buchanan’s home in the 4600 block of Grant Street, Calumet Township.

Buchanan fled to Kentucky to stay with a relative, but less than five months later, Drane found him and killed him.

Bradley, who testified against Drane in the Buchanan murder case, also was a witness in Drane’s most recent trial.

Marcel Buchanan was Drane’s first cousin.

Drane shot and missed Bradley, and one of the stray bullets went into an apartment, through a wall and into another apartment where a couple was sleeping, Cleveland said. They were not injured.

Drane skipped his sentencing hearing in Kentucky, as he did last year when Lake Superior Court Judge Diane Ross Boswell imposed the maximum 180-year sentence in the Buchanan and Peaches murders. He did not testify at his Kentucky trial, Cleveland said.

Drane also has an 85-year sentence in Indiana for the May 2002 rape and murder of Tamarra Taylor, 25, of Hammond. Her partially clothed body was found in a park in Gary.

Drane is suspected in the death of Tiffany Copeland, 29, an exotic dancer from Missouri whose decomposed body was found in a suitcase on a highway outside Nashville, Tenn., in April 2004.

At the time, investigators thought Copeland left Gary with Drane after he was charged with killing his aunt and Peaches.

While he was a fugitive, Drane was featured on “America’s Most Wanted’’ before his capture by U.S. marshals in March 2005.


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Interesting........

I wonder what the Federal and State crime statistics break down to by race vs. percentage of the population...?

Any guesses...?

Great question Marine!

Here is your Federal answer:

The prevalence of imprisonment in 2001 was higher for
-- black males (16.6%) and Hispanic males (7.7%) than for white males (2.6%)
-- black females (1.7%) and Hispanic females (0.7%) than white females (0.3%)

# Lifetime chances of a person going to prison are higher for

-- men (11.3%) than for women (1.8%)
-- blacks (18.6%) and Hispanics (10%) than for whites (3.4%)

Here is your State answer:

Sixty-four percent of prison inmates belonged to racial or ethnic minorities in 2001.

# More than 6 in 10 persons in local jails in 2002 were racial or ethnic minorities, unchanged from 1996.

# An estimated 40% were black; 19%, Hispanic, 1% American Indian; 1% Asian; and 3% of more than one race/ethnicity.

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/crimoff.htm

Semper Fi

Typical.




Lee Boyd Malvo (also known as John Lee Malvo or Malik Malvo) (born February 18, 1985), is a Jamaican convicted of mass murder. He, along with John Allen Muhammad, was arrested on October 24, 2002, in connection with the Beltway sniper attacks. These turned out to be only the last of a series of shootings across the United States which began on the West Coast. Muhammad had befriended the juvenile Malvo, and had enlisted him in the murderous rampage under some false pretenses and influences which are still not fully understood by authorities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Boyd_Malvo

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John Allen Muhammad (b. December 31, 1960) is a spree killer from the United States. With his younger partner, Lee Boyd Malvo, he carried out the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks, killing 10 people. Muhammad and Malvo were arrested in connection with the attacks on October 24, 2002, following tips from alert citizens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Allen_Muhammad

Mass Murderers Like David Koresh



Dave Koresh was born Vernon Wayne Howell in Houston, Texas in 1959 to a 15-year old single mother. He never knew his father and was raised by his grandparents. In his late night conversations with FBI agents during the siege, He described his childhood as lonely. He said the other kids teased him and called him "Vernie." He was dyslexic, a bad student, and dropped out of high school. However, he had musical ability and a strong interest in the Bible. By 12, he had memorized large tracts of it. When he was 20, then he turned to the Church of Seventh Day Adventists, his mother's church. But he was expelled for being a bad influence on the young people. Sometime during the next couple of years.

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Wayne Bertram Williams (born May 27, 1958) was identified as the key suspect in the Atlanta Child Murders that occurred between 1979 and 1981. In January 1982, he was found guilty of the murder of two adult men. After his conviction, the Atlanta police declared an additional 23 of the 29 child murders solved.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Williams

Hmmm......methinks artie is confused.

David Koresh (August 17, 1959 – April 19, 1993) was the leader of a Branch Davidian religious sect, believing himself to be its final prophet. A 1993 raid by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and subsequent siege by the FBI ended with the burning of the Branch Davidian ranch. Koresh, 54 adults and 21 children were found dead after the fire, though the time of death is in dispute.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Koresh

Here is the picture of the mass murderer in the David Koresh incident......

Henry Louis Wallace

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Wallace

Henry Louis Wallace (born November 4, 1965) is an American serial killer who killed 10 women in Charlotte, North Carolina and is awaiting execution at Central Prison in Raleigh.



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Lake Superior Court Judge Clarence Murray sentenced Curtis Washington, 21, of Gary, to 10 years in prison for voluntary manslaughter.

Washington, originally charged with murder in the shooting death of 19-year-old David Soto of Gary, pleaded guilty to the Class B felony in October.

Murray's sentence is the maximum allowed under terms of the plea agreement.

Soto was killed Sept. 5, 2005, when he and Washington were in an alley in the 1700 block of Georgia Street in Gary, with several others. One of the individuals in the group had borrowed Soto's car and Soto wanted it returned, but the man wanted to keep it until his birthday the following day, according to court records.

A heated argument followed after Soto insisted on having the car returned.

Soto got into the driver's seat and Washington shot him three times, court records state.

Deputy prosecutor Aleksandra Dimitrijevic prosecuted the case, which was investigated by Gary police Detective James Bond.