Feds indict members of white supremacist prison gang in Alaska on murder and racketeering charges
Author: Madeline McGee
Several alleged members of the 1488 white supremacist prison gang have been charged with crimes including kidnapping, firearms trafficking, narcotics distribution, assault and murder in connection with the disappearance of a Wasilla man in 2017.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Alaska announced the case Wednesday in an Anchorage press conference with the FBI, Anchorage Police Department, U.S. Marshals and Alaska State Troopers.
An indictment unsealed Wednesday charges six men — named as Filthy Fuhrer, 42, who legally changed his name from Timothy Lobdell; Roy Naughton, 40; Glen Baldwin, 37; Craig King, 53; Beau Cook, 32; and Colter O’Dell, 26 — in connection with what prosecutors said was a wide-ranging racketeering enterprise born out of allegiance to a violent racist prison group that infiltrated Alaska in 2010.
More details, pictures at: https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2019/03/27/feds-indict-members-of-white-supremacist-prison-gang-in-alaska-on-murder-and-racketeering-charges/
It sounds like this was done to a former member of the gang, I'll check up on the details later.
White supremacists murdered man as part of 'vile and racist gang,' feds say
Federal authorities filed criminal murder charges against members of a "vile and racist" white supremacist gang that operates in state-run prisons across Alaska, Arizona and Colorado, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday.
Six of the alleged members of the 1488 prison gang were indicted for murder, assault, kidnapping and a host of other charges in connection with the brutal beating death of Michael Staton, a member whose Nazi tattoo was burned off his rib cage with a hot knife, according to the indictment.
"The defendants allegedly participated in the heinous murder of Michael Staton, with the goal of impressing their vile and racist gang," Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski said in a statement Wednesday. "The Criminal Division is committed to bringing the 1488s to justice, and holding accountable those who further its agenda of violence and hatred."
Read more at: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/white-supremacists-murdered-man-as-part-of-vile-and-racist-gang-feds-say/ar-BBVkojF?OCID=ansmsnnews11
More:
https://patch.com/alaska/anchorage/alaskan-white-supremacist-gang-members-facing-charges-dojThere are usually, not that many national news stories out of Alaska.
