ronald_dean_yandell. 0000005409 00000 n 18 0 obj Benson, Minnesota. Prosecutors allege Yandell and Troxell are part of the three-man commission that runs the California wing of the gang. 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,". After Southern Californias spate of rare storms, is Californias drought over? The 10-page document accuses. Outside of journalism, he doesn't do much. Crime and Public Safety | Plaintiff contends that the chronological order of events paints a clear picture of retaliation since moving plaintiff every few weeks to the exact same cells has absolutely no legitimate penological goal, Yandell wrote. Thanks to the wiretap, authorities intercepted the package. In March 2019, eight months before accepting the plea deal in his murder case, he was denied parole for seven years. %PDF-1.4 /Linearized 1 Feb 4, 2023; Prosecutors say this was, meant to send a message to other inmates that Pequeens murder was a hit carried out by the Aryan Brotherhood.. Daly responded in court filings that the jail has a history of ignoring inmates serious medical needs. The so-called high-risk defendants histories go back decades, and include just about every serious rule violation an inmate can commit: There are allegations of arson, cell flooding, promotion of gang activity, sharing of contraband letters known as kites, drug smuggling, cellphone possession, manufacturing shanks, fistfights and several prison murders. 0000034449 00000 n Nate Gartrell covers crime and corruption in Contra Costa County. But prosecutors argue that the defendants own conduct warrants the unorthodox restrictions. Stockton, according to court records, dropped the murder weapon a shank crafted from a metal cell door through the food tray port and surrendered to corrections officers. 'O _5l35(solLf'u@?qSV'Q:Q-"[ySs|'_#3WYt/z Other than Yandell, 57, the defendants are Danny Troxell, 66; Travis Burhop, 46; Brant Two Scoops Daniel, 45; Donald Popeye Mazza, 48; Pat Big Pat Brady, 49; Jason Corbett, 47; Matthew Psycho Hall, 48; Samuel Keeton, 40; Michael Mosca Torres, 55; Jeanna Quesenberry, 51; Kevin McNamara, 39; Kristen Demar, 44; Justin Rune Petty, 38; and Kathleen Nolan, 65. The defendants have pleaded not guilty, with two notable exceptions: Nolan and Hall have not yet been caught, and authorities do not know where they are. Ronnie Yandell speaks on the massive corruption @California state prisons & Jail's. Tattoos displaying Aryan Brotherhood symbols. 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. Ron was born July 1, 1940,to Talford and Helen Walton in Loogootee, Indiana. Selma Dean Newlon, age 76, of Canyon Lake, Texas passed away on Wednesday, January 25, 2023. Ronald Dean "Ronnie" Rickard 66 of Jonesboro, passed from this life into Heaven on February 27, 2023 at St. Bernards Medical Center. 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. 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. Prison officials have countered that letting gang leaders enter general population yards has led to widespread prison violence, including the five murders and four murder plots alleged in the Aryan Brotherhood complaint. A spokesman for Jones declined to comment to Newsweek, citing pending litigation. He is accused of recruiting members of Public Enemy Number 1, or PENI, a white supremacist gang whose founder was stabbed to death last year on a prison yard controlled by the Aryan Brotherhood. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via AP). A memorial service will occur Saturday, October 8, 2022 at 11:00 AM at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 29797 US . Plaintiff is facing a potential death penalty case and is not allowed contact visits with his legal team.. 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. Ronnie was a former employee of FMC in Jonesboro and worked the last . 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. /Length 259 0000014487 00000 n Reach him at 925-779-7174. May 19, 1933 - Feb 23, 2023. Authorities say he was talking to another Aryan Brotherhood member, Pat Brady, and while Pequeen was distracted, Corbett attacked him from behind. 110w. There is plenty of leeway given for a pro per defendants legal assistant. A sheriff memo says the practice was accidental and that just audio, not video, was recorded, but local offense attorneys have publicly cast doubts. dIpLHIUuAc. He was a 1975 graduate of Lake City High School. Plant Memorial Trees Opens send flowers url in a . He joined the notorious Aryan Brotherhood prison gang in the 1990s in federal prison, after being sponsored by the gangs late leader, Barry Mills, according to a 2001 indictment. /Info 16 0 R Yandell, also known as Renegade, was indicted in July on five counts of conspiracy to commit murder, as well heroin and methamphetamine trafficking. 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. 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The custodial agency shall collect an initial partial filing fee and monthly payments . endobj I am white power: Aryan Brotherhood fugitive arrested in Costa Rica, hangs himself inside jail cell 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. Visitation will be held from 9:30 am to 11:00 am on Thursday, March 2, 2023, at Our Redeemer's Lutheran Church in Benson, followed by the funeral service at 11:00 am. Judge Kimberly Mueller granted Torres an attorney to use as an adviser while he represents himself. Dannys Cineros letter i received a week ago. The 10 state prison inmates in question all have one thing in common: They were all charged with racketeering and other offenses in June, as part of a massive federal law enforcement operation targeting the Aryan Brotherhood in California. SACRAMENTO A federal magistrate judge Monday denied an alleged Aryan Brotherhood members attempts to be outfitted with special tennis shoes to accommodate his severe foot pain, but the issue hasnt been fully resolved. 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. Yandell did not seem to mind that moving forward he would have far fewer legal resources than he previously had with his court-appointed attorney, Peter Kmeto. As a detailed description of Corbetts foot was put onto the record, Yandell leaned over and began hysterically laughing, while the armed guards near him shifted nervously. The all-white Aryan Brotherhood was formed in California prisons in the 1960s, and has grown into a multimillion dollar organized crime ring. 0 Petty reportedly told Yandell he was willing to do this, but wanted to make sure his cover would not be blown, as his job was his primary source of income for his family. Photo sources: Facebook Contributed photo . /CropBox [-0.0000 -0.0000 612.0000 792.0000] Prosecutors havent taken the death penalty off the table in Yandells case, according to Newsweek. She said if he changes his mind down the line, she would likely feel disinclined to consider it. A documentary we started creating in 2017 to bring racial unity across the prisons in Ca & ripple outward from there; the same way these men in the Doc came together in pelican bay hunger strike's (2011-2013) to get their freedom from the SHU after a decade or two. ALLISON CLAIRE UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE ORDER ALLISON CLAIRE UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE Defendant's motions for pretrial discovery, ECF Nos. Reply. /N 3 It was a scary trial.. Ronald Yandell, 58 a Sacramento Main Jail inmate who faces the death sentence claims his first amendment rights were violated when prison officials failed to provide him with meat-less meals for religious reasons, according to a lawsuit reported by the Mercury News. 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. 0000001262 00000 n The case is moving forward, albeit slowly. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File). Thanks for contacting us. Who makes the best hot chicken sandwich in Denver? Magistrate Judge Allison Claire denied Corbetts motion at a Monday hearing in Sacramento, but she asked the U.S. /Metadata 17 0 R Related Articles 0000029741 00000 n They argued that such allegations were often unsupported and based upon anonymous informants, and amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. The next day, on Aug. 22, Yandell allegedly texted Corbett that hed been accepted into the Aryan Brotherhood, and that Yandell had cleared his membership with Daniel Danny Troxell. 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. Ronald's Obituary. /Filter [/FlateDecode ] Last November, he accepted a plea deal on an involuntary manslaughter count, along with an additional three years in prison. Ive filed many lawsuits while I was at Pelican Bay. 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. Prosecutors also noted that Yandell gave guards a list of demands on his first day at the jail, including: a microwave, nine hours of daily recreation room time, hot water, bedsheets and pillows, three hot meals a day, paid job assignments, self-help classes and an ice machine. >> 0000005071 00000 n (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. Heallegedly ran a years-long drug trafficking operation behind prison walls using smuggled cellphones. He has since been transferred to California State Prison, Sacramento, which is also known as New Folsom. 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. The charges unsealed Thursday, June 6, 2019, detail five slayings and accuse an attorney of helping smuggle drugs and cell phones. 111w. Feds: Aryan Brotherhood defendants caught with, Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window), Alameda County DAs new policy will reduce prison sentences through widespread elimination of sentencing enhancements, Feds: Aryan Brotherhood defendants caught with 43 prison cellphones in recent years. But in 2015, after statewide hunger strikes and law Corbett and Yandell were incarcerated 220 miles apart from one another, but regularly communicated through contraband prison cell phones, prosecutors say. It is assumed that they are mostly smuggled into prisons by visitors and staff, who can make thousands of dollars per phone. Plaintiff was never given written notice or any type of hearing to be heard on why he was being punished with extreme isolation, Yandell wrote in the suit. 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. Deputies wrote that when they attempted to escort Yandell to dayroom, he aggressively approached deputies with his fists cocked and called one a punk and a b-. Three deputies tackled him to the ground in an ensuing confrontation, the report alleges. >> 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. As guards carted him off, Daniel allegedly yelled out that other white inmates had two weeks to get off, this weak a PC yard or else another AB-sanctioned hit would take place. /E 56502 But warmer storms could melt snow, Vallejo's Rayhan Jaleel is the Times-Herald Athlete of the Week, Vallejo initiates independent investigation on alleged destroyed records, Benicia Police respond to burglars at cannabis dispensary, City to proceed with purchase of former Vallejo schools, 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. The prison murders outlined in court records are in-line with this description. Beaver, Yandell allegedly said, earned his rock, meaning he earned a shamrock tattoo signifying Aryan Brotherhood membership, by committing the deed. 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. 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.. Claire recommended tossing Yandells claims that the sheriff was harassing him by constantly transferring him and other co-defendants to different cells in the Sacramento Jail, where Yandell and several other alleged Aryan Brotherhood members await trial on racketeering charges. Yandell was then caught on wiretapped conversations telling Demar that if she was questioned, to say the Aryan Brotherhood had threatened to murder her husband if she didnt comply, and to blame Yandell for the smuggling, as he was already serving a life sentence, according to the complaint. 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. 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. >> 0000000929 00000 n Best news I ever got, Corbett allegedly texted back. 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. /T 65766 The 59-year-old has claimed that the federal charges are an attempt at "payback" for his hunger strike. Before Yandell decided to represent himself, Hitts prosecution team was in the process of moving to bar him and several co-defendants from attending non-criticalcourt hearings in person, an unprecedented restriction that prosecutors argued was necessary because of the unique danger Yandell and the others posed. 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