Throat-#Stabbing and Tattoo Removal by ‘Flaming Log’: Two White #Supremacist Gang Members Convicted in Federal RICO Case – #aryancircle #fbi

On Thursday, federal authorities announced the conviction of a Texas man and a Missouri man in a federal RICO case against members of Neo-Nazi prison gang the Aryan Circle. The indictment describes crimes attributed to the gang that include murder, stabbings, kidnappings, and burning off one another’s gang tattoos with flaming logs and hot metal pipes. “Today’s verdicts keep two violent white supremacists from wreaking havoc and hate on the streets of America,” said Fred Milanowski, the special agent in charge for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Houston, in a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Texas. The convictions stem from an indictment originally filed in October 2020 that named a dozen alleged Aryan Circle members with nicknames like Turbo, Bear, Big Kev, and Aryan Prodigy. Several of the original defendants took plea deals; some even turned State’s witnesses. In the end, only two defendants faced the jury. William Glenn Chunn, also known as “Big Head,” 39 — who the Justice Department described in a press release as one of the nation’s top Aryan Circle leaders — and Jesse Paul Blankenship, or “JP,” 38, were both found guilty of conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise. The jury added an enhanced penalty for Chunn for an attempted murder, and convicted Blankenship on two additional counts of kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping. (…) In one instance, described in the indictment, a 2016 “church” meeting in Louisiana took a violent turn when one Neo-Nazi shot another at point blank range and killed him in an argument over whether members were permitted to contact someone who had been kicked out from the gang. The gang members present moved the body and called the cops, trying to stage a botched robbery. One allegedly later traveled to the area to help with “clean up” in the crime and “taunted” investigators who were working on the case.

via yahoo: Throat-Stabbing and Tattoo Removal by ‘Flaming Log’: Two White Supremacist Gang Members Convicted in Federal RICO Case