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.. Yandell and Troxell are allegedly part of the three-man commission that runs the California wing of the Aryan Brotherhood. If Yandell beats the federal case, he will be returned to state prison, where he is serving a life sentence in connection with a 2001 double homicide in El Sobrante. He was born in Waldron, Ark. Yandell has argued that the federal charges against him are retaliation for his involvement in the hunger strike. 0000032909 00000 n Last November, he accepted a plea deal on an involuntary manslaughter count, along with an additional three years in prison. Crime scene photos from the Oct. 15, 2016 murder of Doug Maynard at High Desert Prison, allegedly carried out by Bobby Stockton and ordered by Jake Corbett. For the first time this century, he had a cellmate, relatively easy access to other inmates and he managed to get something else: a contraband cellphone, and with it the ability to reach like-minded gangsters throughout California. Crime and Public Safety | Ronald Dean "Ronnie" Rickard 66 of Jonesboro, passed from this life into Heaven on February 27, 2023 at St. Bernards Medical Center. 'O _5l35(solLf'u@?qSV'Q:Q-"[ySs|'_#3WYt/z Judge allows alleged Aryan Brotherhood leader, 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), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Judge allows alleged Aryan Brotherhood leader to sue jail over strict Buddhist diet, denies other claims. Ive filed many lawsuits while I was at Pelican Bay. /O 20 Nate Gartrell covers crime, politics, and corruption in Contra Costa County. In a September legal motion, they cited several disciplinary issues that arose since the indictment was filed. Prison officials, citing Yandell's membership in the Aryan Brotherhood, had kept him locked away in a modern-day dungeon; he had spent 15 years in solitary confinement at California's most notorious and secure prison, Pelican Bay. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via AP). Yandell was released to Contra Costa County in 2001, and spent 45 days a free man before he killed two people in El Sobrante. Authorities say Mills considered ordering Yandell to retaliate for an assault against Mafia boss John Gotti, but instead sent him back to Richmond, his hometown. Not for the "stupid price" of $150 an acre foot. 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. 0000014487 00000 n 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. 18 25 /S 147 >> /T 65766 ALLISON CLAIRE UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE ORDER ALLISON CLAIRE UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE Defendant's motions for pretrial discovery, ECF Nos. A graveside service for Ronald will be held Friday, October 7, 2022 at 11:00 AM at St. Paul Lutheran Cemetery Bulverde. In recent years, an estimated tens of thousands of phones have found their way into California prisons. Many of them amount to typical jailhouse shenanigans, like tearing clothes to make fishing lines to pass notes. A confidential informant previously associated with another all-white gang, the Sacramaniacs, later told federal authorities that Corbett persuaded Stockton to carry out the killing by offering him membership to the Aryan Brotherhood, but never intended to follow through, and hoped that the deed would get Stockton transferred to another prison. A Sacramento sheriff spokeswoman told the Bee that medical staff determined the tennis shoes werent necessary. Pinell was stabbed 20 times. dIpLHIUuAc. Who makes the best hot chicken sandwich in Denver? Stockton, meanwhile, was serving life, having been convicted of murdering Corning resident Todd Bates, 20, in 1995. 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). 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,". /Length 2208 Mueller warned Yandell that his pro per status could be revoked if he is found to have abused it or been disruptive in court. 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. The complaint, filed in June, alleges that in 2016 Stockton murdered another inmate, Douglas Maynard, on the orders of Aryan Brotherhood member Jason Jake Corbett, because Maynard owed a drug debt to the gang. C 06-6332 MHP (pr) ORDER LIFTING STAY, REOPENING ACTION, AND SETTING BRIEFING SCHEDULE ON PETITION Ronald Dean Yandell filed a pro se petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. On screening the court accepts the professed sincerity of plaintiffs religious belief, as it must accept the truth of all factual allegationsA request for religious diet made for the first time after someone has been in custody is not necessarily insincere, Claire wrote in her recommendations. 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. View replies (1) badmans_world. The 59-year-old has claimed that the federal charges are an attempt at "payback" for his hunger strike. Ronald had one sister: Wilma J Yendell. Rebuilding a world where everyone has a seat at the table. 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Crime and Public Safety | /Parent 15 0 R (Right): Close up of the prison-made weapon Sylvester allegedly used in the Oct. 7, 2011 murder of Ronald Richardson. McGregor Scott, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California, answers questions concerning the charges against leaders of the white supremacist prison gang, the Aryan Brotherhood, during a news conference in Sacramento, Thursday, June 6, 2019. A half-hour later, DeLong was dead, lying in a pool of his own blood in the floor of the cell. SACRAMENTO In an unexpected twist, a leader of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang has declared that hes decided to give up his experienced court-appointed attorney and instead fight a multiple-murder death penalty case by himself. It was a scary trial.. stream The complaint says that Weaver began the attack, stabbing Pinell and ignoring smoke grenades fired by guards to subduehim, and that after a few seconds Pitchford joined in. >> Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Alleged Aryan Brotherhood leader sues Sacramento sheriff over conditions at county jail, Police: Santa Rosa high schooler fatally stabbed classmate, Man gets prison for plot to bomb California Democratic HQ, California board denies parole for RFK killer Sirhan Sirhan, Slew of child sexual abuse lawsuits could bankrupt the Diocese of Sacramento, bishop says, keeping people in indefinite solitary confinement, Yet more rain is expected to hit California in March. 111w. 0000009557 00000 n (Right): Close up of the prison-made weapon Sylvester allegedly used in the Oct. 7, 2011 murder of Ronald Richardson. At the time he was killed, DeLong had only seven months left on his sentence on a burglary charge. 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. Crime and Public Safety | Corbett said he could send another inmate named Bobby Stockton to do the deed, prosecutors allege. 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. /MediaBox [-0.0000 -0.0000 612.0000 792.0000] Lost to gun violence on February 15, 2021 in Jacksonville, Florida. She said if he changes his mind down the line, she would likely feel disinclined to consider it. In the lawsuit, Yandell says he has been locked in a cell for 23 hours a day after being transferred to Sacramento County Main Jail in July 2019. For instance, the U.S. Attorneys Office of Californias Eastern District filed a motion September that would keep the defendants from personally appearing in court during non-critical hearings, and instead appearing in videoconferences in from their cells. Brady then allegedly joined in the attack, ignoring guards commands to cease. 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 would-be murder victims were rescued and moved into protective custody thanks to the wiretap, according to prosecutors. (Right): Close up of a weapon found at the scene. Later, though, Yandell and others grew paranoid that McNamara was working for law enforcement and had set them up, the complaint says. All my love and respects to you! 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. All Access Digital offer for just 99 cents! endobj 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. RONALD DEAN YANDELL, Defendant. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. 2 likes. 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. 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 was born April 26, 1956 in Kennett Mo. The charging records allege that in August 2016, Corbett and a leader in the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang, Ronald Dean Yandell, 57, used contraband prison cell phones to communicate. 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. 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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. /L 66250 0000033145 00000 n But the Sept. 24 order by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez also throws out several more serious claims by 59-year-old Richmond native Ronald Dean Yandell that accuse the Sacramento sheriff of retaliation and harassment. (Right): Close up of the prison-made weapon Sylvester allegedly used in the Oct. 7, 2011 murder of Ronald Richardson. Ron was born July 1, 1940,to Talford and Helen Walton in Loogootee, Indiana. The suit says Stockton was part of a statewide prisoner hunger strike in the early 2010s, which protested widespread use of the SHU and succeeded in getting prison officials to transfer hundreds of alleged prison gang members to general population yards. He joined the Bay Area News Group in 2014. 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SAN ANTONIO - Twenty five men and women are in custody after authorities busted a drug distribution operation in the San Antonio area Thursday, according to officials. He was also tried and acquitted of a fatal stabbing at a state prison in Tracy, court records show. 1291. Yandell,. Pinell was in the Black Guerilla Family, one of the states most dominant African-American prison gangs, and was one of the so-called San Quentin Six, an infamous group said to be behind a 1971 riot and escape attempt at San Quentin, which left six dead. 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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. Thanks for contacting us. / No. In the 1980s, Yandell was suspected of murdering a man who had ripped off the Hells Angels in a drug deal, prosecutors said. And I truly believe, your honor, that Im going to do a good job.. 0000005071 00000 n As a result of this and other accidents, Mr. Corbett has numerous plates and screws in his feet.. The complaint has given the public a rare look into the Aryan Brotherhood also known as the AB and The Brand considered one of the nations most dangerous and secretive prison gangs. In his objection to Claire's finding, Yandell said the cell transfers started. That same month, Yandell allegedly coordinated with Petty to send contraband concealed in cereal, brownies and other food items. 42 0 obj Stocktons name comes up frequently in a massive racketeering case filed by the Eastern California Districts U.S. Attorney last year, which targets the Aryan Brotherhoods leadership. /Font << /F13 22 0 R /F18 27 0 R /F27 32 0 R /F32 37 0 R >> According to the complaint, Yandell was caught on a wiretapped prison cellphone talking about both smuggling schemes, and arranging for shipments of phones and drugs. << Precisely how a pair of shoes poses a safety risk remains unclear.. It is a racketeering conspiracy case, which alleges that Yandell plotted numerous killings from his prison cell in Sacramento, using contraband cellphones to communicate with other gang members, not that he personally committed any of the murders. 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