If you own a tattoo shop in California, you might want to prepare for the uptick in business due to Nazis getting cover up jobs. Seriously, we can’t recall the last time we wrote about boneheads NOT getting locked up in California, and in one case they got their asses kicked beforehand by the neighborhood they were trying to intimidate.And we are not just talking about some random bonehead picked up for a murder or whatever. In the entire decade or so that One People’s Project has been around, California has the only state where they repeatedly round up white supremacists en masse. Sure, there would be some militia group or four or five boneheads picked up in one specific situation from time to time, but it is basically a major crackdown in Cali, where they are even snatching up people who are already in jail! It happened again in a sweep netting over 30 boneads from prison and street gangs, including this fine specimen of f?!kery pictured here. This all comes courtesy of something called…wait for it…OPERATION: STORMFRONT! That’s right, they named their sweep of bonehead gangs after a bonehead website! Needless to say, they are none too pleased over at our extended family over there, one poster describing the name as “More than a little disturbing”. Well, if that’s all it takes to “disturb” that crowd, they are really going to hate it when things get downright chaotic! Our advice: don’t be a bonehead in California. The Santa Ana winds don’t blow in your favor!
Orange County Register
SANTA ANA – Prosecutors Thursday announced a crackdown on white supremacist prison and street gangs in Orange County, saying they’ve crippled the gangs’ local operations by arresting 34 members of racist hate groups, including a top “shot caller” and his wife.
It’s the largest-ever takedown of white-supremacist gang members in Orange County, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said.
“The bottom line is that some very, very, very serious bad guys have been taken off the street for a long time – if not for life,” Sheriff Sandra Hutchens said of the two-year, multiagency “Operation Stormfront,” named after a white-supremacist website and detailed at a news conference at the D.A.’s office in Santa Ana.
The county, state and federal investigation has resulted in three related state indictments that name 14 defendants on charges including extortion, conspiracy and solicitation of aggravated assault and murder. Those indicted include Wayne Jason Marshall, 36, nicknamed “Bullet” and an inmate at the Orange County Jail and a reputed “shot caller” of the Aryan Brotherhood and a former henchman of Public Enemy Number One, or PEN1, white-supremacist gang.
Marshall, in jail on robbery charges, is named in two of the indictments, and his wife, Ruthie Christine Marshall, 41, is named in all three. The couple is from Garden Grove.
Operation Stormfront led to the arrests of 20 additional white-supremacist gang members and associates for various parole and probation violations, nonviolent felonies and one attempted murder, prosecutors said.
Federal charges, including criminal fraud and illegal firearms and narcotics sales, were leveled against an additional 16 white-supremacy suspects, for a total of 50 arrests of reputed gang members in Orange County, said John A. Torres, special agent in charge of the Los Angeles field office of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
In addition to Huntington Beach-based PEN1, the largest white-supremacist gang in the nation, the take-down netted members of the Aryan Brotherhood, La Mirada Punks, West Coast Costa Mesa Skins, Nazi Low Riders and the O.C. Skins, prosecutors said.
“In Orange County, we will never accept the idea that gangs are here to stay, and we will never give up the battle against gangs,” District Attorney Tony Rackauckas said at the news conference.
As he spoke, he was surrounded by blown-up mugshots of white-supremacy suspects with nicknames like “Turtle,” “Penguin” and “Mama Bear” and a table filled with 27 illegal firearms, including assault rifles and sawed-off shotguns, that undercover AFT agents purchased from gang members during their investigation.
One of the firearms was used in the commission of an attempted murder being prosecuted in Orange County, the District Attorney’s Office said.
“A gang’s only purpose is to do evil,” Rackauckas said. “And so the best way to protect the public is to eliminate gangs.”
The agencies involved in Operation Stormfront were the ATF, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, Orange County Sheriff’s Department, U.S. Attorney’s Office and U.S. Secret Service.
Although numbers are difficult to come by, there are about 2,000 racist skinheads in Orange County, according to estimates from the Anti-Defamation League. Most are unaffiliated white supremacist and neo-Nazis.
Southern California has the largest population of skinheads in the country, and Orange County has the largest number of white-supremacist groups, Kevin O’Grady of the Anti-Defamation League said at the news conference.
Torres said Operation Stormfront targeted key players in white-supremacist gangs. About 20 core investigators infiltrated the gangs starting in January 2009, often putting themselves at serious risk, authorities said.
The arrests “put a good dent in their overall structure, from line soldiers to shot callers,” he said.
Wayne Marshall, who sports a large swastika tattoo on his belly, is accused of being a “shot caller” for two white-supremacist criminal street gangs in the Orange County Jail and on the street for the benefit of his prison gang.
He is accused of giving criminal orders and conducting criminal business through phone calls from jail to the outside and in person during jail visits. Ruthie Marshall is accused of helping her husband by facilitating three-way calls and giving orders on his behalf.
In one indictment, Ruthie Marshall is accused of luring a man to a hotel twice in retribution for him borrowing her car without permission. She and other white supremacists – one nicknamed “Dopey,” another “JJ” – are accused of assaulting the man for the benefit of white-supremacist prison and criminal street gangs.
In a second indictment, Wayne Marshall is accused of hatching an assault and extortion plot from behind bars against a man he believed had not given him his cut of drugs smuggled into jail. Six co-defendants include gang members with the monikers “Lil’ Rick,” “Baby Bear” and “Lil’ Eddie.”
Details of the third indictment are not yet available, but include charges of solicitation to commit murder against Wayne Marshall, and conspiracy to commit murder against his wife. Co-defendants nicknamed “Doc,” “Penguin,” “Lil’ Brody” and “K” also were charged with conspiracy to commit murder.
The targeted victims in all three cases were primarily white-supremacist criminal street gang members on probation or parole, the D.A.’s Office said.
The defendants in all three cases face maximum sentences of life in state prison if convicted.
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