BEATEN BY THE BARRIO, BONEHEADS PLEA OUT FOR PRISON TIME

Remember these four idiots? These are the four associates of the Golden State “Skinheads” (GSS) who thought it would be a good idea to go into a Latino neighborhood in Huntington Beach and attack one of the neighborhood people just because they felt, as evidenced by what one of them said on his radio show, “I think it time to actually go out and kill.” They were wrong. After they stabbed a Latino man they came across, they became the main attraction at a community boot party. On Friday, we learned that three of them must have thought this to be embarrassing enough as it is, and pled out, resulting in sentences of 5-11 years – in a prison full of Latinos we are sure can’t wait to meet them. One of them, the lone female in the group decided to stand trial, and will be in court on Jan. 7. And why not? She beat a murder charge a few years back, so she probably thinks she will be just fine now. That however remains to be seen, but if you are in the Orange County area, take a trip out there sometime for the court proceedings and see how they go. We are sure the accounts of what happened being detailed in open court is going to be the stuff of comedy!

Orange County Register

WESTMINSTER – Three white supremacists who stabbed a Latino man in an unprovoked attack in Huntington Beach in July pleaded guilty to multiple felonies Friday and were sentenced to prison terms.

Bret MacDonald Hicks, 30, of Riverside, Michael Aaron Powell, 21, of Anaheim, and Brian Charles Hanson, 27, of Santa Ana, accepted a plea deal offered by Orange County Superior Court Judge Steven Bromberg and were convicted of attempted murder, aggravated assault, and hate crime battery causing injury, prosecutors said.

After they attacked a man in a predominantly Latino neighborhood at random, the three men were beaten up by neighbors and then arrested by police as they tried to drive away.

The court sentenced Hicks to 10 years in prison, Powell to five years, and Hanson to 11 years and 8 months. Prosecutors had asked for longer sentences.

Hicks was accused of doing the actual stabbing, and has a 2005 hate crime conviction.

Hicks also co-hosted a program called “88 Degrees” on a white-power Internet radio station. In the months before the stabbing, Hicks railed against blacks, Mexicans, and Jews on the show, making statements like, “I think it time to actually go out and kill,” according to a report in the OC Weekly. The show’s archives were taken down after the Weekly published its story.

A fourth defendant in the case, Erin Lee Brooks, 25, of Costa Mesa, is charged with felony counts of attempted murder, aggravated assault, and hate crime battery causing injury. She is scheduled for a pretrial hearing on Jan. 7, 2010.

All four of the defendants are heavily tattooed with power slogans and insignia, prosecutors said.

Brooks and the three men went to a predominantly Latino area near Slater Avenue and Beach Boulevard around midnight on July 3 looking to pick a fight with a non-white, authorities said.

The men saw Sergio Hernandez outside talking to friends. They stopped their truck, ran over, and started to punch, kick, and stab him.

The men yelled, “(expletive) Mexican,” prosecutors said. Brooks is accused of egging them on from the truck.

The stabbing ended when friends and neighbors came out and fought the men off. The four were arrested 10 minutes later by Huntington Beach police, who found a bloody knife in their truck.

Hernandez was taken to the hospital and released the next day.