NJ HATEMONGERS SENTENCED FOR HATE CRIME ASSAULT

The boneheads who pled guilty for their assault on three Middle Eastern men two years ago learned their fate last week.

One People’s Project

Three neo-Nazis from two New Jersey-based hate organizations have been sentenced to prison terms of 15 to 33 months for their roles in the attack on three Egyptian immigrants in Sayreville on New Year’s Eve 2011.

On Thursday, Kyle Powell, 24, and Michal Gunar, 29, both of the Aryan Terror Brigade (ATB), were sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Joel A. Pisano to 15 and 33 months respectively while on Friday Christopher Ising, 31, of the Atlantic City “Skinheads” also received 33 months following their pleas earlier this year to hate crime charges. Gunar, himself a naturalized citizen, pled guilty in April to an indictment charging him with conspiracy to commit a hate crime assault, as well as the actual commission of a hate crime assault. Ising had also pled guilty to the same charges while Powell, 24, of West Collingswood, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit a hate crime assault.

The incident occurred after a New Year’s Eve “meet and greet” white supremacist event in Ising’s East Brunswick, NJ home. According to court reports, Gunar, Powell and Ising drove to an apartment complex in nearby Sayreville to assault random, non-white people. According to the indictment, Ising, carrying brass knuckles, and Gunar, brandishing a knife, pulled one man identified out of a car in the complex parking lot. When the victim’s friend rushed to his aid, they attacked him as well. One victim was punched in the face and head after being confronted in the complex parking lot with Gunar allegedly stated, “show me your faces you Arab (expletive),” Ising allegedly assaulted a second man with brass knuckles to the head, and Powell reportedly stood nearby, not involved in the actual assault.

Later that evening, Gunar boasted about the attack on Facebook by posting a bloodied pair of pants and later that week posted, “(W)e went to hunt down some sand n——, it was me and my other bro on like 6 or eight and we whooped them…”

Violence is part of the history of the Atlantic City “Skinheads” founded in the 1980s by a number of neo-Nazis, including Bryan P. Bradley, who led the group until he was struck and killed by lightning in 2011 while working on the new Revel Casino in Atlantic City. In 2005 ACS member Walter Dille carjacked and murdered a black woman by one of their members. He is currently serving a life sentence for the crime. ACS members are also responsible for the 1993 beating death of a 75-year-old Black man in Atlantic City. The newer Aryan Terror Brigade is best known by its founder and former leader Josh Steever of Flemington, NJ, who has had several run-ins with the law across the country but nevertheless married Danielle Swayze, the niece of the late actor Patrick Swayze, and the daughter of Don Swayze, who played the werewolf Gus in the HBO show True Blood. That marriage has reportedly since ended. Earlier this year, Steever was kicked out of ATB as he sat in jail on charges of making terroristic threats.

Both ATB and ACS are part of the neo-Nazi Blood and Honor Network, which of late has been attempting to rebuild the connections between street hate groups with white power concerts and rallies.