Jayson “Beaver” Weaver, 46, and Waylon Pitchford, 45, are now part of a massive prosecution aimed at the Aryan Brotherhood, linking the prison gang to 11 killings and several more unful…
FRESNO — Federal prosecutors here have secured a RICO indictment against the two California prisoners who are allegedly responsible for the August 2015 fatal stabbing of a member of the San Quentin Six at a Sacramento prison, according to recently unsealed court records.
With this indictment, and a related federal prosecution in Sacramento, the U.S. Attorney’s office of Eastern California has now linked the Aryan Brotherhood to 11 killings and several other alleged murder plots that were unfulfilled. Pitchford and Weaver also face charges of conspiring with gang associate Kenneth Bash to murder a man Bash suspected of being a child molester, court records show.in Southern California.
Pinell, serving six life sentences at the time of his death, had spent decades in solitary confinement before his death. He wasthroughout his life. Decarceration activists saw him as a political prisoner and a revolutionary, while law enforcement generally viewed him as a murderer who’d gained notoriety through violence.
He was also a well-known target of the Aryan Brotherhood, whose members allegedly smuggled a zip gun into Folsom State Prison in 1981 as part of an unsuccessful plot to kill him. He later survived two stabbings and a homemade bomb being thrown at him, according to court records.
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