Two white supremacists arrested after a West Coast “vicious, wild reign of terror” were heading to California to “kill more Jews” after allegedly committing four murders, newly filed court documents say.

David “Joey” Pedersen, a 31-year-old white supremacist recently released from an Oregon prison, and his 24-year-old girlfriend, Holly Ann Grigsby, are each charged with two counts of aggravated first-degree murder in the documents filed in Snohomish County.  The charges are related to the Sept. 26 murders of Pedersen’s father, David “Red” Pedersen, 56, and his wife, Leslie “DeeDee” Pedersen, 69, the suspect’s stepmother, in Everett, Wash. ( continue to full post… )

Four murder victims –including an African-American man shot in the head at close-range in Eureka, Calif. – are now being linked to a jailed couple with extensive criminal records and white supremacy beliefs.

It looks like the West Coast crime spree – described by one Oregon sheriff as a “vicious, wild reign of terror” – may have had a racist agenda.

Authorities on Monday said the death of Reginald Alan Clark, 53, who was found shot to death in his pickup last Friday in Eureka, was tied to the killing spree believed carried out by David “Joey” Pedersen, 31, and his girlfriend, Holly Ann Grigsby, 24.

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The body of a third victim believed to have been killed by two white supremacists has been found in a badly mangled 2010 Jeep that plunged over a cliff in a remote, mountainous area east of Corvallis, Ore.

An autopsy was under way today in Portland, but authorities believe the body is that of 56-year-old David “Red” Pedersen, a disabled ex-Marine who disappeared from his home in Everett, Wash., on Sept. 28. The body of his wife, Leslie “DeeDee” Pedersen, 69, was found in the home, her neck apparently slashed with a sword found at the scene. ( continue to full post… )

A former “staff leader” of the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations is threatening to indict members of the Montana Human Rights Network by convening a “citizen grand jury.”

The e-mail threat came from Karl Gharst, a white supremacist who was convicted and sent to prison in 2004 for threatening to kill a child protective services worker in Montana. ( continue to full post… )

Police in Brooklyn, N.Y., say a 24-year-old man was approached by a man who pretended to have a gun and was robbed of his cell phone. The victim was then asked about his sexual orientation, berated with anti-gay slurs and sexually assaulted.

Prosecutors say the alleged victim of a hate crime in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, ignored a subpoena and failed to show up for a preliminary hearing after receiving threats. The judge in the case rescheduled a hearing and ordered the accused released from jail.

Police are investigating a potential hate crime in a West Seattle neighborhood after a man and his partner had their cars vandalized and an anti-gay message left inside a vehicle.

A Newark, N.J., man has been charged with a hate crime for allegedly harassing a gay couple who lived next door to him.  According to the Essex County prosecutor, Douglas Brown called his neighbors anti-gay slurs, put oil on their home, and slashed tires on their vehicles.

Hal Turner, an outspoken racist radio talk show host and blogger who became an FBI informant, has been acquitted by a Connecticut jury of threatening and inciting violence against three state officials in his online blog.

The 49-year-old white supremacist comments were “outrageous” and “distasteful,” but the prosecution failed to prove Turner had engaged in criminal conduct beyond a reasonable doubt, jurors said after the verdict. ( continue to full post… )

An African-American teen is claiming that he was the victim of a hate crime at a party in West Chicago, Ill. The victim alleges that three white teens approached him after they saw him talking to a white girl and then punched and kicked him repeatedly. He suffered a broken jaw, four missing teeth and cuts and bruises. Three men were charged with aggravated battery.

A California man has been found guilty of arson and hate crime charges for attempting to burn down a church. Prosecutors said Izad Chavoshan was disgruntled over the local church’s teachings on masturbation.

A missing child was found safe in Buncombe County, S.C., after his mother took him to avoid a custody order. The boy’s mother, Aiden Crawford, claims she does not recognize the court’s authority and espouses other beliefs common to the antigovernment “sovereign citizens” movement.

A suspect alleged to be a skinhead was arrested in California for attacking a man armed with what is believed to be an ice pick or knife. The victim’s son called police and described two men fighting with his father; one had white supremacist tattoos.

One of the teens charged with the brutal beating and murder of an African-American man in Jackson, Miss., is now charged with capital murder. Deryl Dedmon, 19, is accused of a randomly selecting a black man, beating him with a group of teens, and running him over in an apparent hate crime. If convicted, he could face the death penalty.

Police in Ann Arbor, Mich., are investigating the assault of a man as a possible hate crime. Authorities say the 22-year-old white victim and his friend were followed by a group of eight men, of whom six were black, who hurled racial and other slurs at the victim, pulled a knife on him and beat him.

A judge in the conspiracy trial of members of the Alaska Peacemakers Militia has thrown out the sole criminal charge against one of the defendants. Rachel A. Barney was accused of hindering the prosecution of the five other defendants, including her husband, for hiding militia leader Schaeffer Cox in her house. The remaining defendants are still charged with planning to kidnap and murder Alaska state officials.

Two of three New Mexico men charged with branding a mentally handicapped man with a swastika have pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges. Paul Beebe, 28, and Jesse Sanford, 26, were accused of the branding as well as writing white supremacist phrases on him. The men pleaded guilty as part of a plea deal that reduced their possible sentences from up to 35 years to 8.5 years.

Defense lawyers for a California teen accused of a hate crime murder are attempting to disqualify the trial judge. Brandon McInerney is accused of shooting a gay 15-year-old classmate because of his sexual orientation. McInerney’s attorneys argue that the judge gave too much leeway to the prosecution in witnesses and evidence.

A Maryland teen pleaded guilty to a charge of assault and committing a hate crime. Teonna Brown, 18, was caught on camera attacking and beating a transgender woman inside a McDonald’s. The beating was caught on camera, posted on YouTube and shown on TV stations across the country. Brown faces 10 years in prison, with five years suspended.

An Oregon white supremacist who threatened to assassinate President Obama was sentenced to further prison time. David Earl Anderson Jr. wrote several letters threatening the life of the president and sent letters to prosecutors, threatening to kill them.  The latter caused him to be sentenced to four more years in prison.

The case against a suspected ringleader of a white supremacist gang has been declared a mistrial. Ruthie Christine Marshall was among  50 people arrested in an undercover investigation of gang activity, drugs and gun crimes by Orange County, Calif., sheriff’s deputies ATF agents. Three other defendants pleaded guilty to charges against them. ( continue to full post… )

Two teens in Arvada, Colo., have been charged with a hate crime for beating up a man as they used gay slurs. The teens  are accused of following a man for several blocks and beating up the victim as he was walking with a friend.

Police are investigating an incident on Provincetown, Mass., in which a gay couple was assaulted while their attackers used anti-gay language. The two men were walking home when, they say, they informed two men in a car that they were driving in the wrong direction and were then assaulted by the drivers.

A Pennsylvania man was arrested after being wanted for a possible hate crime. Kelvin Ford is accused of using a box cutter to cut a man on the neck, face and arm in July while using racial comments against the victims and other individuals involved.

A teen from Lower Salford, Penn., pleaded guilty to a charge of terroristic threats after spray-painting swastikas and ethnic slurs on a Jewish family’s home. Although the charge is normally a misdemeanor, the prosecutor upgraded the charge due to the ethnic nature of the crime, while the defense claims the defendant was simply intoxicated.