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- Reported March 25, 2014Legal DevelopmentsMarysville, CaliforniaWhite supremacist Billy James Hammett, 30, was sentenced to 87 months in prison for a 2011 racially motivated attack against a white man and a black woman. Hammett was also ordered to pay $175 in restitution and serve three years of supervised release following his prison sentence.
- Reported March 24, 2014Legal DevelopmentsSuffolk, New YorkFormer Suffolk County Police Sgt. Scott A. Greene, 50, pled not guilty to six counts of fourth-degree grand larceny as a hate crime and other charges for allegedly stopping at least a half dozen Latino motorists and stealing their cash while patting them down.
- Reported March 19, 2014Legal DevelopmentsChicago, IllinoisJoseph Firek, 59, was charged with first- degree murder and a hate crime for allegedly using racial slurs and punching Michael Tingling, 59, during a confrontation over inappropriate gestures Firek reportedly made to Tingling's daughter. Tingling, a native of Belize, collapsed and died after the fight due to heart problems and stress from the altercation.
- Reported March 14, 2014Legal DevelopmentsDavis, CaliforniaClayton Garzon pled no contest to felony assault likely to produce great bodily injury, felony hate crime and misdemeanor battery with serious bodily injury for beating a gay man in March 2013. Garzon received a split sentence in which he will serve five years in jail and then be placed on mandatory supervision for 28 months.
- Reported March 11, 2014Legal DevelopmentsPortland, OregonWhite supremacist Holly Ann Grigsby pled guilty to racketeering in connection with a 2011 road trip that allegedly culminated in the murders of four people. Grigsby and her boyfriend, fellow white supremacist David Pedersen, allegedly killed Pedersen's father and step mother, a black man and a 19-year- old stranger who was singled out because they thought he was Jewish.
- Reported February 20, 2014Legal DevelopmentsColumbia, South CarolinaLongtime white supremacist August Kreis, 59, was charged with criminal sexual conduct against a female relative under the age of 12. Kreis, once the leader of an offshoot of the neo-Nazi group the Aryan Nations, allegedly sexually assaulted the girl and showed her pornography.
- Reported February 04, 2014Legal DevelopmentsMontgomery, AlabamaFormer Klansman Steven Joshua Dinkle, 28, pled guilty to hate crime and obstruction of justice charges for burning a cross in a black neighborhood in Ozark, Ala., in 2009. Dinkle was the local leader of the International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
- Reported January 25, 2014Legal DevelopmentsLeith, North DakotaWhite supremacist Kynan Dutton, 29, pled guilty to misdemeanor counts of menacing and disorderly conduct after he and fellow white supremacist Craig Cobb were accused of terrorizing residents while armed with guns in November. Dutton was sentenced to time served and two years of probation.
