Aryan Brotherhood member killed in California prison

SOLEDAD Three California prisoners with alleged ties to organized crime are suspected of murdering an Aryan Brotherhood member at Salinas Valley State Prison bureaucrats revealed Thursday Todd Fox Morgan of Santa Clara County was killed with improvised weapons by Todd Givens Ray Waldron and Robert England on a prison yard a little before a m Thursday according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation The three individuals have been moved to restrictive housing Morgan was serving state sentences for robbery burglary drugs gun possession and enhancements under the Three Strikes Law agents stated He was also serving a -year federal prison sentence related to a large scale drug ring he allegedly ran resulting in a federal indictment targeting the Aryan Brotherhood the Fresno-based Fresnecks gang and other all-white groups During the inquiry police seized communications between Morgan and others using contraband cellphones where they discuss running drugs inside and outside of prison and how to get in touch with fellow gang members according to court records Morgan reportedly ran the drug ring with fellow Salinas Valley State Prison inmate Kenneth Bash who like Morgan pleaded guilty Morgan s robbery and burglary convictions stem from an occurrence where he alleged attacked a shield guard after developing into Santa Clara University in In he was convicted of assault for attacking another inmate at Salinas Valley and in the Californian a Salinas-based newspaper identified him as a suspect in an happening where four inmates attacked two others with knives leaving one dead and one injured The prison drug ring involved the coordination of multi-pound deals on the outside even in other states as well as smuggling of methamphetamine and heroin into the prison court records show In one instance a man attempted to throw a drug-filled football over a prison wall Givens a former inmate of San Quentin s death row who goes by Stomper is a suspected member of the Nazi Low Riders prison gang who has been involved in other violence behind bars including the stabbing of a now deceased Aryan Brotherhood hitman and the slashing of a prison guard s face Waldron a suspect member of the Mongols Motorcycle Club is incarcerated for a murder in San Diego Court Records show England was named by federal prosecutors as an inmate allegedly targeted for murder by the Aryan Brotherhood in Court filings from January say prison personnel in Sacramento seized a kite purportedly written by Aryan Brotherhood member Pat Brady emphasizing that England was to be murdered for seeking to have other white inmates hit without a solid basis for doing so Agents haven t circulated the suspected motive for the homicide Morgan was set to go before a parole board in Since federal prosecutors in Northern California have charged dozens of Aryan Brotherhood members and associates in multiple racketeering indictments including alleged leaders of the gang who were charged with murder After two separate trials eight Aryan Brotherhood members were sentenced to federal prison earlier this year for involvement in prison homicides and other crimes