Reputed Aryan Brotherhood leader stabbed to death by inmates with Nazi tattoos
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A reputed leader of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang was stabbed to death last week at Salinas Valley State Prison in Monterey County, authorities said.Todd “Fox” Morgan, 57, was attacked Thursday morning in a recreation yard by three inmates, officials from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement.
Authorities identified the assailants as Todd Givens, 56, Robert England, 61, and Ray Waldron, 51, who have all been previously convicted of murder.Givens — a member of the Nazi Low Riders, a white gang subordinate to the Aryan Brotherhood — was sentenced to death by a Tulare County judge for murdering a fellow Nazi Low Rider and his sister in 2001 and setting their bodies on fire, according to court records.
Waldron, who was from the Mongols motorcycle club, is serving a life sentence for shooting to death an associate of the rivals Hells Angels outside an El Cajon, Calif., bar in 2003.England, imprisoned since 1993 for a San Bernardino County murder, was said in a law enforcement report to belong to the Hessians motorcycle club before going to prison.
The motive for Morgan’s homicide is unclear.A law enforcement source who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly said authorities weren’t previously aware Morgan was in bad standing with other members of the Aryan Brotherhood.
Morgan had been serving a life sentence since 2002 for robbery, burglary and possessing a gun as a felon, a third strike conviction, prison officials said in the statement.In 2020, agents from the U.S.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives tapped the phone of Morgan’s right-hand man, Kenneth Bash, according to an agent’s affidavit that was filed in federal court.Agents uncovered evidence that Bash, who was held at Salinas Valley with Morgan, was working with members of his Fresno-based gang, the Fresnecks, to sell drugs, acquire guns and com...