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Kenneth Johnson, Francis Clement and John Stinson will stand trial on charges that they ordered murders as members of the Aryan Brotherhood. They have pleaded not guilty and denied membership in the prison gang.
Prosecutors say they have traced seven homicides – two behind bars, five on the streets of Los Angeles County – to three alleged leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang.
The case has been cloaked in secrecy, but at a trial prosecutors are expected to reveal how murders were plotted from behind prison walls.
They died inside and out of prison, stabbed beneath the sweltering Central Valley sun and gunned down on darkened streets in Pomona, Lomita and Lancaster.
One was a pimp, another an extortionist with ties to Israeli organized crime. Two victims were members of a white supremacist gang. An imprisoned robber was killed by his cellmate. Another man was found dead in a stolen truck.
What they had in common, authorities say, was that they’d run afoul of three reputed members of the Aryan Brotherhood.
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