A reputed chief of the Aryan Brotherhood jail gang was stabbed to demise final week at Salinas Valley State Jail in Monterey County, authorities mentioned.
Todd “Fox” Morgan, 57, was attacked Thursday morning in a recreation yard by three inmates, officers from the California Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation mentioned in an announcement.
Authorities recognized the assailants as Todd Givens, 56, Robert England, 61, and Ray Waldron, 51, who’ve all been beforehand convicted of homicide.
Todd Givens is accused of killing Todd Morgan at Salinas Valley State Jail.
(California Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation
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Givens — a member of the Nazi Low Riders, a white gang subordinate to the Aryan Brotherhood — was sentenced to demise by a Tulare County choose for murdering a fellow Nazi Low Rider and his sister in 2001 and setting their our bodies on hearth, in line with courtroom data.
Waldron, who was from the Mongols bike membership, is serving a life sentence for capturing to demise an affiliate of the rivals Hells Angels exterior an El Cajon, Calif., bar in 2003. England, imprisoned since 1993 for a San Bernardino County homicide, was mentioned in a legislation enforcement report back to belong to the Hessians bike membership earlier than going to jail.
Ray Waldron is accused of killing Todd Morgan at Salinas Valley State Jail.
(California Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation)
The motive for Morgan’s murder is unclear. A legislation enforcement supply who wasn’t licensed to talk publicly mentioned authorities weren’t beforehand conscious Morgan was in unhealthy standing with different members of the Aryan Brotherhood.
Morgan had been serving a life sentence since 2002 for theft, housebreaking and possessing a gun as a felon, a 3rd strike conviction, jail officers mentioned within the assertion.
In 2020, brokers from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives tapped the telephone of Morgan’s right-hand man, Kenneth Bash, in line with an agent’s affidavit that was filed in federal courtroom. Brokers uncovered proof that Bash, who was held at Salinas Valley with Morgan, was working with members of his Fresno-based gang, the Fresnecks, to promote medicine, purchase weapons and commit fraud with Morgan’s sanction.
Robert England is accused of killing Todd Morgan at Salinas Valley State Jail.
(California Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation)
Authorities intercepted textual content messages that confirmed Bash and Morgan had been plotting to smuggle methamphetamine, heroin, cellphones and bottles of Jack Daniel’s whiskey and Patron tequila into Salinas Valley, an agent wrote within the affidavit.
Below the quilt of darkness, an underling used satellite tv for pc imagery to select his method by means of vineyards close to the jail earlier than tossing a pillowcase over the partitions. An inmate picked up the bundle and ran.
Guards seized the pillowcase, which contained 20 telephones, SIM playing cards, a cellular sizzling spot, charging cables, drill bits, wrenches, tobacco, rolling papers and liquor, in line with the affidavit. Police stopped the underling who threw the bundle over the partitions as he drove off. In his automotive they discovered methamphetamine and heroin.
By way of a wiretap on Bash’s and Morgan’s telephones, ATF brokers additionally heard speak of discovering a person who’d been accused of sexually assaulting kin of an Aryan Brotherhood member.
In a recorded name with Bash, the Aryan Brotherhood member’s stepson, whose identify was redacted within the affidavit, agreed to “deal with it.” After telling Bash he wanted a gun, he obtained a name from Morgan.
“We’re making an attempt to get one thing to you,” Morgan mentioned within the name, which was quoted within the agent’s affidavit. “You don’t don’t have anything proper now?”
“Nah,” the stepson mentioned.
“Effectively, we’re engaged on getting this to you,” Morgan replied.
Brokers arrested the stepson in Stockton after he picked up a handgun from an affiliate of Bash, in line with the affidavit.
Kenneth Bash was convicted in federal courtroom of racketeering.
(California Division of Corrections and Rehabiliation)
The probe of Bash and Morgan’s rackets ultimately led the ATF to analyze different members of the Aryan Brotherhood, together with Kenneth “Kenwood” Johnson, Francis Clement and John Stinson.
After a trial in Fresno this 12 months that exposed how the Aryan Brotherhood’s affect had unfold to the streets of Southern California, Johnson, Clement and Stinson — all longtime state inmates — had been sentenced to life phrases in federal jail.
Morgan pleaded responsible in 2021 to conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and heroin and ordered to serve almost 22 years within the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. However as a substitute of being transferred to federal custody, Morgan returned to the jail from which he’d hatched the drug distribution schemes — Salinas Valley.
