“Skinhead Soldiers” Arrested For Homeless Beating
“Skinhead Soldiers” Arrested For Homeless Beating
Cincinnati Police say they’re working with military police to round up the last skinhead soldier charged with beating a homeless man.
The Army arrested Specialist Travis Condor today — he’s stationed at Fort Bragg. He and a soldier in his unit, Matt MacMurtrie, are charged with felonious assault. MacMurtrie is not in custody.
Police say the three soldiers and a friend from Norwood went looking for a homeless man to beat up and found John Johnson in his Mitchell Avenue camp. They allegedly beat Johnson with metal pipes and baseball bats as he slept along Mitchell Avenue and I-75 in the early morning hours of April 10th, telling him to “get a job” and leaving him with severe bruises and requiring stitches.
Local 12′s Joe Webb says Private Riley Feller who was arrested at Fort Knox yesterday waived extradition this morning so he could be in Cincinnati by the weekend. Michael Hesson from Norwood is held on a probation violation in the Butler County jail. Now police are focusing on rounding up the last soldier at Fort Bragg and getting those two to Cincinnati. They’re also trying to get a handle on their skinhead bond — if there is one.
Riley Feller’s mugshot could be that of any GI with closely cropped hair. But a Myspace page linked to the 24-year-old soldier named Riley Feller is covered with skinhead art. And encourages people to rock against skinheads who work with cops. “We’re trying to figure that out further. We’re working with some other agencies, military agencies that have information on some of those skinhead organizations that some of these four individuals might have been on. With that, we’re trying to figure out what connections are with that. We don’t know.”
Feller lived in Northern Kentucky for a while but Michael Hesson is the only current local guy among the four. After his court appearance yesterday, people in Northside, where he hung out, were surprised. They have trouble believing he was part of a group that waylaid John Johnson in his homeless camp. “I don’t know what they mean to be skinheads. I don’t. I don’t know but like I said they’re more around them guys with the scooters and stuff hanging around with.”
The four were spotted at a big scooter rally at The Comet in Northside hours before the beating. There was speculation that’s what brought the four to town. Police want that cleared up. “They are in no way, shape or form associated with the scooter club in Northside nor any of the local taverns or our good people of Northside that came forward. They are not associated with them at all.”
Police aren’t saying how they are connected or why they were in Cincinnati the weekend of April 10th. They say Feller has an ex-girlfriend in the area who may be dating Condor. Police say Hesson is the only real connection to the area. but Riley Feller’s Myspace page makes several mentions of Cincinnati.
Feller has a previous assault conviction but police don’t believe the victim was a homeless person.
All four men are charged with felonious assault. Police say they may drive to Hardin County, Kentucky as soon as tomorrow to pick up Feller.
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Russian judge who cracked down on skinheads and corruption is gunned down
Russian judge who cracked down on skinheads and corruption is gunned down
A Russian city court judge who cracked down on high-level corruption and nationalist skinhead groups was gunned down in the stairwell of his Moscow apartment today.
Eduard Chuvashov, 47, was fatally shot in the head and chest, RIA-Novosti reports.
Last week, Russia Today reports , Chuvashov sentenced leaders of the notorious Ryno Gang to 10 years each in prison for their random killing of at least 20 people of non-Slavic appearance. The group uploaded videos of the slayings online.
In February, he sentenced members of the White Wolves nationalist group to prison terms of up to 23 years for 11 murders , mainly of central Asians.
RIA-Novosti says that according to Moscow City Court’s website, the judge today was to begin looking into the case of Vladimir Belashev, a former member of the Interior Ministry department in charge of fighting organized crime, who was accused of taking part in the bombings of two statues near Moscow.
Chuvashov’s high-profile cases included Federal Drug Control Service officer Alexander Bulbov, who was accused of embezzling $3.2 million, illegal phone tapping, money laundering and offering bribes.
At the time of his arrest, Bulbov and his colleagues had been investigating a furniture smuggling cases that resulted in the arrests of five senior officers of the FSB, formerly known as the KGB. The arrest, Ria-Novosti says, has prompted speculation over a possible conflict between the two state agencies.
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