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Friday, July 03, 2009
White Supremacist Gets Life in Fellow Member's Killing
By Scott Sandlin
Journal Staff Writer
A federal jury on Thursday convicted Aryan Brotherhood member Travis Loren Dally of murdering a fellow member and being part of the conspiracy that planned it.
The 2007 case against Dally, Bradley Wasson, Benjamin Raymond and Jeremiah Looney charged violent crimes in aid of racketeering. The murder conviction carries an automatic life sentence under that law, U.S. Attorney Greg Fouratt said after the verdict.
Henry George disappeared from his Rio Rancho apartment in 2002, and his girlfriend reported him missing two days later. It wasn't until a horseback rider spotted a skull in an arroyo in 2006 that George's remains were identified.
According to the prosecution theory of the case, membership in the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood is for life, and once released from prison, AB members are expected to continue criminal enterprises such as drug and gun sales and identity theft to further the group's goals.
Prosecutors told the jury George's fate was sealed when he had an affair with a female AB member, then went to police after the woman's husband threatened him.
Jurors began hearing testimony in the case June 12 before U.S. District Judge M. Christina Armijo in Albuquerque. They returned a verdict Thursday after deliberating two days.
The jury found Dally guilty of kidnapping, murder, conspiracy to commit murder and using a firearm in a violent crime, but acquitted him of conspiracy to kidnap George. The jury also acquitted him of conspiracy to murder and the attempted murder of John Mudersbach in Los Lunas.
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