OKLAHOMA
A white supremacist gang member admitted in federal court today that he held down a former gang member while others in the gang used a heated knife to burn off the tattoo of a former member, according to officials.
U.S. District Judge Claire V. Eagan sentenced Robert Allen Bryan, 41, to four years and nine months in prison, officials said.
Bryan is an associate of the Universal Aryan Brotherhood prison gang. He was guilty of violence committed in aid of racketeering, federal officials said.
In connection with his guilty plea, officials said Bryan admitted his association with the UAB, a violent, “whites only” prison-based gang and gang associates.
The gang operates inside and outside prison walls throughout Oklahoma, officials said.
Bryan admitted that in May 2013, he and other Aryan Brotherhood gang members, operating on orders from the prison gang’s governing body, restrained a former member while other gang members used a heated knife to burn off the victim’s Universal Aryan Brotherhood neck tattoo, according to an indictment.
The indictment stated that Bryan and Ronnie “Dirty Red” Haskins held down the former gang member who failed to supply the gang with drugs. A drug dealer named Aaron Clay King, just three months out of prison, gripped the glowing hunting knife and pressed the blade into the victim’s skin, turning the lightning bolts into “boils and scars.”