Rodney Shane Holt, Assault and Gun Running, Texas 2016

Rodney Shane Holt, aka Turbo, 48, of Tyler, Texas, pleaded guilty to assault resulting in serious bodily injury in aid of racketeering, as well as conspiracy to sell firearms to a convicted felon.

Holt committed the assault as part of his membership in the Aryan Circle, a white supremacist organization that operates in Texas and other states throughout the country.

According to court documents, Holt's offense conduct included planning and participating in the events surrounding a violent beating of another AC member who wanted to switch his gang affiliation, or patch over, from the AC to a different gang.

Holt and other AC members carried out the attack in order to X, or remove the AC member from the gang, because it violated the AC's rules to join another organization.

His offense conduct also included several sales of high-caliber firearms to convicted felons.

Additionally, a Mexican national, Eulalio Torres-Cadenas, aka Yayo, 43, of Mexico, pleaded guilty to conspiring with members of the AC and others to sell methamphetamine.

Torres-Cadenas supplied an Aryan Circle member with between 1.5 and 5 kilograms of methamphetamine over a number of occasions in 2016, in the area of Houston, Texas.

The AC member went on to distribute the methamphetamine to buyers in Louisiana, including other AC members.

The drug conspiracy that Torres-Cadenas pleaded to was uncovered as part of Operation Noble Virtue, an investigation into the AC that has targeted AC leadership.

A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

Sentencing dates have not yet been set.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edtx/pr/investigation-white-supremacists-and-drug-traffickers-yields-guilty-pleas