Final Pendleton white supremacist gang member takes plea deal (OR)
Phil Wright
November 4, 2015 8:29PM
The last central member of a white supremacist gang that operated in Pendleton last year has taken a plea deal.
Warren Gerald Browning, 36, traveled Wednesday morning from the Umatilla County Jail to Circuit Court in Pendleton where he pleaded guilty to racketeering, attempted assault and felon in possession of a firearm.
Court records also show the Umatilla County District Attorney’s Office in exchange for the pleas dismissed other gun charges, an assault count and two charges of conspiracy to commit murder.
The plea bargain came less than two weeks before the start of Browning’s trial for his involvement in crimes as a core figure in the United Aryan Empire, the brainchild of Jeremiah Mauer, 31, also of Pendleton. Police and prosecutors held the gang responsible for firearms violations, assaults and murder plots in and around Pendleton. Police in January took down the gang in a series of busts ...
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