2 PLEAD NO CONTEST IN ATTACK.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services Two reputed white supremacists pleaded no contest Monday in an attack on an African-American Wal-Mart employee in Lancaster after the man talked to their female companion in the store parking lot. Shaun Lee Broderick, 20, and Christopher Crawford, 26, pleaded no contest to assault with a deadly weapon Assault with a Deadly Weapon is the term used to describe the act of threatening to harm one or more people by using a weapon (usually a firearm). Here, assault must be differentiated from battery as they are often confused. Assault is threatening to use force. and committing a hate crime and were sentenced to eight years in state prison, said Victoria Pipkin of the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County District Attorney's Office. ``They pled and they were sentenced,'' said Pipkin. Both are scheduled to be back in court today for a restitution hearing. Broderick is also scheduled to be sentenced for manufacturing methamphetamine, in connection with a meth meth n. Methamphetamine hydrochloride. lab found in his Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling hotel room after his arrest for the Wal-Mart attack. A third suspect, Dennis Butt, who was connected to the meth lab but not the Wal-Mart attack, pleaded guilty Aug. 11 to manufacturing methamphetamine and was sentenced to five years of probation and 210 days in county jail. Investigators said Broderick and Crawford attacked Nathaniel Harris on March 23 as he stopped to talk to their female friend while collecting shopping carts in the Wal-Mart parking lot. Harris, who suffered minor injuries, said he struck up a conversation with the woman believing that she attended the same high school he did. Harris was struck in the upper body with a claw hammer by one man and punched by the other. A security guard pulled the two men off Harris. After the attack, the assailants got into a car and attempted to hit Harris before driving away. They were stopped and arrested by sheriff's deputies about a half an hour later at a motel room where Broderick had been staying. Broderick and Crawford are reputed to be members of the Nazi Low Riders, a white supremacist prison gang that surfaced in the early 1990s in Orange County and has spread throughout Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, and the San Joaquin Valley Noun 1. San Joaquin Valley - a vast valley in central California known for its rich farmland Calif., California, Golden State, CA - a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes , according to the Anti-Defamation League Anti-Defamation League B’nai B’rith organization which fights anti-Semitism. [Am. Hist.: Wigoder, 33] See : Anti-Semitism , which tracks extremist groups. |
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