Barry Mills (Aryan Brotherhood) Explained

Barry Mills
Birth Date:7 July 1948
Birth Place:Windsor, California, U.S.
Death Place:ADX Florence near Florence, Colorado, U.S.
Criminal Penalty:Four consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole
Criminal Status:Deceased

Barry Byron Mills (July 7, 1948 – July 8, 2018) was an American gangster and leader of the Aryan Brotherhood (AB) prison gang. Nicknamed "The Baron", Mills was incarcerated in the California state prison system at a young age, where he rose within the AB organization during the 1970s and 80s.[1] [2]

Biography

Mills, from Windsor, California, was first incarcerated in 1967, and jailed for a year in a county lockup. He entered the California state prison system after an armed robbery in 1969, and was in jail from then on.

He became involved with the Aryan Brotherhood in San Quentin Prison, where the group originated in 1964. He was convicted of nearly beheading another inmate, John Marsloff, over a gambling debt at USP Atlanta in 1979.[3]

According to a federal indictment, Mills was involved in the consolidation of the AB power structure in 1980, where he assumed a seat in a three-member "federal commission" for the gang. Along with Tyler Bingham, he expanded the operations of the AB in federal and state prisons, moving the group into narcotics dealing and racketeering.[4] [5] [2]

In 1996, Barry Mills proposed that the Aryan Brotherhood absorb the prison gang known as the Dirty White Boys.[6]

In 1997, Mills and his accomplice, Tyler Bingham, reportedly ordered their members to carry out a race war against a rival prison gang, the D.C. Blacks.

In March 2006, Charles Hartsell, a Las Vegas member, and leader of the Las Vegas section, along with three other leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood, including Bingham, were indicted for numerous crimes, including murder, conspiracy, drug trafficking, and racketeering.[7] [8] Barry Mills and Tyler Bingham were convicted of murder and sent back to ADX Florence near Florence, Colorado, after they were given life sentences without the possibility of parole.[9] Federal prosecutors sought a death sentence for Mills and Bingham, but both were spared after jurors deadlocked on whether they should be executed.[10]

Mills died on July 8, 2018, the day after his seventieth birthday.[11] [12]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Richards. Toni. Leader of Aryan Brotherhood Deserves to Live, Lawyer Says. April 4, 2013. The New York Times. August 30, 2006.
  2. Web site: Grann. David. The Brand. Annals of Crime. The New Yorker. February 16–23, 2004.
  3. News: Colt . Michael . Windsor man called leader of prison gang . The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA) . November 12, 2002 . Archive Article ID: 0211120151 (NewsBank).
  4. Book: Atkins, Stephen. Encyclopedia of right-wing extremism in modern American history. 2011. ABC-CLIO. Santa Barbara, CA. 978-1598843507. 155.
  5. Kansas City Jewish Chronicle By Rick Hellman, Editor November 27, 2002
  6. Web site: Blood in, Blood Out: The Violent Empire of the Aryan Brotherhood | Crime Magazine . November 23, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110927143527/http://www.crimemagazine.com/blood-blood-out-violent-empire-aryan-brotherhood . September 27, 2011 . dead .
  7. Web site: Divided by bars and colour. BBC. June 15, 2007 . December 5, 2002.
  8. Web site: United States v. Barry Byron Mills, et al. . June 19, 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111026163045/http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/crim/usmills101702ind.pdf . October 26, 2011 . dead .
  9. Find an inmate: BARRY BYRON MILLS − Register Number: 14559-116; Age: 69 (January 17, 2018); Release Date: LIFE. Federal Bureau of Prisons. Retrieved January 17, 2018
  10. Web site: Mistrial declared in Aryan Brotherhood case. 2022-02-09. NBC News. September 14, 2006 . en.
  11. Web site: Aryan Brotherhood leader dies at Supermax prison in Colorado . July 9, 2018 . . en-US . July 10, 2018.
  12. Web site: Aryan Brotherhood leader dies at Supermax prison in Colorado . July 10, 2018 . FOX31 Denver . en-US . July 10, 2018.

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