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Aryan Fourth Reich Skins
A small skinhead group active in the Livingston area from 2000-2003; possibly defunct. (See Aryan Renaissance Society/Aryan Fourth Reich Skins under Texas.)
September 2006: Two admitted members of the Hated, a racist skinhead group, were sentenced on charges of selling handguns, rifles and shotguns without a license, and for possession of firearms by previously convicted felons. Gabriel Carafa, 25, a former Aryan Fourth Reich Skin (and Hated Skin and Eastern Hammerskins associate) of Pennsville, New Jersey was sentenced on September 8, 2006, to 80 months in federal prison, while his co-defendant, Craig Orler, 29, also of Pennsville, was sentenced on August 29, 2006 to 130 months in federal prison. Orler admitted in court to meeting with Carafa in May 2005, to arrange the sale of the weapons. Carafa and Orler said that Carafa took 12 firearms from Orler and sold them, with Orler receiving $500 from the sale. Carafa pleaded guilty in May 2006 to dealing in firearms without a license and possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon. During his plea hearing, Carafa claimed that he sold 11 of the guns to another white supremacist for $1000. The investigation was a joint effort of the ATF, the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice, and the New Jersey Office of Bias Crime and Community Relations.
May 2004: Gabriel Carafa pleaded guilty to bias intimidation and terroristic threats and received a three-year sentence for a 2002 incident in which Carafa and two other skinheads assaulted a Southeast Asian convenience store clerk in Ocean County.
Atlantic City Skinheads/AC Skins
Largest of the New Jersey-based racist skinhead groups in numbers and reach. Active for eleven years (some members claim it dates back to 1986), the AC Skins claim a following of about forty. The group is also affiliated with the New Jersey State Prison Skins (see below), and has ties to some outlaw motorcycle groups. The Atlantic City Skins are noted for trying to maintain a lower profile than other groups.
February 2008: A Superior Court jury in Mays Landing, New Jersey, convicted Walter Dille Jr., 40, of felony murder. In December 2005, Dille, a member of the Atlantic City Skinheads murdered an African-American woman during a botched carjacking in a shopping center parking lot in Hamilton Township. On February 2, 2009, after 11 hours of deliberations, the jury found Dille guilty of all 11 counts, including felony murder, murder, robbery, carjacking, weapons offenses, hindering prosecution, and evidence tampering. According to authorities, Dille approached the victim as she was getting out of her car, ordered her to get back in, and then fatally shot her in the head. Although the prosecution stated that they believed Dille targeted his victim in part because of her race, no hate crimes charges were added. At the time of his arrest for this crime in January 2007, Dille was wanted in Seminole County, Florida, on charges of aggravated assault with a weapon and simple battery. Dille faces life in prison at his April sentencing.
Bergen County Hooligans (BCH)
A small contingent of skinheads active within Bergen County. BCH includes a group of Polish-American skins called Furiat (see below). The total active membership of BCH is about seventeen, including the members of Furiat.
Elegy Records
Elegy Records is a small distributor of National Socialist Black Metal (NSBM) music. Located in Clifton, New Jersey, Elegy Records is the creation of two former National Alliance members Robert DiSiena and Greg Pillard.
Furiat
A skinhead group made up of Polish immigrants in the Garfield, New Jersey, area. “Furiat” roughly translates as madman or "berzerker." The group is associated with East Coast Hate Crew, and is part of the Bergen County Hooligans (see above). Seven members of Furiat were arrested in Garfield in August 2003, for allegedly assaulting a pair of Mexican illegal aliens, one of several such incidents reported in that area. However, both victims and witnesses are reluctant to testify against the group, so the likelihood that the alleged assailants will be brought to trial is in doubt. The total membership of Furiat is about nine.
Hated Skins/ The Hated
A New Jersey affiliate of a Florida-based skinhead group, led by Gabriel Carafa until his arrest. Carafa is a former Aryan Fourth Reich Skin, an associate of Eastern Hammerskins, and a member of the Creativity Movement. The Hated Skins appear to have a handful of members in New Jersey, at best.
September 2006: Two admitted members of the Hated were sentenced on charges of selling handguns, rifles and shotguns without a license, and for possession of firearms by previously convicted felons. Gabriel Carafa, 25, of Pennsville, New Jersey was sentenced on September 8, 2006, to 80 months in federal prison, while his co-defendant, Craig Orler, 29, also of Pennsville, was sentenced on August 29, 2006 to 130 months in federal prison. Orler admitted in court to meeting with Carafa in May 2005, to arrange the sale of the weapons. Carafa and Orler said that Carafa took 12 firearms from Orler and sold them, with Orler receiving $500 from the sale. Carafa pleaded guilty in May 2006 to dealing in firearms without a license and possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon. During his plea hearing, Carafa claimed that he sold 11 of the guns to another white supremacist for $1000. The investigation was a joint effort of the ATF, the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice, and the New Jersey Office of Bias Crime and Community Relations.
Keystone State Skinheads (KSS)
A large, well-organized, well-established, and increasingly violent group founded in early 2002 in the Harrisburg area. As the KSS began to grow, they started to absorb the smaller skinhead groups in central and southern New Jersey into their Philadelphia chapter. The decline of the Eastern Hammerskins in New Jersey also contributed to the exodus to KSS in southern New Jersey and Philadelphia. (See Keystone State Skinheads under Pennsylvania.)
Micetrap White Power Music
A small white power music distributor based in the southern part of New Jersey, and operated by Steven Weigand, an ex-skinhead and racist from Maple Shade. Weigand sells CDs, posters, books, videos, shirts, and other neo-Nazi paraphernalia.
New Jersey State Prison Skins
New Jersey’s prison system has a fairly large number of neo-Nazi inmates, and there are a few different groups to which these inmates maintain ties. Until recently, the largest and most violent of these was East Coast Aryan Brotherhood (ECAB). Since the transfer of its founder, David Decker, to New Hampshire, the membership of ECAB has shrunk, while the influence and importance of an affiliated group, the New Jersey State Prison Skins, has increased significantly. The New Jersey State Prison Skins have ties to the AC Skins and Eastern Hammerskins, and their numbers are increasing in several facilities.
 October 2002: Thomas Struss, a New Jersey State Prison Skin member and East Coast Aryan Brotherhood member, was sentenced to eight and a half years in federal prison after pleading guilty to an armed carjacking that took place in Mantua, New Jersey, in February 2001. Struss was part of the terrorist cell put together by Leo Felton (see East Coast Aryan Brotherhood under Massachusetts), and stole the car to use in an armored car robbery. Struss also pleaded guilty to a Boston-area bank robbery, a crime he had committed with Leo Felton to get funds to finance their plans.
Vinlanders Social Club
Originating in Knightstown, Indiana, the Vinlanders started off as a loose association of members of different racist skinhead groups from Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan The Vinlanders Social Club is a hardcore group whose members, some of whom also belong to other racist skinhead groups, are active primarily in the Midwest and Arizona, although there are members in other states as well, including New Jersery. In the winter of 2006, the New Jersey chapter of the Vinlanders sponsored members of the Empire State Skinheads (ESS) into the VSC.
Unaffiliated Skinheads
 July 2001: Brian Nielson, a racist skinhead, was arrested along with a neo-Nazi named Henry Baird for the attempted murder of a black couple in Pemberton, New Jersey. The pair broke into the couple’s apartment and hid. Once the couple fell asleep, Nielson and Baird beat them with baseball bats with the phrase “niggerbeater” etched in the wood. Baird pleaded guilty to two charges, aggravated assault and assault with a deadly weapon, and received a sentence of 15 years. Nielson was found guilty of aggravated assault as well as burglary and weapons charges in November 2004, and was sentenced to 14 years in prison in December 2004.
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Terror Plot in Tennessee
On October 22, 2008, the Crockett County, Tennessee, Sheriff's Office, along with agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), uncovered and prevented what could have been the deadliest extremist shooting spree in years, designed to culminate with the assassination of Barack Obama.
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| CAVEAT: NOT EVERY SKINHEAD A RACIST |
| The skinhead subculture was not originally racist
—and, in fact, today around the world there remain
many non-racist or explicitly anti-racist skinheads
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