"SOLEDAD Three California prisoners with alleged ties to organized crime are suspected of murdering an Aryan Brotherhood member at Salinas Valley State Prison, authorities announced Thursday. Todd Fox Morgan, 57, of Santa Clara County, was killed with improvised weapons by Todd Givens, 56, Ray Waldron, 51, and Robert England, 61, on a prison yard a little before 10 a.m. Thursday, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation."
"He was also serving a 21-year federal prison sentence related to a large scale drug ring he allegedly ran, resulting in a 2020 federal indictment targeting the Aryan Brotherhood, the Fresno-based Fresnecks gang, and other all-white groups. During the investigation, police seized communications between Morgan and others using contraband cellphones where they discuss running drugs inside and outside of prison, and how to get in touch with fellow gang members, according to court records."
"Morgan reportedly ran the drug ring with fellow Salinas Valley State Prison inmate Kenneth Bash, who, like Morgan, pleaded guilty. Morgan's robbery and burglary convictions stem from an incident where he alleged attacked a security guard after breaking into Santa Clara University in 2000. In 2009, he was convicted of assault for attacking another inmate at Salinas Valley, and in 2014, the Californian, a Salinas-based newspaper, identified him as a suspect in an incident where four inmates attacked two others with knives."
Three inmates with alleged organized-crime ties are suspected of killing Aryan Brotherhood member Todd Fox Morgan at Salinas Valley State Prison with improvised weapons. The suspects — Todd Givens, Ray Waldron and Robert England — were moved to restrictive housing. Morgan was serving state sentences for robbery, burglary, drug and gun convictions plus Three Strikes enhancements, and a 21-year federal sentence tied to an alleged large-scale drug ring and a 2020 federal indictment targeting Aryan Brotherhood and related white gangs. Authorities seized contraband cellphone communications about running drugs inside and outside prison. Morgan had prior assault- and burglary-related convictions and incidents.
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