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Members of White Supremacist Group Charged in Hate Crime

NEWARK, NJ—Federal agents today arrested a member of a New Jersey-based white supremacist group in connection with the New Year’s Eve 2011 hate crime assault of three Middle Eastern men in Sayreville, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

Christopher Ising, 31, of Waretown, New Jersey, was arrested this morning by FBI special agents on an indictment charging him with conspiracy to commit a hate crime, as well as the actual commission of a hate crime assault, in violation of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act. The defendant, a purported member of white supremacist organization known as the Atlantic City Skins, is scheduled to make his initial court appearance later today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Cathy L. Waldor, in Newark federal court.

Michal Gunar, 27, of East Windsor, New Jersey, was also charged in the indictment. Gunar is an alleged member of another New Jersey-based white supremacist group known as the Aryan Terror Brigade.

According to documents filed in this case and statements made in federal court:

On December 31, 2011, Ising hosted a New Year’s Eve “meet and greet” white supremacist event at his former residence in East Brunswick, New Jersey. At 11:30 p.m., Ising and Gunar drove to an apartment complex in Sayreville, New Jersey, with the express purpose of assaulting random, non-Caucasian individuals. While at the complex, the defendants located and attacked three Middle Eastern men, shouting anti-Arab slurs, brandishing a knife, utilizing brass knuckles, and injuring two of the victims.

U.S. Attorney Fishman credited special agents of the FBI, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Michael B. Ward; special agents of the U.S. Secret Service, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge James Mottola, as well as detectives from the New Jersey State Attorney General’s Office, under the direction of Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa, with the investigation that lead to the indictment.

The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Dennis C. Carletta of the U.S. Attorney’s Office National Security Unit in Newark and Fara Gold of the criminal section of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.

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