Gang member sentenced in connection with 2016 TC murder

An Aryan Circle (AC) gang member has been sentenced to 130 months in prison for the role he played in a Turkey Creek murder that occurred in July of 2016.
LeLand Edward Hamm, 44, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, first pleaded guilty to accessory-after-the-fact to racketeering murder back in August of this year.
A press release from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Louisiana stated United States District Judge Dee D. Drell sentenced Hamm to “130 months in prison and three years of supervised release for being an accessory-after-the-fact in the violent crimes in aid of the racketeering murder of Clifton Hallmark.”
In pleading guilty to the charge of accessory-after-the-fact Hamm, “admitted to being an accessory to the murder of Hallmark on or around July 1, 2016, when a fellow AC member shot Hallmark in the side of his head at point blank range at an AC ‘church’ meeting in Turkey Creek.”
According to the release, “the Aryan Circle (AC) is a race-based, multi-state organization that operates inside and outside of state and federal prisons throughout Texas, Louisiana, and the United States.” The group was “established in the mid-1980s within the Texas prison system (TDCJ). Recently, the AC’s structure and influence expanded to rural and suburban areas throughout Texas, Louisiana, and Missouri.”
In Hamm’s plea agreement it “alleges that the AC enforces its rules and promotes discipline among its members, prospects and associates through murder, attempted murder, assault, robbery and threats against those who violate the rules or pose a threat to the organization.”
Hamm, who is considered a subordinate member of the gang, also “admitted to being a member of the AC criminal enterprise.”
Along with Hamm, senior gang member David Wayne Williams, 38, of Sulphur, and subordinate gang member Richard Alan Smith, 47, of Little Rock, Arkansas, also pleaded guilty to several charges in connection with this crime.
In total, 10 people were arrested in connection with this crime back in 2016. The remaining individuals include Elizabeth Auxilien, Christina Williams, Heather Tate, Anissa Hallmark, Jeremy W. Jorden, Brian E. Granger and Michael Auxilien.
The case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorney David Karpel of the Criminal Division’s Organized Crime and Gang Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Dominic Rossetti of the Western District of Louisiana.