January 1, 2001, Nevada. In Reno, Nevada, an arson attack occurs against Temple Emanu El, a Jewish synagogue that in November 1999 was firebombed by five white supremacists. Police are seeking the culprit(s) of the new attack.

January 1, 2001, Kansas. An unknown shooter fires at least 25 shots at an Overland Park, Kansas, abortion clinic near Kansas City, over the New Year’s holiday weekend.

January 3, 2001, South Carolina. Ku Klux Klan member James Crawford of Sumter, South Carolina, pleads guilty to conspiracy to oppress and intimidate members of an African-American church. Two co-conspirators, Bryan Carraway and a juvenile, had previously pled guilty to related charges. In April 2000, Crawford and his accomplices allegedly stole a cross from the church and burned it at a Klan induction ceremony. They then burned two other crosses on the church grounds.

January 4, 2001, Indiana. A federal judge in a civil case orders Ku Klux Klan leader Jeff Berry to pay $120,000 to two television news reporters who claimed he had held them hostage in November 1999 when they went to his home to interview him. The resolution of criminal charges related to the incident--including theft, conspiracy to commit intimidation, and conspiracy to commit robbery--is still pending.

January 5, 2001, Washington. Former Washington State Militia leader John Pitner receives a four-year sentence following a retrial and reconviction for conspiring in 1996 to make pipe bombs and other weapons; the sentence amounts to time served for Pitner, who has been in jail since his arrest in 1996. Another defendant, Tracy Lee Brown, is offered the same sentence but refuses to sign court papers that list his release conditions; as a result, his sentence is lengthened by six months.

January 8, 2001, Tennessee. Christopher Kuykendall receives a forty-month sentence after pleading guilty to conspiracy to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate members of an African-American church in Knoxville. According to the federal indictment, Kuykendall was a recruiter for the Confederate Hammerskins, a white power skinhead group.

January 10, 2001, Nevada. A Las Vegas jury sentences skinhead John Edward Butler to death for his involvement in the killing of two anti-racist skinheads in the desert outside Las Vegas in July 1998. Other people were believed by prosecutors to have been involved in the killings, but Butler is the only one to date to have been charged in the crime.

January 10, 2001, Utah. Anesthesiologist and tax protester Earl Sherod of Utah County is convicted on ten counts of failing to file accurate tax returns and willful tax evasion. According to state officials, Sherod had last filed a state tax return in 1990. Sherod claimed he was not subject to federal or state tax laws. This case is the latest in Utah’s ongoing effort to crack down on tax protesters in that state.

January 11, 2001, Colorado. Golden, Colorado, resident Paul Graham, owner of a military surplus store and former leader of a militia group known as the Colorado State Defense Force Reserve, is convicted on three charges related to selling over a hundred illegal explosive devices. Each device was about as powerful as a quarter-stick of dynamite, according to court documents. Graham is acquitted on one other related charge. He faces up to ten years in prison and a $250,000 fine on each count.

January 11, 2001, South Carolina. Bryan Alan Carraway of Sumter, South Carolina, receives a 37 month sentence following his guilty plea on a charge of conspiracy against civil rights. Carraway and an unnamed juvenile had allegedly been involved in a number of attacks against African-American churches, including the firebombing of an AME Church in April 2000. Police have said that the attacks, for which Carraway later apologized, were part of an initiation into a new Ku Klux Klan faction called the South Carolina Ghost Riders.

January 19, 2001, Michigan. Dan Benham, a "lieutenant colonel" with the Michigan Militia, is arrested in Grand Traverse County and charged with two counts of false identification and one count of resisting a police officer. Benham had been using an "International Drivers License;" such bogus ID cards are frequently used by anti-government extremists instead of valid drivers licenses.

January 19, 2001, California. Inmate Danny Black receives three life sentences in Los Angeles Superior Court for his role in the 1995 murder of a fellow prisoner by stabbing him 120 times. Two other inmates, Michael Beattie and Jason Schmaus, had already received life sentences for their role in the slaying. All three inmates are affiliated with either the Aryan Brotherhood or the Nazi Low Riders, two white supremacist prison gangs. A fourth defendant, who testified against the three, earlier received a 22 year sentence.

January 19, 2001, California. Donald Rudolph, former leader of the San Joaquin Militia, pleads guilty to withholding knowledge of a conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction in connection with a plot to destroy a propane storage facility near Elk Grove in 1999, as well as conspiring to kill U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge. Two other militia members, Kevin Ray Patterson and Charles Dennis Kiles, have also been charged and await trial. Rudolph is already serving a 30 month sentence for illegal possession of a machine gun.

January 22, 2001, California. Yorba Linda resident Jeffrey Stuart Martin receives a nearly five year federal prison sentence for a 1996 stabbing. Martin, allegedly a member of a white power gang called Insane White Boys, had used a knife to assault a black teenager walking home from work

January 22, 2001, Texas. Corydon Parsons receives a 37 month sentence following a plea deal in which he admitted to preventing a black family in Katy, Texas, from enjoying the right to be free from intimidation. Parsons and four others, some wearing Klan hoods, had burned a cross on the family’s yard on June 19, 2000, the Texas holiday known as "Juneteenth," which celebrates the date news of emancipation reached Texas following the Civil War. Three other participants already received lesser sentences; the alleged leader, Matthew Curtis Marshall, faces a minimum ten years in prison.

January 24, 2001, California. White supremacist Buford O. Furrow, Jr., pleads guilty to murdering a Filipino-American postal worker as well as to other counts related to his August 1999 shooting spree, which was primarily directed against a Los Angeles Jewish community center. Furrow will spend the rest of his life in prison without parole as part of the plea agreement.

January 30, 2001, California. Elk Grove resident Glayd Charles Allen is rebooked following his arrest the previous week on weapons charges. Sacramento County sheriff’s department investigators found seventy weapons in his home, including eight that are considered assault weapons. The charges against him now include suspicion of eight counts of possession of an assault weapon and 29 counts of possession of an explosive device. A sheriff’s department representative said Allen was a survivalist, but did not know if he was a member of any particular group.

January 31, 2001, Missouri. White supremacist preacher Gordon Winrod is found guilty by an Ozark County jury of kidnapping six grandchildren from their fathers’ custody in 1994 and 1995 and hiding them at his Ozarks residence for years. Winrod claimed that they had been molested by their fathers and that the trial was a "Jewish fiasco." The six counts of child abduction could result in a prison sentence of up to 30 years.