July 3, 2001, Texas. John Matthew Turnbow, a Wichita Falls-area resident, is sentenced to life in prison for the 1998 slaying of Zacchaeus Field simply because Field was black. A previous trial ended in a hung jury. Turnbow once signed a document in jail claiming affiliation with a white supremacist group, but later denied being a member. Another person charged in connection with the shooting, Roger Neal Bridges, awaits trial.

July 3, 2001, California. In Sacramento, a jury finds Joshua Mark Gilmore, member of a white power street gang as well as the World Church of the Creator, guilty of attempted murder for assaults on two people mistaken as members of a anti-racist skinhead group in 1997.

July 5, 2001, Ohio. Daniel Kincaid, leader of the Ohio chapter of the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations, is arrested by federal agents at his home outside Columbus on suspicion of possessing pipe bombs and illegally selling firearms, following the issue of a 14-count indictment.

July 6, 2001, Idaho. Sandpoint resident Vincent Bertollini, a multi-millionaire and founder of the white supremacist 11th Hour Remnant Messenger, becomes a fugitive by failing to show up for two hearings relating to a felony drunk driving charge. A judge issues a bench warrant for his arrest. Some authorities suspect he may be in Europe.

July 9, 2001, California. David Eugene Lampman pleads guilty to stalking an African-American bus driver with a group of Santa Clarita white supremacist skinheads. Under the plea deal, charges of possessing and detonating an explosive device and conspiracy to commit assault were dropped. Prosecutors agreed to drop the charges because Lampman had no prior record and was not the primary instigator in the incidents. He faces up to six months in prison and three years' probation. Lampman's arrest was part of a multi-month investigation into the activities of the Santa Clarita group, whose members committed a large number of bombings, arsons, and burglaries. Several other members, all juveniles, previously entered guilty pleas.

July 9, 2001, California. In Riverside, a judge sentences Lee Ryan Rose and Daniel Fernandez, Jr., to eighteen months in federal prison and three years of supervised release. Rose had earlier pleaded guilty to one count of civil rights conspiracy and one count of interference with housing rights, while Fernandez had pleaded guilty to one civil rights conspiracy charge. They had been arrested for torching vehicles in order to intimidate a black man in June and July 2000. The judge also orders 150 hours of community service for each defendant, restitution to the victim and reimbursement to the city for clean-up costs, and orders the defendants to avoid white supremacist groups and publications.

July 11, 2001, California. Police in Ventura County arrest four Ventura men for allegedly assaulting two people outside a coffee store in Port Hueneme in what is described as a racially motivated hate crime. Arrested are Joshua Brunkhurst, Michael Keaser, James Smiley, and Christopher Wallace. According to police, all four are members of a skinhead gang.

July 11, 2001, Louisiana. Lake Charles resident David Daniel Settlemyer pleads guilty to attempting to persuade a man to travel to Louisiana to have sex with a minor, as well as to sending child pornography by computer. With this and other charges, Settlemyer may face life in prison. Prosecutors claim that Settlemyer tried to convince someone he met on-line (who turned out to be an undercover FBI agent) to come to Louisiana to kidnap and rape three girls. Settlemyer had previously been convicted for kidnapping and attempted kidnapping. A California man, Chance Rearden, faces a number of charges related to an alleged attempt by Rearden to persuade Settlemyer to go to California to hunt, kidnap, rape, and kill children. Authorities claim that Rearden is an admitted neo-Nazi, Satanist, and white supremacist.

July 12, 2001, Indiana. Richard Loy, Indiana Grand Dragon for the National Church of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, is arrested in Osceola on a felony charge of intimidation for allegedly displaying a gun while making threatening remarks to a neighbor. Loy faces up to eight years in prison if convicted.

July 14, 2001, Oregon. In Medford, Oregon, two activists in the anti-government sovereign citizen movement receive sentences of three years in prison. Donald Harley Carter and Floyd Bradley Howe were convicted of conspiracy and multiple counts of passing fictitious financial instruments in an attempt to use bogus sight drafts to purchase a cabin and several Cadillacs. The bogus sight drafts are part of a popular sovereign citizen tactic called "redemption," which has resulted in arrests in a number of states.

July 16, 2001, Washington. A black man is assaulted in Clark County by a group of white men in what police believe is a racially motivated assault. Two teenagers who allegedly aided in the attack are arrested by police soon after, but the two principal suspects, self-proclaimed skinhead Brent W. Luyster and Roy J. Thompson, remain at large. Police say several of the assailants are white supremacist skinheads.

July 20, 2001, Pennsylvania. Washington, Pennsylvania, tax protester Larry Stuler, who has refused to pay taxes for the past seventeen years, is convicted on charges of willful failure to file income tax returns for the years 1994-1996. Stuler, also active in the sovereign citizen movement, claimed that he was a Pennsylvania citizen but not a citizen of the U.S., that the IRS was a foreign agency, that paper money was unconstitutional, and that income taxes were voluntary.

July 23, 2001, Ohio. Dayton police detonate a pipe bomb found near a West Carrollton apartment building. Police believe that the bomb was made by an Ohio Aryan Nations member who may have delivered a pipe bomb to Ohio Aryan Nations leader Daniel Kincaid, currently under arrest on related charges. Police do not name the suspect, but newspapers identify him on the basis of court papers as David A. Godfrey.

July 25, 2001, California. Lancaster County sheriff's deputies engage in a probation sweep that results in ten arrests, as well as the confiscation of a variety of weapons and white supremacist paraphernalia at one of the residences. At the search of the home of Matthew Gore, an alleged white supremacist gang member sought by police for probation violations, sheriff's deputies find a cache of weapons ranging from homemade swords and knives to a .22 caliber rifle, as well as a baseball bat carved with white supremacist logos. Gore is arrested on a no-bail probation violation warrant, suspicion of possession of a deadly weapon, and being a felon in possession of ammunition.

July 26, 2001, California. A gun battle takes place in an isolated mountain cabin in Butte County between two sheriff's deputies and the cabin's occupant, Richard Gerald Bracklow. The deputies were responding to a call from a neighbor who said that Bracklow had threatened him. What happened at the cabin remains unclear. Police who show up at the cabin forty five minutes later after failing to contact the deputies discover all three individuals dead. Bracklow was described by neighbors as a heavily armed survivalist who often carried weapons in public and dressed in camouflage clothing. Bracklow's father said he had been diagnosed two years earlier as a manic-depressive.

July 31, 2001, Pennsylvania, New York. An African-American couple in Pemberton Township are assaulted in their house by two men wielding baseball bats, who also held a white neighbor at gunpoint. Arrested following the attack are Brian Nielson of Pemberton and Henry Baird of Sidney, New York. Police say that they found Confederate flags and white power music compact discs in Nielsen's car and home and that both suspects have racist tattoos. They are charged with aggravated assault, bias assault, unlawful weapons possession, burglary, and making terroristic threats. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Baird became a white supremacist skinhead while in prison.