June 4, 2001, Ohio. Two Cleveland-area sovereign citizen activists, Richard Lewis and Joan Bowman, are sentenced to ten years in prison after receiving convictions on felony intimidation charges in May. The two were practitioners of the "redemption" scheme, a tactic used by anti-government activists to print bogus "sight drafts," who had attempted to harass public officials and law enforcement officers involved in their previous arrest and trial for having attempted to use a redemption sight draft to purchase eight Cadillacs in 1999.

June 4, 2001, Illinois. Eric Hanson shoots two Illinois state troopers outside a grocery store in Lindenhurst before being fatally shot himself after a 14-hour standoff. Hanson, previously convicted of a hate crime in 1999, as well as illegal weapons possession, was a heavily tattooed white supremacist active in the neo-Nazi National Alliance. The shootout began when officers went to Hanson's home to arrest him on a misdemeanor gun charge (his gun permit had expired); a chase ensued when Hanson fled via car to the grocery store.

June 5, 2001, New York. Self-proclaimed white supremacist and Aryan Nations member Peter Chaliff pleads guilty in Queens to criminal possession of a weapon. He had originally been charged with murder in the death of a delicatessen employee in 1993. Chaliff faces 7 to 14 years in state prison. An investigation into the killing continues.

June 6, 2001, Florida, Pennsylvania. Two members of the Tampa-based Greater Ministries International, an organization run by anti-government extremists that operated an enormous multimillion dollar pyramid scheme, receive prison sentences for their roles in the scheme. James R. Chambers, who pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, receives a five year sentence in federal prison, while Andrew John Krishak, a Pennsylvanian who pleaded guilty to the same charge, receives a 30-month sentence.

June 6, 2001, California. Two Santa Clarita teenagers plead guilty to charges related to a series of firebombings and burglaries for which they and several other teens were arrested (see above, May 16). Because they are minors, their names have not been released. One of the teens admitted to possessing a destructive device and burglary and was sentenced to an indeterminate period at juvenile camp, while the other admitted to making a terrorist threat and was sentenced to home probation.

June 8, 2001, California. A Santa Clarita teenager pleads guilty to stalking, participating in a hate crime and making terrorist threats, in connection with a series of firebombings and other crimes in Santa Clarita (see above). He is sentenced to a boot camp term of six months to one year.

June 11, 2001, Indiana, Oklahoma. Timothy McVeigh, convicted in the April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City Murrah Federal Building bombing that killed 168 people, is executed by lethal injection at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. He is the first federal prisoner executed in 38 years.

June 11, 2001, California. San Diego white supremacist Alex Curtis, known for his Nationalist Observer newsletter and Internet mailing list, as well as for his advocacy of violent "lone wolf" tactics, receives a three-year prison sentence following a plea agreement in which he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate civil rights. Curtis had engaged in a campaign of harassment against several area civil rights activists and public officials. An accomplice, Michael Brian DaSilva, pleaded guilty in May to one count of conspiracy to violate civil rights.

June 12, 2001, California. Two Santa Clarita men, Kevin Mitchell Conroy and David Wayne Haisten, are arrested on charges of terrorist threats and stalking for allegedly threatening an African-American restaurant manager. The arrests are part of a long investigation by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department into a group of white supremacist skinheads accused of multiple bombings, arsons, and burglaries. According to police, Conroy and Haisten are friends of six Santa Clarita youths arrested in May (see above, June 6, 8).

June 13, 2001, Texas. Police in Forth Worth seize "volumes and volumes" of militia and anti-government literature, a number of assault weapons, bomb-making materials, and more than 9,000 rounds of ammunition from a storage unit and motel room rented by Fort Worth resident Michael Joseph Toth. Toth faces charges of possession of explosive components and possession of a prohibited weapon. Toth had been arrested on June 7 after allegedly pointing an assault rifle at the head of a man outside a pool hall. According to police, Toth had enough materials to produce 700 to 1,200 pounds of explosives.

June 17, 2001, Missouri. At a Denny's restaurant in Springfield, Missouri, a group of white men attack and stab a black man eating at the restaurant with his white girlfriend and another interracial couple. Witnesses at the restaurant say some in the group had swastika tattoos and Aryan Nations t-shirts. The Justice Department opens an investigation as a possible hate crime, but has no initial suspects.

June 20, 2001, Massachusetts. A federal grand jury indicts white supremacists Leo Felton and Erica Chase on a variety of charges related to an alleged plan to blow up Jewish or African-American property in order to ignite a race war. The two are charged with conspiring to make a destructive device, firearms violations, making and passing counterfeit currency, and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Felton is also charged with attempting to receive explosive materials and being a convicted felon in possession of firearms. Felton was a member of the white supremacist group White Order of Thule. He faces up to 65 years in prison, while Chase faces up to 35 years.

June 20, 2001, Texas. Ku Klux Klan leader James Roesch of Woodville, Texas, is arrested by local law enforcement officers on charges of indecency with a minor. Roesch, the Imperial Wizard of the Knights of the White Kamelia, moved to the area-home to Jasper, scene of the 1998 dragging death of James Byrd, Jr.-in 1998 from Ohio.

June 28, 2001, New York. Aryan Nations member Peter Chaliff is sentenced to seven to 14 years in state prison on gun possession charges in Queens following a plea deal earlier this month (see above, June 5). Chaliff said he should be considered a military prisoner and judged by a military court.