October 1, 2001, Wisconsin. Thomas Iverson of Beloit, Wisconsin, is charged with making a bomb threat and using a phone for harassment, as hate crimes, in connection with phone threats allegedly made to a convenience store owner of Jordanian descent. Iverson reportedly identified himself as a member of the Wisconsin Militia, said that he knew where the victim and his family lived, and threatened to burn down their house and store and kill them if they did not leave town within 24 hours. Iverson also allegedly called 911 and said that the Wisconsin Militia was going to blow up the store. Iverson, who denies making the calls, is also charged with two misdemeanor counts of bail jumping. He will also face a federal charge of making threats to intimidate a person with fire or an explosive.

October 1, 2001, Indiana. Jeff Berry, leader of the Church of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, pleads guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit criminal confinement with a deadly weapon in a deal with prosecutors. Three other charges are dropped. The charges stem from a 1999 incident involving local television reporters who claimed that Berry held them hostage in his home until they surrendered the videotape of an interview they had done with him. The two reporters previously won a $120,000 civil judgment against Berry in connection with the incident.

October 3, 2001, California. Frazier Park resident Paul A. Jenkins receives a conviction on state charges of tax evasion. Jenkins and his wife (who herself was convicted of a misdemeanor count of failing to file a tax return) reportedly owed the state more than $11,000 in taxes. Jenkins used tax protest arguments in his trial to suggest that his job activities were not "revenue taxable." He faces up to two years in state prison.

October 3, 2001, California. Alan Thomas Yantis of Temecula pleads guilty to assault with a deadly weapon and a hate crime for his role in a 1999 attack on a black man. He is sentenced to 10 years in prison. Yantis had been charged with attempted murder. Three other defendants in the case still face trial, while three more-Daniel Glen Butler, Gregory Allen McDaniel, and Jason Mac McCully-previously pleaded guilty and received four year sentences. The defendants were members of a racist skinhead group.

October 4, 2001, Missouri. Joseph Callen, who according to newspaper reports was a recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan, receives a sentence of four years in prison following a conviction of felony criminal trespass as a hate crime. Callen had been arrested for repeatedly harassing the African-American manager of a blood bank in St. Joseph. Callen told reporters that he was "guilty of being politically incorrect."

October 4, 2001, Illinois. Local and federal law enforcement officers seize a cache of weapons from a group of Pike County survivalists who call themselves the United Survivalists of America. Authorities say the group had amassed an arsenal of weapons, pipe bombs and other explosives, and more than 12,000 rounds of ammunition. The only person arrested is group leader Thomas Wanick of Jerseyville, charged with unlawful use of a weapon.

October 4, 2001, New York. Holbrook resident and alleged white supremacist Christopher Slavin receives a 25-year prison sentence after being convicted on two attempted murder charges for his role in an assault on two Mexican day laborers on Long Island in September 2000. A second defendant, Ryan Wagner, still awaits trial.

October 6, 2001, Nevada, Missouri. Nevada residents William Ronald Clark and Melissa Hack are arrested near Kansas City, Missouri, following a half-hour police chase. The two are wanted by Nevada police as suspects in a shooting incident a few days earlier that disabled a police car pursuing a stolen vehicle. Clark was just released from parole in September on charges that included assault with a deadly weapon. Hack, a skinhead, is the former girlfriend of John Butler, a racist skinhead convicted of the murder of two anti-racist skinheads in July 1998.

October 10, 2001, West Virginia. South Carolina resident Steven Moore is killed in a gun battle with a West Virginia state trooper in the New River Gorge National River park. Moore had been stopped by the trooper under suspicion of driving while intoxicated and placed into a police cruiser, but he fled the cruiser, drew a weapon, and opened fire at the trooper. Moore then tried to flee in his vehicle, but was shot and killed. According to the National Park Service, a follow-up investigation revealed that Moore was a member of Aryan Nations.

October 15, 2001, Kentucky. Militia member and Christian Identity adherent Steve Anderson of Somerset, Kentucky, is charged with criminal attempt to kill a police officer following a traffic stop. Anderson, who operated a pirate shortwave radio station through which he repeatedly threatened violence against police officers, was pulled over by a deputy sheriff in rural eastern Kentucky for a broken tail light. Anderson allegedly opened fire on the deputy and his vehicle with an AK-47, leaving at least 25 bullet holes in the cruiser. Anderson then fled the scene and eluded pursuit, becoming a fugitive. Police later find two pipe bombs in his truck and more weapons and explosives at his home.

October 15, 2001, Michigan, Arizona. Tax protest guru Barrie Konicov of Arizona is sentenced in Grand Rapids to seven years and three months in prison, and ordered to pay back taxes on $2.9 million in income, following convictions for tax fraud and conspiracy in federal court.

October 22, 2001, North Carolina. Wilmington residents Clyde and Debra LaRue receive prison sentences of 24 and 18 months, respectively, and are ordered to pay $1.7 million in restitution to various investors they defrauded from 1994-1996 in an investment scam. The two each pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud and one count of tax evasion each; the LaRues were tax protesters who did not file tax returns for much of the early to mid 1990s; Clyde La Rue claimed that he was a citizen of North Carolina, not the United States. A third participant, Sheridan Ruggles, previously pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return and was sentenced to three years' probation and six months' home confinement.

October 23, 2001, California. Richard Shane Hampton pleads no contest to battery on a peace officer in connection with the stabbing of a prison guard in July. Hampton, a member of a white supremacist gang who was in the California Youth Authority at the time, reportedly committed the assault with an accomplice because they wanted to go to prison. Hampton receives a nine year sentence for the attack.