September 4, 2001, Missouri. St. Joseph resident and Ku Klux Klan member Joseph M. Callen is convicted of a felony hate crime for trespassing at a plasma center in St. Joseph that is managed by an African-American woman. Callen faces up to five years in prison.

September 4, 2001, California. Federal indictments unsealed in San Francisco charge eight alleged members of the Aryan Brotherhood with a variety of crimes, including charges relating to the 1995 murder of a Sonoma County sheriff's deputy. Robert Scully and Brenda Moore, already sentenced to death and 14 years respectively for their involvement in that murder, face new charges. The indictments claim that Moore and Scully were committing robberies on orders from prisoner Paul Schneider when they killed the deputy and charge Moore with murder and ten other federal crimes. Schneider faces 13 counts, including murder, attempted murder, and conspiracy to commit murder. The others-James Pendleton, Reuben Pappan, Phillip Fortman, John Harper, Robert Shields, and Mark Glass-are charged with various racketeering, conspiracy, robbery, attempted murder, and drug charges. According to authorities, the investigation that resulted in these indictments predated the highly-publicized attack by two dogs owned by Schneider on a San Francisco woman.

September 6, 2001, Indiana. Indiana militia member Michael Smoot of Cloverdale is arrested to face charges of attempted murder for his alleged involvement in a plot to kill another militia member. Smoot is the fourth member of the 14th Regiment, Indiana State Militia, to be arrested in connection with this incident. Previously arrested were Gary Mayo, Fred Keuthan, and Dallas Fultz.

September 6, 2001, Pennsylvania. In Pittsburgh, a judge hands down five consecutive death sentences and 112 ½ to 225 years in prison to white supremacist Richard Baumhammers for his April 2000 mass murder spree in which he killed five people and paralyzed a sixth, all member of racial, ethnic, or religious minorities. In a statement read at the sentencing, Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey A. Manning said that "this case is more grotesque, vicious and frightening than any case over which I have presided or ever expect to."

September 6, 2001, West Virginia. In Bluefield, West Virginia, a jury convicts sovereign citizen Rodney Eugene Smith on fifteen counts of weapons violations, bankruptcy fraud, and other charges. Smith, an advocate of the "redemption" tactic, which advocates creating fictitious financial instruments called "sight drafts" and using IRS forms to harass public officials, engaged in both of those activities. Smith served as his own attorney, claiming that the United States could not be a sovereign nation if it did business with paper money.

September 7, 2001, California. Benjamin and James Williams, brothers and white supremacists, plead guilty to federal charges relating to arsons of three Sacramento synagogues and an abortion clinic in 1999. They face sentences of 30 and 20 years respectively; they also still face state murder charges in the killings of two gay men, also in 1999.

September 9, 2001, California. Sacramento resident Joseph Ferguson embarks on a brutal shooting spree, killing five people and wounding a police officer before finally taking his own life. Ferguson begins the spree by showing up at an equipment yard and killing two security guards-most of the victims were associated with the security company for which he formerly worked. According to newspaper reports, a police search of Ferguson's residence reveals a number of guns, a wide range of white supremacist literature, and an underground bunker.

September 12, 2001, Georgia. Lumpkin County Sheriff's Department officials arrest Karl Joseph Green and Jason McGhee for allegedly firing off guns while shouting racist chants in front of a school bus full of students and charge them with firing weapons in a public area and other offenses. Police searching Green's home discover a plethora of literature and recruitment material for the neo-Nazi National Alliance.

September 13, 2001, California. Merced resident Greg Claunch receives a 20-year sentence for a racially motivated knife assault against an African-American man in March. Claunch, a self-admitted member of the white supremacist Nazi Low Riders gang, allegedly told police that he did not like blacks and had committed the stabbing because he had been "disrespected."

September 15, 2001, Indiana. Three Bloomington residents are arrested and charged with a felony hate crime for allegedly starting a racially motivated fight with local university students. Arrested are Eric Binion, Tony Cole, and Adam Carver. They are also charged with aggravated battery, mob action, and resisting and obstructing police officers. According to police, Binion claimed that he was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and threatened to have his Klan friends target police officers.

September 18, 2001, California. Lancaster County sheriff's deputies arrest three people during a sweep aimed at parolees and probationers who are alleged members of white supremacist gangs. The arrests are for parole violations.

September 19, 2001, Massachusetts, New Jersey. A federal grand jury in Boston, Massachusetts, returns a superseding indictment against white supremacist Leo Felton, charging him with bank robbery and conspiracy to rob an armored car in order to finance a white supremacist underground cell. Felton and a co-defendant, Erica Chase, already face charges that include conspiring to make a destructive device to blow up Jewish- or black-related property to ignite a race war. According to the indictment, Felton and others were attempting to emulate "The Order," a white supremacist terrorist group that committed robberies and murders in the early 1980s. Meanwhile, in federal court in New Jersey, Thomas Struss, an associate of Felton's, pleads guilty to related charges.

September 19, 2001, Idaho, Utah. Mike Powell of Logan, Utah, is convicted on seven counts of assisting in the preparation of false tax returns. Powell, an accountant, was allegedly assisting Idaho sovereign citizen activist and tax protester Gary DeMott to prepare false tax returns for members of DeMott's group. DeMott, convicted earlier this year, is serving nine years in prison for the scheme. Powell faces up to 26 years in prison.

September 21, 2001, Oregon. Hillsboro resident Thomas Colvin, 18, is sentenced to five months in jail and 200 hours of community service following a guilty plea for threatening a teacher and defacing area schools and parks with white supremacist graffiti. Colvin pleads guilty to one count of first-degree intimidation for writing death threats on the classroom door of an elementary school teacher with an Asian surname, as well as two counts of second-degree criminal mischief. Police believe Colvin organized a local white supremacist group called "White Pride."

September 28, 2001, Indiana. Railton Loy, a Mishawaka resident and local Ku Klux Klan "Imperial Wizard," is convicted on a misdemeanor charge of phone harassment for leaving a threatening message on the voice-mail of a reporter for the South Bend Tribune that said "I sure wanna find out where you live." He faces up to six months in jail and a $5,000 fine.

September 29, 2001, Nevada. Two Reno residents, alleged skinheads, are arrested for the beating and robbery of a man two weeks earlier in what police call a suspected hate crime. Arrested are Chris Amador and Eddie Rourke. Police say that Amador allegedly confronted the victim two days before the attack, telling the victim that he was "messing up the white race" because the victim had a child with a Hispanic woman. The two are booked for investigation of armed robbery and battery with a hate crime enhancement.