White supremacists sentenced for N.J. hate attacks

Two members of a New Jersey white supremacist gang -- who attacked several men of Egyptian descent and then boasted about the assault on a social media website – were sentenced today after being found guilty on hate crime charges.

Michal Gunar, 29, a member of the Aryan Terror Brigade, admitted to his role in the beating in April when he pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with conspiracy to commit a hate crime assault, as well as the actual commission of a hate crime assault. In U.S. District court today, Judge Joel A. Pisano sentenced Gunar to 33 months in federal prison.

Kyle Powell, 24, of West Collingswood, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit a hate crime assault. Judge Pisano sentenced Powell to 15 months.

According to court documents, Gunar attended a New Year's Eve "meet and greet"  for white supremacists at the home of Christopher Ising, 31, in East Brunswick on Dec. 31, 2011. Pumped up on alcohol and white supremacist music, Gunar, Powell, Ising, and up to five others drove to a Sayreville apartment complex to "hunt down some sand n------," Gunar later wrote.

The skinheads found their prey in a parking lot. Ising, carrying brass knuckles, and Gunar, brandishing a knife, pulled a man identified as M.H. out of a car. When the victim's friend, R.M., rushed to his aid, the skinheads attacked him while shouting anti-Arab slurs, prosecutors said.

The white supremacists fled to Ising's home after the beatings. Gunar posted a picture of a bloodied pair of pants to a social media site and, about a week later, he trumpeted his involvement with the beating on that same website, according to the indictment.

" ...(W)e went to hunt down some sand n------, it was me and my other bro on like 6 or eight and we whooped them..." Gunar wrote.

Ising, a purported member of a white supremacist group known as the "Atlantic City Skins," pleaded guilty to hate crime charges and will be sentenced on Aug. 9.