Summary

THE LEADER OF A BLACK RELIGIOUS SECT ONCE HAILED AS THE SAVIOR OF BLIGHTED NEIGHBORHOODS FACES TRIAL ON CHARGES HE USED MURDER, FIRE BOMBINGS AND EXTORTION TO BUILD A BUSINESS EMPIRE YAHWEH BEN YAHWEH, WHO WAS BORN HULON MITCHELL JR, IS ACCUSED OF DISPATCHING DEATH ANGELS TO KILL DEFECTORS AND RESIDENTS WHO RESISTED THE GROUP'S EFFORTS TO TAKE OVER NEIGHBORHOODS ALSO AMONG THE 15 VICTIMS WERE SEVEN ``WHITE DEVILS'' WHO WERE SLAIN TO GAIN ENTRY INTO THE MIAMI SECT'S INNER CIRCLE, PROSECUTORS ALLEGED SOME VICTIMS WERE DECAPITATED OTHERS' EARS WERE CUT OFF AND TAKEN TO YAHWEH AS PROOF THEY HAD BEEN KILLED, PROSECUTORS SAID PROSECUTORS AND LAWYERS FOR YAHWEH AND 15 OF HIS FOLLOWERS JOINED THE JUDGE FOR A CLOSED-DOOR SESSION TODAY BEFORE THE START OF JURY SELECTION IN THE RACKETEERING TRIAL

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 99984
Story Slug YAHWEH TRIAL (1992)
Location FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA
Format VO/SOT
Date 01/02/1992
Archive Time 55:07
TRT 2:02
Supers ALCEE HASTINGS, YAHWEH'S LAWYER
Video Description FILE OF YAHWEH WALKING, HANDCUFFED (FIRST 1:08); SOT; PEOPLE ARRIVING FOR TRIAL
Description THE LEADER OF A BLACK RELIGIOUS SECT ONCE HAILED AS THE SAVIOR OF BLIGHTED NEIGHBORHOODS FACES TRIAL ON CHARGES HE USED MURDER, FIRE BOMBINGS AND EXTORTION TO BUILD A BUSINESS EMPIRE YAHWEH BEN YAHWEH, WHO WAS BORN HULON MITCHELL JR, IS ACCUSED OF DISPATCHING DEATH ANGELS TO KILL DEFECTORS AND RESIDENTS WHO RESISTED THE GROUP'S EFFORTS TO TAKE OVER NEIGHBORHOODS ALSO AMONG THE 15 VICTIMS WERE SEVEN ``WHITE DEVILS'' WHO WERE SLAIN TO GAIN ENTRY INTO THE MIAMI SECT'S INNER CIRCLE, PROSECUTORS ALLEGED SOME VICTIMS WERE DECAPITATED OTHERS' EARS WERE CUT OFF AND TAKEN TO YAHWEH AS PROOF THEY HAD BEEN KILLED, PROSECUTORS SAID PROSECUTORS AND LAWYERS FOR YAHWEH AND 15 OF HIS FOLLOWERS JOINED THE JUDGE FOR A CLOSED-DOOR SESSION TODAY BEFORE THE START OF JURY SELECTION IN THE RACKETEERING TRIAL
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