Mount Pleasant man pleads guilty to charge related to Aryan Brotherhood killing

Brian Thomas Green

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced May 10 that Brian Thomas Green, 44, of Mount Pleasant, plead guilty to Use And Carry Of A Firearm During And In Relation To A Crime Of Violence, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 924(c)(1)(A), 924(j)(1) and 2; punishable by any term of years up to life imprisonment, and up to a $250,000.00 fine or both.

The Information alleged that on or about the 13th day of July, 2011, in the Eastern District of Oklahoma and elsewhere, Green did knowingly carry and use a firearm, that is, a small caliber revolver of unknown manufacture and serial number, during and in relation to a crime of violence for which he may be prosecuted in a court of the United States, that is, Violent Crime in Aid of Racketeering – Murder.

Green is the last of three members of the white supremacist prison gang, the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, to plead guilty to charges related to their involvement in a fatal shooting of one of their own.

The three Texans were accused of beating their fellow gang member, driving him across the Red River and fatally shooting him in rural southern Oklahoma. Two other men, Kalvin Kyle McCown and Travis Lee Hill, have previously pleaded guilty to kidnapping.

The beating and deadly assault that Ayres endured in July 2011, according to federal court documents, was the result of stealing from his fellow gang members.

"Green admits the kidnapping and shooting were necessary to maintain discipline within the gang," the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, which assisted with the case, said in a news release.

The charges arose from a joint investigation by the Homeland Security Investigations Operation Community Shield Gang Task Force, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, Longview Police Department, Texas Department of Public Safety, Carrollton Texas Police Department, McCurtain County Sheriff’s Office, Panola County Texas Sheriff’s Office, United States Bureau of Prisons, and the Texas Rangers.

The Honorable Kimberly E. West, U.S. Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, in Muskogee, accepted the plea and ordered the completion of a presentence investigation report.

Assistant United States Attorney Rob Wallace represented the United States.