{"id":481006,"date":"2026-10-01T00:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T00:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/481006\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T00:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T00:12:14","slug":"2-charged-1-pleads-guilty-in-oceanside-hate-crime-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/481006\/","title":{"rendered":"2 charged, 1 pleads guilty in Oceanside hate-crime attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal prosecutors in San Diego unsealed hate-crime charges Wednesday against three men who allegedly carried out a series of racially motivated attacks against random victims one night last year near the Oceanside Pier in which they allegedly called themselves \u201cskinheads,\u201d shouted racial slurs and seriously injured three victims, including two Camp Pendleton Marine Corps officers.<\/p>\n<p>Johnny Lee Lane, 23, pleaded guilty Wednesday morning in San Diego federal court to three counts of aiding and abetting hate crimes causing bodily injury.<\/p>\n<p>Austin Yohe, 23, and Daniel Burns, 30, who are accused of being members of a White supremacist gang, are facing an indictment charging them with hate crimes causing bodily injury and obstruction of justice.<\/p>\n<p>Yohe was arrested Tuesday in Riverside and appeared Wednesday afternoon in San Diego federal court for an initial appearance. A judge will decide Friday whether he should be held in custody without bail, as prosecutors requested. Burns was arrested in Alabama and made an initial appearance in federal court in that state, records showed.<\/p>\n<p>The series of attacks, first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/07\/03\/fbi-warrant-details-alleged-racial-hate-crime-attacks-at-oceanside-pier-involving-skinheads-marines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reported byThe San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a> in July, occurred the evening of June 7, 2025. According to a previously unsealed FBI warrant, Yohe, Lane and Burns allegedly assaulted a 21-year-old Black and Asian-American man near a beach bathroom, allegedly slamming his head into a concrete wall multiple times. The victim was later hospitalized and diagnosed with a concussion, among other injuries.<\/p>\n<p>A short time later at the Oceanside Pier Amphitheater, the same three men allegedly shouted racial slurs while attacking two Marines \u2014 one was Black, the other White \u2014 who were off duty and enjoying a night out, according to the warrant. The Marines allegedly fought back, with one of them slamming Lane to the ground and knocking him unconscious.<\/p>\n<p>Both Marines later sought medical treatment at a hospital on Camp Pendleton, where doctors reportedly diagnosed one with a concussion and multiple facial fractures, according to the warrant.<\/p>\n<p>The cases unsealed Wednesday were the result of a lengthy investigation that first became public in July, more than a year after the attacks, when the FBI search warrant was unsealed in federal court.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI agent who sought the warrant asserted in an affidavit that all three attackers held racist and White supremacist beliefs that went beyond the attacks and racial slurs that night in Oceanside.<\/p>\n<p>Matching allegations made in the search warrant, the indictment unsealed Wednesday alleged Yohe and Burns are members of a White supremacist street gang in Hemet, in Riverside County.<\/p>\n<p>According to the FBI search warrant, both Yohe and Burns also allegedly used passwords, social media accounts and email addresses containing the numbers 1488 \u2014 a common White supremacist code. The number 14 represents a 14-word racist phrase about securing the future for White children, and 88 denotes \u201cHeil Hitler,\u201d as H is the eighth letter of the alphabet. Burns also has the word \u201cskinhead\u201d tattooed on his forearm, according to the FBI warrant, which includes a photograph of the tattoo, and the indictment.<\/p>\n<p>Lane allegedly posted a video of himself on social media doing a Nazi salute and shouting \u201cHeil Hitler,\u201d according to the FBI warrant.<\/p>\n<p>In his plea agreement, Lane admitted that he stomped and kicked one of the victims while yelling a racial slur at him. He also admitted that he, Yohe and Burns attacked the man because they believed he was Black.<\/p>\n<p>Lane also admitted that he, Yohe and Burns attacked the two Marine Corps officers because one of them was Black.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story that will be updated with additional details.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal prosecutors in San Diego unsealed hate-crime charges Wednesday against three men who allegedly carried out a series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1312,181,23,100,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-481006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-courts","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}