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Sheriff Couldnâ??t Quit Aryan Inmate

I'm not posting this for racist reasons or anything but this is kinda crazy and it's about my hometown of Warsaw, IN and longtime sheriff..

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Canâ??t Make This Up03.02.16 12:01 AM ET
Sheriff Couldnâ??t Quit Aryan Inmate
An Indiana sheriff has been indicted in a convoluted bribery case involving a former white supremacist inmate who dreamed of Hollywood fame.

An Indiana sheriff, a theology professor and a former white supremacist have been indicted in a twisted bribery case that smacks of a made-for-TV movie script. But how the bizarre trifecta allegedly teamed up is still a mystery.

The criminal charges, filed Monday in Kosciusko County, center around Kevin Lee Bronson, an ex-Aryan Brotherhood member jailed on drug and gang charges, and who now stands accused of bribery and intimidation in his quest to launch a Hollywood film about his life.

Prosecutors claim Bronson threatened the lives of a dentist, a Los Angeles attorney, his pastor, and fellow churchgoers in Warsaw, Indiana, so that they'd invest in his movie-making outfit, Young Dragon Enterprises.

A grand jury also handed down 10 felony charges against Kosciusko County Sheriff C. Aaron Rovenstine that include bribery, intimidation and official misconduct relating to Bronsonâ??s alleged treatment at the county jail.

Meanwhile, jurors charged Bronson and Mark H. Soto, the felonâ??s mentor and a Grace College theology professor, with corrupt business influence and intimidation.

According to the indictment, Sheriff Rovenstine accepted at least $30,000 to grant â??special privilegesâ? to Bronson during his stay at Kosciusko County jail â?? and to Soto, who visited him. The sheriff allowed unrecorded phone calls and unsupervised visits between Bronson and Soto, court papers state.

Rovenstine permitted the unrecorded calls and visits â??with the intent to hinder the punishment of Kevin Bronson,â? prosecutors charge in court filings.

But Rovenstine allegedly took it a step further. Authorities say he threatened a Warsaw police officer who probed inmate Bronsonâ??s conduct inside the jail.

James Voyles, an attorney for the sheriff, declined to comment.

Still, Rovenstine was familiar with the ex-Aryan Brother turned karate fighter for 20 years, according to a local newspaper story about Bronson's redemption from a life of drug abuse and previous stint in prison.

â??I met him in 1996, and Iâ??ve spent some time with him off and on,â? Rovenstine, then a deputy, told the Warsaw Times-Union in 2009. â??Iâ??ve gotten to know him as a unique individual. Heâ??s strong-willed, but not as bull-headed and as stubborn as he was when I first met him.â?

Bronson has been incarcerated since January 2015, after he was charged with dealing in a narcotic drug, possession of cocaine, criminal gang activity and being a habitual offender. He entered a guilty plea last month.

According to Ink Free News, an unnamed woman called police on Bronson and reported her husband was being held against his will and forced to chauffeur Bronson to South Bend in order to purchase illegal drugs.

Officers stopped the vehicle, and the driver said he withdrew $240 from his debit card to help Bronson pay off a debt. Cops searching Bronson found a green pill container filled with plastic bags holding a white powdery substance, which later tested positive for cocaine, Ink Free News reported.

During the police stop, Bronson allegedly told cops he was â??in the top seven in control of the Aryan Brotherhood,â? Ink Free News reported. He also reportedly told authorities his stepson was in trouble with the Brotherhood, and that he was buying coke so the stepson could use it to pay off a debt with the gang.
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The charges came not long after Bronson touted his new life as a married, born-again Christian and karate instructor and bragged on Facebook about potential Hollywood biopics.

But the latest slew of charges against him are even more shocking, detailing a pattern of alleged threats and bullying of anyone who refused to help him reach his Hollywood goals.

He allegedly turned on the church that supported him, as well as on the attorney he tooled around with during a 2012 visit to Los Angeles. He went as far as browbeating a local dentist to perform work for free, prosecutors say.

Bronson, with the help of Soto, threatened to harm the family of Bronsonâ??s pastor at Christâ??s Covenant Church because the churchman had asked â??for contact information on [his] superior in the Aryan Brotherhood," according to court documents.

Authorities say the pastor was forced to collect payments totaling $84,012 from an insurance executive who attended the church â?? money â??intended to preventâ? the â??beating or killingâ? of the pastor and his family, court papers state.

Bronson also allegedly threatened to beat or kill a Los Angeles area attorney, David Baker, whom he ordered to work for free in order to secure paperwork for movie and book contracts. (Baker is listed as the contact for Young Dragon Enterprises on corporation records.)

Bronsonâ??s lawyer did not return messages left by The Daily Beast, and Christâ??s Covenant Church declined to comment.

The former gang memberâ??s life story was previously recounted in local media profiles and in a 2013 interview posted on YouTube.

â??I met a pastor, who began as a fitness client of mine,â? Bronson told the Times-Union in 2009. â??We started to talk about God, and after about two months, I saw I needed Him.â?

At the time, Bronson told the newspaper he was part owner of 24-Hour Natalius Spa in Arizona and was cuffed by the feds for alleged money laundering. The Daily Beast could not confirm these charges or his reported incarceration in the late 1980s.

Bronson echoed these claims in an 2013 interview posted on YouTube. He said he opened a chain of health clubs across the United States and that his business partner was â??the son of a mafia crime boss.â?

â??Five families laundered money through my health clubs, and the United States government â??the FBI and the IRSâ??caught it, so they indicted me and convicted me for theft of funds under the RICO act,â? Bronson said, â??so I lost about $10.6 million in cash and assets.â?

â??But you canâ??t tell on mafia bosses and survive â?¦ because of that they sent me to an extremely terrible place,â? he added.....

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Bronson said a gang approached him on his first day in prison and demanded he sit at their lunch table. â??That was 9 a.m.,â? he recalled in the video. â??At 11:30 a.m. ... a man was gutted and his intestines was put on my tray and exploded over my body.â?

By the end of his fifth day, he said, he watched a man get murdered. Gang members asked him, â??Do you want to ride alone or do you want to ride with us?â? He said, â??There was no way to survive, and so I joined.â?

In the video, Bronson claimed he rose to national leadership within the Aryan Brotherhood and was a member for 20 years. He claimed he faced a murder charge but â??got off on a technicality.â?

In 2007, he wanted to become sober and wanted out of the Brotherhood, he said, and he told gang leaders, â??Either take my life or give it back to me.â? Within three years, he found salvation.

At the end of the interview, Bronson plugged his future fame, saying he had â??three possible movies, one for-sure movie, a cable series and two possible book projects based on the details and facts of my life.â?

None of those works has been published.

David Kolbe, an attorney for Soto, said his 61-year-old theology professor client has advised people inside prison for years.

â??At some point in years past, Dr. Soto became familiar with Kevin Bronson while he was incarcerated,â? Kolbe told The Daily Beast. â??Dr. Soto was a mentor and spiritual adviser.â?

When asked if Bronson manipulated Soto, Kolbe would only say, â??Dr. Soto always had the best of intentions. Iâ??m not sure that was true of Mr. Bronson.â?

â??Thereâ??s a lot more to this story â?¦ that is going to come out and Iâ??m encouraging everybody in this environment to reserve judgment,â? Kolbe added.

In September 2015, Soto and his wife filed a tort claim against the Warsaw Police Department seeking $4 million in damages following a raid on his home and his Grace College office by police. (Kolbe told The Daily Beast the claim is on hold as Soto deals with the criminal case.)

In his tort claim, Soto said he was a professor at Grace College for nearly two decades before he began counseling Bronson. He later became Bronsonâ??s power of attorney and coordinated his legal, medical and social services, all while remaining his Christian mentor, Ink Free News reported.

Soto indicated that because of this, heâ??d â??become the target of a vindictive and unfounded investigationâ? by the police and suffered â??irreparable harmâ? to his reputation. He said his career was also hindered because student records were on a computer seized by cops, WSBT reported.

The tort filing says Bronson sought to make a film about his criminal past and ties to the Aryan Brotherhood, â??development of martial arts expertiseâ? and conversion to evangelical Christianity, according to WSBT.

Bronson had a â??falling outâ? with churchgoers who invested in his flick, and cops were called to investigate â??alleged concerns expressed by investors and various members of Christ's Covenant Church and the community,â? the TV station reported.

Itâ??s unclear what led the flock to alert police. The tort filing claims Warsaw cop Paul Heatonâ??the officer Sheriff Rovenstine is accused of intimidatingâ??led the investigation. He was also identified as a fellow congregant at Christâ??s Covenant Church.

In March 2015, Heaton had allegedly contacted Soto for a police interview but the professor declined.

Weeks later, authorities issued three search warrants to obtain Soto's computers, laptops, cell phones and other propertyâ??including items belonging to Bronson that were stored at Sotoâ??s residence, Ink Free News reported.

Special prosecutor E. Nelson Chipman, Jr. declined to comment further on the allegations against Rovenstine, Soto and Bronson.

David Sumpter, who owns Relentless Martial Arts Academy where Bronson worked for a spell, said he was duped by the felon, Fox 28 reported. He also said that Soto helped to convince him to let Bronson work out there.

â??He used to be part of Relentless,â? Sumpter told The Daily Beast. â??As soon as I found out that he was arrested for drugs and gang affiliation, I kicked him out and changed the locks on the doors.â?

â??Iâ??m a Christian,â? Sumpter added. â??I was trying to give him a chance.â?

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