Founded | 1981[1] |
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Founding location | Eastham Unit (Texas) |
Years active | 1981–present |
Territory | Texas and throughout the federal prison system[1] |
Ethnicity | White American[1] |
Membership (est.) | 3,500[1] |
Activities | Drug trafficking, murder, extortion, robbery, theft and identity theft[1] |
Allies | Gulf Cartel[2] |
Rivals | Aryan Circle[3] |
Notable members | Mark Anthony Stroman Carl Wayne Buntion |
The Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) is an American white supremacist and Neo-Nazi prison and street gang.[4] According to the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas is one of the largest and most violent neo-Nazi white supremacist prison gangs and organized criminal enterprises in the United States, responsible for numerous murders and other violent crimes.[5]