Authorities Say William A. White Is on the Lam - Roanoke.com
Former neo-Nazi leader William A. White is being sought by federal authorities on a probation violation.
White, who is on supervised release after serving two and a half years in prison for making threats, left his home in Rockbridge County without the permission of his probation officer, said Ron Donelson, a senior inspector with the U.S. Marshals Service.
“We’re actively looking for him,” Donelson said Wednesday.
White had been scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in Roanoke on May 14 for a resentencing after an appeals court ruled that the judge in his case did not properly follow sentencing guidelines.
The hearing was canceled with no explanation listed in court records. Later in the week, a probation officer stopped by White’s home and found that he had left.
As a condition of his probation, White is required to keep in regular contact with supervising officials and notify them when he moves, Donelson said.
Donelson said federal marshals are following several leads on White’s whereabouts but declined to elaborate.
White, who once was the self-proclaimed commander of the American National Socialist Workers Party, was convicted in Roanoke of making racially charged threats, usually by email or on a website he maintained at the time.
U.S. District Judge James Turk sentenced White in 2010 to 30 months in prison. White was released about a year ago and had been living most recently in Rockbridge County.
The 34-year-old was leading a relatively quiet existence — at least compared with his earlier days in Roanoke, when he was organizing a white supremacy movement and posting racially incendiary remarks on an almost daily basis to his now-defunct website, overthrow.com.
White’s rhetoric — which often tested the fine line between free speech and criminal threats — landed him in jail in 2008, about the time he was preparing to publish a magazine that pictured then-presidential candidate Barack Obama in the cross hairs of an assassin’s rifle.