White Supremacist Member Pleads Guilty to Hate Crime Assault

East Windsor resident Michal Gunar, 28, admitted to participating in a New Year's Eve 2011 hate crime assault of two Middle Eastern men in Sayreville, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

Gunar pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Joel A. Pisano in Trenton Federal Court on Tuesday to an indictment charging him with conspiracy to commit a hate crime assault and the commission of a hate crime assault, in violation of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act.

Gunar is a purported member of the white supremacist group known as the "Aryan Terror Brigade", according to the U.S. District Attorney of New Jersey.

Gunar admitted attending a New Year’s Eve “meet and greet” white supremacist event at a residence in East Brunswick on Dec. 31, 2011, court documents revealed.

Gunar, Christopher Ising, and Kyle Powell drove to an apartment complex in Sayreville, with the sole intention of assaulting random, non-Caucasian individuals, according to court documents.

Gunar reportedly wielded a knife and attacked two Middle Eastern men, while shouting anti-Arab slurs, according to court documents. Gunar admitted in court to assaulting at least one man by pulling the individual out of a parked car and punching the man about the face and head, causing physical injury.

Ising, 31, of Waretown,  a professed member of the white supremacist group known as the “Atlantic City Skins,” previously entered a guilty plea on both counts of the same indictment before Judge Pisano on Feb. 13, 2013.

Powell, 24, of Wildwood and a member of the Aryan Terror Brigade, entered a guilty plea on Jan. 23, 2013, before Judge Pisano to an information charging him with conspiracy to commit a hate crime assault.

Gunar faces a maximum potential penalty of 10 years in prison on the assault count, and by a maximum of five years in prison on the conspiracy count. Both counts are also punishable by a $250,000 fine.