El Paso deputies seek two 211 Crew members in Clements investigation

 

El Paso deputies seek two 211 Crew members in Clements investigation

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22943300/el-paso-deputies-searching-two-211-crew-members

 

By Kirk Mitchell, Sadie Gurman and Ryan Parker

The Denver Post

 

El Paso County Sheriff's investigators on Wednesday issued an alert seeking

two 211 Crew members in connection with the murder investigation of state

prisons chief Tom Clements.

 

"These are a couple of names that have come up during the ongoing

investigation of the Clements' murder," said Lt. Jeff Kramer of the El Paso

County Sheriff's Department.

 

Deputies are trying to find James Lohr, 47, and Thomas Guolee, 31, Kramer

said. Both are associated with the white supremacist prison gang known as

the 211 Crew, he said.

 

They should be considered armed and dangerous, Kramer said.

 

"Because of the circumstances where you have violent folks who are willing

to execute a DOC official, we don't want to underestimate these guys,"

Kramer said.

 

Investigators have said the main suspect in the killing of Clements and

pizza delivery driver Nathan Leon is parolee Evan Ebel, a member of the 211

Crew who died in a shootout with Texas lawmen on March 21. A 9mm Smith &

Wesson found with Ebel's body in Texas was used to kill Clements,

investigators said.

 

Kramer did not say what role Lohr and Guolee might have played in the

killing or why they are being sought.

 

Lohr, 47, has an extensive criminal record dating back to 1985, including

burglary, domestic violence, escape, theft and fraud, according to court

records. He has two warrants issued for his arrest for bail violation and a

protection order violation.

 

Guolee, 31, has an extensive criminal record dating back to 2000, including

assault, fraud, robbery, forgery and menacing, court records show. He is

currently on parole in Colorado's southwest region, according to Colorado

Department of Corrections records.

 

Guolee's Facebook page says he is married, and there are multiple pictures

of him with a young girl.

 

Lohr is described as 6-feet tall, 160 pounds, with blond hair, brown eyes

and several tattoos. Guolee is described as 5-foot-9, 160 pounds, with brown

hair, blue eyes and several tattoos.

 

The alert issued by the sheriff's department did not list a vehicle for the

men or indicate their possible direction of travel, but Kramer said

authorities believe the men could be headed to Nevada or Texas.

 

Authorities have been searching for any ties in the Clements investigation

between Ebel and the 211 Crew.

 

DOC sources have said the state is investigating whether a move of several

211 Crew leaders from Sterling to Buena Vista Correctional Complex to break

up their power base might have prompted the attack on Clements.

 

DOC spokeswoman Alison Morgan said Wednesday she had not heard about El Paso

County's search for the two white supremacists - one of whom is a DOC

parolee - and she said she did not have an immediate comment.

 

The 211 Crew's founder and reputed "shot-caller" Benjamin Davis, 38, was

moved to Buena Vista from Sterling.

 

Davis appeared in Denver District Court on Wednesday following an appeal. A

judge re-sentenced him to 108 years on a racketeering conviction from 2007.

 

Ebel, 28, was released on mandatory parole from Sterling Correctional

Facility on Jan. 28, and DOC documents show he removed his ankle monitoring

device on March 14.

 

Ebel is suspected of killing Leon on March 17 and Clements at his Monument

home on March 19.

 

A clerical error in the 11th Judicial District allowed Ebel to be released

from prison Jan. 28 without serving any additional time for a 2008

conviction for assaulting a prison guard, despite the terms of a plea

agreement that called for Ebel to serve a consecutive four-year term.

 

Judge David M. Thorson announced the sentence at a June 2008 hearing, but

failed to specify that it was to be served consecutively.That led to prison

officials imposing a sentence that was concurrent, meaning Ebel served no

additional time for the conviction.

 

The court apologized for the error on Monday and said it would take steps to

ensure such mistakes don't happen again.

 

In addition to the clerical error, Ebel was released nearly four months

early as a result of a 2011 law that allowed him and others to earn time off

their sentences for their months and years spent in administrative

segregation.

 

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