Korey Ward, 24, the reported “ring-leader” of a Yakima, Washington “skateboard group” called the Mayday Mob was convicted of six counts of second degree arson on Monday, June 7, 2010 for a slew of fires set at homes and businesses during the summer of 2007, according to a story in the Yakima Herald.
Authorities believe Ward was the ringleader of the Mayday Mob. They also believe members of the Mayday Mob were involved in as many as 10 fires set between April 2006 and October 2007, including a blaze that destroyed 10,000 bins at a CPC International fruit warehouse on Occidental Road on Nov. 12, 2006. . . . Other properties included the campus of Robertson Elementary School in Yakima, other local fruit warehouses, and a power pole and two dozen juniper trees at the corner of 80th Avenue and Zier Road.
Another member of the crew Eric Protsman, 19, who testified against Ward in this trial, says that in the beginning the Mob was about skateboarding and nothing else, according to statements made to the Yakima Herald in April.
“There were eight of us, we were all skateboarders and that’s all we did,” Protsman said from behind a glass window at the jail’s visitor area. “It was a skateboarding group that turned into a gang.
Ward could spend up to seven years in prison for his crimes. Do they have skateparks in prison?
[LInk: Yakima Herald. Photo from Myspace]
