The Region - News from April 8, 1987

The director of the National Socialist White People’s Party, a neo-Nazi group, was sentenced to four months in jail for assaulting two Amtrak police officers. Los Angeles Municipal Judge Susan Isacoff ordered Stanley Witek, 53, to begin serving his sentence Thursday, unless he posts a $10,000 bond to remain free pending appeal. The judge also sentenced Witek to three years’ probation, calling him a “sociopathic individual,” in part because he refused to cooperate with the county Probation Department in preparing a pre-sentencing report. Witek was convicted on two counts of assault and one count each of battery, battery on a police officer, attempted battery and obstructing a police officer, all stemming from a melee with the Jewish Defense League at Union Station last May 1.