Skinhead Pleads Guilty to Park Beatings : Hate crime: The Whittier teen-ager’s plea ensures that he will not serve more than 3 years in prison.

A teen-age skinhead, whose body is covered with neo-Nazi tattoos, pleaded guilty Friday to the racially motivated beating of a Chinese-American youth and the victim’s two friends in a Fullerton park last July.

Andrew Michael George, 17, of Whittier became the ninth of 10 skinheads to plead guilty or be convicted in the unprovoked July 7 attack on a Chinese-American honors student and his two white friends at Gilman Partin Park.

The Chinese-American youth was knocked unconscious by the gang. His two friends managed to escape with minor bruises. According to previous court testimony, the gang shouted racist slogans as it attacked the victims.

George pleaded guilty to two felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon--his fists and feet--and one count of committing a hate crime.

He also pleaded guilty to assaulting a probation officer and threatening to kill him during an incident at Orange County Juvenile Hall shortly after his July 16 arrest. George, who could have been sentenced to six years in prison, agreed to plead guilty with the assurance that he will not receive a prison sentence of more than three years. He will be sentenced next month.

The last of George’s alleged accomplices, David Richman, 17, of Anaheim has pleaded innocent to charges in connection with the beating and to a separate robbery charge. His preliminary hearing began late Friday and was adjourned after one police officer testified that Richman had been identified by the robbery victims, and another testified that Richman was one of 15 skinheads who terrorized a black family at Tri-City Park in Placentia only hours before the attack in Fullerton.

Both George and Richman were being tried as adults.

Deputy Dist. Atty. Gary Paer, the prosecutor in both cases, said after George’s plea that the defendant admitted to being a member of the Confederate Front (or Federation) of America, a locally based neo-Nazi group.

“According to experts, his tattoos indicate he is pretty deeply involved with white power groups,” Paer said. He displayed photos of dozens of George’s crude tattoos, which included swastikas, Nazi military insignia, iron crosses and, on his right thigh, the word white and, on his left thigh, the word power .

George’s attorney refused comment.

At Richman’s preliminary hearing, Orange Police Detective Alexander Varga testified that two Anaheim High School students told him that Richman threatened them with a knife and stole their leather flight jackets during a March robbery at the Orange Mall.

Placentia Police Officer Kenneth R. Griffin testified that after a possible brawl between blacks and skinheads was squelched by police at Tri-City Park, the skinheads voluntarily agreed to pose for a group picture. Richman can be seen in the front row giving the Nazi salute, as are most members of the group.

His hearing will resume Thursday.