LOS ANGELES : Prosecutors in Skinhead Case to Turn Over Tapes

A Los Angeles federal judge Thursday ordered prosecutors to provide defense lawyers copies of more than 100 audio and videotapes made in the investigation of alleged neo-Nazi Christopher Fisher. Fisher, 20, of Long Beach, is accused of making and selling illegal weapons and plotting to blow up the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles.

U.S. District Judge W. Matthew Byrne Jr. declined to set a trial date for Fisher, the alleged leader of a group called the Fourth Reich Skinheads, until he determines if a juvenile defendant, also arrested in the case, will be tried as an adult.

In a related development, a Long Beach Juvenile Court judge refused to release a third defendant, Richard Traylor, 18, to the custody of his mother. Traylor, who was a minor when he was arrested last month, is accused of transporting a pipe bomb.