Ex-O.C. Teen Enters Guilty Plea in Skinhead Case : Courts: U.S. District judge accepts former Marina High student’s formal admission on conspiracy charges after initially rejecting it over a legal point.

A 17-year-old member of the Fourth Reich Skinheads pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy charges stemming from an arson attempt on a Westminster synagogue, a planned pipe bomb attack on the First A.M.E. Church in Los Angeles and the bombing of a Lakewood home.

The youth, Carl Daniel Boese, who was born in Huntington Beach and attended Marina High School before moving to San Bernardino County, made the plea as part of an agreement that will lead to the dismissal of a remaining count of using a bomb in the arson attempt.

Boese had been ready to enter a guilty plea in court Monday, but U.S. District Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. rejected the underlying plea agreement because it foreclosed Boese’s ability to appeal his sentence, which prosecutors have recommended be between 51 and 60 months in prison.

Byrne accepted the agreement Tuesday, but said he still wasn’t happy that Boese’s right to appeal was compromised.

In court Tuesday, Byrne asked Boese how he had become part of the Fourth Reich Skinheads. Boese said he had called a telephone number listed in the White Aryan Resistance newspaper and that Christopher Fisher, the group’s leader, had called back.

Fisher pleaded guilty last week to conspiracy and other charges. He faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.

Fisher and Boese are scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 13.

Boese explained to the judge that he and Fisher hit it off instantly, because they were of like minds and thought of themselves as staunchly conservative. Being a conservative, Boese said, meant being against both blacks and Jews.

As part of his plea, Boese admitted joining Fisher in planning a series of attacks that they hoped would spark a race war. One plan was to attack the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles--an attack that federal agents said was on the verge of being carried out when they arrested the conspirators.

Boese admitted to bombing the Lakewood home of a Spur Posse member last February. The Spur Posse was a group of Lakewood youths who boasted of their sexual conquests. And Boese said that he and Fisher threw a Molotov cocktail at Temple Beth David in Westminster last January in an attempt to set it afire. The explosive device did not detonate.

Rabbi Michael D. Mayersohn of Temple Beth David, whose name and home address were on a list of planned targets of the Fourth Reich Skinheads, said he is glad the matter has been resolved involving Boese and Fisher.

“We’re gratified that the justice system has worked effectively in bringing the perpetrators to justice,” he said. “We were confident all along that law enforcement officials and the force of government were on our side in combatting bigotry and violence.”

U.S. Attorney Terree A. Bowers said Boese’s guilty pleas are “another positive step in addressing and eliminating hatred and violence of racist hate-mongers like the Fourth Reich Skinheads.”

Boese faces a prison sentence of between 4 1/3 and 5 years. Because he admitted to being a leader in the conspiracy, the range of imprisonment was lowered somewhat, prosecutors said.

Like Fisher, Boese has agreed to counseling. Representatives of the Simon Wiesenthal Center have volunteered to meet with Boese and Fisher and introduce them to Holocaust survivors.

Although Boese was born in Huntington Beach, he grew up in Ontario, returning to Huntington Beach this past January with his mother and older sister. At Marina High, he was enrolled in honors and advanced-placement courses.

After allegedly drawing a swastika on the lawn of Huntington Beach Union High School, raising a Nazi flag up the school’s flagpole and burning material in the school, police arrested Boese.