Yohe and Burns are charged with federal hate crimes in the Oceanside Pier attacks. Lane's guilty plea is not their conviction.

An indictment is an accusation. A co-defendant's guilty plea is that person's conviction on the counts he admitted, and it is not a verdict against the people who have not pleaded. On Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026, an indictment was unsealed in the Southern District of California charging Austin Yohe, 23, of Riverside, and Daniel Burns, 30, associated with Wilsonville, Alabama, with hate crimes under 18 U.S.C. § 249 and obstruction under 18 U.S.C. § 1512, case 26cr3776-RBM. The same day, Johnny Lee Lane, 23, of Riverside, pleaded guilty to three federal hate-crime offenses in case 26cr03839-RBM. Lane's plea is a conviction on those counts. The counts against Yohe and Burns are still accusations.

The FBI arrested Yohe Tuesday afternoon in Riverside. Burns was arrested about the same time at an associate's home in Wilsonville, Alabama. WBRC reported a Rule 5 arrest in the Northern District of Alabama, that Burns waived an identity hearing, and that he was held without bond for transfer to the Southern District of California. Yohe made an initial appearance in the Southern District of California before Magistrate Judge Steve B. Chu. The United States moved to detain him. The detention hearing was continued to Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, at 10 a.m. A motion and trial setting is on the calendar for Oct. 30, 2026, at 9 a.m. before Judge Ruth Bermudez Montenegro. A motion to detain is a request. A continued hearing is not a finding of guilt, and it is not a sentence.

The indictment alleges that on June 7, 2025, near the Oceanside Pier, Yohe and Burns were identified as "skinheads" and attacked T.L.W., 21, who is Black and Asian American, at about 8:30 p.m. The allegation is that they punched, kicked, and stomped him and slammed his head into concrete, and that Lane joined, yelled a racial slur, and stomped. T.L.W. was hospitalized with a concussion, swelling, and cuts and bruises, as the charging account describes it. The indictment then alleges an attack on two Marines, T.J., 24, who is Black, and E.H., 23, who is white, near the pier plaza after racial slurs, with punches and kicks. E.H. is alleged to have suffered a concussion and fractures of the orbital bone, sinus, and cheekbone. T.J. is alleged to have suffered head contusions and a hand injury. Those are allegations. They are not findings against Yohe or Burns.

The indictment alleges that Yohe and Burns claim membership in COORS 88, described as a white-supremacist group, and that Burns has a "skinhead" tattoo. FOX 5 San Diego reported the tattoo allegation as being on Lane. That is a conflict in the write-ups of the indictment. It is not a finding about either man's body. On obstruction, the indictment alleges that Burns lied to Oceanside police the night of the attacks and lied to the FBI on Nov. 25, 2025, and that Yohe lied to a Riverside court employee on June 13 and June 17, 2025, claiming he was a victim. False-statement allegations are accusations. They are not proof that the underlying assault counts are true.

Lane pleaded guilty Wednesday to three federal hate-crime offenses. He was released on a $25,000 personal appearance bond. Sentencing is set for Jan. 8, 2027, before Judge Montenegro. A guilty plea is a conviction on the counts admitted. It is not a sentence, and it does not convict Yohe or Burns. The Justice Department said a hate-crime count carries a statutory maximum of up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, and an obstruction count carries up to 20 years and a $250,000 fine. Those are maximums. They are not the sentence Yohe or Burns will receive, because they have not been convicted, and they are not the sentence already imposed on Lane. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.