Police said Curtis Allgier had once vowed to kill a cop.

Angry over the death of his friend, a known white supremacist gang member, Allgier made it known to law enforcement he was out for revenge.

"He was a sufficient concern that I put my department on alert that he may be around," Ogden Police Chief Jon Greiner said. "The street gossip was he wanted to kill one of my officers. The word was that Billy Maw was one of his close friends and he was holding us personally responsible for this."

In May 2006, William "Billy" Maw was shot to death when police said he pulled a gun on two Ogden officers during a traffic stop. The death prompted rumors of a rallying cry among white supremacists of retaliation against law enforcement.

Police agencies in Weber and Davis counties, the Utah Department of Corrections and Adult Probation and Parole were put on alert.

As a self-proclaimed white supremacist, the 27-year-old Allgier had a rage that few could understand.

"He was aggressive, but at the same time he wanted to be a part of society," said a man who spent three months in a halfway house with Allgier. He asked the Deseret Morning News not to use his name.

"But he knew that wasn't a reality."

Others acquainted with Allgier indicate his fate was written years ago when he was a young child.

"Mr. Allgier was born into white supremacy," his federal defense attorney, Kristen Angelos, wrote in a motion that tried to explain his past. "Mr. Allgier was introduced to a criminal mindset by his family while still a very young child. Additionally, he spent much of his formative years with older cousins who only further ingrained the white supremacy mind set into a young and impressionable Mr. Allgier."

Allgier himself described his beliefs during an April 2006 parole hearing.

"I'm white and proud of it, period," he said in a tape recording obtained by the Deseret Morning News.

The tattoos

He wore his beliefs on his face, tattooing "Skin Head" across his forehead, Nazi swastikas and iron crosses all over his body.

"Not the brightest decision in my life," Allgier said at his parole hearing.

"Why did you do it?" the hearing officer asked him.

"I have my whole body covered. I figured I'd just do it," he said, claiming that if he were released he would have the tattoos removed from his face.

Among the tangle of tattoos across his forehead are the words: "Property of Jolene."