Feds bust Outlaw Motorcycle Club members

The US Department of Justice held a major press conference in Detroit yesterday to announce  indictments, arrests, and searches related to multi-year investigations of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club.  The news release issued by the federal authorities included the Fort Wayne Police Department and the South Bend Police Department among those police agencies which assisted in the investigations.

Those arrested:

    -- Norman Box Jr., aka "Stormin' Norman"
    -- David Dorris, aka "Hoggs"
    -- Danny Neance, aka "Milky"
    -- Ramon Rios
    -- Bruce Wendel, aka "Big Bruce"
    -- William Elston, aka "Jason"
    -- Robert Castillo, aka "Big Rob" and "Mexican Rob"
    -- Michael Radke
    -- William Guinn, aka "Slick"
    -- Mark Guerra, aka "Skid Mark"
    -- Kenneth Creslaw, aka "KC"
    -- William Thomas McCowan, aka "Tom the Bomb"; and
    -- Kim Galaviz, aka "Moe"

Zachary Gorchow of the Detroit Free Press reported on yesterday's press conference in Detroit:

Federal authorities said Wednesday that the indictment of 16 members of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club from Michigan and Indiana struck a major blow to the organization's criminal activity, which they said includes selling drugs and using violence.

With nicknames such as Tom the Bomb, the men, according to the 18-count indictment, sold cocaine and methamphetamine, trafficked in firearms and assaulted members of the rival Hells Angels Motorcycle Club.

The indictment -- and the arrests of 11 of those charged -- busts up a gang that authorities say had chapters in Detroit, Wyandotte, Bay City, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis and Ft. Wayne, Ind.

"If you're engaged in organized gang activity, we're going to come after you," said U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who attended a news conference in Detroit to announce the indictment.

It also is the latest blow struck by law enforcement against the Outlaws, considered an international criminal organization by the U.S. government.

Comments

[Nancy Nall]

I think I dated Tom the Bomb once. It was either him, or Skid Mark. Memory's unclear.

[brian stouder]

Leaving aside Nance's mis-spent youth, I have a question for the house:

I have seen men driving motorcycles, and women driving motorcylces, and men driving motorcycles with women hanging onto them....but I have never seen a woman driving a motorcycle with a man hanging onto HER.

Has anyone ever seen this?

[Jodi Dean]

I believe the residents of the Nebraska neighborhood will be encouraged to hear this outcome. Knowing that many motorcycle gang members are visibly present at their Main Street clubhouse, it very much gives a terrible image, to the downtrodden area. The arrest of several of these members will hopefully create a synergy in which the group ceases operations. It is with such hope that their void, can create a boom for legitimate business on Main Street.

[Bob Gaul]

Busting up a violent motorcycle gang...

Now THAT...is entertainment!

B.G.

[Dave White]

Brian, I saw this the other day, first time I ever remember seeing it, on State Route 38 by New Castle, IN. It leaped right out at me because it was so different looking.

[Barbara Cane]

I lived with Wild Bill South Florida for 18 years and I consider all of the Outlaws one big family who took care of their own All this nonesense of all the great men you have in prison who are inncent on all accounts especially Clarence Micheal Smith who spend 11 1/2 years on death row for I crime he didn't commit and then had everything wverturned in appeals and the the STate comes in and gets hii for other bogus charges Double Jearpody..... He is one of many that sounld't not be in there for the are the best family anywone could ask for.........

[LINDA LOMAS]

would like everyone to know that ,I have know (Smitty)for many years.Close to forty years.And I have always belived he was innocent.He was caught up in something,that was unproved.He has already served a life sentence in Vietnam.So how about letting him enjoy his children and grandchildren.And what is left of his hard life.From two old sisters.Just want to know where you are? And if you are o.k.