Gang Members Charged In Significant Organized Crime Operation

Twelve members and associates of the Mongols Motorcycle Gang were indicted Thursday with racketeering conspiracy and robbery, according to the U.S. Attorney General's Office of Middle Tennessee. The U.S. Attorney's office made the announcement at Noon Thursday that the Clarksville Chapter of the Mongols engaged in a host of violent criminal activities, including murder, attempted murder, assault, kidnapping, robbery, extortion, witness tampering, money laundering, interstate travel in aid of racketeering and large scale drug trafficking.
 

According to a release, the indictment details allegations of violent, criminal activity and drug trafficking in and around the Clarksville area beginning in or about March 2015, by certain Mongols members or associates.

The local individuals charged in the Racketeering conspiracy are:
30-year old James Wesley Frazier, 29-year old Aelix Santiago, 36-year old Joel Aldridge, 42-year old James Hines, 29-year old Michael Forrester, Jr., 36-year old Stephen Cole, 38-year old Jamie Hern, and 35-year old Michael Levi West, all of Clarksville, along with 30-year old Kyle Heade formerly of Fort Campbell and 33-year old Michael Myers, both of Oak Grove, 25-year old Robert Humiston of Dover, Tennessee, and 32-year old Adrianna Frazier of Owenboro.

43-year old Derek Stanley of Owensboro was charged with large scale drug trafficking, and two individuals were charged with offenses related to Hobbs Act Robbery — 31-year old Timothy Grant and 28-year old Dustin McCracken, both of Clarksville.

Some of the allegations of criminal conduct in the indictment include:
– Kidnapping and assaulting an individual by using a firearm and Taser at a Clarksville motel in April 2015;
– Setting fire and destroying the Sin City Motorcycle Clubhouse in Clarksville in May 2015;
– Kidnapping two individuals at gunpoint in Clarksville in May 2015 and transporting them to a Bumpus Mills cemetery, where one individual was murdered by shooting the victim at least eight times, including once in the head;
– Robbing two individuals at gunpoint in an apartment complex parking lot in Clarskville in July 2015;
– Breaking into a Hopkinsville home in July 2015 where the resident was pistol whipped and robbed of his belongings while being held at knifepoint.
– Kidnapping two individuals at a Clarksville residence and holding them at gunpoint while they interrogated one of the victims and searched the residence for drug proceeds in January 2016.

In April 2016, the indictment alleges three of the individuals charged were traveling from Oak Grove to Boone County, Missouri, and were found to be in weapons and 113 grams of pure methamphtamine; and other drugs.

Again, this is just some of the alleged criminal activities in the Clarksville area.

According to the indictment, the Mongols Motorcycle Gang identifies itself as an "outlaw" motorcycle gang and is a nationwide and international organization with chapters in California, Tennessee and other parts of the United States and in other countries.

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