Forty-one members of the Devils Diciples Motorcycle Club were officially charged on Friday as part of a federal indictment unsealed in U.S. District Court in Detroit, Michigan. According to the indictment, the gang allegedly profited from a laundry list of criminal activity including selling stolen merchandise, drug trafficking, gambling, robbery, and operating methamphetamine labs.
What Happened
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, thirty-one defendants were arrested on Friday in Michigan and Alabama and five were already in custody. Among those arrested are the group’s national President Jeff “Fat Dog” Smith and national Vice President Paul Darrah. The investigation also revealed that more than 60 firearms and over 6,000 rounds of ammunition have been seized. Additionally, eight methamphetamine manufacturing labs were dismantled throughout the investigation.
Of the 41 indicted, 18 members, including Smith and Darrah, are charged with violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act due to their involvement with illegal enterprise. A federal law, RICO provides for extended criminal punishment for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization. In the case of the Devil Diciples, their illegal enterprise included murder, robbery, extortion, drug trafficking, obstruction of justice, and various other federal and state offenses.
“For years, according to the indictment, the Devils Diciples have spread fear in cities throughout Michigan and around the country,” said Assistant Attorney General Breuer. “This violent criminal enterprise allegedly profits from drug trafficking and illegal gambling and uses intimidation and violence to silence its adversaries and maintain control over its members. Today’s arrests of the Devils Diciples’ top leaders and 39 of the gang’s members and associates are an important step in our efforts to dismantle violent criminal enterprises across the country.”
The Indictment
Aside from providing a general overview of the group’s criminal activity, the indictment also details several specific incidents. The indictment alleges that in 2003, Vincent John Witort and several other Devils Diciples members robbed, kidnapped, and attempted to murder other members of the Arizona chapter for breaking club rules.
Federal officials also claim that in 2004, Smith had state and federal law enforcement material regarding motorcycle gangs in his possession. The material, which was labeled “For Official Use Only” and “Law Enforcement Sensitive,” consisted of police reports, search warrants, affidavits, indictments and transcripts of witness interviews.
According to the indictment, three separate assaults supposedly occurred from August 2008 to February 2009, two of which involved Smith. Most recently, the indictment alleges that in January 2012, David Randy Drozdowski and Smiley Villa assaulted an individual who they believed to be a member of a rival gang.
Devils Diciples MC
The Devils Diciples Motorcycle Club (DDMC) was founded in Fontana, California in 1967. The group is an outlaw motorcycle club, which means that it is not sanctioned by the American Motorcyclist Association. Consequently, outlaw motorcycle clubs do not abide by AMA rules, but rather have their own sets of bylaws and values.
The DDMC national headquarters is located in Clinton Charter Township, Michigan. The Devils Diciples also have chapters in Alabama, Arizona, California, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi and Ohio. There are believed to be 150 full-patched members of the club.











Comments
I encourage people to search for the truth, look at all of the attempts to subvert these clubs by the FEDS, as many times as they have infillitrated us they usually walk away with more money wasted investigating us than convictions as a result.
Do your homework and the truth will vindicate the falsehoods the Government would have you believe.
The reality is the very people trying to convince you that bikers are white trash criminals, are far more guilty of violating the constitution, breaking federal, state and local laws in the so called quest for justice, which is nothing more than a self-induldgent witch hunt, that labels a group more often than not because of what they wear, how they look, live and the core beliefs which include free thinking in place of programmed following because they themselves cant wrap their brains an idea so pure and true.
Biker clubs are more honest about who they are, what they stand for and how they live than most cops, politicians, and clergy.
The truth shall set you free. I encourage you all to dig deeper than the lies and stereotypes, find the truth. If you can judge us after that, and hold us in more contempt than the very system trying to crush us by breaking laws, and using false propaganda and entrapment to do so than fine thats your own ideology, but at least do the math. Remember in High School there were always books where someone else wrote there version of the answers to the problems, if you ever got a paper back after using those answers you should remember that most of those were traps and usually they were wrong.
Bikers are not bad guys, but there are bad guys that are bikers. Just like every other group, club, or organization. Period.
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