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Article: FEDERAL COURT: ; Judge keeps Pagans chief locked up without bail; Officials say bikers controlled territory with violence, intimidation
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- October 16, 2009
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The national president of the Pagans Motorcycle Club will remain
in custody while awaiting trial, a federal judge decided Thursday.
David K. "Bart" Barbeito, 49, of Myersville, Md., is one of 55
members and associates of the gang named in a sweeping, 44-count
indictment unsealed last week. Prosecutors say Barbeito and other
members of the group's ruling Mother Club led a criminal
organization that controlled territory from New Jersey to Florida
through violence and intimidation.
Stanley Needleman, Barbeito's Baltimore-based attorney, urged
U.S. Magistrate Judge Mary E. Stanley not to get caught up in the
outlaw biker mythology that surrounds motorcycle clubs.
Barbeito is a law-abiding, ...
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