Article: Pagan pleads guilty to helping stockpile weapons

A sixth defendant has pleaded guilty in the federal racketeering case against members and associates of the Pagans Motorcycle Club.

James Vernon Hoback, 43, an auto mechanic from Pilot, Va., known as "Timex," admitted in federal court Tuesday that he helped others take military-grade C4 and two hand grenades across state lines to Princeton, W.Va.

The explosives were part of a stockpile of weapons to be used in an ongoing war against the Hell's Angels, a rival motorcycle gang that had a long-standing turf war with the Pagans, according to a stipulation of facts filed as part of Hoback's plea.

Hoback was one of 55 defendants named in a sweeping 44-count indictment unsealed last month in ...

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