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Article: Pagan pleads guilty to helping stockpile weapons
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- Charleston Gazette
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- November 11, 2009
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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 ...