The drug trafficking activity consisted of numerous interstate transactions involving large amounts of money and methamphetamine.įairchild) also was a high ranking member of the Sons of Silence and became the defendant Jeffrey Grubers partner in the interstate drug trade. In the 1980s, Gruber utilized his position within the Sons of Silence to engage in an illegal drug trafficking enterprise. Their brotherhood, however, as this case demonstrates, enforces its oaths through violence and other nefarious activity. Sons of Silence members pledge oaths of loyalty, secrecy, and commitment to their common bonds of brotherhood. Facts and Background About 20 years ago, Gruber formally affiliated with a motorcycle club known as the Sons of Silence. We affirm the judgments of the district court but remand Grubers drug conspiracy conviction and sentence for vacation to avoid double jeopardy. Fairchild, Grubers codefendant, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Gruber received a provisional sentence of life in prison on the drug conspiracy conviction. The district court sentenced Gruber to life in prison on the racketeering and criminal enterprise counts, and to lesser concurrent terms of imprisonment on the other counts of conviction. Levin, Colorado Springs, CO, for Jeffrey Gruber. Steinbeck, Northbrook, IL, for appellant. Jeffrey Paul Gruber, also known as No Mind, also known as The King, also known as Boss, Appellant. Subscribe Also Watch Lists Meth Motorcycles Rides Share This Story Previous Slide Next Slide Sign up for Complex notifications for breaking news and stories.Īn eyewitness described the beating as so savage that the associate required extensive hospitalization and reconstructive surgery. The next year, a guns-and-knives brawl involving dozens of bikers left one dead and seven injured at the National Western Complex in Denver. In 2015, nine people were killed and 18 were injured in a wild gun battle involving hundreds of bikers at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas. One-percenter motorcycle clubs so named because the American Motorcyclist Association has said that 99 of motorcyclists are law-abiding run drugs across the borders and participate in a litany of additional crimes, from contract killing to petty theft. Today, these dangerous organizations are engaged in criminal activities on both coasts and throughout the American heartland. and Co.Subscribe The Most Dangerous Biker Gangs in America By Complex Share This Story Image via Getty Outlaw motorcycle gangs have been a thorn in the side of US law enforcement since the 1960s. See the biographical article: LANG, ANDKEW. l Tale (i11 part) Journalist, poet, critic and historian. Lect urer in Early Church part) History at the V i c toria Umversity, Manchester.ĪNDRF.W LANG. }swedenborg' Emanuel Principal of Lancashire Independent College, Manchester. Autho r of The Speakers of the House of Commons etc. Clerk of the Parliaments of Northern Ireland 11ince 1921 Clerk of the J ourna ls, House Speaker. L Swedish Language and f Literature (in part).ĪRTIJUR IRWIN DASENT. Yarn>w Research Professor of the Royal Society since 1923. Keeper in the Vir.toria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, of Textiles, 1 ��}7- Tapes try 'ġ924, Ceramics, 1899-1902, and Woodwork, 1904-8. Author Space-Time of Relativity, the Special atJd the General Theory. Professor of Physics, Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin. N o bel Prizeman for (in part) Physics, r921. Director of the Kaiser-Wilhelm I nst itu te for P ysics, Berlin. Spam' (in part) Author of of the Bourbons in Spairz. University of London and Institute of C emist ry. ' Assi!ltant Editor, Journal of the Chemical Society: Assi stant Examiner in Chemistry, SulPhur.Sound Admiralty Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex. Au tho r of Le�ĪLFRJW BRADLEY Goucu, M.A., PH.D. Commercial Secretary,ĪvH��rh� �cfl:r��:al�!rL�he Portuguese etc.Īnd of the Colonization of the Peo ples of N or th Africa at} Tanp the Sorbonne, Paris. INITIALS AND NAMES OF CONTRIBUTORS IN VOLUME XXI WITH THE ARTICLES WRITTEN BY THEM.