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Thursday, October 14, 2010

OHIO, Police Fear Retaliation For Biker Gang Brawls

OFF THE WIRE
Union Township, OHIO
Law enforcement across the area is once again on reasonably high alert following a weekend brawl between members of two rival motorcycle gxxxs. The fight took place at a Union Township bar Saturday night and involved members of the Cincinnati chapter of the Detroit Highwaymen and the Iron Horsemen. The concern is what the horsemen might do in retaliation.

Local 12's Rich Jaffe has confirmed that a worried call from a woman is what started the fight at the Lake Bar Saturday evening. The woman who we're not naming is the girlfriend of a biker who used to be an Iron Horseman. He was reportedly thrown out of the club a couple of years ago and joined the Detroit Highwaymen. That's something you just don't do in the world of outlaw motorcycle gxxxs.

Investigators tell me the woman went into Frankie and Jaimies, also known as the Lake Bar, saw at least one Iron Horsemen there, and called her boyfriend, saying she wasn't being allowed to leave the club. At the time the club was filled with people, and it's not believed she was really at risk. The biker boyfriend called a group of Highwaymen pals and nine bikers walked into the bar to "rescue" the woman.

The bar owner says the attack was caught on tape. The ensuing fight involving a ball bat and knives, landed four Highwaymen in the hospital and nine behind bars. Included in that list is the local chapter president of the Detroit Highwaymen, Joe Earls. Earls has a day job and is from Delhi, and has only a minor criminal history. At the time of his arrest prosecutors say Earls had a handgun with him as did two other bikers, two of them including Earls have concealed carry permits. Earls and his biker brothers were ordered held on $100,00 bonds.

The Iron Horseman who was involved was injured but escaped and has not been charged with anything. Law enforcement's increasingly concerned about retaliation...which may have already started. Late Sunday night the clubhouse of the Detroit Highwaymen was vandalized. Pink paint tossed all over the entrance and front wall. Sources say it could easily be construed as a message from the Iron Horsemen... that "we are coming for you."

A spokesman for the Horsemen motorcycle club continues to say there is no retaliation plan in place. Mike Schulkens in the Attorney for the Iron Horsemen: " I don't think there's a general safety issue for the public but there is a safety issue for Iron Horsemen brothers who are out by themselves with a girlfriend to do something quietly...that worries me...that really does... It really does."

I'm told that what's really adding fuel to the speculation that some kind of serious retaliation is in the future is the fact that the attack on the Iron Horseman in the bar came at a time when all the rest of the Horsemen in the area were out of town for a memorial ride for two of their members. That's being perceived as a really cowardly way of handling things.

Union Township police are still looking for a tenth member of the Detroit Highwaymen in connection to the attack Saturday night.