Massachusetts - Court records: Hells Angels member tried to become FBI informant

OFF THE WIRE
 berkshireeagle.com
PITTSFIELD -- Court records filed today before the arraignment of Adam Lee Hall and his two alleged accomplices for triple murder depict a Hells Angel desperate to avoid prison at any cost.
The records detail a September 2010 meeting between Hall, the third in command of the local Hells Angels chapter, and the FBI, during which Hall, 34, of Peru, told agents he could "take down" many East Coast chapters of the Hells Angels, including the Berkshire County one, which had posted its Lee clubhouse as collateral for a $250,000 bail on which Hall was released from jail last year.
According to the probable cause report, Hall told federal agents he was willing to wear a wire and could provide information against many Hell's Angels members who deal drugs, sell firearms and commit other crimes.
In exchange, Hall demanded to be released from jail and have his criminal charges reduced to the point where he wouldn't face any time behind bars, according to the report.
The FBI declined to accept Hall's offer, fearing that he was uncontrollable and "much too dangerous," according to the report.
David Glasser was scheduled to testify against Hall, who was facing charges of kidnapping, extortion, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, witness intimidation, illegal possession of a firearm, and selling cocaine.
Before Glasser's murder last month, Hall in 2009 attempted to frame Glasser with a robbery in an effort discredit him, according to police.
After that plot unraveled, Hall allegedly said several times that Glasser needed to "disappear" before Hall's trial, which had been scheduled for this September.
Indeed, Glasser and two of his friends vanished from the Linden Street apartment where they were hanging out on Aug. 28, the day Tropical Storm Irene blew through Berkshire County.
Glasser's two friends, Edward S. Frampton, 58 and Robert T. Chadwell, 47, were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, District Attorney David F. Capeless said. According to police, they were killed to ensure there were no witnesses to the crime.
On Saturday, police discovered the remains of the three men buried together, dumped on private land in a deep trench that had been covered with large boulders and dirt, according the report. Authorities have not disclosed the burial site's location.
According to witnesses, Hall had inquired about the availability of excavation equipment several weeks before the murder.
Police found Hall, Caius D. Veiovis, 31, of Pittsfield and David Thomas Chalue, 44, of North Adams and Springfield, in Veiovis' vehicle together a week after the murder. According to their report, police found blood in the interior of the vehicle.
Witnesses told police that, on the night of the murder, Hall dropped off a vehicle used in the murder to be crushed at a local junk dealer.
Hall, Veiovis and Thomas were each arraigned in Central Berkshire District Court today on three counts of murder, kidnapping and witness intimidation.