Posted on 12/07/2007 2:28:01 PM PST by Coleus
A member of the Pagans motorcycle gang was sentenced to 28 years in prison yesterday for killing a Hillsborough man wearing a rival Hells Angels T-shirt in a Manville bar. William "Rodent" Martin, 35, of North Plainfield, faced life in prison when his murder trial began in Somerville in September. But only two days into the trial, Martin and codefendant Peter Ciarletta, 30, of Warren, reached separate deals with the state and pleaded guilty to lesser charges.
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The black T-shirt he was wearing on April 17, 2005 was given to him by a friend, witnesses testified. Somerset County Assistant Prosecutor Joseph Rocchietti called the incident "a senseless killing over a shirt."
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Two bad ass idiots gone. One forever and one for a measly 28 years. With luck he will meet his doom in prison.
Didn’t read the article did you? Unless you just hate mechanics.
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Fortunately outsiders are seldom caught up in the violence of motorcycle gangs. Unfortunately they’re America’s violent export. Seems that I read about Norway having an exceptionally violent brand of Hells Angels.
On the other hand most cycle clubs aren’t involved in drugs and crime. I’ve known a lot of bikers and almost to a man they were good people.
According to the clueless journalist, the family found
“justice.”Not true. Justice would have required immediate application of the death penalty, something impossible in Liberal New Jersey.
Reportedly Sweden also.
The History channel ran an interesting show about the Hells Angels just the other day. The show had two cops who were under some deep cover with them. When one of the cops was pulled off the case they came up with a cover story that he had been killed by a rival gang (The Mongols). To make it good the remaining cop staged a murder in Mexico to claim it was to avenge his friend.
Interesting.
The cops on the show (DEA agents i think) ended up bringing about a major bust. Thanks to our justice system there were lots of acquittals, suspended sentences and not guilty verdicts. Those cops will live the rest of their lives looking over their shoulders.
If “staged the murder” meant actually carrying one out as a ruse, I can see quite how their credibility in court went down the toilet.
I love these yuppies that wear 81 shirts. They have no clue.
It was a cover story to pull one of the cops out. They claimed that the first cop was killed by a rival gang and to make a better story the second cop claimed that he was going to avenge his friend.
The police staged a murder scene and the undercover cop took pictures back to show to the biker gang and they ended up admitting him as a full member of the gang.
Rather lax of the gang. I’d have thought they would have wanted more, like news coverage or another witness from the same gang. Anybody can play dead and sprinkle ketchup.
They were pretty elaborate about it. It was supposedly a member of a gang in mexico that the Arizona Hells Angels don’t encounter much. Also it was set up to be a murder and burial in a shallow grave in the desert (no police) They even put part of a cows stomach on the guy’s head and it looked pretty realistic when they were done.
I think the name of the show was “In search of history - Arizona Hells angels”.
Here’s a good story about it.
http://www.azcentral.com/specials/special42/articles/0123hellsangels23.html
Gee, almost any shmoe who could visit a butcher shop and buy a disposable camera could do that.
As to the “other gang” — they had to know that, until the ruse was exposed, that added the other gang to the HA’s target list. Unless a truce is bargained, it’s like Hatfield and McCoy. If something had happened as a result, I wonder how the pair would have felt ethically about that.
Dealing with informants is always messy. They had to fake the murder in the first place because the informant got caught with drugs.
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