District Court in the Northern District of Iowa with racketeering, multiple counts of money laundering, conspiracy and committing violence in aid of racketeering. Gruber and McAlister are among 14 members or former members of the Sons of Silence who were indicted in Cedar Rapids in November 1994. Tuesday at 117 G Street in Ephrata, where the fugitive had been staying.įBI agents went to Ephrata after developing a lead while arresting Gruber earlier Tuesday at an undisclosed location in Tacoma, officials said. The pair have been sought since November 1994.īoth have ties to the Sons of Silence, which has chapters in at least eight states, authorities say.įederal law enforcement authorities say members of the biker gang have records of violence and drug trafficking, and ties with the Hells Angels.Īn FBI team from Seattle and Ephrata police arrested McAlister about 9:15 p.m. Jeffrey “No Mind” Gruber, 38, and Robert “Bronc” McAlister, 42, are wanted in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on federal racketeering charges. For more on outlaw motorcycle clubs go to the Outlaw Bikers section on Gangsters Inc.Two fugitive members of a notorious Midwestern outlaw motorcycle gang are in custody after separate arrests in eastern and western Washington.Mess around with the wrong person and you learn the hard way. Last week, he was sentenced to 10 months in prison.Ĭarlson was released on the bond previously set and is to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on a date yet to be set. He pleaded guilty on Maguilty plea to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Why should they be? After the confrontation, police searched Carlson’s home in Sheffield, Iowa, and recovered Carlson’s Sons of Silence motorcycle vest, which had a brass knuckles in the pocket, numerous items of Sons of Silence paraphernalia, and two firearms.Īs a convicted felon, Carlson isn’t allowed to own a firearm, let alone two. Of course, the “gang in blue” isn’t easily intimidated. READ: Pagans bikers charged with beating of Hells AngelĪmong the intimidating bunch was 38-year-old Justin Carlson (photo above), the enforcer for the Northern Iowa Chapter of the Sons of Silence Motorcycle Club.On April 5, 2020, several members of the Sons of Silence Motorcycle Club and another affiliated group confronted a motorcyclist, who was an off-duty police officer, claiming the officer needed permission from the Sons of Silence to wear one of the patches on the back of the motorcyclist’s jacket. But this time the guy they confronted was an off-duty police officer. So when they see other motorcycle riders wearing a patch they feel he shouldn’t, they confront him.
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