The last of the Clarksville Mongols Motorcycle Club was sentenced to federal prison on Wednesday.
After years of investigations, 18 members of the Motorcycle Club were federally prosecuted for RICO conspiracy, murder, kidnapping, large-scale drug trafficking, money laundering, and other crimes in Tennessee and Kentucky.
47-year-old James Hines was sentenced to 10 years and 10 months in prison this week.
A Trenton woman — 38-year-old Jessie Decker — was one of the 18 members charged and was previously sentenced to time served in jail.
Decker was accused of stealing mail to find money and checks for the furthering of criminal activity.
During the years-long investigation, prosecutors said club members set fire to and destroyed the Sin City Motorcycle Clubhouse in Clarksville on May 17, 2015.
Two months later, club members conducted a home invasion in Hopkinsville and pistol-whipped the resident, and stole his belongings while holding the victim at knifepoint.
In 2016, club members were charged with assaulting two people at a residence in Clarksville and holding them at gunpoint while they interrogated one of the victims and searched the residence for drug proceeds.
Prosecutors said some of the 18 members charged also participated in two murders.
Investigators said Stephanie Bradley was kidnapped and murdered in May 2015. They said the Mongols abducted her at gunpoint and took her behind a secluded cemetery in Bumpus Mills where they killed her. Her body was not discovered until 15 months later. Prosecutors said the Mongols believed Bradley had stolen narcotics, money, and firearms, knew about the theft, and had spoken negatively about the gang.
In November 2017, four Clarksville Mongols members were charged with the murder of former Mongol, Stephen Cole, who was taken to a member’s house in Trenton where he was held captive and brutally beaten, tortured, and interrogated for hours. He was eventually killed with a tent stake. His body was buried in a secluded field behind an abandoned residence and was found nearly a year later.
Prosecutors and investigators said the crimes were committed to establish themselves as the area’s dominant motorcycle club, members and associates of the Clarksville Mongols also took part in large-scale drug trafficking and money-laundering activities with the help of Mongols members from California who supplied the Clarksville Mongols with more than 50 pounds of almost 100% pure methamphetamine worth approximately $1 million for distribution in and around Tennessee and Kentucky.
One of the 18 people charged, James Wesley Frazier of Clarksville, was sentenced to life plus 30 years in federal prison. 14 others were previously sentenced to at least seven years in federal prison for their crimes.
