18 members of Clarksville motorcycle gang receive prison sentences
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – A total of 18 people associated with a Clarksville motorcycle gang received prison sentences for their roles in various crimes, including murder.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) said all of the defendants’ crimes stemmed from their involvement with the Clarksville Mongols Motorcycle Gang.
Court documents revealed the Clarksville Mongols were a violent motorcycle gang affiliated with the Mongols Motorcycle Club, an international organization that identifies as an “outlaw” motorcycle gang, meaning its members define themselves as within the “1%” of motorcycle clubs who do not adhere to the law or the rights of others. Members are known to identify themselves with vests, patches, tattoos, and insignia, and are known to say things like, “Respect Few, Fear None” and “Live Mongol Die Mongol.”
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Authorities said in early 2015, some of the defendants were looking to transition from another motorcycle club and established the Clarksville Mongols because, at the time, the Mongols did not occupy any territory in Tennessee.
To show loyalty to the Mongols, those defendants committed a drive-by shooting and burned down the Sin City Motorcycle Club’s clubhouses in Clarksville and Nashville, according to investigators.
On May 22, 2015, the Mongols reportedly kidnapped and murdered a young mother because they thought she had stolen narcotics, money, and guns, and had knowledge about the items being stolen. She also reportedly spoke negatively to other people about the Mongols.
On the day she was murdered, the Clarksville Mongols reportedly kidnapped her at gunpoint and drove her to an area behind a secluded cemetery where they shot her. Her body was recovered more than a year after she was murdered, according to the DOJ.
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The Mongols also allegedly engaged in a pattern of racketeering activity from 2015-2018. During that span, officials said the Mongols engaged in various crimes, including murder, attempted murder, kidnapping, assaults, narcotics trafficking, robbery, extortion, money laundering, witness tampering, and numerous gun offenses.
In an effort to establish themselves as the area’s dominant motorcycle club, members of the Clarksville Mongols, with help from Mongols members in California, participated in large-scale drug trafficking and money laundering activities; the members from California reportedly supplied the Clarksville Mongols with over 50 pounds of almost 100% pure methamphetamine worth about $1 million to distribute around Tennessee and Kentucky, according to court documents.
The Clarksville Mongols’ violent crimes continued with the kidnapping and murder of a former Clarksville Mongol on Nov. 19, 2017.
On that day, authorities said the Mongols kidnapped the former member and took him to another member’s house where they held him hostage, zip-tied him, and beat, tortured, and interrogated him for hours, breaking three bones in his neck and five ribs. He also suffered a broken eye socket; one member reportedly told another that they beat the victim so hard that “his flesh was falling off his face.”
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The victim was ultimately killed after the Mongols drove a 10-inch tent stake through his head, according to the DOJ. His body was buried in a secluded field behind an abandoned home and his body was recovered nearly one year later.
The sentences are as follows:
James Wesley Frazier, age 36, was sentenced to Life plus 30 years in federal prison
Aelix Santiago, age 35, was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison
Kyle Heade, age 37, was sentenced to 9 years in federal prison
Joel Aldridge, age 43, was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison
James Hines, age 47, was sentenced to 10 years and 10 months in federal prison
Michael Forrester, Jr., age 35, was sentenced to 17 ½ years in federal prison
Jamie Hern, age 44, was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison
Robert Humiston, age 31, was sentenced to 8 years and 4 months in federal prison
Michael Myers, age 40, was sentenced to 7 years in federal prison
Michael Levi West, age 41, was sentenced to 9 years in federal prison
Adrianna Miles, age 28, was sentenced to 7 years in federal prison
Derek Leighton Stanley, age 49, was sentenced to 18 ½ years in federal prison
William Boylston, age 33, was sentenced to Life plus 7 years in federal prison
Jason Meyerholz, age 49, was sentenced to Life plus 7 years in federal prison
Christopher Michael Wilson, age 41, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison
Jessie Marie Decker, age 38, was sentenced to time served
Janie Lee, age 28, was sentenced to 6 years and 8 months in federal prison
Christian Dykes, age 35, was sentenced to time served
The DOJ said Hines was the last remaining defendant to be sentenced.
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“Today’s sentence concludes a multi-year, coordinated effort by federal, state, and local law
enforcement, our office, and the Justice Department’s Criminal Division to address some of the
worst organized criminal activity we have seen in Middle Tennessee,” said Henry C. Leventis,
United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. “As a result of that outstanding
work, our communities are safer and multiple violent criminals are being held to account for
their actions. I am grateful for the efforts of everyone involved in this remarkable investigation
and prosecution.”
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