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Two members of the Gypsy Joker Outlaw Motorcycle Club (GJOMC) were sentenced to life in federal prison yesterday for kidnapping, torturing, and murdering a former club member.
GJOMC Portland clubhouse president Mark Leroy Dencklau, 61, of Woodburn, Oregon, and member Chad Leroy Erickson, 51, of Rainier, Oregon, received life sentences after beingconvicted at trialin December 2021 of murder in aid of racketeering; kidnapping in aid of racketeering, resulting in death; kidnapping resulting in death; and conspiracy to commit kidnapping, resulting in death. Additionally, Dencklau was found guilty of racketeering conspiracy.
According to court documents and trial testimony, the GJOMC is a criminal organization wherein members and associates maintain their position and status in the organization by participating in, directly or indirectly, various acts of violent racketeering activity including murder, kidnapping, robbery, extortion, narcotics trafficking, and witness tampering. From 2003 until his arrest in 2018, Dencklau served as the president of the GJOMC''s Portland chapter.
According to evidence presented at trial, on July 1, 2015, the body of Robert Huggins, an estranged member of the GJOMC Portland chapter, was found lying in a field in Clark County, Washington. Huggins'' body was badly beaten, and appeared to have been tortured prior to his death. Huggins was previously stripped of his club membership for allegedly stealing from the club and from Dencklau in particular. Following this robbery, Dencklau directed GJOMC members to find Huggins.
According to testimony presented at trial, on the evening of June 30, 2015, Dencklau and others kidnapped Huggins from a residence in Portland and transported him to a rural property in Southwest Washington. Over the course of several hours, Huggins was severely beaten and tortured. He sustained numerous injuries to his head and face, including a fractured skull, as well as lacerations to his chest and torso. Trial evidence showed that Erickson, who took part in the torture of Huggins, slashed Huggin''s tattoo with a knife and then stabbed him in the leg. He then helped load Huggins into a vehicle and left him in a field. A medical examiner ruled that Huggins'' death was caused by multiple blunt and sharp force injuries.
Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. of the Justice Department''s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Scott Erik Asphaug for the District of Oregon, and Special Agent in Charge Jonathan T. McPherson of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Seattle Field Division made the announcement.
This case was investigated by the Portland Police Bureau and ATF, with assistance from the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF), U.S. Marshals Service, IRS-Criminal Investigation, the Clark County Sheriff''s Office, Oregon State Police and the Oregon and Washington State Crime Labs.
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PORTLAND — A judge has sentenced the Gypsy Joker Motorcycle Club Portland chapter president and another club member to life in prison for the torture-style killing of an ex-club member.
U.S. District Judge Michael W. Mosman issued the mandatory minimum sentences for Mark Leroy Dencklau and Chad Leroy Erickson in federal court in Portland Thursday, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported.
Prosecutors described Dencklau as the "ringleader" of a criminal enterprise who orchestrated the kidnapping, torture and killing of 56-year-old Robert "Bagger" Huggins Jr., on June 20, 2015.
Huggins was a Gypsy Joker member pushed out of the club in 2014 for stealing money from the Portland clubhouse to pay for heroin. The killing was punishment for robbing Dencklau''s Woodburn home, prosecutors said.
Lawyers for Dencklau, 60, of Woodburn, and Erickson, 51, of Rainier, both urged a lesser sentence, saying a life sentence amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.
A jury in November convicted Dencklau of racketeering conspiracy, murder in aid of racketeering, kidnapping in aid of racketeering resulting in death, kidnapping resulting in death, and conspiracy to commit kidnapping resulting in death.
Erickson was convicted of murder and kidnapping in aid of racketeering, conspiracy to kidnap and kidnapping resulting in death and found not guilty of engaging in a racketeering conspiracy.
Both men plan to appeal their sentences.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Two members of the Gypsy Joker Outlaw Motorcycle Club were sentenced to life in federal prison on Wednesday for the 2015 kidnapping, torture and murder of a former fellow member.
Mark Leroy Dencklau, 51, of Woodburn and Chad Leroy Erickson, 51, of Rainier were convicted in December of a laundry list of federal crimes related to the killing.
Dencklau was president of the Gypsy Joker club''s Portland chapter from 2003 until his arrest, federal prosecutors said, also overseeing a handful of "support clubs" that aided the flagship gang and served as a source of recruitment for new members.
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