Jury Convicts 3 Hells Angels Members

Three members of the Hells Angels gang have been convicted on charges of racketeering conspiracy, drug trafficking, money laundering and firearm offenses, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office. 

Mark Baker, who is president of the Rock Hill chapter and also know as Lightening, David Olier, also known as Gravel Dave, and Bruce Long, also known as Bruce-Bruce, were found guilty by a federal jury March 14 in a trial that lasted almost five weeks. 

Federal District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie will sentence Baker, Olier, and Long in the coming months. 

Federal prosecutors say the Hells Angels members operated a criminal enterprise in the Rock Hill and Lexington areas and involving cocaine, methamphetamines and weapons. 

Leadership of the gang coordinated the criminal activity and received a cut of the proceeds generated by the other members, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. 

In January, another member of the gang, and faces up to 20 years in prison.

Investigators' initial insight into the gang's drug trafficking came through Bifield, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Bifield supplied cocaine to a person cooperating with law enforcement.

After arranging the cocaine deal in various calls and meetings, Dan Bifield and his wife, Lisa Bifield, first supplied cocaine to the person cooperating with law enforcement in July 2011, as well as bath salts to be mixed with the cocaine, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Bifield later put long in charge of supplying the cocaine, requiring that Bifield and the Hells Angels get a cut of the profits. 

Olier also supplied cocaine and methamphetamines to the person cooperating with law enforcement, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Olier also offered to supply larger quantities of narcotics several times. 

Baker, Olier, Long, Bifield and other Hells Angels members were also involved in trafficking pain pills and weapons, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. 

They supplied more than 40 firearms to an informant who they believed was a felon who was planning to rob another drug dealer, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Baker, Olier and Long each face a maximum sentence of life and a mandatory minimum sentence of at least 10 years in federal prison.

Six defendants previously pleaded guilty to a racketeering conspiracy and each face up to 20 years in prison:

• Dan Bifield (a/k/a Diamond Dan) 
• Richard Thrower (a/k/a Little Mark, a/k/a Rat)
• David Pryor (a/k/a Yard Owl) 
• Fred Keach (a/k/a Big Fred)
• Frank Enriquez (a/k/a Big Frank)
• Johanna Looper 

Three defendants previously pleaded guilty to a narcotics conspiracy:

• Kerry Chitwood (a/k/a Gowilla) 
• Ron Byrum (a/k/a Big Ron) 
• Trent Brown

Chitwood faces a maximum sentence of life and a mandatory minimum sentence of 20. years. Byrum faces a maximum sentence of life, and Brown faces up to 40 years in prison.

Lisa Bifield pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking and a crime of violence and faces a maximum of life in prison and a mandatory minimum of five years.

James Rhodus (a/k/a Sonny) pleaded guilty to money laundering, and Bruce Wilson (a/k/a Diesel) pleaded guilty to selling a firearm to a known felon. Rhodus faces up to twenty years, while Wilson faces up to 10 years in federal prison.