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Defendant Sentenced to 123 Months in Prison for RICO Conspiracy and Firearms Charges
Buffalo, NY – Edgar Dekay, a 38-year-old member of the Kingsmen Motorcycle Club, was sentenced to 123 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford for his role in a RICO conspiracy and possession of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Joseph M. Tripi and Brendan T. Cullinane, who handled the case, stated that Dekay admitted to being a member of the Kingsmen Motorcycle Club, a criminal organization which engaged in crimes such as distribution of controlled substances, maintaining premises for use and distribution of controlled substances, possession, use and sale of firearms, sales of untaxed cigarettes, and promoting prostitution.
The Kingsmen Motorcycle Club sought to preserve and protect their power, territory, and reputation through intimidation, violence, threats of violence, assaults, attempted murder and murders, and was involved in placing victims, potential victims, potential witnesses, and others in fear of the enterprise, its members, and associates, through violence and threats of violence.
On September 21, 2012, Dekay participated in a drive-by shooting in order to retaliate against a former KMC member who assaulted a KMC Regional President. On that date, the defendant, along with co-defendants Ryan Myrtle, Thomas Koszuta, and others, used firearms to shoot up the house of a former Kingsmen who beat up a KMC Regional President and who stole from the KMC.
On June 7, 2013, Dekay and other KMC members agreed to “shutdown” the Springville KMC Chapter because members of that chapter were loyal to the former KMC National President, who was forced out of the KMC and replaced as National President by David Pirk. As a result, the “shutdown” included Kingsmen members clubbing the former Springville KMC Chapter President victim in the head with a heavy mag light flashlight, forcibly taking property from members of the KMC Springville Chapter, and destroying evidence of the assault and robbery.
The investigation was led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Safe Streets Task Force, under the direction of Special Agent-in-Charge Gary Loeffert. Assisting in the investigation were the FBI Knoxville, TN, and Jacksonville, FL Field Offices; Homeland Security Investigations; the Erie County Sheriff’s Office; the Buffalo Police Department; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; the New York State Police; the Olean Police Department; the Lancaster Police Department; the Amherst Police Department; the City of North Tonawanda Police Department; the Niagara County’s Sheriff’s Office; the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority Police; the Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Department; and the Hamburg Police Department.
A total of 16 defendants were charged and convicted in this case, including KMC National President David Pirk and Andrew Jenkins who were each sentenced to serve multiple terms of life in prison.
Key Facts
- State: New York
- Category: Organized Crime|Violent Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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