FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MOTORCYCLE CLUB MEMBER SENTENCED
FOR METH CONSPIRACY
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Matt J. Whitworth, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a motorcycle club member was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
William Eneff, also known as “Muff,” 59, of Lee’s Summit, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Fernando J. Gaitan this morning to seven years in federal prison without parole.
On June 3, 2009, Eneff pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine between Jan. 1, 2002, and May 31, 2007.
Eneff, a member of the El Forastero Motorcycle Club, admitted that members of El Forastero and the affiliated Galloping Goose Motorcycle Club were required to annually pay dues and attend a certain number of motorcycle trips, known as runs, each year. On each run, the members were required to pay money that was pooled, or collected by each club charter, then forwarded to the specific Galloping Goose or El Forastero charter that hosted the particular motorcycle run in order to purchase methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana. Those drugs were maintained in run bags, which were distributed to all club members who attended the run.
Eneff was released from prison in 2005 and resumed his membership with El Forastero upon his release. Eneff admitted that he paid his required dues and attended at least three runs between 2005 and 2007.
Five additional members of the motorcycle clubs have also pleaded guilty and await sentencing: Timothy R. Davis, 50, of Kansas City, Mo., Donald Culey, also known as “Kooly,” 41, of Kansas City, Kan., Donald Street, also known as “Donnie,” 37, of Edwardsville, Kan., and Michael Fitzwater, also known as “Holms,” 61, and Michael Hensley, also known as “Joe Poke,” 44, addresses unknown. Each of the defendants admitted that, as active members, they participated in the distribution of between 500 and 1,500 grams of methamphetamine.
Galloping Goose MC's roots go back to 1942's Los Angeles, California, however they were not an official club until 1946. “Galloping Goose” was the name of a motorcycle owned by Dick Hershberg. The word “Galloping Goose” and the image of the running finger (seen on the Galloping Goose Motorcycle Club patch) was painted on the gas tank. Dick Hershberg’s group of followers were known as the “Galloping Goose”, or “GG Bunch”. Originally the group met at the Pullman Bar, which was located near Union Station, Los Angeles. The original patch was designed at this bar by John Altoon, who was a famous tattoo artist and a close friend of Dick Hershberg.
The club is important in a historical sense because of their long history dating back to the 1947 Hollister Riot in California.While the stories of the riot vary significantly, it is safe to say that alcohol, motorcycle hooliganism and street fights caused the vast amount of damage to the community protected by The Hollister Police Force which was said to consist of seven men.
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Following the events at Hollister the American Motorcyclist Association was said to make a statement which included a line similar to the following: “99% of motorcyclists are good, decent, law-abiding citizens”.This led to usage of 1%er patches that Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs use to identify their criminal elements.
El Forastero MC established in 1962 in Sioux City, Iowa by Tom Fugle and Harlan Brower after gettimg turned down by Satan's Slaves to start a chapter in Iowa. El Forastero (The Outsider in Spanish) made to the law enforcement map listing in Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota and South Dakota. It is said that El Forastero Motorcycle Club gave Galloping Goose Motorcycle Club their first one percenter patch during a night of drinking together, making them brother clubs by sharing patches with each other.
"When we met up with the El Forasteros, they were saying they were 1%er El Forasteros. So, we being stupid drunks said 'yeah, well we are the
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