Missouri biker gang member pleads guilty to 2024 North Kansas City assault
A Lee’s Summit man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Tuesday in the assault against a member of a rival motorcycle club.
Mark Crump, 55, known as “Navajo” in the Pagan’s Motorcycle Club, pleaded guilty to one count of assault resulting in serious bodily injury in aid of racketeering, according to a press release from executive legal assistant Bailey Coulter.
On July 20, 2023, Crump, Jarrid Hammer, known as “Hammer,” and another member of the Pagan’s Motorcycle Club assaulted a rival motorcycle gang member at a bar and grill in North Kansas City, Missouri, according to the press release.
According to the press release, Hammer, who pleaded guilty to the assault on June 18, told the rival member they were there to shut the victim’s club down. He then allegedly flipped over the victim’s table before the three began “stomping, kicking and punching” the victim.
The rival member later told law enforcement the three individuals were wearing steel-toed boots, according to the press release.
The victim was transported to an area hospital suffering from a brain bruise, rib fracture, bruised lung, collapsed lung, traumatic brain injury and hemothorax; the “accumulation of blood in the area between the chest wall and lungs,” according to the press release.
The press release states Crump could face a sentence of up to 20 years in prison without the possibility of parole.
The plea comes nearly a year after 18 motorcycle gang members, including 16 from Missouri, were indicted in federal court in connection to a series of armed assaults on members of rival organizations.
All 18 individuals were identified as members of the Pagan’s Motorcycle Club, which is classified by the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as “an outlaw motorcycle group.”
Rival organizations to the Missouri group include the infamous biker group Hell’s Angels, along with the Outlaws, El forastero, Galloping Goose, Sons of Silence and Bandidos biker groups.
Assaults by the Pagan’s Motorcycle Club are often committed in order to protect and expand territory, intimidate rivals, conceal members from law enforcement and advance extracurricular criminal projects, according to the 2024 indictment.
The Pagan’s is a national organization with multiple active chapters in Missouri. Other members have been previously charged with drug trafficking, robbery, extortion, assault and attempted murder.
