Lee’s Summit biker gang member sentenced for assault on rival gang member
A Lee’s Summit man involved in a motorcycle club was sentenced to nearly seven years in federal prison Thursday after he and three other men assaulted a rival gang member.
Mark Crump, 55, known as “Navajo” in the Pagan’s Motorcycle Club, pleaded guilty in September to one count of assault resulting in serious bodily injury in aid of racketeering.
Thursday, he was sentenced to 80 months in federal prison for his role in the incident, according to a news release from Dave Ketchmark, an executive assistant to United States Attorney R. Matthew Price.
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives classifies the motorcycle club as “an outlaw gang,” according to its website. The agency said the club is “known to engage in illegal activity, including narcotics trafficking, weapons trafficking and violent crimes.”
In Aug. 2024, 18 of the club’s members, including 16 men from Missouri, were indicted in federal court in connection with a series of armed assaults on rival organizations.
On July 20, 2023, Crump, Jarrid Hammer, known as “Hammer,” and another member of the club assaulted a rival motorcycle gang member at a bar and grill in North Kansas City, Ketchmark said.
According to the release, Hammer, who pleaded guilty to the assault on June 18, told the rival member the trio was there to shut the victim’s club down. He then flipped over the victim’s table before the three began “stomping, kicking and punching” the victim.
The three men were wearing steel-toed boots at the time, the rival member told law enforcement. They fled the area before police arrived.
The victim was transported to an area hospital with 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.
Rival organizations of the Pagan’s Motorcycle Club include the infamous biker gang Hell’s Angels, along with the Outlaws, El Forastero, Galloping Goose, Sons of Silence and Bandidos biker gangs.
According to a 2024 indictment in Crump’s case, assaults are often committed by the club in order to protect and expand territory, intimidate rivals, conceal members from law enforcement and advance extracurricular criminal projects.
Pagan’s Motercycle Club 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.
