HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that thirteen individuals were sentenced in connection with a cocaine and methamphetamine drug trafficking conspiracy in multiple counties within the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
According to United States Attorney David J. Freed, the individuals, some of whom were members of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gang the Pagan’s Motorcycle Club and affiliated gangs, sold methamphetamine and cocaine hydrochloride, Schedule II controlled substances, between December 2014 and April 2016 in Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, York, Northumberland, Perry and Snyder Counties.
Name
Age
City
Sentence Date
Sentence
Arthur Houze
49
Harrisburg
Sept. 27, 2017
151 months’ imprisonment
Michael Herman
49
Harrisburg
Jan. 3, 2018
120 months’ imprisonment
Scott Ohler
50
Harrisburg
Sept. 28, 2017
110 months’ imprisonment
Michael Finsterbush
50
Lemoyne
Jan. 11, 2017
100 months’ imprisonment
Joseph Newton
47
Selinsgrove
Jan. 30, 2017
96 months’ imprisonment
Phillip Bennett
43
Elizabethtown
May 11, 2017
70 months’ imprisonment
Timothy Watson
42
Lemoyne
Aug. 17, 2017
70 months’ imprisonment
Eric West
29
Shermans Dale
Aug. 3, 2017
70 months’ imprisonment
Justin Spiegle
41
Liverpool
May 11, 2017
60 months’ imprisonment
John Nace
41
York
December 7, 2016
48 months’ imprisonment
Douglas Lesniak
46
Steelton
May 19, 2017
30 months’ imprisonment
Michael Sanders
43
Selinsgrove
April 12, 2017
25 months’ imprisonment
Marcie Herman
47
Harrisburg
April 20, 2017
6 months’ imprisonment and 6 months in-home detention
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Pennsylvania State Police. Assistant U.S. Attorney Chelsea Schinnour prosecuted the case.
This case was brought pursuant to the FBI’s Capital City Safe Streets Gang Task Force initiative. The initiative is designed to reduce gang-related violent crimes through a comprehensive, FBI led law enforcement approach utilizing state of the art investigative efforts to detect, exploit, disrupt, dismantle, and interdict domestic and international gangs.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
