Bail set at $250,000 for Mongol
Friday, May 14, 2004 | 9:25 a.m.
A 41-year-old member of the Mongols motorcycle gang charged with murder in connection with the 2002 Laughlin River Run riot involving rival Hells Angels had his bail set at $250,000 on Thursday.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Chris Owens had requested Justice of Peace Douglas Smith set bail at $500,000 for Kenneth Dysart.
Owens said the case against Dysart and two other members of the Mongols gang and one member of Hells Angels would likely be handled separately from the other nine defendants facing the same charges.
Owens said the whereabouts of newly charged Mongol gang members Pedro Martinez, Jr., 24, and Victor Medina, 29, and newly charged Hell Angels member Frederick Dennis Donahue, 39, were still unknown.
The four defendants all face charges of murder, second-degree murder, conspiracy and burglary, according to the latest criminal complaint filed this week.
The charges against Dysart, Martinez, Medina and Donahue bring the total number of people charged in connection with the riot at Harrah's Laughlin to 13. Four people died in the melee: Robert Emmet Tumelty, 50, Jeramie Dean Bell, 27, and Anthony Salvador Barrera, 43.
A Clark County grand jury returned a 73-count indictment against the seven Hells Angels and two Mongols April 19.
The indictment alleges that Hells Angels Calvin Schaefer, 34, of Chandler, Ariz., Sohn Regas, 37, of Reno, Dale Leedom, 42, of Two Rivers, Alaska, James Hannigan, 36, of Mountain View, Calif., Raymond Foakes, 40, of Petaluma, Calif., Maurice Eunice, 53, of Lakeside, Calif., and Rodney Cox, 45, Phoenix, along with Mongols Alexander Alcantar, 35, and Roger Pinney, both of Los Angeles, entered Harrah's in Laughlin with the intention of causing or provoking a fight "to assist the activities of the criminal gang."
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