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DETROIT - -Metro officers, attorney face charges from FBI drug investigation of motorcycle gang.-

A former Detroit reserve police officer told members of a notorious motorcycle gang who among them was a snitch. A Hamtramck officer told them which gang members were under surveillance. And a Garden City officer joined the gang and got involved in drug sales. Those are the allegations by federal authorities in a stinging indictment released Thursday.

The Metro Detroit police officers were among four indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday on drug charges and for lying to federal agents and a grand jury.

The charges are an outgrowth of the massive federal investigation into the Highwaymen Motorcycle Club, considered Metro Detroit's largest outlaw motorcycle gang, accused of being involved in drug dealing, murder for hire, interstate theft, acts of violence, mortgage and insurance fraud and police corruption.

"As troubling as any criminal charges are, these indictments are an egregious example of police corruption," Murphy said in a written statement. "It is conduct that undermines the public's faith in the integrity of the criminal justice system and besmirches the profession of the thousands of police officers and agents who perform their duties with the utmost integrity, bravery, and sense of ethics."

The men will be arraigned today in federal court, said Gina Balaya, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Detroit office.

The feds also filed a criminal complaint against attorney Lee O'Brien for allegedly lying to federal agents in the Highwaymen case. O'Brien was accused in 2005 of trying to coerce State Attorney General Mike Cox into dropping his investigation of Southfield attorney Geoffrey Fieger's campaign against Michigan Supreme Court Justice Stephen Markman.

O'Brien told a Cox aide that Fieger would reveal Cox's extramarital affair unless the investigation "went away." Cox then went public himself with the information.

Also indicted on Wednesday was a member of the Highwaymen, Sean Donovan, who is currently in a Michigan prison on stolen property charges. Donovan was charged with possession with intent to distribute marijuana and a prescription pain killer.

The Highwaymen, founded in Detroit in 1954, gained infamy in the 1970s when some members were convicted of bombing and raiding homes and clubhouses of rivals.

If convicted, the suspects face sentences ranging from 5-20 years in prison and fines as high as a $1 million.

During the investigation, prosecutors uncovered evidence that one of the officers, David Tomlan, 35, had become a member of the motorcycle group. Tomlan, later terminated by the Garden City police, allegedly lied to agents about his contact with a club member. He also was charged with possession with intent to distribute cocaine and steroids.

He could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

Others charged include Brownstown Police Officer Michael Ramsey, former Detroit reserve officer Dennis Abraham and Hamtramck officer Randell Hutchinson.

Ramsey and Abraham are charged with lying to agents and a grand jury. Ramsey allegedly learned about an informant within the Highwaymen and Abraham allegedly took this information and warned a club member that someone was an informant.

Hutchinson, assigned to the Drug Enforcement Agency task force in Metro Detroit, allegedly told a Highwaymen member that the FBI was wiretapping a club member. He also advised a member how to tell if cops were "focusing on him." Hutchinson was indicted for participating in a conspiracy to distribute steroids.

Neither Ramsey, Abraham nor Hutchinson could be reached.

Another Brownstown officer was charged last year with lying to the FBI in connection with the case. That charge was later dismissed.

Mike Wilkinson
detnews.com
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