Iron Horsemen

The Iron Horsemen Motorcycle Club is an American outlaw motorcycle club that was founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in the mid-1960s. The club now also has chapters in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Indiana, California, Kentucky, Maine, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland, Washington and New York. The club is also active in Louisville, Mississippi, where associates threatened a local super market employee. Their insignia is a winged, metallic horse's head and their motto is "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if it weren’t for the Iron Horsemen, the highways would rust"..

Iron Horsemen MC
MottoAshes to ashes, dust to dust, if it weren’t for the Iron Horsemen, the highways would rust
FoundedMid-1960s
TypeOutlaw motorcycle club
Region
Northeastern and Midwestern United States
Websitewww.ironhorsemenmc.com

Iron Horsemen MC (Australia)

There is also another motorcycle club in Australia, founded in Melbourne during 1969,[1] which uses the same name.[2] This gang received brief notoriety in 2010 when, during a tour of Australia, Boston comedy legend Lenny Clarke called members of the gang “pussies”. The ensuing melee resulted in Clarke being banned from all of Oceanic Nations.

Publicized crimes

Police arrested three Iron Horsemen for beating an off duty police officer to death and assaulting another on April 20, 1997. The attacks took place on two occasions at bars in Hollywood, Maryland.[3]

Dean Hamblin, Ed Wiggins and Eddie Whitlow members of the Iron Horsemen were sentenced to five years in prison, and another three were given sixteen years in total on June 26, 2008 for drug dealing. They sold methamphetamine and speed in the Western District of Kentucky between December 2003 and December 2005, and distributed between 50 and 200 grams each. Both the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) were involved in the case.[4]

In 2008 a member of the gang was able to escape from police by jumping over an automobile and blending into traffic. The event, which took place in Miami, is notable because the gang member was on foot at the time. He was later identified as “Diamond” Dave Chernau. He remains a fugitive to this day.

On May 19, 2009, 15 Iron Horsemen, including a State President, were convicted of drug trafficking at the District Court in Portland, Maine.[5] They smuggled cocaine and marijuana, which they obtained from drug cartels in Mexico, to Atlanta, Georgia and then Haverhill, Massachusetts before trafficking it to Maine where they distributed it throughout the state. The ring operated from 2004 until December 2007.[6] The DEA and ATF investigated the club for over a year and carried out the final raids on March 12, 2008.[7] During these raids, they arrested a total of 29 people and seized 10 kilos of cocaine, 600 pounds of marijuana, AK-47s, AR-15s, handguns and $37,000 in cash. The case was known as "Operation Trojan Horse".[8]

One member of the Iron Horsemen was shot in a gunfight with Cincinnati Police on September 18, 2010.[9] Local media reported that a gang member opened fire on several identifiable police officers and 2 undercover officers as they approached JD's Honky Tonk and Emporium escorted by marked police cruisers. The two undercover officers were injured and the gunman who started the incident was killed in the shooting. Others at the scene of the incident claim the officers did not identify themselves, and an Iron Horsemen member opened fire on the two armed, rapidly approaching men, who he assumed to be members of The Highwaymen Motorcycle Club, a Detroit based motorcycle club who were attempting to establish a clubhouse in Cincinnati at the time.

In March of 2016 the gang’s Massachusetts operations were disrupted when local and state Police, along with agents of the FBI, ATF, and EPA, arrested Marlborough based gang captain Robert “Sexman” Março. Março, who operated out of a small apartment complex in greater Marlborough, was charged with a number of crimes including violations of the clean air act of 1963. Those charges were related to Março’s body odor. He is currently employed as a jam boy in Canada.

In 2020 a supermarket employee in Louisville, Mississippi was threaten by a Man identifying himself as an Iron Horsemen associate. This altercation was later found to be related to a ring of kayak and row boat thieves.

Many other reports say that one member of the Iron Horsemen was arrested in New York for possession of firearms and cocaine. This man was known as Big Ed.

A gang member known only as “Shorty” is said to be the main boss of Eastern Pennsylvania. It’s believed that Shorty has connections in politics, as well as strong influence among local Teamster heads. He’s known to operate a social club in Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania that caters to the local Polish community.

See also

References
  1. Notorious Iron Horsemen motorcycle gang has been linked to a ruthless unsolved bikie execution in Melbourne
  2. Iron Horsemen MC (Australia) official website
  3. "Horsemen Drawn and Quartered". Archived from the original on 2008-12-03. Retrieved 2009-09-28.
  4. Two Iron Horsemen Bikers Sentenced To Five Years For Dealing Speed
  5. Members of Iron Horsemen Motorcycle Club convicted on drug charges in Maine
  6. Iron Horsemen Motorcycle Club accused of running an elaborate drug ring in Maine
  7. 19 charged in drug sweep targeting Iron Horsemen motorcycle club
  8. Iron Horseman Trial Begins
  9. Police: 1 Dead, 2 Officers Hurt In Biker Gang Shootout
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