Raid nets area suspects in 2006 carjacking
NORTON – The feds’ bust-up of the Taunton chapter of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club included two members who are suspects in an unsolved Norton carjacking in April 2006.
Joseph “Joe Doggs” Noe, 33, of Taunton, a former club president, and Brian “Clothesline” Delavega, 33, a reputed enforcer for the Outlaws, are named as suspects in an affidavit filed with a federal indictment.
The two gang members allegedly hijacked a Chevy Silverado pickup at gunpoint from two men outside the Sportsman’s Cafe on Route 123 in April 2006, according to the affidavit.
They later allegedly sold the stolen truck for $6,000 to an undercover agent who posed as a Texas businessman involved in insurance fraud and drug trafficking, the affidavit says.
The victims were shaken up, but no one was seriously injured, police said.
Noe and Delavega, of Holbrook, were arrested Tuesday, along with 13 other Outlaw members and associates when the Taunton clubhouse was raided following a two-year undercover investigation dubbed “Operation Roadkill.
Also charged was Timothy J. Silvia, of 10 East Brittannia St. in Taunton.
Silvia formerly lived in Norton and North Attleboro and was charged in the early 1990s with assaulting girlfriends or former girlfriends.
In a North Attleboro domestic assault case in 1995, Silvia’s girlfriend accused him of trying to strangle her and firing a gun over her head.
Police found a bullet hole in a wall and recovered a spent bullet.
Silvia is now charged by the feds with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and attempted possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
The Outlaws is a highly structured gang with 90 chapters worldwide, including three in Massachusetts.
They have been embroiled in violent confrontations with the Hells Angels, according to acting U.S. Attorney Michael K. Loucks. The other local chapters of the Outlaws are in Brockton and East Boston, he said.
During the investigation, a task force of FBI agents, state police, and Brockton and Taunton police seized 17 guns, 116 grams of cocaine and $100,000 cash, according to Loucks.
