Socializing with Outlaws cost a Knox County Sheriff’s Office deputy her job. Joining them netted an ex-bouncer one.



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“I have information another member of the sheriff’s department was fired for hanging out with the motorcycle club,” defense attorney Mike Whalen said at a preliminary hearing for two Outlaws Motorcycle Club leaders accused of robbing and kidnapping a bouncer turned undercover deputy. “What I want to know is: Did (KCSO Deputy Joseph Linger) join the motorcycle club so he could get hired?” It took two rounds of aggressive cross-examination to get that answer. “So you were happy with your career in bouncer world?” Whalen asked at one point. “Other than joining the motorcycle club, had you developed some other skill qualifying you for the job?” Linger finally conceded he joined the Outlaws in August 2008 after a KCSO buddy told him the agency “would be interested” if he could infiltrate the group. Sheriff Jimmy “J.J.” Jones acknowledged after the hearing that a female deputy who sometimes rode with the Outlaws resigned after being confronted about violating the agency’s policy against socializing with suspected criminals.

Source: Joining Outlaws Motorcycle Club earned deputy his job