Pagans informant dead in apparent suicide
An informant in the federal racketeering case against the Pagans Motorcycle Club died in Ohio over the weekend in what police are treating as a suicide.
Wes Hudnall, who had a history of drug use and mental illness, died at the Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton on Sunday, one day after he apparently shot himself in the head in an apartment in nearby New Lebanon, said New Lebanon Police Sgt. David Adkins.
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Wes Hudnall, who had a history of drug use and mental illness, died at the Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton on Sunday, one day after he apparently shot himself in the head in an apartment in nearby New Lebanon, said New Lebanon Police Sgt. David Adkins.
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"Right now, it's being investigated as most likely a suicide," said Adkins. "I believe the coroner's office is going to call it a suicide, and [based on] all indications that we have right now, that's what we're believing also." The person who discovered Hudnall ran screaming from the apartment, and neighbors called 911, Adkins said. Police found a 9 mm pistol in the apartment, he said. The officer wasn't sure how long Hudnall had been living in New Lebanon, a town of 4,200 residents about six miles west of Dayton. Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Loew disclosed Hudnall's death on Monday to U.S. District Judge Thomas E. Johnston and defense attorneys for defendants with charges still pending. At an earlier hearing, Loew had noted that the Pagans prosecution did not rest solely on the testimony of Hudnall, because his information had been corroborated by other evidence and by at least one defendant who has already pleaded guilty. Hudnall worked as a confidential informant, or CI, with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Explosives and Firearms. |
Source: Pagans informant dead in apparent suicide
