Beyond the Hells Angels: other motorcycle clubs in South Carolina

Federal court records and Justice Department releases place the Outlaws (a Rock Hill clubhouse in 2008) and the Pagans (a territorial conflict with the Hells Angels recorded in a 1999 appeals opinion, and a 2021 Aiken County drug stop) in South Carolina. Sheriffs and local news document the Warlocks across the Midlands and Pee Dee, and the Outcast, Thunderguards, Wheels of Soul, Red Devils, Black Jacks and other clubs in cases from Chester to Charleston. Hells Angels are covered in a separate profile. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Key South Carolina cases

On July 11, 2017, Tommie Lee Causey Jr. of Chester was sentenced in federal court in Columbia to 110 months for possession of a stolen firearm; the court noted his membership in the Outcast Motorcycle Club. In July 2021, Aiken County officers stopped Pagans member Justin Matthew Fite on a motorcycle carrying nearly two kilograms of crystal methamphetamine in a saddlebag; he was sentenced to 330 months on February 10, 2023. [6][3]

On September 18, 2018, Lexington County deputies charged Robert Glenn Hardee, 38, with trafficking cocaine; the sheriff stated Hardee is a validated Warlocks member and that the gang unit documented the group as a criminal gang under South Carolina law. WIS reported on June 27, 2017, that the Kershaw County sheriff pursued a Warlocks member from Leesville at 104 mph on I-20. On August 19, 2015, the USAO-SC reported a meth supplier whose Bamberg customers supplied members of an unnamed motorcycle gang. [4][8][9]

On November 8, 2022, Lexington County deputies charged Shane Andrzejewski, Joshua Allen Dutton, Casey Thomas Goodson and William Douglas McGathen Simpson with murder, conspiracy and seven counts of attempted murder in the October 8, 2022, shooting of Timothy Brock near South Lake Drive and I-20; the sheriff said the men and Brock were from rival motorcycle groups. The State reported that social media showed three of the men identifying as Red Devils members or affiliates. [10][11]

In October 2021, the Greenwood County sheriff described a shooting at Club 153 as a dispute among Outcast Motorcycle Club members during a meeting. WSPA reported on March 23, 2022, that a former Cherokee County 911 operator was accused of giving NCIC data to a Black Jacks Motorcycle Club member between May 2 and November 5, 2021. [12][13]

Where it stands

The Iron Order Motorcycle Club's own South Carolina page lists Aiken, Greenville, Jasper, Richland and Sumter county sections. Wikipedia, used here only as last-resort background, reports that the club states it is not a one-percent club; that article is largely uncited. No public South Carolina source found for this profile classifies the Iron Order as an outlaw club or documents a criminal case against it in the state. [14][15]

The most recent South Carolina-linked public records found are the 2022 Lexington County murder charges, the 2022 Cherokee County NCIC case and the February 2023 Pagans sentencing tied to the 2021 Aiken County stop. No 2024-2026 USAO-SC or SC Attorney General release naming an outlaw motorcycle club was located. [10][13][3]

The full profile, with every source, the county records and a dated timeline, is on the group page.