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    Hells Angels fugitive captured in Argentina




    Hells Angel member arrested in Argentina

    A member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club charged with murder and other crimes in Arizona was captured Thursday in Argentina, ending an eight-year search for one of the U.S. Marshals Service's most wanted fugitives.

    Paul Eischeid, 39, is accused in the 2001 beating and stabbing death of Cynthia Garcia, a Mesa woman who was assaulted after insulting the Hells Angels while attending a party at the biker group's East Valley headquarters.

    According to the Marshals Service, Eischeid was tracked to Buenos Aires and apprehended in a joint operation by Interpol, Argentine police and numerous U.S. law-enforcement agencies.

    "Eischeid's crimes were horrendous, and his potential for continued violence made his arrest a priority," said Stacia Hylton, director of the U.S. Marshals Service."

    Because of a clean record and his professional background, Eischeid was released from jail after his 2003 arrest, although he was required to wear an electronic monitoring instrument. After he removed the device and vanished, he was listed among the Marshals Service's 15 most wanted fugitives and featured on America's Most Wanted.

    Tom Henman, a Marshals Service spokesman in Arizona, said Eischeid was arrested without incident. He said Eischeid was living under an alias and had changed his appearance.

    "He put on some weight, had a goatee with the beard part down to his chest, and he'd shaved his head," Henman said.

    Eischeid, a former stockbroker who belonged to the Hells Angels chapter in Mesa, was indicted in 2003 for drug trafficking and racketeering violations that included the kidnap-murder of Garcia.

    According to court records, three men participated in the killing. One of them, a confidential informant for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, was allowed to plead guilty to manslaughter in return for a sentence with no prison time. The other, Hells Angels associate Kevin Augustiniak, is awaiting trial.

    All of the suspects were part of a major Hells Angels investigation, Operation Black Biscuit, which targeted more than a dozen members of the biker outfit statewide. The case in U.S. District Court mostly collapsed due to problems with informers and evidence, causing charges to be dropped.

    The federal murder case against Augustiniak also was dismissed, but he subsequently was indicted in Maricopa County Superior Court for the same crime. It is listed as a death-penalty case. Defense attorney Daniel Raynak said he does not anticipate that Eischeid's arrest will influence the case against his client.

    "We're ready to go, and we anticipate going in September," Raynak said.

    Representatives from the U.S. Attorney's Office and Maricopa County Attorney's Office could not immediately say whether the prosecution of Eischeid will proceed in federal court, or whether that charge will be replaced by a state indictment as it was with Augustiniak.

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    Kevin Augustiniak Sentenced


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    Kevin Augustiniak, a member of the Mesa, Arizona charter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, was sentenced to 23 years in prison by a Maricopa County Superior Court Judge named Peter Reinstein yesterday for the murder of a woman named Cynthia Yvonne Garcia in Phoenix in October 2001.

    For the last decade Garcia’s murder has been used to exemplify the alleged inherent psychopathy of all members and friends of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club.

    Garcia, a 44-year-old mother of six who has been widely described as a substance abuser, was killed after going to the Mesa clubhouse in October 2001. Garcia was beaten at the clubhouse and stabbed after being taken into the desert in the trunk of a car. Four patched Angels and two prospects were in the clubhouse around the time Garcia was beaten. The prospects were named Dennis Gilliard and David LeMoine. The four patch holders were Augustiniak (above), Paul Eischeid, Richard Hyder and Michael Christopher “Mesa Mike” Kramer.

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    According to multiple sources, the architect of the murder was Kramer. Kramer was the most senior club member there and he was intoxicated on methamphetamine at the time. Kramer punched Garcia and knocked her off a bar stool for “mouthing off.”

    He kicked the woman and ordered Augustiniak, Eischeid and Hyder to join in the assault. Kramer ordered the other Angels to throw Garcia in the trunk of his car. Kramer stabbed and slashed Garcia in the desert near Usery Pass south of Mesa.

    By Kramer’s account, the nearly decapitated woman somehow managed to grasp his pant leg as she died. And, he was moved to treachery by that poignant gesture. Less than a month later Kramer became a paid ATF informant.

    Kramer killed Hyder in a traffic accident the following Spring. He was eventually sentenced to five years probation for killing Garcia. He is now enrolled in the U.S. Marshalls’ Witness Relocation Program. Since the Garcia murder, Kramer has been paid slightly more than $415,000 by the federal government.

    Augustiniak and Eischeid


    Augustiniak and Eischeid were indicted for the murder as a result of Kramer’s participation in a racketeering investigation of Hells Angels in Arizona, Nevada and California. The well known investigation was eventually named Operation Black Biscuit for the Fox Television reality show America’s Most Wanted. The federal charges against Augustiniak were dismissed. Eischeid fled to Argentina where he was discovered and apprehended in February 2011. Eischeid is unlikely to be extradited.

    Augustiniak was indicted for the second degree murder of Garcia by an Arizona grand jury in 2007. On advice of counsel he pled guilty in October 2011. He attempted to withdraw the plea but his motion was denied.

    Relatives of both the victim and the convicted man made statements before the sentencing.

    “I just want justice,” Garcia’s daughter, Angela Ruiz, told Judge Reinstein. “I want him to get the maximum because he’s still breathing and my mom’s gone.”

    Augustiniak’s father told the judge that his son should not be punished for what Michael Kramer did. “The Garcia family is not having the truth said here today,” Daniel Augustiniak told the judge. “My son didn’t have the trial he’s supposed to have, didn’t have the lawyer he’s supposed to have.”

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    Last month outlaw biker authority Kerrie Droban cited the Garcia murder as an example of the continuing danger the Hells Angels present to Arizona and the general public in an interview broadcast on Phoenix television station KTVK. Droban is the author of Running With The Devil, a book about Operation Black Biscuit.

    “Not only was it an extraordinary investigation, but you start to learn who the Hells Angels really are,” Droban told KTVK. “It is the modern-day Mafia and that’s really part of the fascination with these biker gangs.” A movie version of Running With The Devil is in pre-production.

    Droban describes Garcia as a “biker groupie” and told the television station that her research has led her to believe that Paul Eischeid was the principal aggressor against the dead woman. “Amongst his peers, he was known as the go-to guy,” she said. “If you wanted someone taken care of, they called it TCB, taking care of business, if you wanted someone taken care of, you had Paul Eischeid do it.”

    Eischeid was unavailable to comment or respond.

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    Murder suspect, reputed Hells Angels member, extradited after fleeing U.S. 15 years ago

    By CBS News

    PHOENIX — An Arizona murder suspect who fled the country 15 years ago is being held without bond in Phoenix after being extradited from Argentina.

    Federal authorities say 46-year-old Paul Eischeid had fought his extradition for seven years before exhausting all his appeals in the Argentina government's legal system by last month. U.S. Marshals say he worked as a stockbroker while moonlighting as a "dangerous" member of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang.

    The 46-year-old Eischeid was arrested in 2003 after being indicted by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona on drug trafficking and racketeering charges, including counts of kidnapping and homicide stemming from the 2001 murder of 44-year-old Cynthia Garcia of Mesa, according to CBS affiliate KPHO.

    The mother of six was stabbed 27 times, beaten, partially decapitated, stuffed in a trunk and dumped in the desert in southeast Mesa.

    Eischeid was released on his own recognizance after his arrest and placed on federal pretrial release with electronic monitoring, reports the station. Eischeid removed his monitoring bracelet while awaiting trial and was on the run until his 2011 capture in Buenos Aires.

    While on the run, Eischeid allegedly obtained a fake passport and a new identity, changed his appearance and altered a tattoo, KPHO reports.

    Eischeid was added to the U.S. Marshals 15 Most Wanted list in 2007.

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    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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