A post-Christmas beat down late last year will cost two members of The Outlaws motorcycle club in Michigan a year-and-a-half behind bars in state prison. Just days before they were scheduled to stand trial, Eric (Whiplash) Kerkau and Arthur (A-Bomb) Miller pled guilty to assault charges this week in Bay County Circuit Court in connection with the December 27, 2017 attack on a local resident Scott Peterson inside the Whyte Goose Inn bar just after midnight. Kerkau, 47, and Miller, 33, were upset with Peterson for reportedly snapping photos of them in Outlaws MC regalia on his cell phone.
Although facing a ten-year sentence, the pair of bikers copped a plea deal that guarantees them less than two years behind bars. Kerkau (seen above) and Miller had been carousing around town the night of December 26, making enough noise that Bay City Police received a call from the manager at Stables Martini & Cigar Bar reporting two men matching Kerkau and Miller’s description “causing a ruckus.”
According to the official police report, Miller approached Peterson and requested he delete the images he had taken with his IPhone, which resulted in a screaming match and Kerkau coming on the scene and throwing the first punch, flooring the victim. The two Outlaws proceeded to knee and stomp Peterson for a solid 20 seconds. Peterson was left with broken ribs and a detached retina.
Bay City is 100 miles north of Detroit. Outside of Motown, Bay City is home to the largest population of Outlaws in the state. The Outlaws MC is the most prominent biker gang in the Midwest, maintaining strongholds in Florida and other southeast locales, too. In 2007, Bay City Outlaws boss Leroy (Black Region Roy) Fraser was indicted along with 15 other club members and charged with a wide range of drug and racketeering offenses. The 60-year old Fraser heads the club’s “Black Region,” covering Outlaws territory in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, did four years of prison time. He was sprung in 2011.
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