A Battle Ground man aided in the kidnapping, torturing and slaying of a former Gypsy Joker Outlaw Motorcycle Club member in July 2015, according to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday in U.S. District Court of Oregon.
Joseph Duane Folkerts, 61, is one of six people listed in the five-count superseding indictment, which replaces an earlier indictment in the case. The majority of the charges stem from the 2015 death of Robert Lee Huggins, 56, of Portland, whose body was found July 1 dumped in a field north of Vancouver.
“This is an organization whose members and associates pride themselves on living outside the law and use kidnapping, assault, murder and other forms of violence to extend and maintain their power,” U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams said in a press release issued Thursday by the U.S. Department of Justice.
The others named in the indictment include the club’s National President Kenneth Earl Hause, 61, of Aumsville, Ore., the club’s Portland President Mark Leroy Dencklau, 58, of Woodburn, Ore., and Earl Deverle Fisher, 48, and Ryan Negrinelli, 36, both of Gresham, Ore. One defendant is unnamed. They are all charged with conspiring to conduct and participate in the activities of a racketeering enterprise.
