Gary motorcycle gang member could face life in federal plea
By Meredith Colias-Pete Post-Tribune • Mar 23, 2023 at 4:14 pm
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A Sin City Deciples motorcycle gang member faces life in prison in a federal plea deal.
Antoine “Twan” Gates, 45, admitted in federal court documents his role in connection with four homicides, two stickups and conspiracy
A 13-page plea detailed the alleged crimes.
Gates admitted co-defendant Ronnie “Black” Major paid him to kill Jocelyn “Pieface” Blair on Dec. 19, 2010, inside Coney Island Restaurant, 2490 Broadway, Gary.
Blair was an eyewitness to a 2008 shooting in Gary for which Major was later convicted of battery and sentenced to six years, according to court documents. Blair never testified at Major’s 2011 trial because she was killed months before.
Gates also admitted roles in connection with three other deaths.
Gates admitted he was paid for his role in a robbery that killed Carl Griffith, 72, of Portage. According to court documents, Griffith was shot three times Nov. 1, 2012, outside his home in the 2700 block of Locust Street.
Franklin Simmons, 61, was killed Aug. 16, 2010 in an illegal gambling house on the 1300 block of Johnson Street in Gary.
Kevin Champion, 41, was shot dead outside Champ’s Liquors on Aug. 15, 2010.
Elsewhere, Gates and two others robbed a Radio Shack in October 2012 on the 7900 block of Calumet Avenue in Munster.
He and three accomplices kidnapped a currency exchange manager in 2010, taking her to the store on the 300 block of Clark Road, forcing her by gunpoint to open the safe and stole cash, according to federal documents.
Fifteen Sin City Deciples members, including Major, were indicted in October 2021.
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