He slid off the ice cream freezer, sauntering over to me. Family and community. A jury acquitted Harris of Simon's death, saying he acted in self-defense. Deadhead walking: Glouco prosecutor steps down That girl was a good friend of his whom he brought up the mountains to see her boyfriend. 2d 615 (E.D. March 3 (UPI) -- A Kentucky man who stopped to buy some breakfast said he lost his appetite when he won $50,000 from a scratch-off lottery ticket. March 3 (UPI) -- A 7-year-old Louisiana boy with a firm grasp of baseball rules is seeking a Guinness World Record as the world's youngest umpire. Simon was a motorcycle gang member who was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of Franklin Township Police Sgt. One Warlock, Robert "Mudman" Simon, was convicted in 1981 of killing a Carbon County woman. On May 6, 1995 Police Sgt. The neighborhood was a bit of a bastard, as neighborhoods went. With approval from the New Jersey parole board, he settled at Black Horse RV Trailer Park in Williamstown, New Jersey when released. Yo-Yo was lucky, all things considered. He then stabbed a fellow inmate in 1984 with a makeshift knife that was more than a foot long. Harris' life was spared when New Jersey abolished the death penalty in 2007. Simon and the driver of the car, defendant Charles "Shovel" Staples, are members of the "Warlocks" motorcycle gang . March 3 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts library said a book was recently returned with a note apologizing for the tome being 56 years overdue. Inside Out: Fifty Years Behind The Walls Of New Jersey's Trenton State Fatal Jealousy - Google Books Prison has seen famous, infamous enter its gates Mud killed a guy in the chow line at SCI Pittsburgh. YouTubes privacy policy is available here and YouTubes terms of service is available here. Like the other 1% gangs, the Warlocks murder, deal drugs, rob, and bat the crap about of people, among other activities. His gaze was chilling. TRENTON, N.J. (AP) _ Convicted cop killer Robert ``Mudman'' Simon was killed in prison in a fight with another death row inmate, a spokeswoman said today. "This was a tragic loss. Retired Trenton Deputy Police Chief Joe Constance, who led the team of detectives on the Huggins case, told NJ Advance Media Wednesday that Harris was the most evil person Ive encountered in the 32 years I was on the job.. [7][3], On May 6, 1995, Robert Simon along with the vice president of the Warlocks' South Jersey chapter, Charles "Shovel" Staples, were both sitting in a car in Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey when they were pulled over by 15-year Franklin Township police veteran Ippolito "Lee" Gonzalez as part of a routine traffic stop. Lee Gonzalez during a traffic stop in May 1995. American outlaw biker and murderer (19541999), fatal shooting of Franklin Township police sergeant Ippolito Gonzalez, State Correctional Institution Graterford, State Correctional Institution Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, "Unknown dangers: Fatal shooting of N.J. police officer still felt 20 years later", "Jim Six: 'They shot Lee,' the officer cried, 'Get 'em, get 'em, get 'em! Christie Whitman has asked for a report on the parole bureaus role. He was not, for reasons readily apparent to anyone that ever met the man, or even saw a photograph of him. They still have to pull over that car and they don't know what's behind the tinted window," Sand said of police work -- a world of "real threats and unknown dangers.". Get up and fight, flower girl!, I was rescued by the timely arrival of a neighbor, Mr. Carr, walking his poodle Trixie. Murder case gives glimpse of death row - poconorecord.com A.K.A. [15] Despite this, he was classified as merely a "low risk" on parole assessment documents. Shit, who aint? "His story is a very tragic story. The Mudman virtually shoved me out the door. While in prison, authorities said Harris viciously beat inmate Robert "Mudman" Simon, 48, to death in a recreation area in 1999. Hed only been out three months so I can see why he wouldnt want to go back to prison. Then theres the One Percenter Bikers, official FB page of the www.OnePercenterBikers.com, with over 20,000 followers. He didnt care. I guess they want to make sure they get the details right, wouldnt want any misinformation, or fake news, out there about your motorcycle gang. No executions have been carried out because of legal appeals and a tradition of liberalism in the state's supreme court. I diduntil Yo-Yo tore it up and tossed the pieces on the ground. He shoved me hard, knocking me onto the grass. So what? Mud said as he lighted a cigarette. "The most dangerous time for police officers is the beginning and end of their shift.". Harris and Simon had been lived in side-by-side cells in the facility's capital sentence unit. Mud Man | Castlevania Wiki | Fandom Ippolito "Lee" Gonzalez of Franklin Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey pulled over Warlocks members Robert "Mudman" Simon and Charles "Shovel" Staples on a traffic stop moments after the two had committed a commercial burglary. I knew Bobby Simon much better than did any of the reporters whose bylines appear on those stories, which is nothing to be proud of. Yo-Yo did catch up with me later. The trial court "failed to put these matters to rest," and failed to "deal with these ambiguities" in Simon's answers. Writers are, of necessity, selfish. Smart money was on the latter. Yo-Yo strolled in, buying cigarettes: for my Mom. Professional buildings. Dealing with structured environments was never Simons forte. After refusing to abide the warning, the officer shot Simon in the leg which caused him to flip over the guardrail and surrender to the authorities thereafter. The Warlocks Winchester MC facebook page which states, We are a nonprofit motorcycle club. My friends? Neither the judge in Simons murder case, John Lavelle, nor a trooper who knew him years ago expressed surprise. On a Saturday when the Delaware County Daily Times' regular courthouse reporter was off, I had to cover Nauss' trial. ", Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Shit., Yo, pointing at me, said, Im gonna kick his ass. March 2 (UPI) -- A Maryland woman scored a $100,000 prize from a scratch-off lottery ticket less than 12 hours after she scored an $11,000 jackpot at a casino. A dozen years later, and 11 weeks to the day after his parole, Simon was back in jail _ this time on charges he shot and killed a New Jersey police officer during a traffic stop. Long, steep streets named after American presidents swept down into a densely populated plain, a bewildering grid of narrow backstreets, before climbing yet more hills on the far side. Warlocks Motorcycle Club (Pennsylvania) - Wikiwand They went up the mountains to another chapters clubhouse to see one of the guys staying up there whom the girl was seeing. ", More: 'They shot Lee!' 'I was told if I said anything, they would kill me,' he said. Warlocks Motorcycle Club (Pennsylvania) - INFOGALACTIC Simon had either dropped out of or was expelled from high school. Thousands of police officers from around the Northeast attended Gonzalezs funeral Thursday in Vineland, N.J. He was there when Harris murdered Mudman . Prison officers were reported to have taken at least five minutes to intervene in the fight. [16], After a total three parole rejections, Simon was recommended for parole in November 1994 by a PBPP hearing examiner under the conditioned that he abstain from alcohol and avoid contact with the Warlocks Motorcycle Club. The gang member, Robert Simon, 45, who was also known as Mudman, showed no emotion as the verdict was pronounced. The property was owned by Marianne Mihalick, who lived with her daughter right across from Simon's trailer home at 3944 South Black Horse Pike. I got your back, no problem.. The mud-man first appeared . A request to interview Staples at South Woods State Prison, in Bridgeton where he is being held, was declined by the state Department of Corrections and a set of questions mailed to him was not answered. Lavelle said dozens of Warlocks circled the courthouse on their motorcycles each day of the trial and frightened the jurors, possibly leading to the second-degree murder conviction instead of a first-degree verdict. [8][9] According to his fellow Warlock bikers, Simon talked about having sexual intercourse with Dusenberg's mummified corpse after he buried it in a water-filled strip mine near Hazleton and even hoped to decorate his jail cell with physical photographs of such evidence. And who can forget Robert "Mudman" Simon. Respondent, Progressive Express Insurance Company ("Progressive"), is the Defendant in the trial court and the Appellee in the District Court of Appeal. The most highly publicized case heard in Lavelle's courtroom was the 1982 trial of Robert "Mudman" Simon, a founding member of the Philadelphia-based Warlocks motorcycle gang. He soon shot and killed a New Jersey police officer. Simon stood accused of murdering his girlfriend, Beth Smith Dusenberg of Drexel Hill, and dumping her body in a water-filled coal mine pit near Hazleton, where it was . 'They said, 'If you get any of our friends in trouble, you don't have to worry about going back to Huntington.'' Ambrose Harris. While on Death Row, Harris attacked and killed another Death Row inmate, Robert "Mudman" Simon, a beefy, scraggly long-haired and long-bearded 48-year-old outlaw biker, with several previous murder convictions. . Reads flower books? Simon promptly departed from the vehicle's passenger side and attempted to flee the area on foot whilst aiming his gun at one of the responding police officers who was ordering him to halt. 464 Conchester Highway, Aston, PA 19014-3106. Simon shot Gonzales twice, in the head and neck, killing him instantly. A brief, ill-advised interest in botany led, thorough a curious combination of circumstances, to my initial encounter with The Mudman. Kentucky man stops for breakfast, wins $50,000 lottery prize. [11][12], Simon subsequently received a 10-to-20 year sentence for the homicide and was initially housed at State Correctional Institution Graterford, but later transferred. Simon and the driver of the car, defendant Charles "Shovel" Staples, are members of the "Warlocks . [6] He was said to have held the club title of "enforcer", and was utilized by his fellow Warlock co-founders to intimidate the club's rivals. Petitioner, Dr. Robert Simon, M.D., P.A. Approximately 85 B & W ill., including interior photos of the 1835 prison. Novelists generally dont have the luxury of making moral judgments, although possibly our moral judgments lie in what happens to characters in the final chapter. How Crazy Is It Being a Correctional Officer? Real Stories Simon was . [13] Throughout his prison tenure, he received a total of 49 misconducts, which included drug trafficking in addition to drug use. He spat his gum out on the sidewalk. I was even luckier, I suppose, ultimately spending a great deal more time in close proximity to Simon than Yo did. It proved unsuccessful and he ended up back in the slammer. Officials did not release a cause of death. Harris life was spared when New Jersey abolished the death penalty in 2007. He didnt stay very long. [4][5] Being a member of the gang was such a substantial part of Simon's life to the point where he would even tout his religion as "Warlock". 03 Apr 1997, Thu Page 3. Police had insufficient evidence to nail gang members for the marsh murders, but they did successfully make a case against another Warlock , Robert Nauss, who may have disposed of a body in the marsh. Staples sped off before surrendering. There are other OMC FB pages, which just seems crazy to me because nothing seems less OMC than FB, except maybe Christmas or quilting. to go to prison and therefore avoid illegal activities like burglary and murder. Simon . He was beaten to death in prison in 1999. Gonzalez v. Angelilli, 40 F. Supp. 2d 615 (E.D. Pa. 1999) Soupy Sales.. Give em to your mom. They resembled small rose petals in the wind. One of the more infamous was the late Robert "Mudman" Simon who killed a Franklin Township police sergeant in Franklinville, NJ, in 1995. "There's still a criminal element that's involved with motorcycle gangs. This new edition of a true-crime classic includes the killing of biker Robert "Mudman" Simon by Ambrose Harris on the prison's death row. My dear friend Patti sent a letter in response to my post the other day about walking along Merion Rd when the Pagan MC drove by: in the 1970s, members of the Warlocks (NFM: the main rivals to the Pagan MC) were suspected in the deaths of a 17-year-old girl and a 20-year-old woman whose skeletal remains were found in the Tinicum marsh, now known as the John Heinz Wildlife Preserve. Div . Ippolito "Lee" Gonzalez of Franklin Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey pulled over Warlocks members Robert "Mudman" Simon and Charles "Shovel" Staples on a traffic stop moments after the two had committed a commercial burglary. Mudman said that he had killed the cop because he didnt want to go back to prison. And Camisa worked the halls when Robert "Mudman" Simon - yet another name on his long list of undesirable connections - was housed at his facility. Ambrose Harris, 47, sentenced to death for . March 3 (UPI) -- A New Brunswick couple who initially thought a burglar had broken into their home discovered the invader was actually a panicked deer. [21] Evidence collected from the car confirmed that the two gang members were, in fact, the ones who had robbed Environmental Heating building. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation. HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 28 -- A Pennsylvania prison inmate said Thursday that outlaw biker Robert 'Mudman' Simon bribed his way out of Graterford state prison 11 weeks before he was charged with . We use events and experiences in our own lives, pull them from a Santa sack of memories, and rework those memories for our own purposes. If you messed with the people he cared about, you got hurt but on the most part, fighting wasnt something that came natural to him. After doing so, one of the two Warlock bikers shot Gonzalez a total of two times. He was known to be a bit touched in the head, and not by an angel. Defendant Robert Simon was permitted to play a cat-and-mouse game with the court that undermined the court's independent obligation to determine if the plea was voluntary. Simon stated that he shot Gonzalez because he didnt want to go back the prison. Grateful Dead tunes held a steady rhythm as the county prosecutor, Sean Dalton, praised his assistant's quick wit and sharp mind - the skills that over nearly three decades helped Sand put away criminals such as cop killer Robert "Mudman" Simon. HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 28 -- A Pennsylvania prison inmate said Thursday that outlaw biker Robert 'Mudman' Simon bribed his way out of Graterford state prison 11 weeks before he was charged with murdering a New Jersey police officer. In order to write about those things, a certain journalistic detachment is required. Ippolito Gonzalez. Murder Conviction Appeal Is Denied by High Court Ippolito "Lee" Gonzalez. Notorious Killer Is Slain in Prison in New Jersey Robert "Mudman" Simon, 48, was killed by Ambrose Harris, 46, in the recreation area of death row at the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton, officials said. Yo-Yo glared at me, baring his teeth. Cat Zingano suing Halle Berry, blames actor for UFC release Deadly Duo: Ambrose Harris and Gloria Lynne Dunn kidnapped, raped and Ambrose Harris, 47, sentenced to death for raping and killing a 22-year-old artist, attacked Simon, who shot dead a police officer four years ago, said investigators. Mudman was paroled somehow. Simon and Staples, both members of the Warlocks motorcycle club albeit from different generations, didn't know each other for very long -- about 11 weeks. Sure he was, in many ways and on many occasions. The Mudman lived there too. Mr. Simon pleaded guilty last October to capital murder in the shooting death of Sgt. Robert Simon, 45, confessed to the fatal shooting, which happened April 3 in the couple's apartment in the 1700 block of East 85th Place, Assistant State's Attorney Jamie Santini said during a . Spared execution, N.J. murderer dies at 79 - Inquirer Clipping from Asbury Park Press - Newspapers.com Yo grabbed the book from my hand. Although the club was predominately based within their founding location of Philadelphia as well as other parts of Pennsylvania, they also maintained a chapter within New Jersey. "Robert Simon being released from jail just never should have happened," said Steve Sand, former Gloucester County assistant prosecutor who tried the two in court. Its a shame that there arent more like him. Simon took a .45 caliber handgun that belonged to his wingman. As a condition of his parole, Simon was ordered to have no contact with Warlocks members.