Pagan due in court

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- A Pennsylvania man charged in a federal indictment targeting the Pagans Motorcycle Club is due to enter a plea to a charge of interstate travel in aid of racketeering.


Forty-eight-year-old Philadelphia resident Vincent Pezzano's arraignment is scheduled for 10 a.m. Thursday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mary Stanley in Charleston.


Pezzano is one of several members or associates of the Pagans accused of traveling to West Virginia to give the proceeds of what prosecutors say was an illegal raffle to club leaders in April 2008.


The charge is one of 44 leveled at Pagans members and associates from West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Florida by federal prosecutors last month.

Pezzano has been held in the South Central Regional Jail since Oct. 29.