Pagans Sign Plea Deals

{Charleston, West Virginia}...Two former members of the Pagans motorcycle club signed agreements Thursday afternoon, marking the last convictions in a massive federal inquiry of Pagans activities in West Virginia. Elmer Luke Moore, son of Pagan national vice president Floyd Moore, struck a deal with prosecutors in which he would admit to gun-possession charges. Minutes after Moore accepted the plea, Richard "Lucky" Weaver pleaded guilty to one count of bodyguarding. Both men were on trial on bodyguarding charges after prosecutors said they participated in a conspiracy to act as Floyd Moore's gun-wielding protectors. In 2009, authorities unsealed a 44-count federal indictment that named 55 Pagan members and associates. Floyd Moore, 65, from St. Albans, one of the main defendants in the indictment, pleaded guilty to racketeering charges in February 2011 and is serving a five year prison sentence. David Keith "Bart" Barbeito, who spent 20 years as the club's national president, received more than two years in prison in December 2010 after admitting to having possessed a .45-caliber Colt with an obliterated serial number and an unregistered shotgun known as a "streetsweeper." Barbeito and Floyd Moore were two of 16 Pagans to receive prison time for the charges in the 2009 federal sweep. Many of the 55 defendants pleaded guilty to vastly reduced charges. Some pleaded to gambling misdemeanors in state court, paid a $5 fine, and had their federal charges dismissed.