former president of the Maine chapter of the Outlaws motorcycle gang has been sentenced to 15 months

"A former president of the Maine chapter of the Outlaws motorcycle gang has been sentenced to 15 months for his role in sanctioning the retaliation shooting of a rival Hell's Angels motorcycle gang member.

According to Journal Tribune of Biddeford, 41-year-old Thomas 'Taz' Benvie of Sanford was sentenced this month on one racketeering charge in Richmond, Va. Three other racketeering charges were dismissed.

Benvie was charged for his role in a 2009 shooting when two other Outlaws members shot a Hell's Angels member in central Maine as payback for an altercation between gang members in Connecticut.

Benvie was one of 27 Outlaws members and associates nationwide charged in a federal indictment last June.

During the roundup of suspects, Outlaws member Thomas 'Tomcat' Mayne was killed in a shoot-out with federal agents at his Old Orchard Beach home"