CEDAR RAPIDS – A man who was the enforcer for the Northern Iowa Chapter of the Sons of Silence Motorcycle Club was sentenced yesterday to 10 months in federal prison.
Justin Carlson, age 38, from Sheffield, Iowa, received the prison term after a March 19, 2021 guilty plea to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
In the guilty plea and sentencing proceedings, Carlson admitted that on April 5, 2020, Carlson, a convicted felon, and other members of the Sons of Silence and another affiliated group confronted a motorcyclist, who was an off-duty police officer, claiming the officer needed permission from the Sons of Silence to wear one of the patches on the back of the motorcyclist’s jacket. In a subsequent search of Carlson’s home in Sheffield, Iowa, officers recovered Carlson’s Sons of Silence motorcycle vest, which had a brass knuckles in the pocket, numerous items of Sons of Silence paraphernalia, and two firearms.
Carlson was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Chief Judge Leonard T. Strand. Carlson was sentenced to ten months’ imprisonment and must also serve a two-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN). PSN is the centerpiece of the Department of Justice’s violent crime reduction efforts. PSN is an evidence-based program proven to be effective at reducing violent crime. Through PSN, a broad spectrum of stakeholders work together to identify the most pressing violent crime problems in the community and develop comprehensive solutions to address them. As part of this strategy, PSN focuses enforcement efforts on the most violent offenders and partners with locally based prevention and reentry programs for lasting reductions in crime.
Carlson was released on the bond previously set and is to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on a date yet to be set.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Patrick J. Reinert and investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Tri-County Drug Enforcement Task Force, Clarion Police Department, Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, Waverly Police Department, Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement, Algona Police Department, and the Wright County Sheriff’s Department.
12 thoughts on “Sheffield “Sons of Silence” enforcer and convicted felon sentenced to federal prison for possessing a firearm”
I am wishing he got 10 years. People like this give all riders a bad name. Shows the intelligence of SOS members.DUH let’s terrorize a cop. DUH
Tough boy Amish looking MF! Can’t even look at the camera.
Ha ha ha. You should take your comedy act on the road – to Russia.
too bad it was 10 years !
…isn’t this guys eyes a bit too close together for a normal dude? I’m thinking he is a “special needs” person!
Bikers do not get any special privileges just because they think they own the road. These bikers get together, ride slow as heck, have too many bikes in the group to start with, then get pissed when you pass them. Real people go to work and have lives to live, not ride around on a bike all day with nothing better to do. There should be a law in every state that mandates that there will only be no more than 4 bikers in a group. And each group shall be no closer than 2 miles apart…….Each state also needs to start enforcing noisy exhausts on bikes too. That’s another reason why there should be no more than 4 bikes in a group at any particular time. Too noisy. Meanwhile those biker a-holes know that it is too noisy as they have earplugs in their ears while they ride around.
you will never see one of them wear a blm patch I betcha !
Set up – they new wearing the patch (copper) would prevoke a response and they could use that to further their cause. Open you eyes they do it all the time can u say fbi.
This comment has exactly the intelligence of what I expect from the average motorcycle club member. I sincerely hope that you are killed by an inattentive old lady someday.
And your a fool
As does your Momma
Your momma’s so ugly, she made an onion cry.