BIKER NEWS: Alleged Hells Angel gets prison for beatings

SALEM — BN- A man reputed to be the “sergeant at arms,” or enforcer, for the North Shore chapter of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang was sentenced to state prison Thursday after admitting to violent assaults on two men last December. 

James T. “Jamie” Costin, 51, of Lynn, will serve 11/2 to 31/2 years in prison for the Dec. 20 assaults outside the Fat Cacus, a restaurant and bar on Route 1 in Lynnfield. 

One of the men was left with disfiguring facial injuries, prosecutor Lynsey Legier said during Thursday’s hearing before Salem Superior Court Judge David Lowy. 

The damage, which included severing the man’s lower lip and breaking two of the man’s teeth, appears to have been caused with a large metal ring Costin was wearing that evening, said the prosecutor. 

But while police, with a search warrant, found three rings in a cigar box at Costin’s home that tested positive for human blood, the blood on those rings did not match that of either victim in the Fat Cactus incident, said the prosecutor. 

Later, investigators listened to a recording of Costin, held at Middleton Jail without bail, instructing another man to get rid of a different cigar box, the prosecutor said. 

And the other victim, whose ex-wife is currently Costin’s girlfriend, has been equivocal as to whether he recalls seeing a ring on Costin’s hand that night. 

The two victims, along with a number of other Wakefield High School graduates, had gone to the restaurant to listen to a band of classmates following a funeral, Legier said. 

Costin and the ex-husband of his girlfriend ended up outside, smoking, when the conversation grew heated.

This article was first published on Thursday, October 22, 2015 9:30 pm

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