{"id":22773,"date":"2019-04-22T19:53:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T19:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/04\/22\/navy-cook-booted-for-running-with-criminal-motorcycle-gang\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:01:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:01:57","slug":"navy-cook-booted-for-running-with-criminal-motorcycle-gang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2019\/04\/22\/navy-cook-booted-for-running-with-criminal-motorcycle-gang\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy cook booted for running with criminal motorcycle gang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A San Diego-based Navy cook was booted from the service and sent to the brig earlier this year after he pleaded guilty to running with an outlaw motorcycle gang and distributing cocaine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then-Culinary Specialist 1st Class Jason A. Thompson was sentenced in February to a bad conduct discharge, reduction in rank to E-1 and 210 days behind bars, according to Navy court records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But he had been held in pretrial confinement for 176 days and received credit for time served.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thompson was charged with \u201cwrongfully actively participating in a criminal gang\u201d known as the Thunderguards Motorcycle Club<\/a> from December 2015 to May 2018, according to charge sheets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delaware in 2014 sued to shut down the gang\u2019s Wilmington clubhouse, which authorities claimed had been \u201cthe site of at least 15 shootings \u2014 including five homicides \u2014 in the past eight years,\u201d according to a government press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\t