former biker gang boss from Gloucester County has been sentenced to at least three years in prison for shooting and stabbing another man in what authorities say was a dispute over leadership of their Philadelphia chapter of the Pagans Motorcycle Club.
Steven "Gorilla" Mondevergine, of Turnersville, pleaded guilty Monday to aggravated assault and firearms offenses in the January 2008 attack on Timothy "Casual" Flood. Prosecutors dropped an attempted murder charge in exchange for Mondevergine's plea.
Authorities say Flood was trying to force Mondevergine, a onetime Philadelphia police officer, from the gang, prompting Mondevergine to attack him inside a Northeast Philadelphia home used as a gang clubhouse. Flood initially told police he'd been attacked in a bar parking lot.
Mondevergine was fired from the Philadelphia Police Department after he was accused of protecting gamblers in 1982. The charges were later dropped.
The burly Mondevergine was arrested at his mother's Washington Township home in December.
Mondevergine was immediately sentenced to three to 10 years in prison following his guilty plea on Monday, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Mondevergine himself was nearly killed in 1999 when he was shot six times in a mob-style hit outside his mother's then-South Philadelphia home.
Authorities said then that Mondevergine was said to have had ties with reputed mob boss Joey Merlino, a childhood friend.
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