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The Payoff of Education: University Professor Posts Bail on Charges of Leading Meth Ring, Biker Gang
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Being a university professor isn't a bad side job for a suspected drug dealer and motorcycle gang leader. And Steve Kinzey, who's employed by Cal State San Bernardino, proved it this week. The 43-year-old, facing charges of operating a meth ring and heading up a criminal biker group, put his smarts to good use and figured out a way to post $300,000 in bail this week, according to CBS News.
Kinzey's alleged double life was discovered on August 26, when authorities raided the associate professor of kinesiology's Inland Empire home and found over a pound of meth, body armor, weapons, and leather biker gear. Nine other arrests were made at the time, including his girlfriend, Holly V. Robinson.
Kinzey is believed to head up a chapter of the Devils Diciples Outlaw motorcycle gang (yes, that's the actual spelling of the group's name). He was on the lam after the raid, but this week had a bondsman post his $300,000 bail, which means that he's a free man until his arraignment on November 12.
That's what we'd call doing the university proud.
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