Terence D. "Cracker" McCracken, of the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club, is to stand trial for allegedly stabbing a man for wearing a support shit for the Tribe MC, an affiliate club of the Pagans MC.
McCracken is charged with one count of aggravated assault, two counts of making terroristic threats and three counts of simple assault.
McCracken is accused of knifing Gregory L. Spangler, 54, in the abdomen after ordering him and another man out of Blue Star Hotel shortly before 11 p.m. Nov. 4, 2004.
Robert E. Wolf, 50, testified Thursday he and Spangler had just arrived at the West King Street tavern that night.
"We were just going to go in for a beer and a six-pack," Wolf said. "We walked in, and Greg went into the bathroom while I waited for a bartender."
Wolf said he was wearing a sweatshirt with the words "Support Your Local Tribe" on it, when McCracken stuck a gun to Wolf's ribs and asked him if he wanted trouble, Wolf said. McCracken was wearing a black Hell's Angel motorcycle vest with "sergeant-at-arms" stitched to the front, Wolf said.
McCracken allegedly told Wolf he could stay as long as he turned the shirt inside out. Wolf agreed to leave the tavern when Spangler came back from the restroom.
Spangler allegedly said something to McCracken about the gun and McCracken responded by threatening to stab him.
McCracken then started screaming and, Spangler said, "he poked me in the left side of my abdomen as I was heading out. I said, 'What'd you do that for?' It must have been a very sharp blade, because it went in and out very quickly. I thought I had been punched."
Wolf said he was outside the bar before he realized Spangler wasn't with him. He then saw Spangler come from the bar holding his stomach and bleeding.
Both men got into Spanglers care and started to leave when McCracken pulled up alongside the pair and pointed a gun at them. Another car happened to come up behind the two vehicles and McCraken pulled away.
Spangler said Wolf called for help using his cell phone. Spangler was taken to Lancaster General Hospital.
Spangler was rushed into surgery and spent the next four days in the hospital then another two months at home recuperating.
Wolf said he bought the sweatshirt "from a Tribe member at a memorial." He said he knows a couple Tribe members but was never a member himself.
Philadelphia defense attorney Holly C. Dobrosky asked Hartman to reduce McCracken's bail amount of $250,000. District Justice Cheryl Hartman denied Dobrosky's request and remanded McCracken back to prison. A court date is scheduled for Feb. 23.
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