The men agreed to cooperate and told federal agents they had been hired by Valentine on behalf of John Carbone and Ronald Williams to kill Journey for interfering with their tavern businesses. Journey at his home in Tacoma on November 15, 1977. The case broke when Bentley and Johnson, half-brothers, were arrested in Kansas City, Missouri, in possession of a shotgun used in the attempted murder of Washington State Liquor Control Board Agent Melvin R. The complaint, which charged acts of arson, assault, bribery, extortion, and attempted murder, was the result of 13 months of investigation and undercover work by FBI and BATF agents. Pettit were taken into custody All of the defendants were booked into the King County Jail and then taken to Tacoma for initial court appearances before U.S. Federal marshals, together with agents of the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) immediately arrested eight of the men named in the complaint: Pierce County Sheriff George V.
District Court, Tacoma, charging 15 Pierce County men with racketeering. On Tuesday, November 28, 1978, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) filed a criminal complaint in U.S. Sentences for those convicted will range from 12 to 25 years in federal custody. After three months of testimony, the jury will find all but one defendant guilty of racketeering. Six of the defendants will plead guilty before trial and agree to testify against the others. Because of extensive pretrial publicity, the trial will be held in San Francisco during the spring of 1979.
In addition, The Enterprise actively engages in insurance fraud, protection, prostitution, and illegal gambling.
The gang, known as “The Enterprise,” led by Tacoma mobster John Joseph Carbone (1919-1998), is charged with using assault, arson, extortion, bribery, and attempted murder in an effort to control Pierce County’s topless-dancing tavern business. Janovich (1928-2005), for engaging in a widespread racketeering conspiracy. On December 8, 1978, a federal grand jury indicts 15 men in Pierce County, including Sheriff George V.
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