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Taming Ava & Outwitting Jax - A Modern Fairytale
Chapter 7 How Jax Got Locked Up
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Criminals were always saying they were set up and innocent. It was standard procedure. In Jax's case, it was actually true.
The Sons sold guns. The ATF would periodically circle the Sons trying to find some way in to bring them down. The Sons were smart and careful. This time the blindly ambitious and morally corrupt Joshua Kohn and a more junior but equally ambitious and corrupt agent June Stahl were assigned to this new attempt to bring them down.
After using legal methods to try to get into the Sons, Kohn decided the only way to bring them down was to operate outside the law just like the outlaw biker club. The goal was to arrest one of the bikers and squeeze him so hard he'd squeal on the MC.
It wasn't unusual for a guy, even an outlaw biker, to turn on his MC if he were going to be facing a long stretch in prison. The Big Balled Platoon, the Red Lizard Warriors and the Dirt Eating Asswipes had all been busted up thanks to guys ratting out their club on their drug dealing.
Jax was set up because they needed someone high up in leadership who would know all the inner workings of the club. They thought he was young and would be more willing to turn on his club so he wouldn't have to spend some of the best years of his life rotting away in a federal penitentiary.
The plan had been simple because simple was what worked best. June Stahl posed as a woman living in Charming fleeing an abusive relationship. She claimed that Jax sold her a KG-9 for protection. He was found in her car with the marked money in his pocket.
Kohn who was hiding in the backseat, claimed he saw Jax Teller give June Stahl the KG-9 for $1000. Jax claimed he was in the car to receive a blowjob she wanted to give him. That was it. He didn't have the KG-9 with him—in fact he claimed he had no place to put it. He claimed he had never even touched the gun; that it was already in the car on the passenger's side's floor when he got into the car. The next thing he knew, she'd stuffed money in his pocket and the car was surrounded by ATF agents. Strangely, all the electronic devices failed to record from video to audio.
The Feds had an explanation for that too. In addition to the money in his pocket, they also found a device that jammed phones and electronic devices. That was a further indicator of his guilt because an innocent person doesn't carry around a jamming device. Jax said he'd never even touched the device. It had been part of what Stahl had stuffed in his pocket just before the ATF busted him.
Within two days of his arrest, Kohn and Stahl paid him a visit offering to get the charges dropped if he would reveal everything he knew about SAMCRO's gun running. Jax stuck to his guns telling the two agents that he knew nothing about gun running, the MC didn't sell guns and they had set him up to try to force him into composing a story to get himself out of prison.
Jax had taken the stand in his own defense, but he was a member of an outlaw biker club and they were two upstanding agents of the ATF. It had been hopeless. From jury selection to trial to verdict it had taken less than four days.
Since he'd been in prison, the ATF through agent Amy Tyler had tried again to squeeze him for information promising to get the conviction tossed if he would cooperate and provide information on the Sons gun-running. They were especially interested in an IRA terrorist connection claiming they knew they were the Sons gun source.
SAMCRO knew Jax was innocent. The Sons were currently suffering an inventory shortage and they didn't have any KG-9s to sell. Selling guns—even one—was a club decision. Jax would never have sold a gun without clearing it. These facts couldn't be brought out because it would expose the Sons' gun dealing.
All the guys were angry and determined to get Jax out of prison, but there wasn't much they could do. For outlaws, they now had to depend on the law to get Jax out of prison. They weren't optimistic about his chances. As outlaw bikers, they were disposable to most of society. No one gave a damn if an outlaw biker innocent or not got locked up. The world was probably a safer place if the biker was locked up. Less crime.
Jax knew how hopeless his situation was but he still spent every minute he could in the prison law library. He didn't think the answer was going to come from his legal paperwork. The answer was going to come from someone digging into Kohn and Stahl. There was something there. There had to be.
At a minimum Kohn and Stahl had to have talked about their plan to set him up. Who else was in on it?
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Author's Note: the Amy Tyler mentioned is the same Amy Tyler that was June Stahl's girlfriend on the TV show.