Prosecutor Says Hells Angels Trailed Wife Attorney Trying Murder-Assault Case Says His Family Is Being Stalked; Jury Selection Stopped After Bomb Scare

A county attorney prosecuting a Hells Angels murder-assault case says his wife was followed and intimidated, then fled work in fear when her office received a bomb threat Tuesday.

Selection of an “anonymous jury” to hear the case against Timothy Myers was suspended after the 1:20 p.m. bomb threat emptied the U.S. Bank Building, 428 W. Riverside.

No bomb was found.

Authorities now are increasing security for Deputy Prosecutor David Hearrean, who heads the office’s gang unit, and his wife, who works in the U.S. Bank building and asked that her name not be divulged.

“This is an attack on the judicial system,” Hearrean told Superior Court Judge Kenneth Kato Tuesday. “I’m just not going to tolerate this.”

On Monday evening, two bikers, one of whom was wearing Hells Angels colors, followed his wife’s car to a supermarket, Hearrean told the court.

After staring at her in the store, they left, he said. Two miles away, on U.S. Highway 2 north of Spokane, she again spotted the bikers who roared alongside her car.

“It’s stalking; it’s intimidation. I ask you to instruct the Hells Angels to leave me and my family alone,” the prosecutor told the judge.

Richard “Smilin’ Rick” Fabel, president of the Spokane chapter of the Hells Angels, denied that members of his club had anything to do with the threats.

“We’re willing to take a lie-detector test if he and his wife are willing to take one, too,” Fabel said.

He offered to sit down “in a polite, one-on-one meeting” with Hearrean to assure him “that we’re not involved in these so-called acts of intimidation.

“It would be the dumbest thing in the world to intimidate or threaten anyone because it would work against Timmy,” Fabel said.

Because of what the prosecutor says is a pattern of intimidation, he asked the judge to sequester the jury.

Hearrean also asked the judge to revoke Myers’ bond because he violated a court order by wearing his Hells Angels colors. They include a new “Filthy Few” patch, with Nazi SS lightning bolts, showing he has “killed for the club,” Hearrean told the court.

Kato denied both motions, saying they could create a “circus” atmosphere as the trial begins.

But later, the judge quickly suspended jury selection after being told that a bomb threat had been called into the business where Hearrean’s wife works.

Selection of the jury is to resume this morning. Jurors’ names, home addresses, places of employment and Social Security numbers aren’t being disclosed.

“You’re going to be an anonymous jury to cut down on the publicity,” Kato told potential jurors, without mentioning threats and intimidation, which he earlier said was the basis for the anonymous jury.

Myers is accused of fatally shooting a member of the Ghost Riders motorcycle gang and wounding a second man outside the Comet tavern in Hillyard last December.

The 42-year-old secretary of the 2-year-old Hells Angels chapter is expected to take the stand in his own defense and contend the shootings were done in self-defense.

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