Keys motorcycle gang member arrested on charge of soliciting teen girl for sex
The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office arrested a member of an outlaw motorcycle gang Monday who’s accused of soliciting sex from a 14-year-old girl.
But, the person 43-year-old Derek Marshall Queen was actually speaking with online was an undercover detective, according to the sheriff’s office.
Queen, who has a long arrest history in the Keys, propositioned the person he thought was the teen for sex, repeatedly acknowledging he thought she was underage and sent “multiple” images of himself exposed and masturbating, according to the sheriff’s office.
He is a Key West member of the outlaw Pagan motorcycle gang. .
“The investigation of crimes against children is a top priority for me,” Sheriff Rick Ramsay said in a statement, “whether by individuals or groups, and I will not allow them to prey on the most vulnerable among us.”
Queen is being held in county jail on a $1-million bond on charges of obscene communication with a minor, lewd and lascivious behavior toward a minor, soliciting a minor for prostitution, transmitting harmful material to a minor, use of a two-way communication device to facilitate a felony and destruction of evidence.
Adam Linhardt, sheriff’s office spokesman, said the sting operation also included the FBI, U.S. Homeland Security Investigations, U.S. Navy Criminal Investigative Service and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Queen is already serving probation after pleading no contest last year to felony false imprisonment and misdemeanor battery. In that case, he’s accused of beating up a rival gang member in Big Pine Key.
The Pagan’s — which spells its name with an apostrophe instead of the plural “Pagans” — is an outlaw motorcycle club that originated in the Mid-Atlantic in the ‘50s and began in South Florida and the Keys in the 1990s.
It is now the main outlaw motorcycle club operating in Monroe County, according to the sheriff’s office.
