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The leader of an outlaw motorcycle gang accused of running a tiffany jewelry large-scale methamphetamine ring involving two Hockley County sheriff’s deputies pleaded guilty to his role on Thursday.

Levelland resident Bobby Duwayne Froman, 54, agreed to 10 years in federal prison after admitting to running methamphetamine from California to the South Plains and distributing it throughout West Texas.

U.S. District Judge Sam Cummings ordered a pre-sentence investigation, and Froman will be sentenced at a later date.

If Cummings decides not to accept the agreement, Froman can withdraw his plea.

According to court documents, Froman admitted to heading the drug operation from silver key rings January 2003 until July 2009, when he and 27 others, including Hockley County deputies Gordon Clark Bohannon and Jose Jesus Quintanilla, were arrested on multiple drug, gun and conspiracy charges.

Froman often recruited members of the outlaw motorcycle gang he founded, the Aces and Eights — a support group for the Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang — to help traffic multipound quantities of narcotics, according to court documents.

In a signed admission, Froman confessed to multiple instances of drug trafficking over several years, but pleaded guilty to only one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine.

As a result of the plea agreement, the U.S. Attorney’s Office will drop the remaining charges silver necklaces against Froman, as well as against his wife — with the understanding that the charges against Sharon T. Froman will be resolved in state court.

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