New charges filed against 6 gang members The Breed motorcycle club members now face a charge of conspiracy to distribute crystal meth.

Federal prosecutors have again added charges to the grand jury indictment against six Philadelphia-area members of the Breed motorcycle club, which would likely mean life in prison for each man if convicted.

The second superseding indictment against John Napoli, president of the Pennsylvania Breed Motorcycle Club, and members William Johnson, Christopher Quattrocchi, Thomas Heilman, Frederick Freehoff and Eric Loebsack adds a charge of conspiracy to distribute about 125 pounds of crystal methamphetamine between January 2003 and last July.

The new charges, announced Thursday by the U.S. Attorney's Office, also included a charge of commission of violent crimes in aid of racketeering against Napoli, 35, of Levittown; Johnson, 31, of Philadelphia; and Quattrocchi, 36, of Bristol, as well as various related charges.

Freehoff, 50, and Heilman, 54, both of Bristol, and Loebsack, 36, of Levittown, were charged only in the crystal meth conspiracy count.

The indictment also seeks the forfeiture of $6 million in alleged drug proceeds as well as two residential properties in Bristol and Levittown, and numerous cars, trucks, motorcycles, guns and ammunition.

U.S. Attorney Patrick L. Meehan said the Breed organization used "physical assaults, threats and intimidation to protect its secrecy. Gang members, associates and their families were threatened with death if they cooperated with law enforcement."

All six have been imprisoned at least since January, when Meehan's office adopted the prosecution that originated last year with an investigation by the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Bureau of Narcotics Investigation and the Bucks County District Attorney's Office.

As early as 2005, authorities in Trenton and nearby central New Jersey municipalities and those across the Delaware in lower Bucks County began to pay attention to increasing violence between rival gangs in both states after a Bristol Township man, Anton Colfield, 23, was killed in gang-related crossfire on Aug. 19.

In May 2006, two men were wounded in Morrisville in what police said was a gang-related dispute.

Napoli was arrested by local authorities on firearms charges in June 2006 in Bristol Township.

The original federal indictment against Napoli and his five associates charged them with operating a violent racketeering conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.

The most recent added charges involve crystal meth, a purer, more powerful and addictive form of the illegal stimulant.