Opinion ID: 1456526
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Heading: James Dilts

Text: In early 1998, James Dilts became an FBI confidential informant in return for money to pay off drug debts and club dues he owed to Gary Rambo Hohn, the president of the Dayton chapter at that time. Dilts worked as a confidential informant until he left the Outlaws in 2000, and during that time he covertly tape-recorded several drug transactions and related incriminating conversations between him and other club members. Dilts testified that he saw Warman hand Al Lawson, an Outlaw, a quarter of an ounce of cocaine at a January 31, 1999 Super Bowl party at the Dayton clubhouse. He also witnessed Warman with scales, cocaine, and plastic baggies at S & S on March 2, 1999. Dilts further testified that David Jack Hannum, an Outlaw and well-known drug supplier, told Dilts that Warman was his partner in the cocaine trade. Dilts also stated that on June 10, 1999, he saw Hannum hand Warman $2000 in cash, although Dilts acknowledged that he did not know the reason for the transfer. Further, Dilts testified that on August 9 and 11, 1999, he accompanied Hannum to Hannum's pottery shop, located across the street from Eisenhauer's, where he witnessed Hannum retrieve cocaine from a mold in the basement, which Hannum subsequently gave to Hohn at Eisenhauer's. Dilts also recalled that on August 21, 1999, Warman handed Hannum a plastic baggy containing white powder at Eisenhauer's. Dilts testified that in early December 1999, Hannum told him that he and Warman had arranged to receive a shipment of cocaine from a Florida supplier. Dilts further testified that Hannum elaborated on the transaction while driving with Dilts from Dayton to Florida to attend a New Year's party, at which time he also told Dilts that he would kill informants and that he had once witnessed other Outlaws murder an informant. Hannum also said that he planned to hand his cocaine business over to Warman and another Outlaw, so he could focus on selling Vicodin and Xanax.