HARTFORD – How long motorcycle dealer Bruce J. Bemer will be sentenced to prison for his involvement with a sex ring won’t be known until June when a judge sentences him, but the “Hartford Courant” newspaper stridently threw the book at him in an online editorial posted Thursday. “He deserves …
Read More »Jury Convicts Bemer In Sex Ring Trial
DANBURY, CT – The millionaire owner of New England Cycle Center in Hartford and two other motorcycle dealerships in southern New England has been convicted on multiple felony counts in a trial involving a sex trafficking ring that preyed on vulnerable young men. Bruce J. Bemer, 65, of Glastonbury was …
Read More »Trial Set For Dealer In Sex Ring Case
DANBURY, CT – New England motorcycle dealer and race track owner Bruce J. Bemer is scheduled to go on trial Thursday in Superior Court here on charges of conspiracy in a sex trafficking ring and patronizing a prostitute. He has pleaded not guilty and has been free on $500,000 bail since …
Read More »Dealership Owner Bemer Rejects Plea Deal
DANBURY – Motorcycle dealership owner Bruce J. Bemer has rejected a Danbury Superior Court judge’s offer of a plea deal in a sex trafficking case that could have spared him prison. Instead, he opted for a jury trial that will have him facing up to 30 years behind bars, if …
Read More »Dealer’s Arrest Leads Top 5 Stories of 2017
The arrest of a southern New England motorcycle dealer on charges involving a sex trafficking ring that prostituted mentally-disabled young men was the most read story on RIDE-CT & RIDE-NewEngland in 2017, and led the list of Top 5 regional stories for the year by a wide margin. It had …
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