Member of Juggalo Rydas sentenced to 15 years for shooting up vacant apartment

Dewey W. Dixon, who is apparently down with the clown, will be serving a mandatory 15-year prison sentence for shooting up an apartment with a Mac-10 semiautomatic machine gun in September 2008.

The 32-year-old from Johnson County was sentenced Thursday for two counts of unlawful use of a weapon, property damage and marijuana possession.

A news release issued by the Platte County prosecutor’s office says Dixon claimed to be a member of the Juggalo Rydas, which police say is a street gang. Juggalo is the name given to followers of the hip-hop duo the Insane Clown Posse. And the gang name Juggalo Rydas Bitch was referenced on a song by Anybody Killa featuring ICP called “Gang Related.”

“This man, like many members of the Juggalos, claimed at his guilty

plea that Juggalo Rydas is merely a fan club for Insane Clown

Posse,” Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd tells The Pitch.

“This case however, has all the hallmarks of criminal street gang

activity: a drive by shooting in response to a perceived slight and a

graffiti tagging of the intended victims’ apartment.”