Ex-Philly Cop To Serve Time for Shooting, Stabbing

A former Philadelphia police officer has been sentenced to at least three years in prison for shooting and stabbing another man in what authorities say was a dispute over leadership of their chapter of the Pagans Motorcycle Club.

Steven "Gorilla" Mondevergine pleaded guilty Monday to aggravated assault and firearms offenses in the January 2008 attack on Timothy "Casual" Flood. Prosecutors dropped an attempted murder charge in exchange for Mondevergine's plea.

Authorities say Flood was trying to force Mondevergine from the gang, prompting Mondevergine to attack him inside a Northeast Philadelphia home used as a gang clubhouse. Flood initially told police he'd been attacked in a bar parking lot.

Mondevergine was fired from the Philadelphia Police Department after he was accused of protecting gamblers in 1982. The charges were later dropped.