Attorney: Ex-DeKalb cop said he was a gang ‘hitman’ to impress a girl

Wilson claims the U.S. Attorney's Office, which charged Gumbs in a massive racketeering case involving the gang, has no evidence he was involved in any murder.

Wilson is asking the court to let Gumbs out of federal custody in Lovejoy. He’s been held there since last May.

“He has now been incarcerated without trial and fully proclaiming his innocence for almost a year,” Wilson wrote in the motion, to which the government hasn’t yet responded.

Wilson claims many of the allegations come from Gumbs’ now-ex girlfriend and that the feds don’t have other evidence to back them up.

Gumbs, however, doesn’t deny having a relationship with Kevin Clayton, the alleged “chief enforcer” for the Disciples’ Georgia chapter.

“Mr. Gumbs was a DeKalb County police officer whose beat included the South DeKalb neighborhoods where Mr. Clayton apparently was very active, very visibly, in a variety of public activities, including youth sports and organizing,” the defense attorney wrote.

Prosecutors allege Gumbs gave Clayton information about police activity to keep Clayton safe from arrest.

Gumbs was hired at the police department in November 2013.

The subsequent allegations against him have been among the most startling as DeKalb deals with a dangerous gang problem.

Gangs have destroyed and ended many lives in the county. A leader even allegedly ordered the murder of a baby boy who then died in his mother's arms.

The 2016 indictment that charged Gumbs and scores of other alleged gang members was lauded by the feds as a huge blow to the Gangster Disciples.

But police records suggest the gang is still in DeKalb.

This week, a purported member was arrested on charges of molesting a child while initiating the boy into the gang.

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