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Bandidos and Waterdogs bikers shoot it out in Red River, New Mexico, leaving three dead - "Gangbanger on gangbanger"
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2023-05-29T09:56:56.000Z
2023-05-29T09:56:56.000Z
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<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/11152916678?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>By David Amoruso for <a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank">Gangsters Inc.</a></p>
<p>Members of the Bandidos and Waterdogs motorcycle clubs were involved in a deadly shootout in Red River, New Mexico, at the annual Memorial Day motorbike rally on Saturday. Three bikers were killed, five were wounded.</p>
<p>What was supposed to be a fun weekend filled with tens of thousands of regular motorcycle enthusiasts enjoying Memorial Day turned into bloody mayhem when outlaw bikers of the <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/bikers-amp-outlaw-motorcycle" target="_blank">Bandidos</a> and Waterdogs clashed around 5:00 p.m.</p>
<p>Members of both clubs traded gunfire on the busy streets of Red River as bystanders fled in panic and screams erupted everywhere. “It was just gangbanger on gangbanger,” State Police Chief Tim Johnson told the media on Sunday.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Three dead, three charged</strong></span></p>
<p>After the dust settled, eight bikers lay bleeding in the streets. Of those eight, three were dead. Two were members of the Bandidos, one of the Waterdogs. Police flooded the scene and locked the town down. “They are shutting down Red River,” one officer advised over the police scanner.</p>
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<p>While the wounded were driven to the hospital, precautions were taken there too. Holy Cross Hospital in Taos was put under lockdown with local cops on guard to prevent further violence.</p>
<p>Only three bikers have been charged. 30-year-old Jacob Castillo, a member of the Waterdogs from New Mexico was charged with murder. 39-year-old Matthew Jackson, a Bandidos chapter president from Texas, was charged with one count of unlawful carrying of a firearm, and 41-year-old Christopher Garcia, also from Texas and a member of the Bandidos, was busted on cocaine possession.</p>
<p>The Bandidos have been known to get involved in shootouts. According to Johnson, they were part of at least three shootings in Texas and Oklahoma in the past two months.</p>
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<p>They made headlines in 2015, for their role in the <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/106-bikers-charged-in-deadly-shootout-loyal-to-club-or-law" target="_blank">mass shooting</a> at a Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas, that left nine people dead and eighteen wounded. Over 150 people were arrested, though prosecutors <a href="https://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/complex-twin-peaks-bandidos-biker-trial-nearing-start" target="_blank">failed to bring justice</a> in many of the cases. The bikers were present to attend a meeting about political rights for motorcyclists when they got in a shootout with rival club the Cossacks. It wasn’t their finest hour.</p>
<p>From the looks of last weekend, it doesn't seem like they learned any lessons from previous shootouts either.</p>
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WATCH | How The Hells Angels Actually Works
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2023-03-01T09:38:31.000Z
2023-03-01T09:38:31.000Z
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<p>Jay Dobyns is a retired ATF agent who went undercover with the <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/bikers-amp-outlaw-motorcycle" target="_blank">Hells Angels</a> from 2001 to 2003 as part of Operation Black Biscuit. He speaks with Insider about his experience with the outlaw motorcycle gang and its inner workings.</p>
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<p>Dobyns joined the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives in 1987 and conducted over 500 undercover operations during his time there, from weapons and narcotics trafficking to home-invasion burglary. He served as an instructor at the agency's National Academy. He is also the recipient of the United States attorney general's Medal of Valor, 12 ATF special-act awards, and the National Association of Police Organizations' top-cops award.</p>
<p>He is the author of "No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels."</p>
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Underworld of Pattaya: The Thai city that attracts the most notorious gangsters and bikers from the West
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2022-08-07T10:09:23.000Z
2022-08-07T10:09:23.000Z
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<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10753858470?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>By David Amoruso for <a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank">Gangsters Inc.</a></p>
<p>The city of Pattaya in Thailand offers sandy beaches and a clear blue ocean, making it one of the country’s biggest tourist attractions. Its shady nightlife filled with go-go bars, massage parlors, and prostitution, however, attracts a different type of tourist. One that rocks the Thai city with drug trafficking, biker brawls, shootings, and murder.</p>
<p>Located around 90 miles southeast of Bangkok, Pattaya first gained its reputation as a party town during the Vietnam War when it was used as an R&R destination for U.S. servicemen stationed at a nearby former USAF base at U-Tapao. In the decades that followed, the soldiers disappeared, but the nightlife remained.</p>
<p>A nightlife filled with sex – any kind for any price. Cheap motels with hourly rates, sex shows, shady bars and massage parlors were available to visit alone, with friends or with one of thousands of prostitutes (both male and female) who worked on Walking Street, Pattaya’s red-light district.</p>
<p>Pattaya’s loose morals made those with a dark side feel at home there. Criminals and gangsters from around the world flocked to the city and the surrounding area. In particular, notorious figures from the West, mainly <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/europe-overview" target="_blank">Europe</a> and <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/organized-crime-in-australia" target="_blank">Australia</a>.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Fleeing Amsterdam’s underworld</strong></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10753852281,RESIZE_180x180{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10753852281?profile=RESIZE_180x180" width="138" /></a>Like Dutch crime boss <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/dutch-boss-john-mieremet" target="_blank">John Mieremet</a> (right), who had come to the Thai city to escape a gang war in his home city of Amsterdam. Together with partner-in-crime Sam Klepper, another Dutch crime boss, he earned a reputation for violence and murder. As long as he was the one doing the killing all was well, but in the early 2000s the odds were no longer in his favor.</p>
<p>He hoped hitmen wouldn’t follow him to Thailand as he went about turning his millions earned through armed robberies, drug trafficking and extortion into a real estate empire.</p>
<p>On November 2, 2005, Mieremet was hard at work at his office when a man wearing a helmet entered and fired several shots at him. Bullets hit Mieremet in the head and body. The gunman then fled the scene. Leaving 44-year-old Mieremet to die in a puddle of his own blood.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Bratva in Pattaya</strong></span></p>
<p>The <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/russian-mafia-overview" target="_blank">Russian Mafia</a> also arrived in Pattaya. Many of its members on the run from charges in Russia or Europe, wanted by Interpol, found a safe haven in Thailand. Well, and perhaps a way to continue doing business as usual.</p>
<p>In March of 2017, four alleged members of the Russian Mafia were among 14 foreigners arrested in an anti-crime sweep, most of them were apprehended in Pattaya. Sergei Mareev, Aleksandr Danilov, Mikhail Kriventstov, and Anton Filippov were all wanted by either the Russian government or Interpol.</p>
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<p>Danilov was wanted by Interpol on drug charges. Mareev and Kriventstov were found to have made frequent trips across the border from Thailand into Laos, a country known for producing narcotics. Though there was no hard evidence in this case – the men were arrested for overstaying their visa – it is quite possible these men were traveling to Laos for more than just a tourist visit.</p>
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<p>Sitting between Laos and Myanmar, another region known for its drug production – and some horrific other things as well – Thailand functions as a gateway for all sorts of drugs. Or, as Police Lieutenant General Sommai Kongwisaisuk, head of the Narcotic Suppression Bureau in Thailand, told <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-26/hells-angels-founding-member-calls-for-aus-members-deported/8375254" target="_blank">ABC</a>: “It's a picture of a superhighway.”</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Outlaw bikers</strong></span></p>
<p>No one loves highways more than an <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/bikers-amp-outlaw-motorcycle" target="_blank">outlaw biker</a>. Revving up the engine of his motorcycle as the wind goes through his hair and his vest signals to all fellow travelers that he is not to be fucked with. Several outlaw motorcycle clubs have established chapters or charters in Thailand. Among them the infamous <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/bikers-amp-outlaw-motorcycle" target="_blank">Hells Angels</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10753853485,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10753853485?profile=RESIZE_400x" width="300" /></a>The Hells Angels arrived in Thailand in 2012 and established their Pattaya charter in 2016. Australian national Wayne Schneider (right) was a senior member of the Hells Angels in Sydney, part of its City Crew chapter, when he decided to settle in Pattaya, Thailand.</p>
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<p>Schneider was on a watch list for drugs and money laundering back home in <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/organized-crime-in-australia" target="_blank">Australia</a>. He had fled Australia in February of 2012, after police busted two clandestine methamphetamine labs in the Sydney suburbs. Authorities suspected he was continuing his drug business in Pattaya.</p>
<p>He rented a villa in Pattaya where he lived with fellow biker Amad Malkoun.</p>
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<p>Malkoun was a former president of the Comanchero motorcycle club, a fierce rival of the Hells Angels. But this rivalry had no place in the temporary household of Schneider and Malkoun. both men were in Pattaya for business. Like Schneider, Malkoun was involved in the drug underworld as well. He was convicted in 2009 of trafficking heroin and was a suspect in various other criminal dealings.</p>
<p>Plan and plot as they might, though, things never tend to go as planned.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Beaten to death</strong></span></p>
<p>On November 30, 2015, Schneider was abducted outside his villa in Pattaya by five masked men. His dead body was found a few days later in a roadside grave around 18 miles from his home.</p>
<p>“There was a two-inch cut at the eyebrow and a broken neck on the body we found... so he might have been beaten up by a group and that caused the broken neck,” Pattaya superintendent Sukthat Poompanmuang said.</p>
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<p>The day before he was abducted, Schneider was seen having a drink with Antonio Bagnato. It was said the two men had a dispute and that Bagnato then arranged for his kidnapping and subsequent beating that cost Schneider his life.</p>
<p>Bagnato was later found guilty of murder, kidnapping and disposing of Schneider’s body. He was facing the death penalty, but on appeal the ruling was overturned and downgraded.</p>
<p>Still, things weren’t over for Bagnato. Like so many others, he had come to Pattaya to evade justice in his home country. Back down under, authorities wanted Bagnato on murder charges. Thailand was glad to get rid of him. 33-year-old Bagnato was extradited to Australia on July 23, 2022, to face charges in connection to the 2014 fatal stabbing and shooting of 25-year-old Bradley Dillon.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10753856875,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10753856875?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="710" /></a><em><strong>Photo: Antonio Bagnato</strong></em></p>
<p>A Thai court had also found American Tyler Gerrard guilty of involvement in the kidnapping. According to the Bangkok Post: “Tyler Gerard provided "useful information" during an "intense" interrogation session that followed his arrival at Pattaya City Police Station on Wednesday night from Sa Kaeo province, where he was apprehended trying to enter Cambodia, a police source said.”</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Trouble between Thai and Australian biker brothers</strong></span></p>
<p>Though this brought an end to a particular bloody chapter in Pattaya’s history, the violent story of the Hells Angels in Pattaya was far from over. One of the charter’s founding members was Thai national Thaksin “Sin” Monthonthaksin, a <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-26/hells-angels-founding-member-calls-for-aus-members-deported/8375254" target="_blank">self-proclaimed</a> close friend of deceased Wayne Schneider. As the club’s sergeant-at-arms, he found himself surrounded by brothers from all over the world. The Pattaya charter had Thai members as well as bikers from Australia, Europe, and Canada.</p>
<p>After Monthonthaksin introduced a Thai man he wanted as a new prospective member to the Pattaya charter, he was turned down by the Australian members of the branch. This angered the sergeant-at-arms and he began telling his Australian brothers what he had on his mind. </p>
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<p>Things quickly escalated and Monthonthaksin was kicked out of the club. A statement by the Hells Angels in Pattaya read: “Both Thai and foreign members unanimously voted the now ex-sergeant-at-arms out of the club following numerous infractions of the rules — a decision the biker wasn't willing to accept.”</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10753857897,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10753857897?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="710" /></a><em><strong>Photo: Hells Angel Glen Norris</strong></em></p>
<p>The statement continues: “After the ex-sergeant-at-arms was voted out he arrived at a members' meeting carrying a baseball bat making threats to those attending and calling out several Australian members of the chapter.”</p>
<p>A fight then erupted in front of the clubhouse on March 7, 2017. How things went down exactly depends on who you believe: Monthonthaksin or the Hells Angels Pattaya charter.</p>
<p>According to the Hells Angels, the fight was between Monthonthaksin and an Australian member who lives in Bangkok [named Glen Norris]. “The fight was a one-on-one, fists only and witnessed by over 20 both Thai and foreign people, who saw the ex-sergeant-at-arms take a fair beating and felt the matter was now closed.”</p>
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<p>According to Monthonthaksin, he was lured to the clubhouse and was attacked by the Hells Angels that were present. Three Australian Hells Angels members joined in on the attack. He singled them out to <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-26/hells-angels-founding-member-calls-for-aus-members-deported/8375254" target="_blank">ABC</a>, claiming they were Glen Norris, Dan Stalley and Matthew Robinson.</p>
<p>“I would like to ask the Australian Consulate to push these people out, please,” Monthonthaksin told <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-26/hells-angels-founding-member-calls-for-aus-members-deported/8375254" target="_blank">ABC</a>. “They're dangerous… if we ignore them, they can create violent situations.”</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Crackdown</strong></span></p>
<p>Police were evidently listening. In December of 2017, police arrested four foreign members of the Hells Angels in Pattaya after raiding five luxury houses in tambon Nong Prue of Bang Lamung district. Among the four were three Australians and one Canadian. They were charged with several criminal offences, and after serving their sentence were scheduled to be deported and barred from entering Thailand ever again.</p>
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<p>“Some members of the Hells Angels gang were disguised as tourists and threatened national security as they were involved in extortion, money laundering, illicit drugs and human trafficking,” Pol Maj Gen Surachet Hakpal, acting deputy commissioner of tourist police, said. “They were the same group of people involved in the murder and secret burial of an Australian two years ago.”</p>
<p>This statement gives insight into the murder of Schneider. Police apparently believe it was ordered or okayed by members of the Pattaya Hells Angels.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>More bullets fly</strong></span></p>
<p>Despite police cracking down hard on the outlaw bikers operating in Pattaya, incidents continued happening. On April 19, 2022, four men opened fire at the Harley Davidson Pattaya motorbike shop before speeding away on motorcycles. Authorities claimed the shooting was ordered by the Hells Angels over a business conflict.</p>
<p>Police issued arrest warrants on four suspects: 61-year-old Australian national Anthony George Leorga, 35-year-old British national Joshua George Hurley, 48-year-old Canadian national Steven Zatchus, and 37-year-old Belgian national Axel Goddeeris.</p>
<p>Joshua George Hurley was caught on May 5. Last week, Thai police arrested Anthony George Leoga in this case, while he attempted to jump across the border in Sa Kaeo province. The other two men are considered fugitives.</p>
<p>The world is a small place and gangsters love traveling when they can’t stand the heat in their own kitchen. Why not start anew some place sunny? Somewhere no one knows your name and face. Or your criminal history. Where you can fly under the radar.</p>
<p>Until, of course, you run into the exact same problems you were running away from.</p>
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Hells Angels and Vagos outlaw bikers shoot it out on Nevada freeway, leaving 7 wounded
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2022-05-31T16:38:05.000Z
2022-05-31T16:38:05.000Z
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<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10527596262?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>By David Amoruso for <a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank">Gangsters Inc.</a></p>
<p><strong>UPDATED ON JULY 1</strong> - Any time, and place. It’s a mantra many gangsters live by. They take the fight to their enemies whenever and wherever they get the chance. Members of the Hells Angels and Vagos, two rival outlaw motorcycle clubs, proved that on Sunday when they got involved in a morning shootout on a Nevada freeway.</p>
<p>What exactly caused the shootout on the US-95 near Henderson, Nevada, remains unclear, but police were called to the scene around 11:50 a.m. where they found several people with gunshot wounds.</p>
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<p>Six were transported to the hospital for treatment, two in critical condition. A seventh individual later arrived at the hospital seeking treatment for his injuries sustained that morning.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10527596280,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10527596280?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="710" /></a><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Three Hells Angels arrested</strong></span></p>
<p>Three men were arrested several hours after the shooting. They are 66-year-old Richard Devries, president of the Hells Angels' Las Vegas chapter; 46-year-old Stephen Alo, a Hells Angels prospect; and 26-year-old Russell Smith, also labeled a Hells Angels prospect. They face multiple attempted murder, murder conspiracy, battery, and weapon charges.</p>
<p>Henderson police are now claiming the Hells Angels ambushed the Vagos as the bikers were driving home after stops at Hoover Dam and the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City. An anonymous witness had provided police with a video showing the three men wearing Hells Angels attire as they ride their motorcycles up to the group of Vagos bikers before the shots were fired.</p>
<p>One of the men looks to be holding an object in his left hand.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10527600700,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10527600700?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="627" /></a><strong><em>Photo: From left to right: Devries, Alo, and Smith.</em> </strong></p>
<p>Henderson Police closed down US-95 for several hours while they investigated the crime scene and made sure everything was safe and secure.Spent bullet casings were found for more than a mile along the freeway.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Killing a president</strong></span></p>
<p>“Really what it boils down to are territory and egos,” former Hells Angels president George Christie told <a href="https://www.ktnv.com/news/former-leader-of-motorcycle-club-speaks-on-henderson-highway-shooting" target="_blank">KTNV</a> when discussing the incident. He pointed out that the beef began back in 2011 when the <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/bikers-amp-outlaw-motorcycle" target="_blank">Hells Angels</a> and Vagos had a shootout inside John Ascuaga's Nugget hotel-casino in Sparks, Nevada.</p>
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<li><strong>READ: </strong><a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/we-were-elite-and-acted-like-it-former-hells-angels-boss-george-c" target="_blank"><strong>“We were elite and acted like it.” - Former Hells Angels boss George Christie sits down with Gangsters Inc.</strong></a></li>
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<p>51-year-old Jeffrey “Jethro” Pettigrew, the president of the San Jose chapter of the Hell's Angels motorcycle club, was shot and killed in that confrontation. Vagos bikers Leonard Ramirez and Diego Garcia were injured.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Why now?</strong></span></p>
<p>Eleven years later tensions are obviously still high. But apparently not high enough to settle the matter in the shadows. Apparently these bikers hardly ever run into each other or try to locate the other party to settle the score.</p>
<p>Instead, they 'plan' an ambush on a busy freeway in the middle of the day and decide to let their guns rip.</p>
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Pagans Motorcycle Club biker who peddled drugs via Facebook Messenger gets 10 years in prison
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2022-01-21T13:40:37.000Z
2022-01-21T13:40:37.000Z
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<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10031551091?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>By David Amoruso for <a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank">Gangsters Inc.</a></p>
<p>A member of the Pagans Motorcycle Club was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday for drug trafficking. 28-year-old Zachary Miller used Facebook Messenger to communicate with other bikers and his customers, selling them meth and other drugs.</p>
<p>Miller was caught up in an long-term investigation into drug trafficking activity occurring in the Western District of Pennsylvania by The Greater Pittsburgh Safe Streets Task Force, led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. They identified several individuals, suspected at the time, of selling various narcotics, including methamphetamine in Allegheny, Westmoreland, Erie, Fayette, and Washington Counties.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10031555476,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10031555476?profile=RESIZE_400x" width="300" /></a>Meth peddling bikers enter Facebook</strong></span></p>
<p>Investigators found out that individuals involved or associated with the <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/bikers-amp-outlaw-motorcycle" target="_blank">Pagans Motorcycle Club</a> were responsible for selling methamphetamine, among them Miller (right), who was a member of the Jeannette Chapter of the Pagans, in Westmoreland County.</p>
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<li><strong>READ: <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/blog/conan-behind-bars-gun-charge-earns-national-president-of-pagans-o" target="_blank">“Conan” behind bars</a>: Gun charge earns national president of Pagans outlaw motorcycle club 33 months</strong></li>
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<p>Miller used Facebook Messenger to communicate with his drug customers and associates and run his illicit operation. When authorities got their hands on these chats, which revealed large-scale transactions, they hit the jackpot. To make sure they had their man, they also made a controlled purchase of meth from Miller, and conducted physical and electronic surveillance of Miller and other members of the conspiracy.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Busted</strong></span></p>
<p>On February 15, 2020, Miller and co-defendant Jessica Palmer, who has already been sentenced, were pulled over by Pennsylvania State Troopers in a vehicle with a suspended registration. Troopers obtained consent to search the vehicle and located six ounces of methamphetamine in the trunk of the vehicle. Both Miller and Palmer were arrested.</p>
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<li><strong>READ: </strong><a href="https://gangstersinc.org/blog/the-time-two-hells-angels-saved-hollywood-actress-salma-hayek-fro" target="_blank"><strong>The time two Hells Angels saved Hollywood actress Salma Hayek from a knife-wielding nut</strong></a></li>
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<p>A search incident to arrest revealed that Miller, who had a valid concealed carry permit, had a Ruger LC9S handgun on his person. Investigators determined that Miller and Palmer had been at a co-defendant’s house where Miller was resupplied with methamphetamine.</p>
<p>In all, Miller sold at least 500 grams but less than 1.5 kilograms of methamphetamine, including the approximately six ounces of methamphetamine seized on February 15, 2020.</p>
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The time two Hells Angels saved Hollywood actress Salma Hayek from a knife-wielding nut
https://gangstersinc.org/blog/the-time-two-hells-angels-saved-hollywood-actress-salma-hayek-fro
2021-11-22T16:38:40.000Z
2021-11-22T16:38:40.000Z
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<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9833670659?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>By David Amoruso for <a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank">Gangsters Inc.</a></p>
<p>Even outlaw bikers live by a certain set of rules. So when a young woman was running for her life from a knife-wielding crazy person, two Hells Angels did not hesitate and made sure she was safe. They did not start this fight, but they damn sure ended it.</p>
<p>The young woman in the paragraph above is none other than Hollywood actress Salma Hayek, the superstar known for her roles in such classics like <em>Desperado</em>, <em>Frida</em>, <em>From Dusk Till Dawn</em>, and <em>The Hitman’s Bodyguard</em> and its sequel.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Walk of Fame</strong></span></p>
<p>She <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/salma-hayek-recalls-being-held-170140793.html" target="_blank">recalled</a> the scary incident last Friday, when she was awarded the 2,709th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She had come from Mexico and arrived in the United States in the early 1990s to follow her dreams of making it big in <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/gangsters-inc-s-showbiz" target="_blank">Hollywood</a>. One time she was visited by some friends from Mexico who wanted to go to Hollywood Boulevard and buy some souvenirs.</p>
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<li><strong>READ: <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/we-were-elite-and-acted-like-it-former-hells-angels-boss-george-c" target="_blank">“We were elite and acted like it.”</a> - Former Hells Angels boss George Christie sits down with Gangsters Inc.</strong></li>
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<p>“We're walking down the street, and a poor man was on the floor and was very messed up,” Hayek said. The man catcalled her, but Hayek ignored him and kept walking. The man did not like that. “[He] took offense, got up, took a knife out, and started coming after me trying to stab me.”</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9833671263,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9833671263?profile=RESIZE_584x" width="455" /></a><em><strong>Photo: Salma Hayek in the film Savages</strong></em></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>“It was so scary”</strong></span></p>
<p>Hayek and her friends ran for their life. “I was asking someone to call the police, nobody came,” Hayek said. “Eventually, we went in a store because we were so tired and it was so scary. We jumped over the counter, I grabbed a stick and I had to keep him from getting us with a stick.”</p>
<p>As she fought for her life, two men walked into the store. They were <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/bikers-amp-outlaw-motorcycle" target="_blank">Hells Angels</a>. They ended the fight and made sure Hayek and her friends were safe. They showed that there is always someone out there crazier or stronger than you. Or both.</p>
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“Conan” behind bars: Gun charge earns national president of Pagans outlaw motorcycle club 33 months
https://gangstersinc.org/blog/conan-behind-bars-gun-charge-earns-national-president-of-pagans-o
2021-10-16T08:42:11.000Z
2021-10-16T08:42:11.000Z
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<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9706295069?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>By David Amoruso for <a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank">Gangsters Inc.</a></p>
<p>The national president of the Pagans outlaw motorcycle club was sentenced to almost 3 years in prison on Thursday. 62-year-old Keith Richter, who goes by the nickname “Conan,” had earlier <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/blog/pagans-motorcycle-club-president-conan-pleads-guilty-to-gun-charg" target="_blank">pleaded guilty</a> to illegally possessing a firearm.</p>
<p>As a convicted felon, Richter (photo above) is prohibited from possessing a gun. His rap sheet includes conspiracy to commit murder and aggravated assault in aid of racketeering, for which he served 16 years in prison.</p>
<p>The latest addition to this illustrious list is a crime that seems mundane in comparison. In February of 2021, Richter had just left a party thrown by the <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/bikers-amp-outlaw-motorcycle" target="_blank">Pagans</a> in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and was on his way to his home in Suffolk County, New York, when police pulled him over in Mercer County, New Jersey.</p>
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<li><strong>READ: <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/bandidos-president-biggie-sentenced-to-14-years-in-prison-on-drug" target="_blank">Bandidos president “Biggie” sentenced to 14 years</a> in prison on drug and attempted murder charges</strong></li>
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<p>While searching his car, the cops recovered a loaded Ruger P345 .45 caliber handgun from a front-seat compartment.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>War against the Hells Angels</strong></span></p>
<p>Authorities are probably relieved to take Richter off the streets now that the war between his <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/bikers-amp-outlaw-motorcycle" target="_blank">Pagans</a> and the <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/bikers-amp-outlaw-motorcycle" target="_blank">Hells Angels</a> is heating up. The beef has claimed victims on both sides – a Pagans boss was shot to death in broad daylight in the Bronx, New York, while a Hells Angel associate was <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/leaders-and-members-of-pagan-s-motorcycle-club-hit-with-drug-gun" target="_blank">beaten up</a> at a gas station in Newark, New Jersey.</p>
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<li><strong>READ: <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/outlaw-vendetta-hells-angels-charged-in-broad-daylight-execution" target="_blank">Outlaw Vendetta</a>: Hells Angels charged in broad daylight execution of rival Pagans biker boss in the Bronx</strong></li>
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<p>Bikers from both clubs have been charged in these two cases.</p>
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Sons of Silence biker club enforcer confronts off-duty cop and ends up in prison
https://gangstersinc.org/blog/sons-of-silence-biker-club-enforcer-confronts-off-duty-cop-and-en
2021-08-25T09:40:54.000Z
2021-08-25T09:40:54.000Z
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<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9471253056?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>By David Amoruso for <a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank">Gangsters Inc.</a></p>
<p>Outlaw bikers take their role seriously. Their patches are sacred. So when they see other motorcycle riders wearing a patch they feel he shouldn’t, they confront him. They usually get away with it. But this time the guy they confronted was an off-duty police officer. Bad mistake.</p>
<p>On April 5, 2020, several members of the Sons of Silence Motorcycle Club and another affiliated group confronted a motorcyclist, who was an off-duty police officer, claiming the officer needed permission from the Sons of Silence to wear one of the patches on the back of the motorcyclist’s jacket. </p>
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<li><strong>READ: </strong><a href="https://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/leaders-and-members-of-pagan-s-motorcycle-club-hit-with-drug-gun" target="_blank"><strong>Pagans bikers charged with beating of Hells Angel</strong></a></li>
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<p>Among the intimidating bunch was 38-year-old Justin Carlson (photo above), the enforcer for the Northern Iowa Chapter of the Sons of Silence Motorcycle Club.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9471265459,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="292" alt="9471265459?profile=RESIZE_400x" /></a>Of course, the “gang in blue” isn’t easily intimidated. Why should they be? After the confrontation, police searched Carlson’s home in Sheffield, Iowa, and recovered Carlson’s Sons of Silence motorcycle vest, which had a brass knuckles in the pocket, numerous items of Sons of Silence paraphernalia, and two firearms.</p>
<p>As a convicted felon, Carlson isn’t allowed to own a firearm, let alone two. He pleaded guilty on March 19, 2021 guilty plea to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Last week, he was sentenced to 10 months in prison.</p>
<p>Carlson was released on the bond previously set and is to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on a date yet to be set.</p>
<p>Mess around with the wrong person and you learn the hard way.</p>
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Vice President of Modesto Hells Angels pleads guilty to drug charges
https://gangstersinc.org/blog/vice-president-of-modesto-hells-angels-pleads-guilty-to-drug-char
2021-07-26T16:01:28.000Z
2021-07-26T16:01:28.000Z
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<p>The vice president of the Modesto chapter of the <a href="https://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/bikers-amp-outlaw-motorcycle" target="_blank">Hells Angels Outlaw Motorcycle Club</a> pleaded guilty to drug charges on Friday. 33-year-old Michael Shafer admitted to conspiracy charges involving the distribution of heroin and marijuana.</p>
<p>As part of a years-long investigation into the Hells Angels by the FBI, ATF, IRS, the Police Departments of both Modesto and Turlock, the Stanislaus County District Attorney’s Office, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and the California Highway Patrol, authorities obtained a wiretap for Shafer’s phone.</p>
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<li><strong>READ: <a href="https://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/we-were-elite-and-acted-like-it-former-hells-angels-boss-george-c" target="_blank">“We were elite and acted like it.”</a> Former Hells Angels boss George Christie sits down with Gangsters Inc.</strong></li>
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<p>The wiretapped calls and messages showed that Shafer was conspiring to distribute marijuana and heroin. Specifically, in April 2019, he conspired with a former Hells Angels member who was incarcerated in Pleasant Valley State Prison to smuggle heroin into the penitentiary.</p>
<p>Authorities <a href="https://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/modesto-hells-angels-including-vice-president-hit-with-gun-and-dr" target="_blank">arrested</a> Shafer in September of 2019, along with Hells Angels member Ricky Blackwell and club secretary Patrick Gonzales.</p>
<p>Shafer is scheduled to be sentenced on October 22. He faces a maximum statutory penalty of 40 years in prison, a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison, and a $5 million fine.</p>
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