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Saturday 02 March 2019
(USA) Pagan charged for hitting police car, officer
A Brooklyn, New York man affiliated with the Pagans biker gang is facing a reckless driving charge in Key West after he drove a Ford Expedition into a Key West Police Department patrol car in the parking lot of Bare Assets on Jan. 19.According to the police report, the 35-year-old Roy Aviles...

https://keysnews.com/article/story/pagan-charged-for-hitting-police-car-officer/
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Friday 01 March 2019
(USA) Two motorcycle gang members from Eustis sentenced to life in execution-style slayings in New York state
A federal judge in Buffalo, N.Y., on Thursday sentenced two outlaw motorcycle gang members from Eustis to three consecutive life sentences in the execution-style murders of two men in 2014, according to the U.S. Justice Department.

David Pirk, 68, the Kingsmen Motorcycle Club national president, and Andre Jenkins, 40, a club “enforcer,” were found guilty in May for their roles in a major racketeering operation involving violence and murder, the prosecutor’s office said.

On Sept. 6, 2014, authorities said Pirk ordered Jenkins, who was called “Little Bear,” to kill Daniel "DJ" Szymanski, 31, and Paul Maue, 38, in the Buffalo area.

“It took nothing for him to kill two people execution style,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph M. Tripi said, according to the Buffalo News. “And he was damn proud of it. He's proud to be a killer.”

In a statement, U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. said, “Through this prosecution, both the national president, who ordered the executions, as well as the trigger pulling member of an outlaw motorcycle club were finally brought to justice and held accountable for two senseless murders.”

He added that the murders, “together with numerous depraved and heinous acts of violence committed by defendants and others in the club, justify the sentences imposed and fittingly demonstrate that the defendants’ quest to become ‘1 percenters’ ultimately cost them 100 percent of their freedom for 100 percent of the rest of their lives.”

The “1 percenter” term refers to the small number of “outlaw” motorcycle clubs involved with crimes such as drug and firearm trafficking.

After last year’s verdict, a Justice Department official called the Kingsmen club “a vicious gang that terrorized the Buffalo area, engaging in senseless murders, brutal violence, robberies, and drug trafficking” and that with the convictions the club’s “reign of terror is coming to an end.”

Jenkins already is serving a life sentence for his conviction in 2015 for the killings.

Another Lake County resident, Timothy Enix, 59, of Tavares, known as “Blaze,” also was convicted last year — at the same time as Pirk and Jenkins — of RICO conspiracy, possession of firearms, using and maintaining premises for drug dealing and possession of firearms while drug trafficking. He is due to be sentenced April 17 in Buffalo, records show.

He was in charge of the club’s Florida and Tennessee chapters, according to federal officials.

In Lake County, Kingsmen Motorcycle Club members were involved in a 2017 shooting following an argument with members of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club at a gas station about three miles west of where thousands of bikers had gathered for the annual Leesburg Bikefest.

Bikers David Donovan and Marc Knotts were hit in the flurry of bullets. Donovan, 41, whose Facebook pictures showed him donning Kingsmen Motorcycle Club gear, died a few weeks later.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/lake/os-ne-lake-county-motorcycle-gang-members-sentenced-20190228-story.html
Posted by ace on Friday 01 March 2019 - 16:38:45 Read/Post Comment: 0printer friendly

(AUS) Hells Angels chief fined over Gold Coast pub brawl
The president of the Gold Coast chapter of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang has been fined over an ugly pub brawl.

Greg Pearce, 45, pleaded guilty to affray at Brisbane Magistrates Court and was fined almost $3000 dollars over an ugly daylight fight at a Palm Beach pub that left a man unconscious.

CCTV released by police showed the January 19 brawl including footage of Pearce repeatedly kicking and punching the 42-year-old victim before walking away.

Police said the pair knew each other

But Pearce also copped a $700 fine for wearing a controversial number on his jumper when he attended court.

On the back of the garment were the words "Angel" and "Brotherhood" with the number 8173 – a number associated with Hells Angels.

Pearce had the jumper custom made and checked by a lawyer to ensure it did not breach Queensland’s laws against wearing bikie attire.

The magistrate described the jumper as an inoffensive item, not usually associated with the notorious motorcycle club and said it was not intimidating.

But Pearce was still fined $700 for wearing it.

While Pearce walked free today, he is facing possible prison time for breaching a suspended sentence and being caught with cocaine.

https://www.9news.com.au/2019/03/01/18/26/news-qld--hells-angels-chief-fined-over-gold-coast-pub-brawl
Posted by ace on Friday 01 March 2019 - 16:37:10 Read/Post Comment: 0printer friendly

(AUS) Fire, shootings sign of bikie turf battles
Police have conceded bikie violence is escalating in Queensland after the suspected firebombing of a tattoo studio and two shootings, as the state opposition ­declared “bikies are back”.

Koolsville Studios, owned by Rebels outlaw motorcycle club life member Mick Kosenko, is in ruins after fire tore through the Brisbane business around midnight yesterday. It followed apparent tit-for-tat shootings of a Rebels bikie and a Bandidos associate.

Mr Kosenko fought the bikie crackdown that was launched by the former LNP government under Campbell Newman after a violent brawl at a Gold Coast restaurant in 2013. He has been a member of the Rebels for about 38 years and, with no criminal record, ran in the 2017 state election.

Detective Chief Superintendent Charysse Pond said police were seeing an “escalation in violence in relation to organised criminal gangs”. However, the ­attacks were “targeted at other criminal gang members”.

“The community is safe. This is targeted violence between criminal networks,” she said.

Mr Kosenko told The Weekend Australian he was “hearing all kinds of stories” about who was behind the fire at the studio in Brendale, on Brisbane’s northern outskirts.

It came after Rebels bikie ­Gokhan Turkyilmaz was shot up to eight times and bashed with a baseball bat at his home on the Gold Coast on Tuesday.

The shooting was believed to be in retaliation for an attack at Logan’s Hyperdome shopping centre last month, in which a Rebels member shot Bandidos ­associate Harley Cranston in the leg in an apparent dispute over territory. Nine alleged members or associates of the Rebels have been taken into custody over the shooting.

Gokhan’s brother, Emrah Turkyilmaz, was arrested by bikie-busting Taskforce Maxima detectives on Wednesday in connection to the Hyperdome shooting. Emrah, 22, was released on bail on charges of affray and drug possession, despite police objections.

A police affidavit claimed he had threatened “violent retribution against Bandidos OMCG members responsible for the shooting of his brother”.

Opposition Leader Deb Frecklington said it was “clear a bikie turf war is raging on our streets”.

“The LNP introduced the toughest laws in the nation and we got results,’’ she said.

“Bikies left the state and crime rates dramatically reduced. Now under Labor the ­bikies are back with a vengeance.”

Police Minister Mark Ryan said “police are on top of it, they’re making arrests”. “They’re putting people behind bars and they’ll continue to be proactive when it comes to ensuring community safety,” Mr Ryan said.

Former detective and Bond University criminologist Terry Goldsworthy said police had made “poor decisions” including slashing the number of officers in Taskforce Maxima.

The Rapid Action Patrol group had initially targeted bikies but had since been “sucked into general duties”. “Is it any wonder … you’re starting to see the replication of 2013 where things were allowed to bubble along and suddenly there’s an explosion,’’ Mr Goldsworthy said.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/fire-shootings-sign-of-bikie-turf-battles/news-story/9d5970db41f692afd44717ca4a994798?nk=5fcc004ae790e6416be20d519433ea07-1551458005
Posted by ace on Friday 01 March 2019 - 16:34:11 Read/Post Comment: 0printer friendly

(USA) Judge Refuses to Strip Biker Gang of Trademarked Logo
The Mongols motorcycle club Thursday won the latest round in its battle with the federal government, when a judge refused to carry out a jury’s decision to strip the club of trademarks it holds on its coveted logo.

LOS ANGELES — The Mongols motorcycle club Thursday won the latest round in its battle with the federal government, when a judge refused to carry out a jury’s decision to strip the club of trademarks it holds on its coveted logo.

Denying Mongol members, many of whom have been convicted over past decades for a range of violent crimes and drug offenses, the right to display the logo on their leather riding jackets and elsewhere would overstep the constitutional right to free expression embedded in the First Amendment, as well as the Eighth Amendment’s ban on excessive penalties, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter ruled.

“We are ecstatic that the Mongols motorcycle club has been able to win this First Amendment battle for itself and all motorcycle clubs,” said Stephen Stubbs, an attorney for the Mongols. “The government has clearly overreached into a realm that the Constitution does not allow. They tried to ban symbolic speech.”

In a statement, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office said, “We are disappointed in the ruling,” adding that prosecutors believe the law obligated Carter to order the trademarks to be forfeited.

The government is “definitely considering an appeal,” he said.

In December, after a lengthy trial, a jury convicted the Mongols as an organization of racketeering and conspiracy charges, finding the group shared responsibility for murder, attempted murder and drug crimes committed by individual members.

The verdict allowed prosecutors from the U.S. attorney’s office to pursue something they had long sought: a court order forcing the Mongols to forfeit the trademarks it owns over the image of a Genghis Khan figure in sunglasses riding a motorcycle beneath the group’s name, spelled out in large block letters.

Since the group was formed in late 1960s, the logo has been the foundation of the Mongols’ identity, which over the years has included involvement in drug dealing and violence by many members. Only those who have been admitted to the inner ranks of the insular group are allowed to stitch the large patches onto their riding apparel. And in the closed-off world of motorcycle clubs, built largely around rivalries and alliances with other groups, the logo confers authority on members.

Following more testimony and legal wrangling over the forfeiture issue, the jury voted unanimously that the Mongols should lose control of the trademarks, finding that there was a direct link between the image and one of the criminal charges the club faced — conspiracy to commit racketeering.

Calling the verdict the “first of its kind in the nation,” U.S. Attorney Nicola Hanna said seizing the Mongols trademarks would serve to “attack the sources of a criminal enterprise’s economic power and influence.”

But rather than order the trademarks forfeited, Carter set a hearing to examine, among other things, the First Amendment issues raised by the verdict.

When both sides arrived in court Thursday to make their cases for signing off on the jury’s decision, Carter — who during the trial made no secret of his concerns that the novel legal strategy crossed constitutional lines — had his 51-page order already written.

The government’s pursuit of the trademarks had struck experts as a dubious if innovative gambit. While it seemed clear that forfeiting the trademarks would cut off the stream of money that Mongols leaders collect from selling patches and other merchandise to members, it was far less certain whether trademark laws could overcome constitutional questions and empower government officials to stop Mongols members from wearing any clothing with the potent Mongol image.

It was not the first time concerns over the First Amendment have been raised in the government’s pursuit of the Mongols. A decade ago, in an earlier case, prosecutors sought authority to seize clothing bearing the Mongols’ insignia. A member of the club sued, claiming his rights under the First Amendment were at risk, and prevailed.

“The plaintiff’s hardship in not being able to express his views and public interest in protecting speech outweigh the government’s interest in suppressing an intimidating symbol,” the judge in that case wrote.

The Mongols were formed in the 1970s in Montebello, east of Los Angeles, by a group of mostly Latino men who reportedly had been rejected for membership by the Hells Angels motorcycle gang, which has become the Mongols’ archrival. It has expanded over the decades to include several hundred members in chapters across Southern California and elsewhere.

The federal government has pursued the Mongols for years, along with several other biker clubs identified as “outlaw motorcycle gangs.” Despite their claims of being innocent social clubs, the groups, which include the Hells Angels, Vagos and the Outlaws, have long track records of warring with one another and, according to authorities, operate as criminal organizations that subsist on the drug trade.

In 2008, nearly 80 Mongols members were charged in a sweeping racketeering case that included an array of alleged murders, assaults and drug deals. The charges were the culmination of Operation Black Rain, an investigation that centered on paid informants and undercover agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives who infiltrated the club’s ranks.

Prosecutors devised the strategy of stripping the Mongols of their trademarks in this earlier case. At a news conference announcing the charges, then-U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O’Brien laid out the strategy, saying that taking control of the trademarked insignia would give the government the authority to force Mongols members to remove the image from their riding jackets.

All but two of the defendants in the case pleaded guilty and a judge agreed the trademarks should be forfeited, but ultimately reversed himself after deciding none of the people charged in the case actually owned the trademarks.

That led prosecutors to try again with a second racketeering case that was largely the same as the first but which named only one defendant: Mongol Nation, the entity that prosecutors say is made up of the club’s leaders and owns the trademarks.

In his ruling, Carter granted the government’s requested forfeiture of weapons and other property agents seized during raids on Mongol offices and members’ houses.

Carter has not yet imposed a sentence on the Mongols in the racketeering case. The punishment could include monetary fines.

(EDITORS: STORY CAN END HERE)

Joseph Yanny, a criminal defense attorney who argued the case for the Mongols, expressed disappointment that the judge had rejected his requests that the verdict be tossed out altogether.

But he acknowledged that allowing the club to maintain control over its logo was a major win. Losing the trademarks, he had said during the trial, would have amounted to a “death sentence” for the Mongols.

The government’s case, he said, was an attempt to impose “collective guilt” on an organization for the crimes committed by some of its members.

“That’s never been the law in this country,” he said.

https://www.officer.com/investigations/news/21070405/judge-refuses-to-strip-biker-gang-of-trademarked-logo
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Wednesday 06 February 2019
(CAN) SQ nabs alleged Montreal Hells Angel
An alleged member of the Hells Angels’ Montreal chapter is expected to appear before a judge at the Montreal courthouse on Wednesday after having avoided arrest in an organized crime investigation for 10 months.

In April last year, the Sûreté du Québec alleged Daniel-André Giroux was a member of the gang’s Montreal chapter, which is now more than four decades old. The SQ had just arrested dozens of people in Project Objection, a lengthy investigation into four drug trafficking networks throughout Quebec that had tentacles that reached into Ontario and New Brunswick.

Giroux, 48, was one of several men who could not be found when members of the Escouade nationale de répression du crime organisé (ENRCO) carried out arrests and search warrants. On Tuesday, the Sûreté du Québec tweeted that Giroux was arrested in Dominican Republic and that he is expected to be formally charged at the Montreal courthouse on Wednesday. The provincial police force noted that Giroux was on Quebec’s 10 most wanted list before the arrest was made.

Giroux faces five charges in Project Objection including two counts related to drug trafficking, another two alleging he committed crimes for the benefit of a criminal organization and conspiracy.

He was charged on an indictment along with 11 other people, including three other full-patch members of the biker gang; Michel (Sky) Langlois, Louis Matte and Stéphane Maheu. In October, Maheu, a member of the gang’s South chapter, ended his run on the lam and pleaded guilty to drug trafficking, gangsterism and conspiracy on the same day he made his first court appearance and was sentenced to a six-year prison term, the longest sentence in Project Objection so far.

https://montrealgazette.com/news/alleged-hells-angel-on-quebecs-top-10-most-wanted-list-nabbed-by-sq
Posted by ace on Wednesday 06 February 2019 - 17:05:36 Read/Post Comment: 0printer friendly

(CAN) Crown Alleges Dale Porter Was Killed For Disrespecting Vikings MC
The Crown claims Al Potter killed 39-year-old Dale Porter because he disrespected the Vikings MC.

Prosecutor Sheldon Steeves made his opening remarks to the jury this morning before calling the Crown’s first witness to the stand at Potter’s trial.

Potter is facing first degree murder in the 2014 stabbing death of Dale Porter in North River.

Crown Prosecutor Sheldon Steeves told the 14-person jury that they intend to call all or some of their 35 witnesses to the stand.

Those witnesses include police officers, medical professionals, friends of the victim, cab drivers, and others.

Throughout the evidence the Crown will present during trial, Steeves tells the jury they will learn that on June 28, 2014, 39-year-old Dale Porter was fishing crab. Steeves says he later had beers in his shed in North River, and around midnight, got a cab to a bar in Bay Roberts.

The Crown says the evidence will say Porter met up with a friend at the bar, and that she was with two other men—Al Potter, and his co-accused. The Crown says when Porter left the bar, he got a cab home with the woman and the two men, and got out of the cab at his house.

Porter was found in the early morning hours fatally stabbed in his driveway.

The Crown tells the jury that they intend to call an undercover officer to the stand that was in direct contact with Al Potter during a stay in an Ontario prison after the murder of Porter. During his stay in prison, the officer built a relationship with Potter through letters, phone calls and visits. He then picked up Potter after his release from jail.

Steeves tells the jury that the undercover officer will testify that he drove Al Potter to an area and told him a man was killed because he owed money. Potter was asked to help bury the man, which was actually a dead pig.

The Crown says through evidence presented at trial, the jury will hear that the murder was planned because Dale Porter was disrespecting the Vikings MC.

Potter was charged with the crime along with a co-accused. The name of Potter’s co-accused is being protected by a publication ban pending his trial in the fall. Both men are allegedly connected to the Vikings MC, an affiliate of the Hells Angels.

http://vocm.com/news/crown-alleges-dale-porter-was-killed-for-disrespecting-vikings-mc/
Posted by ace on Wednesday 06 February 2019 - 17:03:15 Read/Post Comment: 0printer friendly

(USA) Hells Angels gang members plead guilty in shooting
Four of five Hells Angels Motorcycle Club members pled guilty on Jan. 29 for their roles in a fight between themselves and rival gang members in September.

The last of the five has a trial set for March.

The rival gang members were from the Pagan's Motorcycle Club. The Hells Angels and the Pagans are considered two of the larger outlaw motorcycle gangs, along with the Bandidos and the Outlaws. These four are referred to “Big Four” outlaw motorcycle gangs by both the FBI and the Canadian intelligence service, Criminal Intelligence Service Canada.

Richard West, Joseph Paturzo and Nathaniel Villaman each plead guilty to malicious wounding by a mob, according to Augusta County Commonwealth’s Attorney Tim Martin.

“They each have four-year active sentences,” Martin said. “That’s 20 years with 16 suspended. And then one of them that took the offer is a shooter, and he received an eight-year active sentence.”

The defendant Martin referred to was Anthony Milan, 28, who fired a gun during the altercation and seriously wounded one of the Pagans. Martin said that Milan’s sentence went above the sentencing guidelines of six and a half years that are usually applied in cases such as this case.

Both of the gang members were in the area for the same motorcycle convention, and the fighting began when the Pagans, who were from southern Virginia, arrived in the parking lot of the Hometown Inn in Greenville on Lee Jackson Highway. The Hells Angels bikers were members of a New York charter, according to the Augusta County Sheriff’s Office.

“In my experience as a prosecutor, I have not seen a shooting in any jurisdiction I was prosecuting at that time,” said Martin, who was elected the Commonwealth’s Attorney for Augusta County in 2015. “Nationally, they are occasionally known to be violent.”

The last of the Hells Angels members in this trial, Dominick Eadicicco, is the only one that did not accept the plea deal. His trial is scheduled for March.

https://www.dailyprogress.com/newsvirginian/hells-angels-gang-members-plead-guilty-in-shooting/article_c6cba4c5-73fb-5617-b3b3-173ce3372477.html
Posted by ace on Wednesday 06 February 2019 - 16:59:59 Read/Post Comment: 0printer friendly

(USA) 17 PLEAD GUILTY TO CONSPIRING TO DISTRIBUTE METHAMPHETAMINE
Caylor-Hernandez, Fraire-Chavarria, Babin, Kerr, Simmons, Ray, Burkard, Foster, Barbarino, Burt, Shettler , Andrews, Rivas, Ford, and Bilski each face a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. Sann and Stringer each face a maximum penalty of 40 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not been set.

According to court documents, in April 2017, the FBI, and later the DEA, began an investigation into the drug trafficking organizations that had supplied motorcycle clubs, including the Pagans Motorcycle Club, operating in the Middle District of Florida with distribution amounts of methamphetamine. The Middle District of Florida includes the Tampa Bay area.

During the investigation, law enforcement learned that Caylor-Hernandez was one of the leaders of a DTO distributing kilogram amounts of methamphetamine to other DTOs and individuals located in central Florida. Members of the Caylor-Hernandez DTO transported methamphetamine from Georgia to various cities in central Florida, including St. Augustine, Holly Hill, and Daytona Beach, for further distribution.

One of the members of the Caylor-Hernandez DTO, Kerr, then distributed the methamphetamine to Burt and Shettler. At the time, Burt was a member of the Pagans’ Mother Chapter, a group of 13 members that direct the Pagans’ criminal activities throughout the United States. Shettler was a member of the Thunderguards Motorcycle Club, a club affiliated with the Pagans.

Law enforcement also learned that Andrews, who was the sergeant-at-arms or enforcer for the local Pagans’ chapter located in Daytona Beach, received distribution amounts of methamphetamine from several sources, including a DTO operating in both Georgia and central Florida. That DTO transported large amounts of methamphetamine from Georgia to central Florida for further distribution.

http://www.tbreporter.com/courts/motorcycle-gang/
Posted by ace on Wednesday 06 February 2019 - 16:57:34 Read/Post Comment: 0printer friendly

(USA) Firing of FL Medic in Motorcycle Gang OK
TAMPA — A federal arbitrator says Hillsborough County was justified in firing a Fire Rescue medic who belonged to the Outlaws Motorcycle Club, noting the negative attention his membership brought the county.

Clinton Neal Walker, 35, of Bradenton, was fired a year ago after an internal investigation concluded he had “unwavering loyalty” to the Outlaws, long considered the state’s dominant motorcycle gang.

He was the first Hillsborough employee to be investigated for gang activity under a series of county ordinances that prohibit membership in any organization the state or federal government considers criminal, including the Outlaws St. Petersburg Chapter where Walker was a member.

Arbitrator Charlotte Gold released her ruling in mid-January, ending a year-long fight by the local chapter of the International Association of Fire Fighters to save Walker’s job. Her report provided new insight into biker gang culture within the county’s fire department and throughout the Tampa Bay area.

“HCFR employees, including chiefs and a fire medic, attended MC (motorcycle club) events,” Gold wrote, and “many of its members were ex-military.”

Walker earned a Bronze Star, among other medals and awards, while in the U.S. Marine Corps. And as a county firefighter he was awarded a Medal of Valor. But Walker also had a long disciplinary history and “conducted himself in a manner that was detrimental to the department,” Gold wrote.

“The conclusion is inescapable that he affected the county’s standing in the community,’’ Gold wrote in her report. “His behavior ultimately reflected poorly on the county and his profession in general.”

Walker testified he had resigned from the Outlaws in October 2016, before the county issued a directive prohibiting all employees from “being a member of or voluntarily participating with any outside gang, as defined in the FBI’s 2015 National Gang Report.” The ban came two months after Walker was arrested in Key West for throwing the first punch in a bar fight that left two employees injured and involved as many as 15 other Outlaws, one wearing a T-shirt with a swastika on it and others who used racial slurs.

Walker ultimately negotiated a plea deal for the Key West fight and received a paid suspension from the county for 30 days. He was still serving that suspension when now-retired Hillsborough County Fire Rescue Captain James Costa, then president of the Outlaw’s St. Petersburg chapter, was shot by members of the rival 69ers Motorcycle Club while riding his motorcycle in south Hillsborough in July 2017. According to the report, Costa fired back. The shooting has since been tied to the shooting death of another Outlaw, Paul Anderson, in December 2017.

Walker was one of about 10 Outlaws who got a call from Costa and another Hillsborough County Fire Rescue medic telling them that Costa was being taken to a medical center in Manatee County with bullet wounds. Though he wasn’t on duty, Walker dressed in his Fire Rescue uniform and accompanied Costa into the hospital, taking his motorcycle vest with Outlaw insignia and initially refusing to turn it over to law enforcement.

“By wearing his HCFR t-shirt at the hospital, he gained favor for himself in violation of the county’s uniform regulations,” Gold wrote in her report. “He then proceeded to place the interests of a friend and mentor — an individual who continued a strong relationship with a motorcycle gang — over and above those of law enforcement.”

According to the report, Fire Rescue management has known about both Walker and Costa’s membership in the Outlaws since about 2008. Costa joined the Outlaws in 2002, and recruited Walker while working as his supervisor in Sun City Center’s Fire Station 28.

The new rules, and the ensuing investigation into Walker’s conduct, happened as a wave of bar brawls, bad behavior and execution-style killings between rival biker gangs swept across the Tampa Bay area, implicating firefighters in Hillsborough, Polk and Pasco counties.

James William Earl, 32, became the latest victim when he was gunned down in the driveway of his Spring Hill home on Jan. 16. Investigators say it’s unclear if Earl’s death was connected to his membership in the Pagan Motorcycle Club. The following week, FBI agents raided the nearby home of Glen Buzze, a “Pagan” who works as a paramedic for Pasco County Fire Rescue and held the rank of captain.

https://www.firehouse.com/careers-education/news/21060107/arbitrator-firing-of-hillsborough-county-fl-medic-in-motorcycle-gang-ok
Posted by ace on Wednesday 06 February 2019 - 16:55:22 Read/Post Comment: 0printer friendly

Saturday 02 February 2019
(USA) Mongols Motorcycle Club vows to fight trademark loss
EAST LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The federal government said they're a convicted criminal gang, and Hell's Angels consider them enemies. They call themselves the Mongols Motorcycle Club - and they're one of the most notorious MC groups in the world.

"It's about honor, respect and pride," David Santillan said.

But for this East L.A.-born brotherhood, the last few years have been a fight for survival. They've been under federal indictment for the last decade. And recently, a federal jury in Santa Ana convicted the national club of racketeering, racketeering conspiracy for murder, attempted murder and drug dealing.

More than 75 of their members were convicted - including their former president Ruben "Doc" Cavazos. But the biggest blow of all - hit them where it hurts the most, they lost the rights to their trademarked emblem.

"What the patch means to me and to all my brothers when we ride, it's like a ring in a marriage. It symbolizes our loyalty and commitment to the Mongols Motorcycle when we're out there riding together as a club." Santillan said.

Santillan, known as "Little Dave" by club members, is the new national president of the Mongols. He's been on the front lines of the group's fight against the government, to keep the rights to their sacred symbol.

"This is a lifestyle. A culture. A way of life for us. To me, it's a lifetime commitment. I've been in this club going on 23 years," he said.

The infamous patch is a caricature of the founder of the ancient Mongol empire, Genghis Kahn. Prosecutors argue, in order to get or keep their patches, members are encouraged to commit crimes. It's why they've been fighting for years to strip the club of their logo.

There's still a lot of secrecy around the patches and how members obtain them. But if there's one thing club members, their lawyers and prosecutors agree on -- the symbol is a pivotal part of the club's identity.

"If they take away our patch, they can take away everyone else's. It would be a domino effect if they take the case in law for the future, so I don't see us going anywhere. We're just going to continue fighting until the wheels fall off," Santillan said.

U.S. District Judge David O. Carter also doesn't seemed to be fully convinced about stripping the club of their logo. He's invited civil rights groups, first amendment lawyers and trademark attorneys to weigh in on the implications.

"Never before in U.S. History has the government come and tried to ban a symbol. Think about that for a second. How many symbols are there in the United States, from wedding rings to religious symbols? All kinds right? If the government can take and ban a symbol, where does that leave everyone else? And who's next? That's really what we have to look at. That's a really slippery slope," said Mongols general counsel Stephen "Bow Tie" Stubbs.

This case is getting the attention of other motorcycle groups. It's even rumored that their arch-rivals Hell's Angels, despite their checkered and deadly relationship with the Mongols, are donating money to fight the cause.

Santillan said the club has spent more than $1 million over the past decade, through fundraisers, donations and club dues, and they won't stop fighting until they win.

"It's a matter of principle at this point - and pride. We're not going away and they're not going to kick us to the curb. Like I said before, we're going to do this until the wheels fall off. We don't care, at any cost," he said.

https://abc7.com/mongols-motorcycle-club-vows-to-fight-trademark-loss/5116931/
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(USA) Bandito Found Guilty of Murder, Gets Life in Prison
ANSON, TX -- A suspected gang member was found guilty by a jury of his peers for the murder of Dusty Childress on Wednesday.

Wesley Dale Mason, who has ties with the Banditos motorcycle gang, shot and killed Childress in March 2017 near the Abilene Environmental Landfill.

Mason was sentenced the maximum life in prison. He will also have to pay a $10,000 fine.

According to KTXS, four character witness's were called in for Mason's defense; his bail bondsman, friend, father, and mother. They all referred to Mason as a loving father who they never felt would cause them any harm.

The prosecutes then called Mason's parole officer, and a motorcycle gang expert. They told the jury that the Banditos were a dangerous gang, and that they wouldn't feel safe being inside the same room as Mason.

https://sanangelolive.com/news/crime/2019-02-01/bandito-found-guilty-murder-gets-life-prison
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(AUS) ‘Bash on sight’ Comanchero bikie Nathan Greenway set to be charged over shooting
The Comanchero bikie who acted on a “bash on sight” edict issued by his club against the Rebels is set to be charged with attempted murder over the brazen shooting of a bikie rival in Calista last year.

Nathan Greenway was yesterday jailed for nine months over his part in a brutal brawl between Comanchero and Rebels outside Crown Perth in September.

During that hearing, it was revealed Greenway is also set to be charged over the shooting of a Rebels associate in his 50s, who was left with serious wounds after he was gunned down in a drive-by shooting on a suburban street just weeks later.

As The West Australian revealed at the time, the 53-year-old was riding home from a meeting when an unmarked SUV with a blue flashing light signalled for him to pull over.

But instead of officers stepping out to question him, he instead found himself staring down the barrel of a gun. He was then shot in the stomach and arm.

Detectives are set to allege that Greenway was one of those involved.

In court, Greenway admitted wielding a firearm in anger in the weeks before — pointing a revolver at the manager of the Galaxy Lounge, after he was challenged over a smashed TV in an upstairs rooms of the nightspot.

Police prosecutors told the court Greenway was one of the Comanchero members who bumped into a group of Rebels at the casino in the early hours — amid already high tensions between the two bikie gangs.

Magistrate Thomas Hall heard those tensions precipitated “assaults, arson and bashings” — and led to another one on this night.

After agreeing to take their issues outside, Greenway was knocked down and out, and then stomped on.

In the words of his lawyer Terry Dobson, he got “the living suitcase kicked out of him”.

Three weeks later, on another night out, it was the Galaxy Lounge boss who was in the line of fire after a stoush over $1000 damage to the TV.

“We don’t want to live in a society like America where people are pulling guns out when they are upset,” Magistrate Hall said.

Greenway's best mate and Comanchero sergeant at arms David Kinneen was yesterday also jailed over a bizarre brawl with Greenway in the heart of Northbridge in November that also involved a firearm.

The court heard the two men got into a vicious brawl in the early hours, with Kinneen waving a fake gun. Concerned onlookers called police, who arrested the pair.

But since then, Mr Dobson said, the pair had shared a cell.

Kinneen was also jailed for nine months for producing the gun.

https://thewest.com.au/news/court-justice/bash-on-sight-comanchero-bikie-set-to-be-charged-over-shooting-ng-b881090745z
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