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Wednesday 23 January 2019
(USA) Biker faces sentencing for 2017 Ottawa brawl
One of the men charged in a 2017 Ottawa biker brawl was found guilty last week.

Mark Korn, 53, Harwood Heights, was found guilty Friday of mob action and unlawful use of a weapon. Korn opted to have Circuit Judge Cynthia Raccuglia decide his case instead of a jury. Korn, who is to be sentenced Friday, March 22, is free on $500 cash bond.

Korn was involved in a fight Aug. 20, 2017, outside JJ's Pub in Ottawa between the Outlaws and Hells Angels. Korn is treasurer of the Illinois Outlaws, according to court testimony, and was one of two men wearing suits during the melee, which led to multiple arrests. Korn was carrying a hammer wrapped in plastic, but testified he was not there to fight.

Korn was represented by Naperville lawyer Kip Owen.

Prosecutors also moved recently to revoke the probation given another man caught up in the brawl.

Shawn P. Thompson, 40, Ottawa, was sentenced in May 2018 to probation for grabbing a police officer's right arm and pulling him several feet. Prosecutors want probation revoked because they said Thompson was found driving with a suspended license Nov. 23 and Dec. 3, both times in Ottawa.

Thompson, who is out of custody, has a hearing Thursday, Feb. 21.

https://www.mywebtimes.com/2019/01/22/biker-faces-sentencing-for-2017-ottawa-brawl/a2t9b7n/
Posted by ace on Wednesday 23 January 2019 - 18:04:20 Read/Post Comment: 0printer friendly

(USA) Kinfolk MC biker on trial describes why he shot Bandidos in deadly El Paso bar shooting
A man's search for brotherhood eventually turned into a night of violence in a deadly brawl between biker gangs in an El Paso bar.

Javier Gonzalez took the stand at his murder trial Tuesday afternoon, explaining why he joined the Kinfolk Motorcycle Club and why he opened fire on Bandidos during a fight.

Gonzalez admitted to fatally shooting El Paso Bandidos chapter president Juan "Compa" Martinez Jr. and wounding three other men in a shooting in Mulligan's Chopped Hog bar on the East Side on the night of July 30, 2017.

But Gonzalez claims he did so in self defense.

"That night, I feared for my life," said Gonzalez, who is known as "Jake" and was vice-president of the El Paso chapter of the Kinfolk.

Gonzalez is on trial in 34th District Court on a murder charge and three counts of engaging in organized criminal activity-aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Closing arguments will be Wednesday.


The trial is providing an insight into the what law enforcement terms outlaw motorcycle gangs in El Paso.

'Missed brotherhood'
Gonzalez, 35, testified that he is currently jailed in protective custody because the Bandidos allegedly placed a "green light," or a sanctioned hit, on him.

"They make these toy runs and events. It’s PR. It’s just a cover for what they really are," Gonzalez said, describing the Bandidos as a violent group holding a "monopoly" over smaller biker clubs.

Gonzalez testified that he has no criminal record and attended Arizona State University but didn't get his degree. He worked in off-shore oil exploration.

When questioned by state prosecutor Rebecca Tarango, Gonzalez said he was dishonorably discharged after a year in the U.S. Army about 15 years ago.

"I was't able to adapt. I ended up going AWOL," Gonzalez said, explaining he was kicked out after returning to an Army base after being gone for about a month.

Tarango said that the dishonorable discharge should have legally blocked Gonzalez from purchasing a firearm.

According to testimony, Gonzalez allegedly lied about the dishonorable discharge on a federal form at a Tucson pawn shop when he bought the 9 mm handgun about two months before the shooting. Gonzalez said he didn't think it was a big deal.

Gonzalez said he began riding a motorcycle about a decade ago, first riding alone as "an independent" and then joining the Chamucos, a small local motorcycle riding club.

Gonzalez said he later joined the Black Widows, which gang investigators described as a support club for the Bandidos.

"They were like peons for the Bandidos. ‘Get me a beer, watch my bike,'" Gonzalez said. "I saw the monopoly of telling people what to do and beating people up."

Gonzalez said that the Bandidos collect a tax from motorcycle coalition events and that he grew tired of club politics.

In 2012, Gonzalez left the Black Widows. "I turned in my vest," he said, explaining that he was also busy with his off-shore work.

Upon returning to El Paso, Gonzalez said he missed the camaraderie of being in a biker club.

"I missed the brotherhood. I missed having friends," Gonzalez said. He had lost a loved one and "riding was a therapy to deal with the loss. I was very depressed."

He ended up joining the Kinfolk MC, a national club that investigators said was formed in Texas by ex-Bandidos in 2016.

Kinfolk are "independent people who didn't want to be under the thumb of anybody," Gonzalez said.

Law enforcement considers the Kinfolk and Bandidos violent outlaw motorcycle gangs involved in criminal activity.

Gonzalez disputed that the Kinfolk is a gang, adding that its members have jobs. "I am not a gang member. I am not involved in criminal activity," Gonzalez said.

Deadly confrontation
The night of the shooting, Kinfolk members Derek Mercado and Manuel "Manny" Gallegos went to Mulligan's Chopped Hog and were confronted by the Bandidos already at the bar.

A police biker gang investigator testified that the bar was a known Bandidos hangout.

“When they say it’s a Bandido bar, that’s not entirely true. We had gone there before," Gonzalez said.

"I received a call. It was Derek Mercado. ‘Hey, come over here to Mulligan's, they are about to attack us,'" Gonzalez said Mercado told him.

Gonzalez rode off to Mulligan's followed by other Kinfolk as a brawl broke out between Bandidos and the two Kinfolk in the bar.

“A couple of months back, they (Bandidos) shot a member in Abilene. That’s why some of us carry (weapons) to defend ourselves," Gonzalez said.

Video shows Gonzalez enter the bar wearing a helmet with a clear visor and holding a gun.

“I had my helmet on because I didn’t have time to take it off," Gonzalez said.

Gonzalez claimed his intent was to diffuse the situation and that he only expected that there would only be three or four Bandidos not about 10.

Video shows about eight Bandidos fighting with Gallegos and Mercado, who fall down. Kinfolk members enter and are helping picking them up. Gonzalez opens fire and Bandidos drop to the floor.

It's "one thing is to watch a video. One thing to be there. It’s hard," Gonzalez said.

Gonzalez said that it all happened very quickly. He was scared and feared his friends were getting killed. The Bandidos were yelling that they were going to kill them and that Texas was their state, he added.

"They were about to circle us. They were lunging forward toward us," Gonzalez said describing the moment he began shooting near a small hallway.

'Walking target'
After the shooting, Gonzalez ran out of the bar, stumbled and his helmet fell off, the video showed. Gonzalez took off running, leaving his motorcycle behind.

Gonzalez claimed Bandidos chased him, one of them had a knife and broke his thumb as they wrestled near a Pizza Hut before Gonzalez kicked him and was able to run off, he testified.

Gonzalez testified that he took off his Kinfolk vest and dropped it as he ran. "I was a walking target with my vest on," he said.

Gonzalez said that he saw a Bandido named "Smiley" pulling up in a sport utility vehicle and Gonzalez ran and knocked on the front door of home to buy time, asking a woman to call police. The woman closed the door.

Gonzalez then ran and began jumping backyard fences, dropping his gun, he said..

When questioned by prosecutors, Gonzalez admitted that he had his cellphone with him but he never called 911 claiming he was in shock. He eventually hid outside a church and phoned a friend to pick him up.

He stopped by the home of Gallegos, who was beat up but had not been stabbed, according to testimony.

Gonzalez said he went to his parent's home in San Elizario, got his truck and drove to Arizona to "clear his head" before returning to El Paso. He was later arrested by police.

When asked by his lawyer, Dolph Quijano Jr., how he felt taking a man's life, Gonzalez replied that he felt "bad. It's the worst thing I've ever gone through in my life."

Kinfolk support
Gonzalez claimed he is not currently a gang member because he is locked up. But gang investigators testified that the Kinfolk are backing Gonzalez.

A flyer showed the Kinfolk had a motorcycle run to raise money for Gonzalez's legal defense, an investigator previously testified.

In jail phone call recordings with Kinfolk members, Gonzalez has used the term "KFFK," Tarango pointed out.

The term, meaning "Kinfolk Forever, Forever Kinfolk," is "a way of greeting each other," Gonzalez said.

Detective Ramon Lucero of the El Paso police Organized Crime Division testified Tuesday that Kinfolk members from the Dallas area came to El Paso to attend Gonzalez's court hearings.

"We observed a lot of support from fellow Kinfolk members," Lucero said. Kinfolk have been in the audience at the murder trial.

Quijano pointed out there had been no problems at the courthouse and argued that Lucero was trying to create a "scary or ominous" impression for jurors.

"Is it a crime to walk into an open courtroom in our country to see what's going on?" Quijiano asked.

"No," Lucero responded.

The trial has taken place under added security. Closing arguments are scheduled for Wednesday morning.

https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/crime/2019/01/23/bandidos-biker-gang-murder-trial-kinfolk-mc-member-describes-why-he-shot-el-paso/2651827002/
Posted by ace on Wednesday 23 January 2019 - 18:01:03 Read/Post Comment: 0printer friendly

Thursday 17 January 2019
(USA) Will stripping the Mongols motorcycle club logo violate First Amendment rights?
A Santa Ana jury ruled Friday that the L.A.-based Mongols motorcycle club would be stripped of its trademark as part of its punishment in a racketeering case.

As reported by the Los Angeles Times, this trademark war has been the headliner of a decade-long fight between federal prosecutors and the L.A.-based Mongols Motorcycle Club, which has been pegged as inciting violence and drug dealing. Prosecutors are hoping that getting rid of the logo will stifle the gang’s status and stop them from selling their merchandise with the trademark. The Mongols MC was founded in Montebello in 1969, and is said to have been started by a group of men who were rejected by Hell’s Angels.

The trademark, a sunglasses-clad figure resembling Genghis Khan riding a motorcycle beneath the club’s name, is seen on leather vests and jackets of certain ranks of Mongol members, as well as the club’s merchandise. A federal judge is set next month to address whether stripping the Mongols logo will violate First Amendment rights. On AirTalk today, we debate just that: Is the motorcycle club’s trademark protected under free speech? Larry Mantle discusses with constitutional law professors in a lively debate.

https://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/2019/01/15/64081/will-stripping-the-mongols-motorcycle-club-logo-vi/
Posted by ace on Thursday 17 January 2019 - 01:42:46 Read/Post Comment: 0printer friendly

(AUS) Finks member Orm Neville Williams admits to stockpiling firearms as part of bikie war
A MEMBER of the Finks has pleaded guilty to stockpiling a cache of prohibited and unregistered shotguns, semi-automatic rifles and ammunition as part of the outlaw motorcycle gang’s ongoing war with the Nomads in 2018.

Orm Neville Williams, 28, of Cardiff South, was represented by solicitor Rob Hussey when he appeared in Newcastle Local Court on Wednesday via audio visual link from Goulburn Correctional Centre charged with 42 offences.

Williams, who made an unsuccessful bid for bail in October, pleaded guilty to possessing more than three unregistered firearms, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in jail, and a charge of participating in a criminal group and contributing criminal activity.

Another 17 firearm offences relating to the possession and unsafe keeping of shortened pump action shotguns, rifles, semi-automatic rifles and ammunition will be taken into account when Williams is ultimately sentenced in Newcastle District Court.

While the remaining 23 backup offences will be withdrawn when Williams is convicted, the court heard.

The matter was adjourned to Newcastle District Court on January 31 for when Williams to get a sentence date later in the year.

Police had said that Williams was captured on CCTV carrying a “gas cylinder” containing five unregistered firearms into the Kennards self storage units at Cardiff in early June last year.

Strike Force Raptor investigators raided the storage unit and found 10 unregistered firearms, eight of which were prohibited and four that were shortened, including a pump-action shortened shotgun, SKS semi-automatic rifle, semi-automatic shortened rifle, two Ruger mini 14 semi-automatic rifles and other long arms, ammunition and detachable firearm magazines.

It is not believed any of the firearms seized were used in any of the shootings last year as the “civil war” between the Finks and Nomads raged on Hunter streets.

Williams, who had no previous criminal record, was arrested at home on June 14, charged and refused bail.

He made an application for bail on October 31, around the time the prosecution had been served with a firearm certificate that confirmed the guns were unregistered and Williams did not have a permit to possess them.

That left identification as the only issue. But police said Williams picked himself out on CCTV as being the man walking into the storage unit.

Magistrate Robert Stone refused bail, citing the seriousness of the then ongoing bikie war.

“The Finks have been in conflict with the Nomads in the Newcastle and Hunter area and it is in that context that these firearms are being store,” Mr Stone said.

“I cannot have people possessing firearms in our community.”

https://www.theherald.com.au/story/5854479/fink-admits-stockpiling-guns-ammo/
Posted by ace on Thursday 17 January 2019 - 01:37:17 Read/Post Comment: 0printer friendly

(USA) Murder trial starts for Kinfolk bike member
EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14) — The murder trial for the Kinfolk MC biker accused of killing a Bandidos leader started Tuesday.


Javier Gonzalez is facing three charges including organized crime and murder.

There was an increased security presence inside the 34th District courtroom of Judge William E. Moody.

During the trial, jurors saw video of the deadly biker brawl that happened in 2017.

Gonzalez is accused of opening fire during the fight, which happened inside the Mulligan's chopped hog bar on George Dieter Drive.

Juan Martinez, 61, who was the president of the Bandidos motorcycle club, was shot several times and later died.

https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/murder-trial-starts-for-kinfolk-bike-member
Posted by ace on Thursday 17 January 2019 - 01:35:11 Read/Post Comment: 0printer friendly

(CAN) Woman wanted in connection with Hells Angels raids turns herself in
A London woman who lives with a known member of the Hells Angels has turned herself in following a police operation targeting the outlaw biker gang.

Police obtained an arrest warrant for Breanna Atkinson, 27, on charges of drug possession after the OPP’s biker enforcement unit and London police seized drugs and weapons during searches of two homes and a storage locker on Jan. 5.

Atkinson turned herself in at police headquarters on Friday, a police spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday. She’s scheduled to appear in court on Feb. 22.

Court documents show Atkinson lives at a Wharncliffe Road address with Sean Burger, a known member of the Hells Angels, who was jointly charged with Atkinson with two counts of drug possession for the purpose of trafficking.

Burger, 47, who has a history of violent offences, is additionally chargedwith possession of a firearm contrary to a probation order.

Also charged is Jessica Bolschetschenko, 33, of London, with drug possession and unauthorized possession of a weapon.

Investigators seized two stun guns, brass knuckles, three Hells Angels vests, $15,000 worth of cocaine, oxycodone pills, weigh scales and cash during the searches that resulted from a five-month probe, police said.

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/woman-wanted-in-connection-with-hells-angels-raids-turns-herself-in
Posted by ace on Thursday 17 January 2019 - 01:34:00 Read/Post Comment: 0printer friendly

(USA) Deputies: Biker gang member found dead in Spring Hill driveway
SPRING HILL — A Pagan Motorcycle Club member was found shot and killed outside his home Wednesday morning, according to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office.

William James Earl, 32, was found by his fiancé before 7 a.m. He was lying dead in his driveway on Glenrock Road in Spring Hill, deputies said.

Investigators said it was unclear if Earl's killing was connected to his affiliation with the Pagans.

The shooting comes more than a year after the president of a local chapter of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club was gunned down in broad daylight as he waited at a red light in a pickup truck in December 2017. That shooting was in apparent retribution for an incident at a Palm Harbor bike night, when a group of Outlaws beat and stole the vests from a pair of 69'ers Motorcycle Club members.

After Anderson's killing, Pasco Sheriff Chris Nocco said he feared of an impending war between biker gangs.

https://www.tampabay.com/breaking-news/pasco-deputies-investigating-death-of-man-found-in-driveway-20190116/
Posted by ace on Thursday 17 January 2019 - 01:32:12 Read/Post Comment: 0printer friendly

Friday 11 January 2019
(USA) Mongol Nation Verdict In: Government Can Seize Logo, Property
"This is bigger than the Mongols club," member Jesse Ventura said. "You've got the government... telling you what you can and cannot wear."

ORANGE COUNTY, CA — A federal jury in Santa Ana found Friday that the U.S. government can seize the Mongol Nation motorcycle club's trademark logo featuring a Genghis Khan character on a bike, along with various items of personal property such as leather jackets and weapons.

The verdict came in the forfeiture of assets phase of the case against the club, which was convicted by the same jury on Dec. 13 of racketeering and conspiracy to commit racketeering.

Now the trial moves to a third phase, in which U.S. District Judge David O. Carter will decide how the forfeiture is carried out. But he has previously said the issues in the novel case will likely wind up being decided by a higher court.

"You're both setting yourselves up for an appeal that will go to the Ninth Circuit and then to the U.S. Supreme Court," Carter told the attorneys last month.

Las Vegas attorney Stephen Stubbs, who represents the Mongols, told reporters after the December verdict that the club is not a violent criminal organization. He said all of the alleged crimes discussed in the trial occurred under the leadership of past president Ruben "Doc" Cavazos, who was ousted.

"The Mongols recognized he was doing things that were inappropriate and they kicked him out," Stubbs said then. "The Mongols are not a criminal organization and gang."

In the racketeering verdict, jurors found that the club was guilty of dealing cocaine and methamphetamine as well as one attempted murder and a murder. The jurors deadlocked 10-2 for "not proven" on one attempted murder and "not proven" on two murders.

But under the conspiracy conviction, the jurors validated multiple alleged incidents of violence, including murders and attempted murders as well as drug dealing.

During the five-week first phase of the trial, Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Welk argued that the patches Mongols wear on their leather jackets -- depicting a muscle-armed, ponytailed Asian man on a motorcycle -- are meant to be "messages and signals" to rival gang members and even the general public that Mongols should be feared.

Welk noted that Mongols are instructed to not wear their leather jackets with patches in a car, and when they drive a car they are taught to fold them in a way to conceal their affiliation with the club from police.

"It's all about protecting themselves because they are a paranoid organization," Welk told the jury. "They're fearful and deeply suspicious of the government."

He presented testimony in an effort to show a "lengthy parade of cruelty" by the club's members. Welk argued that the club's members commit a range of crimes from drug trafficking to murder, all in service to the organization and at the direction of its leaders.

And he said when club members commit murder, they wear a specific skull-and-crossbones patch like a badge of honor.

But the club's attorney, Joseph A. Yanny, argued that the government was going after the organization for racial reasons.

"I believe this group has been targeted because they have a lot of Mexican-Americans in there," Yanny said during his closing argument last month.

Yanny argued that the members who have committed crimes were kicked out for violating "zero tolerance" policies against illicit activity that draws the attention of law enforcement.

Yanny accused federal prosecutors of taking the "wrongful acts of a few individuals" and escalate it to a "group conviction."

"These are ordinary people," he said of his clients. "They are hardworking people. You don't see the Hell's Angels here. You see the Mongols and minorities are easy to pick on and they typically don't fight like these guys do."

Among the people who testified during the trial was former pro wrestler and ex-Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, who joined the Mongols in the 1970s.

Ventura told City News Service that he considered the government's attempts to seize the club's trademark as a threat to the First Amendment.

"This is bigger than the Mongols club," Ventura said last month. "You've got the government... telling you what you can and cannot wear."

He added, "The First Amendment is to protect unpopular speech. ... Some people may think the Mongols are horrible, but they still have equal rights under the Bill of Rights. ... Who's next? The Shriners? Where does it end? It's a First Amendment issue top to bottom."

https://patch.com/california/losalamitos/mongol-nation-logo-verdict-expected-friday
Posted by ace on Friday 11 January 2019 - 22:55:22 Read/Post Comment: 0printer friendly

(CAN) Campbell River Devils Army president granted bail in homicide case
Richard Ernest Alexander, the man accused of a 2016 murder near Sayward, has been granted bail ahead of his trial.

Alexander is president and a founding member of the Devils Army, a biker gang that has been active in Campbell River since 2009, according to police.

The $600,000 bail reportedly comes with a long list of conditions: he can’t have contact with former associates from the Devils Army or other outlaw biker clubs or wear any clothing or other items with their logos or insignia.


He’s also reportedly required to cover up gang-related tattoos, can’t own weapons, can’t leave B.C. without written permission from a bail supervisor and can’t travel outside of Canada.

Alexander is reportedly living on the Lower Mainland and can’t visit Vancouver Island except for court hearings or for visits with his lawyer.

He’s also reportedly subject to a curfew, and visitors to his home are restricted, among a number of other conditions. Reasons for his bail reportedly can’t be released due to a publication ban.

His case is slated for a preliminary inquiry in September.

He was arrested and charged with first-degree murder last October by BC’s Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit and the Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crimes Unit in connection with the March 2016 murder of 30-year-old John Dillon Brown of Saanich.

At the time of Alexander’s arrest, police said that more than 200 officers were involved in the investigation.

Brown’s body was found in a car near the one-way bridge into Sayward in March 2016. He was a father and a mixed-martial arts fighter who competed under the name “Tomahawk.”

In August 2017, a major raid took place on Petersen Road as police executed a search warrant at a location they described as a known clubhouse for the Devils Army.

In a media release following the raid, police described the Devils Army as an outlaw biker club “known to be a support club for the Haney Hells Angels chapter” with “five full-patch members and two strikers.”

https://www.campbellrivermirror.com/news/campbell-river-devils-army-president-granted-bail-in-homicide-case/
Posted by ace on Friday 11 January 2019 - 22:53:58 Read/Post Comment: 0printer friendly

(USA) Jury Says U.S. Government can Seize Mongols Motorcycle Club Trademark Logo
A federal jury in Santa Ana found Friday that the U.S. government can seize the Mongol Nation motorcycle club’s trademark logo featuring a Genghis Khan character on a bike, along with various items of personal property such as leather jackets and weapons.


The verdict came in the forfeiture of assets phase of the case against the club, which was convicted by the same jury on Dec. 13 of racketeering and conspiracy to commit racketeering.

Now the trial moves to a third phase, in which U.S. District Judge David O. Carter will decide how the forfeiture is carried out. But he has previously said the issues in the novel case will likely wind up being decided by a higher court.

“You’re both setting yourselves up for an appeal that will go to the Ninth Circuit and then to the U.S. Supreme Court,” Carter told the attorneys last month.

Las Vegas attorney Stephen Stubbs, who represents the Mongols, told reporters after the December verdict that the club is not a violent criminal organization. He said all of the alleged crimes discussed in the trial occurred under the leadership of past president Ruben “Doc” Cavazos, who was ousted.

“The Mongols recognized he was doing things that were inappropriate and they kicked him out,” Stubbs said then. “The Mongols are not a criminal organization and gang.”

In the racketeering verdict, jurors found that the club was guilty of dealing cocaine and methamphetamine as well as one attempted murder and a murder. The jurors deadlocked 10-2 for “not proven” on one attempted murder and “not proven” on two murders.

But under the conspiracy conviction, the jurors validated multiple alleged incidents of violence, including murders and attempted murders as well as drug dealing.

During the five-week first phase of the trial, Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Welk argued that the patches Mongols wear on their leather jackets — depicting a muscle-armed, ponytailed Asian man on a motorcycle — are meant to be “messages and signals” to rival gang members and even the general public that Mongols should be feared.

Welk noted that Mongols are instructed to not wear their leather jackets with patches in a car, and when they drive a car they are taught to fold them in a way to conceal their affiliation with the club from police.

“It’s all about protecting themselves because they are a paranoid organization,” Welk told the jury. “They’re fearful and deeply suspicious of the government.”

https://mynewsla.com/crime/2019/01/11/jury-says-u-s-government-can-seize-mongols-motorcycle-club-trademark-logo/
Posted by ace on Friday 11 January 2019 - 22:52:07 Read/Post Comment: 0printer friendly

Thursday 10 January 2019
(USA) Norwich man accused of taking justice into his own hands sentenced to 18 months
NEW LONDON — A 30-year-old Norwich man accused of brandishing a pistol and punching another man in retaliation for a domestic attack has started serving his sentence.

Christopher Manuel was sentenced Wednesday in New London Superior Court to 18 months in prison followed by three years’ probation.

Originally charged with home invasion, which carries a minimum 10-year prison sentence, Manuel pleaded guilty in September to third-degree burglary and third-degree assault.

“The defendant felt that a wrong had been committed by the victim here,” Assistant State’s Attorney Lawrence Tytla said. “We’re lucky no one was seriously hurt.”

According to a report to a prosecutor from Norwich police, Manuel and Sean Simmons, 30, both members of the Legion of Doom Motorcycle Club and living at its clubhouse on Old Canterbury Turnpike, went to a home on Bridge Street in Norwich at about 4:30 a.m. on Oct. 21, 2017, to avenge an attack on Manuel’s sister and another woman there.

Police said Manuel’s sister told Manuel her friend had been attacked by her boyfriend, and the boyfriend also had shoved Manuel’s sister. Both women then left, police said.

The boyfriend told police the two men, whom he didn’t recognize, entered his home, and the one later identified as Manuel ran at him holding a gun and waved it in front of his face. The man later identified as Simmons allegedly restrained another woman that police said was the boyfriend’s stepmother.

Manuel then threw the gun on a couch next to where Simmons was holding down the stepmother, police said, and Manuel punched the boyfriend in the mouth.

The men then left and drove away in Manuel’s car, police said. The stepmother was able to get a partial license plate, which combined with a description of the car, was enough for police to identify Manuel, they said.


Norwich police said they arrested him and Simmons a few hours later, and said Manuel admitted going to the home and punching the boyfriend, but refused to answer questions about anything else, and told police Simmons had waited in the car outside.

“He didn’t go to that house to seek revenge or restitution,” Steven Tomeo, Manuel’s attorney, said at the sentencing. “He thought someone close to him was being held against her will” and then left once he realized his mistake.

Judge Hillary Strackbein, who sentenced Manuel, told him he should have called 911 instead of taking matters into his own hands.

“I think this is an appropriate sentence,” she said.

Simmons pleaded guilty in October to third-degree burglary and second-degree unlawful restraint. He is scheduled to be sentenced to nine months in prison on Jan. 16.

http://www.norwichbulletin.com/news/20190109/norwich-man-accused-of-taking-justice-into-his-own-hands-sentenced-to-18-months
Posted by ace on Thursday 10 January 2019 - 02:35:06 Read/Post Comment: 0printer friendly

(CAN) London Hells Angels member with violent record charged after raids
A London member of the Hells Angels with a history of violence faces multiple charges, and an arrest warrant has been issued for a woman who lives with him, following a series of raids across the city.

Police searched two homes and a storage locker over the weekend, seizing two stun guns, brass knuckles, three Hells Angels vests, $15,000 worth of cocaine, oxycodone pills, weigh scales and cash, the OPP said Tuesday.

The raids were the result of a five-month investigation, said Det.-Staff Sgt. Anthony Renton, the head of the OPP biker enforcement unit.

“It wasn’t a long-term investigation,” said Renton, whose unit worked with London police and the RCMP on the joint probe.

Sean Burger, 47, of London, is charged with two counts of drug possession for the purpose of trafficking, possession of a prohibited device and possession of a firearm contrary to a probation order.

Burger, whom police identified as a known member of the Hells Angels, appeared in court on Monday and was released from custody. His case returns Feb. 2.

Jessica Bolschetschenko, 33, of London, is charged with drug possession and unauthorized possession of a weapon. Her first court appearance is Feb. 15.

Investigators are also looking for a 27-year-old London woman, whose identify wasn’t released. But court documents obtained by The Free Press show there’s an arrest warrant for Breanna Atkinson, who is jointly charged with Burger with two counts of drug possession for the purpose of trafficking.

The OPP, along with London police and the RCMP, searched a home on Wharncliffe Road North, a home on Springmeadow Road and a storage locker on Scanlon Street on Saturday, said police, who didn’t provide addresses for the three locations.

Burger and Atkinson live at 385 Wharncliffe Rd. N, while Bolschetschenko lives at 3059 Springmeadow Rd., according to court documents. Springmeadow is in London’s Westmount neighbourhood, southeast of the intersection of Wonderland and Southdale roads.

Burger has a string of past convictions for assaults, court records shows.

A 1997 assault conviction led to a fine. In 2009, Burger was sentenced to time served – he spent five days in pre-trial custody – for obstructing a peace officer. Burger was also fined for an assault conviction that same year. Most recently, he was sentenced to 90 days in jail and given probation for a 2010 assault conviction, according to court records.

London has long been considered territory of the Hells Angels, with around a dozen full-patch members in the city.

The last time authorities targeted people linked to the biker gang’s London chapter came in February 2013, when 31 people were arrested at a Super Bowl party at a Markham banquet hall packed with around 2,300 guests. Several of the people nabbed in the raid and a second set of arrests a month later were Londoners, including two past presidents of the London Hells Angels’ chapter.

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/known-hells-angels-member-after-police-raid-london-homes
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(USA) Feds Demand Forfeiture of Mongols’ Biker Trademarks
SANTA ANA, Calif. (CN) — The Mongol Nation Motorcycle Club must be stripped of the trademarked insignia that members wear on their backs, as fitting punishment for “a parade of horrors” the biker committed for decades, a federal prosecutor told a jury Tuesday.

Mongols “roamed the world looking for people to victimize” while “empowered by these symbols they wear like armor,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven R. Welk argued to an Orange County jury.

The jury in December found that the Mongol Nation club had been involved in murders, attempted murders and drug sales and convicted it of racketeering and conspiracy.

Now, in what Welk described as a very unusual process, jurors must decide whether the federal government can take the club’s trademarks in its logo design, or “patch,” through criminal forfeiture, to prevent members from wearing or using the design.

“It’s the only way to stop the endless cycle of crime that organizations like this perpetuate,” Welk said.

But Joseph A. Yanny, the Mongol Nation’s defense attorney, said “there is no reason to impose the death penalty on this club” for crimes committed by individuals, many of whom are already in prison.

“They’re trying to take away the one thing by which these men identify each other,” Yanny said.

U.S. District Judge David O. Carter has said the case is one of first impression and could reach the U.S. Supreme Court, due to the tension between forfeiture and trademark issues. Further, he said, the prosecutors may appeal from a forfeiture judgment that goes against them, unlike in most criminal cases.

As he did in the first portion of the trial, Yanny described the Mongols as a club founded in the late 1960s by Vietnam war veterans, primarily Latino, who liked to ride motorcycles together.

“Have individual men made mistakes” over the years? he asked. Yes, he said.

“Have they [the club] cleaned up their act? Yes, they have.”

At issue in this second phase are the Mongol Nation’s trademarks in the design of the patch that members wear on the back of their vests. It shows a cartoon Genghis Khan-type figure brandishing a sword and riding a motorcycle under a curved banner bearing the word “Mongols.”

Welk and Yanny stipulated to the jury Tuesday that the trademarks have been in “continuous use” by the club since 1969.

The prosecution’s one witness, retired ATF agent Darrin Kozlowski, testified that the trademarked symbols also appear on mugs, T-shirts, rings, mouse pads, cigarette lighters, caps, bandannas, stickers, trash cans and motorcycle parts. He said he bought some of those items himself during the three years he spent undercover in the Mongols for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Kozlowski said that only the club’s national leadership team, known as the Mother Chapter, can grant “full-patch” membership to a man and authorize him to wear the complete, three-part patch.

Under the Mongol Nation’s constitution, the club retains ownership of the patch, and members must return their patches if they leave, Kozlowski said.

The defense also presented just one witness, intellectual property attorney Michael A. Dinardo, who happens to be Yanny’s cousin.

Dinardo explained the differences between ordinary trademarks or service marks, which must be used in commerce, and “collective membership marks,” such as the Mongol patch. He said ownership rights to any sort of trademark arise from its being in continuous use by the mark’s owner, not from registration with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

The Mongol Nation did register its marks several times. But Welk told the jury that that did not turn this into a trademark case. “This case is about a criminal gang that recruited men” to commit crimes, he said.

The issue for the jurors, he said, is whether there is a nexus, or connection, between the trademarks and the racketeering and conspiracy crimes the Mongol Nation club was convicted of. If so, the jury must find the marks can be forfeited.

They can find a connection if they believe the marks were acquired or maintained by the criminal racketeering enterprise or provided a source of influence for the enterprise, or produced proceeds used by the enterprise, Welk said.

Unlike the guilt phase of the trial, the burden of proof now is a preponderance of evidence, rather than beyond a reasonable doubt.

The prosecution also seeks forfeiture of guns, ammunition and many personal items bearing the Mongols name or insignia that were seized in an October 2008 raid on more than 100 sites belonging to members. After that raid, 77 individual Mongols eventually pleaded guilty to crimes.

Yanny argued to the jury that neither the trademarks nor any of the personal items were directly connected to any of the individual racketeering crimes for which the club was convicted.

“None of the property they want to forfeit has anything to do with any of the predicate acts” making up the racketeering conviction, he said.

“Nobody was killed or beaten with a coffee cup,” he added later.

Yanny said that none of the guns seized in the 2008 raids were used in any of the specific crimes.

But Welk said the prosecution is not required to tie property it wants to forfeit to any particular crime or racketeering act.

The jury was to begin deliberations Wednesday.

If it does find in favor of forfeiture, Carter has suggested he will have to decide whether forfeiting the trademarks would violate Mongol members’ speech or other constitutional rights.

https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-demand-forfeiture-of-mongols-biker-trademarks/
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