George Rowe, who along with Ashley Charles “Tijuana Charles” Wyatt, informed on the Vagos Motorcycle Club during an ATF investigation that would later be named Operation 22 Green, is about to become very famous.

Hyperion Media Group and Identity Films are in preproduction for a film based on Rowe’s quasi-novel Gods of Mischief: My Undercover Vendetta to Take Down the Vagos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang.

According to Variety, Michael Mailis and Anthony Mastromauro will produce the film. Mikko Alanne will write the screenplay. Alanne previously wrote the scripts for The 33, about Chilean Miners trapped underground, and Oliver Stone’s Vietnam movie Pinkville.

Gods of Mischief was published around the same time as Wyatt’s Vagos, Mongols and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America’s Deadliest Biker Gangs. Wyatt is now widely known as Charles Falco.

During Operation 22 Green Falco was supervised by Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Agent Darrin Kozlowski and Rowe was supervised by ATF Agent John Carr.

High Octane

Simon and Schuster, which published Gods of Mischief, describes the book as a “high octane, no holds barred, true story of a bad guy turned good who busted open one of the most violent motorcycle gangs in history. George Rowe’s gritty and high-octane story offers not only a clear window into the violent world of the motorcycle outlaw but a gripping tale of self-sacrifice and human redemption that would be the stuff of great fiction – if it weren’t all true.”

Former ATF Agent Jay Dobyns praised the book, saying “Most people wouldn’t dare lock eyes with a member of the Vagos. A few would look away, the rest would just run. America prefers to voyeur into the biker culture, hiding behind the safety of the television screen. Gods of Mischief cuts through the fear and Hollywood glamorization, puts you on a bike, and rides you right into the Green Nation.”

Former ATF Agent William Queen has written, “Oh my God, what a story. This is a dangerous and emotional page-turner that’s going to leave you thinking to yourself, ‘My life’s not so bad after all.’ Reading Gods of Mischief is like sitting right next to George Rowe listening to him tell it.”

Becoming A Snitch

The lie that Rowe, his publishers, handlers and enablers promulgate is that he agreed “to join the Vagos – not as part of a plea deal but to exact revenge for the Vagos’ coldblooded, senseless killing of Rowe’s friend in a Hemet bar. Becoming a ‘snitch’ is, for Rowe, a way of giving something back to the neighborhoods he’d poisoned with the methamphetamines he sold.”

Sources speaking on condition of anonymity indicate Rowe may now believe that himself. Rowe’s pride in his work brings to mind one of two witticisms Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was known to have uttered in his entire life. “Pride and memory were having an argument,” Nietzsche said. “Memory said, ‘It was like this.’ And memory replied, “No! It couldn’t have been!’”

The truth about Rowe, at least the truth as seen from outside his skull, may be more interesting. Rowe was never a major drug dealer. He was a petty criminal and minor drug dealer. He saw becoming a professional informer as a career opportunity. A very informed source said, “In Hemet, George had a nickel and dime business with a couple of toothless alcoholic employees and a junkie woman, lingering along in a dying town. Going undercover and subsequently into WitSec has led him into a whole new life filled with as many opportunities as he can reach out for.”

Rowe may have begun his journey into the lucrative snitch business as early as 1982. He was eventually turned out by a man named Kevin Duffy who died in 2009.

“It may have been his idea to infiltrate the Hemet club,” the source said. “But, Kevin Duffy would have known how to actually make him do it. And, Kevin was certainly well-connected to maximize the opportunity into something bigger.  Kevin got George in touch with the Feds, and I am sure Kevin knew it was a one way street. The relationship between them was long standing and much more complex than what George states in the book. The road they took together was likely one they had gotten on way back in the early 80’s. George has said to me more than once that he agreed to Kevin’s request to go undercover for a short, one-shot deal.”

Clocking Dollars

Since disappearing after Operation 22 Green, Rowe has continued to work as a professional informant for the ATF. The Aging Rebel believes that in the last eight years Rowe has been involved in ATF investigations in Georgia, Tennessee, Arizona, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and North Carolina.

“He’s a natural on the street,” the source said.  “He’s got a wide network on both sides of the thin blue line, and he knows how to use it.”

“They reward him well for doing what comes to him, naturally. He has become educated. His penmanship is legible and his writing literate. His vocabulary is professional, and he speaks well. When you know what living in Cali was like for him, it is amazing to see how far up into the middleclass lifestyle he has come. He has been able to diversify his revenue stream with jobs, side jobs, a business, book deals and movie rights. That native intelligence which he used to great effect as a small time con man, he now uses to his advantage as he works within the Federal system. “

“He explained to me how cops make big money in Real Estate. Protected people can’t live just anywhere, and they have to keep moving along, Rents received  for those wired up, teched-out safe houses is roughly triple the going rate, and with high un-occupancy to write off. Government employees have insider privileges like first crack at buying repos or seized property. Paid time off, dental insurance, employee discounts…concepts like this were completely foreign to him in his previous life.”

And now Rowe is about to become America’s next great hero.

Welcome to the meritocracy.

Technology enthusiasts have been drooling over a motorcycle helmet called the AR-1 for more than a year. It is not for people who like to feel the wind in their hair.

You can’t own one yet. They aren’t in stores. You can buy one on the internet but don’t expect it to show up at your door anytime soon. It may eventually be actually manufactured by a start up, San Francisco company called Skully Systems. The AR stands for “augmented reality” and it sounds like a most excellent helmet to wear while bar hopping on one of Keanu Reaves’, $78,000, Arch KRGT-1s.

The Skully helmet does not actually exist as a product yet although there have been numerous references to prototypes . The Wall Street Journal and Forbes have given the helmet ink. In one of its four articles about the helmet, Popular Mechanics called it, “The beginning of a motorcycle tech revolution.” Popular Science thinks it is “THE helmet for the digital age.” Road & Track calls the AR-1 “The most anticipated motorcycle helmet ever produced.” CNN lauds its “potential…to save lives, to make out daily existences a little bit easier.”

Tyler Florence, a television chef who likes motorcycles insists, “The future of motorcycle helmets has arrived, a must.”

Heads Up Display

The most notable features of the full face helmet are a 180-degree, rear facing television camera and an itty-bitty screen at the bottom right of your field of view. The helmet connects to your smart phone by Bluetooth and the only limits to what may be displayed on the tiny head up display are in your imagination. The helmet also has a face shield that darkens or lightens at the touch of a button

Potentially you can get voice and map, turn by turn directions to the destination of your choice. Skully says it is working on a new voice recognition feature that will allow you to tell the helmet what you want it to display. And, again potentially, motorcycle racers can see their speed, revolutions, air pressure and the amount of gas in their tanks and an indication of how long it will last without taking their eyes off the road. The batteries that power the display last about nine hours

Weight

Skully won’t say how much the helmet weighs which may bother some riders because the weight of a helmet and how that weight is distributedare key factors in neck and spinal injuries that result from motorcycle crashes. The camera, batteries and computer are all contained in a spoiler on the back of the helmet and the spoiler is designed to break off if you crash.

The Skully AR-1 costs $1,299 if you preorder one today. Skully says they will retail for $1,499 starting May 15. If that seems a little steep you can buy a box of “Skully Nation Gear” including a hat, shirt and decals for only $49 that the company will ship to you right away.

There is something happening in Battle Creek. What it is ain’t exactly clear.

It sounds like a cabal of rogue ATF agents is running amok in the breakfast cereal capital. That wouldn’t exactly be unprecedented. During Operation 22 Green undercover agents staged a mock gunfight on the Sunset Strip. Maybe the police state pogues who think George Rowe is an American success story will include that episode in their forthcoming stallion pile based on Rowe’s memoir, Gods of Mischief. Probably not. But, back to Battle Creek.

For days the press in Southern Michigan has been cheerleading what now turns out to be an imaginary biker war between the Avengers Motorcycle Club and the American Outlaws Association. Sunday morning the Battle Creek Enquirer reported: “Battle Creek police said Saturday they were called about 11:20 p.m. Friday by the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Department about a fight in the 700 block of North 20th Street between members of the Outlaws and the Avengers motorcycle clubs and involving guns, pipes and bats.”

The kind of gutless Detroit News wanted to report the big, breaking biker war but didn’t have time to verify what it wanted to say so it managed to choke out, “Police say members of the Outlaws and Avengers reportedly were fighting late Friday night in Battle Creek, southeast of Grand Rapids.” Of course it “reportedly” happened. The News reported it.

Wait There’s More

The Battle Creek paper also reported that four “members of the Avengers” from North Carolina were stopped and arrested when found to be in possession of “six handguns, two shotguns, knives, Mace, an assault rifle magazine, ammunition and marijuana.”

Sunday night, “two people” went to the rear of the Avengers Battle Creek clubhouse and threw a Molotov cocktail at it. Damage was minimal. The Enquirer said police were “investigating whether the fire at the Avengers property was retaliation for the assault and fight on Friday.”

Monday, the Battle Creek Police Department issued a press release that announced “the Calhoun County Major Crimes Task Force has been activated to streamline the investigation” of the fight and the fire. “The Calhoun County Major Crimes Task Force is comprised of all Calhoun County law enforcement agencies.”

Or Maybe Less

Yesterday the biker war story began to collapse under its own weight. There was no fight between Avengers and Outlaws. Five members of a “Christian club” called the “Southwest Cycle Club” were sitting in their clubhouse in Springfield, Michigan playing cards when about 40 men surrounded the building. Between 15 and 25 of them pushed their way inside, beat the occupants, stole their vests and $500 and said, “We own Battle Creek. It is our town. That is what happens if we have a motorcycle club in Battle Creek.” The Southwest Cycle Club is not affiliated with the American Outlaws Association in any way but they are members of the Michigan Confederation of Clubs.

Matthew McMurtrie, president of the Southwest Cycle Club, denied his club had anything to do with the arson.

An attorney for the Outlaws told the Enquirer “The Outlaws are very upset and angry about it. They have no affiliation with that club. There is no affiliation.”

So What

Last night Grand Rapids television station WXMI reported, “A party at the Outlaw Clubhouse on 20th Street, which is now being called the Southwest Cycle Club by the group’s president, turned into a bloody brawl Friday evening.”

“And 48 hours later, a firebomb went off at a competing motorcycle club,” the Fox affiliate reported. “Police we spoke with believe these two incidents might be connected.”

Although, in its press release yesterday the Battle Creek Police said, “We believe these incidents to be isolated in nature.”

Quick, for a full scholarship to journalism school, isolated is to connected as….

This morning, radio station WTVB in Coldwater, Michigan reported, “Members of the Southwest Cycle Club claim they are a Christian Group that does good deeds for the community. They claim they were assaulted by members of the Avengers Motorcycle Club with bats and pipes Friday night.”

They probably even claim that the men who invaded their clubhouse were not rogue ATF agents.

This is one of those zombie stories that is just not going to die.

Billy Lee McDaniel, a prospect who was thisclose to patching with the Southern Sons Motorcycle Club, died ironically Sunday night in the parking lot outside the Rock Harley Saloon in Land O’ Lakes, Florida near Tampa.

According to numerous reports, McDaniel was holding a plastic bucket on top of his head while an unspecified number of patched brothers tried to throw drinks and beers into the bucket. It seems safe to assume that everybody had had a few before the game started. The point of the game seems to have been to soak the new brother down. And, he may have been unusually good at catching drinks with a bucket held over his head.

So, apparently one member of the Southern Sons named Jeffrey Camarda, photo above, resolved to put a hole in the bucket. Camarda drew his pistol and fired. He missed and struck McDaniel in the head.

Camarda, who is 44 and who had no previous criminal record, panicked and fled.

McDaniel, who was also 44, was flown to Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point where doctors tried to save him and he lingered before he died,

Last night, police spotted Camarda in the parking lot of a Big Lots store near the intersection of State Road 54 and U.S. 41 on the southern boundary of Land O’ Lakes. He was arrested and charged with manslaughter and he is now being held on $250,000 bail.

The Iron Order Motorcycle Club, which has branded itself as a “law abiding motorcycle club,” was involved in another gunfight Saturday night. This one was in Meridian, Mississippi. Three men were wounded. Local police declined to speak to The Aging Rebel about the incident. Iron Order President Patrick “Brit” Ward has also declined to comment.

The shootings began as a brawl in the parking lot outside the Echo Lounge in Meridian about 7:30 p.m. The brawl became a running gun fight that continued into the parking lot of a nearby bank. Speaking to Cheryl Owens of the Meridian Star, a local detective named Dareall Thompson said, “A fight broke out on the outside of the lounge and that was when the shooting started. Three people were transported to local hospitals and one was later airlifted to Jackson. We don’t know what the conditions are of the victims at this time.”

The Aging Rebel has been told that the other club involved in the shooting wears Red and Gold. Both the Iron Order and the Pistoleros Motorcycle Club have chapters in Meridian. The source said members of both clubs were wounded. A fourth combatant was hit in the head with a collapsible baton.

The Meridian Police are obviously concealing information about the case. Both Joseph Hamilton, a prominent Meridian attorney and Donald Jenkins, a Meridian Police Officer, appear in an Iron Order membership directory. It seems probable that two officers of the court could provide both the police and the public with a full and honest account of what happened Saturday night.

Iron Order

More than half the members of the self dramatizing Iron Order are either sworn peace officers or active duty military personnel. The club was founded in August 2004 (in order to buff the club’s public image, club officers would later claim that the club was founded on July 4) by dissident members of a police motorcycle club called the Blue Knights. Founding members included a United States Secret Service Agent named Carl “Iceman” Janisch.

A 2014 report issued by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said:

“The Iron Order is one of the fastest growing motorcycle clubs in the United States. Members wear a traditional three-piece patch with a State bottom rocker. The fact that they wear the State bottom rocker has infuriated the HAMC, Outlaws, Iron Horsemen, Pagans and Bandidos. More importantly, many of their members are police and corrections officers, active-duty military and/or government employees and contractors. Over the past 4 years, the Iron Order has had several violent confrontations with each of the aforementioned OMGs.”

Law Abiding

The club’s branding as “law abiding” is largely the contrivance of former club President and former Cinnabon marketing executive Ray “Izod” Lubesky. After a confrontation with Bandidos, Lubesky deliberately set out to create the appearance of an alliance between the Iron Order and local police departments cemented by a common enemy – one percenter motorcycle clubs.

After a 2013 confrontation with the Bandidos in Texas, Lubesky wrote: “The Bandidos in San Antonio will lose three of their members who will now become guests in the Gray Bar Hotel for a long time and for what? What did they really gain? Not a damn thing. We will continue wearing the Texas state rocker. We will not shut down. We will not change what we do, how we do it, where we go, what we wear or anything else. We will continue on and those three morons will spend the next ten to twenty years playing bitch to La Eme and the Texas Mafia in prison. Our brothers in the Shiprock, New Mexico chapter are all prison guards. They tell us the first thing that happens to one percenters when they get to prison is they get their asses beat just to let them know they ain’t shit in prison. Most of the time they need to be separated from the population because they are targets. That is the life they will lead while our brothers they assaulted and this great MC continue on enjoying the liberties and freedoms we are entitled to.”

Because they have aligned themselves with police, members of the Iron Order have been particularly aggressive about initiating armed confrontations with members of other motorcycle clubs. One of the authors of this policy of militancy is the club’s current Vice-President, an Army Lieutenant Colonel named Michael “Cgar” Crouse. Last year Crouse said, “I know our club has the advantage. One percenters won’t call the cops. So what the fuck, destroy any fucker that confronts you. It’s a free ticket….”

The Iron Order has used their perceived alliance with police to influence investigations of other violent incidents. For example last year after an Iron Order prospect named Kristopher Stone shot and killed a Black Piston named Zachariah “Nas T” Tipton in Jacksonville Beach, Florida an Iron Order officer named John C. “Shark” Whifield, who is also the Nortonville, Kentucky City Attorney, wrote “I have been in contact with law enforcement,” in Jacksonville Beach, “and offered my services in any way they deem appropriate.”

The Aging Rebel has not determined whether Whitfield has yet visited Meridian.

The Iron Order Motorcycle Club got away with the murder of Black Piston Zachariah “Nas T” Tipton in the parking lot outside Nippers Beach Grille in Jacksonville Beach, Florida last June 26.

Iron Order prospect Kristopher Stone escaped justice mostly because his motorcycle club and local officials, including State Attorney Angela Corey, Jacksonville Beach Police Chief Patrick K. Dooley and Assistant State Attorney Brian Brady conspired to give Stone a pass. Technically, that’s obstruction of justice. And it can be construed as the subtle crime of racketeering – which is the crime of being a criminal. Other key conspirators in this racketeering act included:

Conspirators

Ray “Izod” Lubesky, a founder of the Iron Order who was previously a fast food executive with Cinnabon, Ponderosa Steakhouses and Papa John’s Pizza and who now runs a painting company franchise in Palm Harbor, Florida. Lubesky was the International President of the Iron Order at the time of the shooting. He described the homicide to club members as a public relations crisis. He wrote that Tipton’s death “is about crisis management at a time we are protecting our club, our prospect, and our brothers. This is our area of expertise. This is our responsibility. Your responsibility is to follow the sheet music, march to the drum and keep your mouths shut, both internally and externally. Only say what you are told to say.”

Former Iron Order Sergeant at Arms and current Vice President, Army Lieutenant Colonel Michael “Cgar” Crouse encouraged Iron order members to murder members of other clubs when he wrote, “I know our club has the advantage. One percenters won’t call the cops. So what the fuck, destroy any fucker that confronts you. It’s a free ticket….”

John C. “Shark” Whitfield who serves as “Director of the Division of Legal Affairs” for the Iron Order as well as Nortonville, Kentucky City Attorney. After Tipton’s murder Whitfield bragged to club members that he had “been in contact with law enforcement” in Jacksonville and had “offered” his “services” to them. Whitfield characterized the murder as a “clear Stand Your Ground” case. “We went to scene and chronicled the information we needed there, spoke to law enforcement there to gain a better perspective and have taken other steps that I will not outline in this thread. Although much has been done, there is still a lot to do. We are prepared to do it with vigilance.” At a time when Tipton’s family was denied access to investigators or information about the case, Whitfield interviewed those investigators to find out where the case was going then used that knowledge to help the persons who were involved in the shooting construct their alibis.

Whitfield was assisted in the criminal conspiracy by Marine Major Darrell “Tracker” Robinson, who putatively is assigned to the Marine Corps Logistics Command but whose work in defense of the nation is so trivial that he can take time off whenever he wants to contribute to the cover up of crimes committed by members of his motorcycle club.

The Iron Order has been able to achieve their cozy relationship with law enforcement agencies and law enforcement officials by branding itself as a “law abiding motorcycle club” that shares a common enemy with federal, state and local police across the country: So called “outlaw” motorcycle clubs. When an Iron Order patch holder and former Army medic named Andre Oleas, who was present at Tipton’s murder but did absolutely nothing to save him, was interviewed by police last June 26, among his first words were “We are a law abiding motorcycle club.” Shortly after that Oleas told detectives, “We have guys who do just what you do.” Then he told a black detective that the Black Pistons were “racist.” The next week, Oleas posted a photograph of a shirt with the slogan “Be Aggressive And Shoot ‘Em In The Face” as his Facebook photo.

Purpose Of The Current Conspiracy

Last Saturday night, Iron Order members got into a gunfight with, apparently, members of the Bandidos and Pistoleros Motorcycle Clubs outside a bar called the Echo lounge in Meridian, Mississippi. Meridian police have stonewalled reporters all week and, consequently, the incident has been virtually ignored by the press.

Police have acknowledged that there were four casualties. Three people were shot and one was struck in the head by a collapsible baton. Monday, Meridian Police Chief Benny Dubose told ABC television affiliate WTOK that “all three of the victims in a weekend shooting should make full recoveries.” However, just as was the case in the aftermath of the Tipton murder, most of the real action is happening in the dark where the public is forbidden to look

Earlier this week, Iron Order Sergeant at Arms Eric “Ogur” White instructed club members to obstruct the investigation into the fight in Meridian.

Conspiracy To Obstruct Justice

“Brothers,” White wrote, “I’m sure most of you are aware of the incident in Mississippi with the Bandidos and Pistoleros. The member of the other club did not make it. He passed away this morning. It is important to stay vigilant at this time. Keep your firearm on you at all times. I sleep with mine under my pillow. It is very important that you remain quiet about this. We are facing legalities and Shark is handling those so don’t go on Facebook, Twitter or any other social media site saying anything about the issue. If you are contacted by law enforcement, refer them to Shark and do not answer any questions. Play dumb. We are treating this as just another incident. Things have simmered down so don’t go give them any ammunition by running your mouth outside the club. Anyone caught divulging club info will not like the outcome. We will get through this just like before! IOFFIO!

“Live by your Oath and abide by our bylaws and your life wearing Jughead will be long and prosperous.”

But there are two Iron Order patch holders in Meridian who have legal and ethical obligations to do more than “play dumb.”

Co-Conspirators

Joseph Elliott “Captain America” Hamilton is an attorney in Meridian and an officer of the court. Until a year ago he worked for the Hamilton Law Firm, the most prestigious law practice in Meridian. The practice isn’t shy about advertising that two of its members, Joe Clay Hamilton and  R. Kevin Hamilton “were each  named as Trial Lawyer of the Year for 2010-2011 by the Mississippi Association of Justice.”

And Meridian police officer Donald “Motor Cop” Jenkins, who has been locally lauded for his prolific traffic citations, may also be obliged to do more than “play dumb.”

It might be time for the Federal Bureau of Investigation to take a long, hard look at Kristopher Stone, Angela Corey, Chief Patrick K. Dooley, Brian Brady, Ray Lubesky, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Crouse, John C. Whitfield, Major Darrell Robinson, Andre Oleas, current Iron Order President Patrick “Brit” Ward, Eric White, Chief Benny Dubose, Joseph Elliott Hamilton and Officer Donald Jenkins.

The Mississippi Analysis and Information Center, which is a federally funded fusion center, issued a “situational awareness” bulletin this morning that describes the Iron Order Motorcycle Club as an “Outlaw Motorcycle Gang.”

The bulletin reads:

“On Saturday night February 28, 2015, a confrontation occurred at the Echo bar in Meridian, Mississippi involving the Bandidos OMG, the Pistoleros and the Iron Order.

“The fight ended up in a nearby parking lot where three bikers were shot and one of the bikers ended up in critical condition. The Iron Order is a three piece patch MC and claim not to be a 1% club, and allow law enforcement as members,

“No arrests have been made at this time and the investigation is still ongoing. Law enforcement should be aware of the possibility of further violence between these gangs, and should remain alert if and when contact is made with any members.”

“This information should be considered UNCLASSIFIED/FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY. Further distribution of this document is restricted to law enforcement and intelligence agencies only unless prior approval from the Mississippi Analysis and Information Center is obtained. NO REPORT OR SEGMENT THEREOF MAY BE RELEASED TO ANY MEDIA SOURCES. It contains information that may be exempt from public release under the Freedom of Information Act.”

Do you already hate Gangland Undercover, the “gritty, fact based” valentine to celebrity rat in hiding Ashley Charles Wyatt also known as Charles Falco? Want to hate it more?

The Vagos extras in this six part miniseries are played by members of the Iron order Motorcycle Club. The bit players came from the three Iron Order chapters in Phoenix. Those chapters are the North Phoenix Risen Few chapter; the Phoenix East Valley Bad Intentions chapter; and the Phoenix chapter without a self-dramatizing nickname.

Authenticity

Apparently, the Iron Order does not yet have enough enemies. Participants in the slander against the Vagos have been gloating on a members only Iron Order forum about playing bad asses on the small screen. Canadian journalist Melissa Hank wrote last month: “Falco was on hand during filming for Gangland Undercover in Toronto and Arizona, and his presence on the set – and that of the members of the real life, law abiding Iron Order Motorcycle Club – helped ensure authenticity.

Wyatt/Falco (photo above), is the co-author with biker authority Kerrie Droban of a quasi novel titled Vagos, Mongols and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America’s Deadliest Biker Gangs. Wyatt/Falco participated in a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives infiltration and entrapment of the Vagos in Southern California called Operation 22 Green.

On their many websites, the Iron Order states: “We respect all clubs and support those that support us. We are independent and choose to mind our own business.” “We run our club by the very same MC traditions established over 50 years ago by motorcycle clubs.” “We ride, party and mind our own business. We do not create problems for our community or fellow bikers.”

What You Missed

The third episode of Gangland Undercover will be broadcast next Tuesday, March 10 at 10 p.m. on the History Channel.

In episode one, cablecast on Flag Day, Wyatt/Falco “a private contractor infiltrator for the ATF risks his life undercover when he infiltrates the notorious Vagos Motorcycle Club, a one percenter motorcycle club at their headquarters in Southern California. As a ‘hang-around,’ he gets to know the members during a bike run. However, he must quickly prove himself when a surprise invitation by the club’s president puts him right in the middle of the underground counterculture of outlaw biker gangs.”

In episode two, which aired March 3, Wyatt/Falco, “a prospect in the Vagos biker gang, gets even closer to the members, but is subjected to constant hazing and waiting on their needs 24/7, including handling a drug deal with Dawg, a Nazi Low Rider. When a fight breaks out at the club’s bar, a knockout punch earns Falco his ‘road name’ by his sponsor, Kid, who calls him ‘Quick.’ A new motorcycle provided by Falco’s handler, Koz, gives him added street cred with the gang. However, after Lizard turns it into a real club bike, he now owes him a debt.”

Wyatt/Falco’s actual road name was “Tijuana Charles.” His ATF handler was agent Darrin Kozlowski who Outlaw Kevin “Spike” O’Neill has described as a psychopath.

George Christie, the out bad former president of the Ventura charter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, is now threatening to sue Nick Mead, the British documentarian who spent more than two years and something more than $100,000 making a documentary about Christie before deciding not to release it.

In an email to Mead yesterday, Christie’s daughter and sometimes attorney Moriya Lynn Christie wrote: “Your recent unilateral determination that The Last American Outlaw documentary would not be distributed has required the parties to examine situation with an eye towards the parties’ respective legal obligations. You are one of the joint venturers in the Last American Outlaw Joint Venture with Nikki Nicoletto-Christie pursuant to a written agreement written by the Venture’s attorney, James Devine.”

“It seems that the appropriate remedy is for you to sign over your rights in the Venture and in the Documentary to Nikki.  The transaction can be structured whereby Nikki and the Venture indemnify you from any claims that arise from the distribution of the Documentary with an errors and omissions insurance policy secured in order to address any such claims. Otherwise, you are likely looking at a lawsuit for damages and specific performance wherein you are going to incur over $100,000 in legal fees whereas my relationship with Nikki will substantially reduce the attorneys’ fees she will be required to spend, if any at all.

“You simply cannot take your ball and go home.”

Why Not

Mead thinks he can.

The Last American Outlaw began as a tribute to Easyrider in which George Christie would tour America on his motorcycle and have conversations with interesting people. According to Mead, the film got off to a rough start when Christie insisted on trailering his motorcycle from Ventura to Joshua Tree, California, a distance of about 200 miles.

“We spent the first morning tracking down a trailer for his bike,” Mead said. “We eventually got it from U-Haul, with an absurdly narrow metal thing that meant getting the bike on and off was nearly impossible. Out of a five or six day journey to Arizona we ended up filming the bike sequence for a total of about 45 minutes. The rest of the time the bike was in the trailer.”

When Christie was indicted for conspiring to firebomb two tattoo shops named “Scratch the Surface” and “Twisted Ink” that competed with his own tattoo shop in Ventura, Mead believed that Christie was innocent and decided to shift the focus of the documentary to what he then thought was Christie’s persecution by the government.

Mead began to have doubts about Christie’s actual innocence after the film was mostly completed. The film was first shown at a place called the Bells Arts Factory in Ventura. Christie, who has an autistic son, told Mead the proceeds from the screening would benefit autism research. Mead thinks Christie simply pocketed the money.

What Else

Mead then began to have doubts about Christie’s actual innocence in his federal racketeering case and the circumstances that led to Christie’s expulsion from his long time motorcycle club. Throughout the production, Christie maintained that he had “retired” from the Hells Angels. Actually, he was voted out in bad standing from the club in 2011. Audio recordings obtained by The Aging Rebel strongly suggest that Christie was expelled because he avoided jail time for motorcycle theft and drug charges by informing on another Hells Angel.

The length of time between Christie’s plea deal in his latest court case and his sentencing, and the brevity of his sentence suggest that Christie debriefed with the FBI. After beginning to suspect that Christie was less innocent than he appeared Mead asked to see Christie’s plea and sentencing agreement. When Christie refused, Mead no longer wanted to be associated with the film.

“It was meant to be a noble story about this legendary figure,” Mead said. “And slowly the bubble burst. George wasn’t exactly the legendary figure he claimed to be.”

In her demand letter to Mead yesterday, Moriya Christie wrote: “I understand that you question some of the statements made by George Christie in the Documentary regarding the manner in which he left the Hells Angels, the circumstances of his plea agreement with the United States, and whether or not money from the public screening of the Documentary at Bell Arts Factory was donated to an organization that researches autism.  I also understand that you have had additional conversations with Hells Angels members about George and the Documentary. It is presumed that you stated to Aging Rebel that the Documentary would not be distributed because of the foregoing. You are not relieved of these fiduciary duties simply because you are not happy with the content of the Documentary or now question George’s veracity.”

Fiduciary Duties

Since Christie is threatening to sue Mead rather than the other way around it is unclear exactly what Mead’s “fiduciary duties” to Christie actually are. According to Mead, “George never put any money into the film. That a filmmaker who makes documentaries discovers he has been misled by his subject and is then legally forced to release a film that he knows is a lie? Is that nutty or what?”

The Aging Rebel has been told by informed sources who are not Nick Mead that George Christie is involved in ongoing negotiations to appear in a six part reality television series about his life to be produced by a New York production company named Eastern TV. Christie was in New York last week. The series would be cablecast on The History Channel.

In a casting notice last year for the as yet untitled show, Eastern wrote:

“Are you a man with miles of hard road behind you, ready to ride toward a bold new horizon? Read on…

“We’re looking for a family man who has spent years in loyal service to his motorcycle club and wants to kick start a new life starring in a brave new series commissioned by a major cable network. If you’re an outlaw with a heart of gold your greatest adventure might be about to begin…by sending us an email.”

“You need to be hard and uncompromising, with a personality big enough to fill the screen. Your family is as important as you are. If you’ve got a little girl you can’t say ‘no’ to and a wife who knows exactly how to tell you ‘no,’ we’re off to a great start. You need to be ready to put the outlaw years behind you and make a new start at something totally different. It’s great if you know what you want to do next, but if not, having the desire is enough: we can help with the rest.”

No Faith

Mead believes George Christie wants to use footage from the documentary in the History Channel show. In a short response to yesterday’s demand letter, Mead wrote, “I have no faith in this film at all.  I presume you are still trying to connect this film to either the History Channel or Eastern TV and that is probably the real reason for this letter. I will suck this up financially. It has been a terrible, awful waste of my time and efforts and financially it is crippling. But life goes on. I will not support a lie.”

This morning Mead said, “I just don’t want my work to go into some god awful reality series. I thought I was making a noble film about a noble man. I thought it was something important. Now it all seems a little self serving with no grounding in reality. They’re trying to bully me into giving up the film. The whole thing is very grubby.”

Obviously, the two burgeoning popup clubs that have declared war on everybody else on the motorcycle outlaw frontier must be some part of some law enforcement strategy. What else could they be?

Last week, it was impossible to ignore the Iron Order Motorcycle Club – the law abiding motorcycle club – after a fight in Meridian, Mississippi between members of the Iron Order, Bandidos and Pistoleros left four people wounded. An Iron Order member was hit in the head with a baton. Another Iron Order member who is a serviceman was shot twice. Two Bandidos were shot, one critically. Iron Order members are cooperating with local police.

This week it is that other band of instant badasses, the Rebels Motorcycle Club USA, who are starting fights, making headlines and cooperating with police.

Look At Us

A source who seems to have a pretty good handle on what the Rebels are doing described what happened with his club: “They went to local bars and brazenly made threats against us and all three of the other major Clubs in this area. This was obviously their strategy to try to attract as many recruits as possible as quickly as possible.”

A couple of nights ago in Clarksville, Tennessee the Rebels went looking for Outlaws but found two other clubs instead. A fight ensued.

Late last week, police in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania asked the public for help in identifying members of the War Dogs Motorcycle Club who beat down Rebels in a fight outside a bar on January 31. So far three War Dogs have been arrested for rioting and other charges. One Rebel was arrested for a parole violation but the Rebel who shot a War Dog was not arrested because no War Dog would cooperate with police. The War Dogs were arrested because the Rebels do cooperate with police. The Rebels who were beaten did identify their assailants.

The fight was instigated by the Rebels. Nine of them stood outside a bar and harassed the other club’s women until they were engaged by seven War Dogs. Immediately after the fight, the Rebels claimed they had been outnumbered 25 to four. You can view a short portion of the six minute fight between the Rebels and the War Dogs below.

As, has been the case in previous violent episodes involving the Rebels, the confrontation was supervised by Rebels’ “Prime Minister” Mike “Sawdust” Cunningham who watched from a nearby car.

Cunningham (photo above), who may just be getting in over his head, opens his mouth and insults fall out.

Cunningham Speaks

“Just name the city is all you have to do.” He bragged on social media nine days ago. “Purple and Gold area. I can have a full chapter in that area in 60 days. My name is out. I don’t hide behind a fake profile. Y’all have tried all kinds of slander but we still grow. Laughing my ass off. You can’t stop destiny.”

“If you can get the PO boxes to the admins from IOMC Truth and Aging Rebel please send it to me. Rebels MC USA would like to write a check out to them for being the best publicity and advertising we could have ever imagined. It has truly enabled us to get in at least six more states way ahead of schedule and we think they should be rewarded for their dedication and perseverance.”

Cunningham brags that the Rebels are “the most talked about club in America,” and that he is a “living legend.”

“I’m a rock star now,” Cunningham states with apparent sincerity. He also says, “that at least thirty percent of Rebels worldwide are Muslim.”

This might not end well for Cunningham.

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Momentum is building to legalize lane splitting outside California. The practice of riding between lanes of stopped or slow moving cars is legal in most of the world but not in most of America.

Something called “lane sharing” has always been legal in California. It allowed two motor vehicles to share the same lane. It also allowed bullying cops to cite motorcyclists  for things like driving on the white line or stopping at a light with your tires in one lane and your left foot in another.

The California Highway Patrol put a stop to the madness about two years ago when they issued an official  bulletin titled “Lane Splitting General Guidelines.” The document explained to California bikers when they would and wouldn’t get a ticket for splitting lanes. Then the CHP backed down when a long time state employee named Kenneth Mandler “petitioned the California Office of Administrative Law in 2013, claiming the CHP created an ‘underground regulation’ by formulating and distributing guidelines for safe lane splitting.” Whether Mandler likes it or not, the underground regulation has stuck. In California, at least, everybody now seems to be on the same page about what is legal and what is not.

Other States

Now legislation has been proposed in four other states, Washington, Oregon, Texas and Tennessee that would legalize lane splitting there. The legislation in all four states has been supported and endorsed by the American Motorcyclist Association.

Three days ago the Wall Street Journal ran a feature that reports that. “some traffic-safety officials – and many automobile drivers – see the practice as unsafe.” The Journal also cites research that indicates that “lane splitting, when done in a safe and prudent manner, is no more dangerous than regular motorcycling,” The paper reports that legislation in California may be forthcoming that would formally allow lane splitting when the speed differential is less than ten miles an hour in traffic moving at less than 30 miles an hour.

Washington And Oregon

The legislation to legalize lane splitting in Washington is Senate Bill 5623. It would allow motorcyclists to pass a car in the same lane when traffic is stopped or is moving at 25 miles an hour or less. If you split under the proposed law, you can’t legally go more than ten miles an hour than the flow of traffic. The bi-partisan Washington bill is sponsored by Democrats Tim Sheldon and Steve Conway and Republicans Jan Angel, Mark Miliscia, Randy Becker and Judy Warnick.

There are two bills to legalize lane splitting In Oregon. Senate Bill 172, introduced by Brian Boquist, would permit riders to pass in a lane with traffic if traffic is stopped or has slowed to less than ten miles an hour and the lane-splitting rider is traveling at a speed of 20 miles an hour or less. Senate Bill 420, introduced by Jeff Kruse, would allow lane splitting if traffic is stopped or slowed to 25 miles an hour or less and the motorcycle operator is traveling at 35 miles an hour or slower.

Texas And Tennessee

There are also two bills in Texas. House Bill 813, introduced by Sergio Muñoz, Jr. would allow motorcycle riders to ride between lanes of traffic moving in the same direction, if traffic is traveling 20 miles an hour or slower, and if the motorcyclist is not traveling more than five miles an hour faster than other traffic. Lane splitting would be prohibited in school zones and in areas where the posted speed limit is 20 miles an hour or less. And riders and passengers must wear helmets. A similar bill, Senate Bill 442, introduced by Kirk Watson, omits the helmet provision, but restricts lane splitting to limited-access or controlled-access highways.

Tennessee House Bill 1102, introduced by Timothy Hill, would permit lane splitting when traffic is traveling at 45 miles an hour or less and the motorcyclist does not exceed posted speed limits. Lane splitting would not be permitted in marked school zones when a warning flasher or flashers are in operation.

Five days ago, on March 6, the Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania Police Department released surveillance video of a six minute brawl between members of the Rebels Motorcycle Club and the War Dogs Motorcycle Club. It was sensational video that was quickly broadcast throughout the northeast. According to an Affidavit of Probable Cause filed by police sergeant Thomas Lococo, “two people were shot and  one was stabbed and several were assaulted.”

The video shows seven War Dogs fighting nine Rebels. An unedited version of the footage shows that one War Dog was seriously injured and had to be assisted from the scene.

The fight was hardly breaking news. It had happened January 31. The question was why the police started to publicize the incident when they did..

The answer was that local police were trying to build a criminal case against a War Dog named Chester L. Dobbins.

Affidavit

Lococo “was able to obtain video of the incident from security cameras on nearby businesses. The defendant (Dobbins) was viewed in the video approaching the victim and punching him. The defendant and the victim then fall to the ground and were on the ground when the defendant is viewed striking the victim in the head and face.”

So how did Lococo identify Dobbins? “This officer did interview the victim and showed him the video of the incident. The victim did identify the defendant in the video as the person striking him. The victim’s account closely matching the video. “

Lococo declines to name the Rebel who is “the victim.”

“This officer also showed the video to an informant and this informant identified the defendant also.”

Since the only witnesses to the fight were members of the two clubs, “the informant” was either a Rebel or a War Dog. No Rebels are charged for participating in this fight – or for the increasingly popular charge in motorcycle club cases of “invitation to an affray.” Three War Dogs have been arrested. One Rebel was arrested and charged with violating parole.

Rebels

The Rebels are quickly developing a reputation for provoking fights and then cooperating with police. According to a War Dog with knowledge of the incident, “That group of Rebels on the video walked down within about 20 yards of the  bar we were in and yelled at our ladies and a couple of our prospects to send us out because they wanted to kill us.”

This isn’t the first time Rebels have identified themselves to police as victims after engaging in what would seem to be mutual conduct with members of another club. After a fight with members of the Leathernecks Motorcycle Club in Rochester, Pennsylvania on October 13, 2014, Rebels named Dwayne “Hobo” Bogolea, Scott Hartley and J.D. Lambert told police they had been assaulted by a disabled Marine veteran named Cory Robert Howard.

Andre L. “Li’l Bear” Jenkins, who faces both state and federal charges in the execution style murders of Kingsmen Motorcycle Club members Paul Maue and Daniel “DJ” Szymanski last September 6, has been offered a plea deal that would eventually make him eligible for parole.

Thomas Prohaska of the Buffalo News reported that Niagara County Deputy District Attorney Doreen M. Hoffmann told County Judge Sara Sheldon about the proposed deal in open court yesterday. Judge Sheldon gave Jenkins until April 10 to make up his mind. If he turns down the deal and is found guilty Jenkins faces life in prison.

The cases against Jenkins are proceeding very slowly. An informant incriminated Jenkins and led police to the murder weapon, a Glock 9mm semi-automatic pistol. Jenkins appears to be linked to both the gun and the murder scene with DNA evidence. Police have previously said that Jenkins fled accompanied by another Kingsmen. There is no hint that Jenkins is cooperating with police.

DNA

According to public documents, the gun was recovered on “September 23, 2014, during a multi-agency search/investigation by FBI, New York State Police, and other law enforcement agencies. Following the discovery of the firearm on the side of the road on Route 219, it was submitted to the Niagara County Sheriff’s Office forensic Laboratory where it was swabbed for the presence of DNA. A DNA profile was developed from a swab of the firearm.”

The identity of the informant and any investigations related to the Murders of Maue and Szymanski remain secret.

Yesterday, Jenkins’ lawyer, Dominic Saraceno, asked Judge Sheldon to disclose the name of the informant to him. The judge took the request under advisement and said that any hearing on the matter would be held in camera, which is to say in private, where the public cannot see what is going on. Saraceno appears to already know the name of the informant so only the public is being kept in the dark. Last week Saraceno filed a standard discovery motion that would compel federal prosecutors to divulge the identity of the informant and any promises prosecutors might have made him to gain his cooperation. So far the federal case seems fairly simple. Jenkins is charged with a being a felon in possession of a gun. Since last November, there have been only a dozen filings in the federal case. But in his motion, Saraceno described the case as “complex.”

In federal criminal practice, “complex cases” are usually cases brought against “criminal organizations” or involving “conspiracies.” Deadlines imposed by the Speedy Trial Act of 1974 are usually relaxed in complex cases.

The federal investigation is “ongoing.”

Mystery

The great mystery in these two intertwined cases, as Dan Herbeck of the News put it late last year, is “what would compel Jenkins, identified by police as a Kingsmen associate, to travel 1,159 miles from a small city near Daytona Beach to a Kingsmen clubhouse in North Tonawanda and target Daniel “DJ” Szymanski and Paul Maue…. And was anyone else involved in the planning or the killings?”

Jenkins is not a stereotypical biker. He is a black man from Omaha who was convicted of first degree burglary in South Dakota in 1998. He was released on parole in August 2010 and disappeared. At the time of his arrest  Jenkins was working at a car wash called DeLand Auto Spa in Florida and he was a member or former member of the Daytona Beach chapter of the Kingsmen. Presumably, since Jenkins was an absconder from parole, he was also a federal fugitive and that seems to have been why he was taken into custody while riding in a car near Savannah, Georgia last November 8.

There have been numerous public statements by William J. Hochul, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York, that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is participating the investigation of the murders of Szymanski and Maue.

FBI

Last summer, after a two year long, FBI investigation, Anthony Annatone Jr  a former Daytona Beach police sergeant and the vice president of the Kingsmen Daytona Beach Chapter, pleaded no contest to a charge of dealing Oxycodone and was sentenced to three years in state prison. Annatone was arrested in June 2012. Either Jenkins was not a member of the Kingsmen during that federal investigation or somehow, the FBI missed a five foot eight inch, 240 pound, black biker fugitive.

There has been widespread conjecture in the press that the murders last September are linked to attempts by another motorcycle club to patch over members of the Kingsmen.

On August 31, 2013 the Kingsmen’s Lockport clubhouse was damaged, a man sleeping inside was beaten with baseball bats and a motorcycle, several firearms, ammunition, beer, liquor and a cell phone were stolen. In early August, Szymanski reportedly told a friend, “We had some problems down in Jamestown. Another club was trying to take over our Jamestown clubhouse.” And, on August 24, an unnamed Kingsmen was attacked near the Niagara Falls Clubhouse and stripped of his colors. The man also reported that five rifles, a shotgun and two black powder rifles had been stolen from the clubhouse.”

Rebels

During the last year, according to informed sources, there have been attempts by the Rebels Motorcycle Club to recruit members of the Kingsmen. The Rebels is a multiracial motorcycle club that once had but no longer has a chapter in Florida.

The Rebels withdrawal from Florida was virtually simultaneous with the resignation of former Rebels president Matt Monk and the ascendancy of current Rebels President Mike Cunningham. The Aging Rebel has been unable to verify that Jenkins is a former member of the Rebels in Florida.

The Rebels, which was founded in Brisbane in 1969, is the largest motorcycle club in Australia. The Rebels expansion into the United States has led to multiple territorial disputes with established American clubs. Cunningham recently bragged that the Rebels are “the most talked about club in America.” Cunningham’s approach to growing and publicizing his club is at odds with the long held attitude of most American motorcycle clubs that the best publicity is no publicity.

On October 13, 2014 Rebels brandished an AK-47 and engaged in a gunfight with members of the Leathernecks Motorcycle Club in Rochester, Pennsylvania. Two men were shot and another was stabbed during a confrontation between Rebels and members of the War Dogs Motorcycle Club in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania on January 31.

Jason Earl Hause, a second generation member of the Gypsy Jokers Motorcycle Club, died March 1 of complications following a February 27 motorcycle crash.

Hause grew up in Orange County, California. moved to Coos Bay, Oregon and graduated from Marshfield High School in 1995.

His father Ken, who owns Coos Cycle Supply, built his first motorcycle and brought him into the club.

Jason Hause is survived by his children Holly, Drake, Grace and Gavyn; his father; his stepmother Kelly; his mother Marianne; his sisters Amy, Jamie and Melissa; his brother Joseph; his aunts Linda, Kathy, Dori and Roxie; his uncle Perry; numerous nieces, nephews and cousins; and his club brothers.

The Gypsy Jokers will host a ride in memory of their fallen brother tomorrow, March 14 at 11:30 a.m.. The pack will assemble in the Kmart parking lot at 12350 Northeast Sandy Boulevard in Portland. The club will host a celebration of Jason’s life at the Gypsy Jokers clubhouse at 3535 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Portland after the ride.

Jason Earl Hause died two weeks short of his 38th birthday. His friends remember they could count on him.

Requiscant in Pace

A former Baltimore cop named Eric Christopher Jansen has been arrested on charges of first and second-degree assault, theft and robbery after he punched a member of the Iron Order Motorcycle Club in a bar named Kenny B’s Blue Marlin in Dundalk. Maryland.

The bar is southeast of Baltimore City and within two miles of Fort McHenry. The incident occurred February 7.

Jansen retired from the Baltimore Police Department last September. A Baltimore County detective identified Jansen in surveillance footage of the fight because he had worked with the former city cop last year on the Baltimore County Regional Auto Theft Task Force. Jansen is a patch holder in the Chosen Sons Motorcycle Club.

Chosen Sons

The Chosen Sons has four chapters in Maryland and may be the largest motorcycle club in the state. It is comprised mostly of police officers and firefighters, other public employees, private detectives and bounty hunters. The mother chapter is in East Baltimore. A slightly romanticized version of the club was renamed the Deacons in a 1995 episode of the television show Homicide: Life on the Streets. Most of the Deacons in the show were played by Chosen Sons patch holders. The club was founded by Baltimore policemen in 1969.

The Chosen Sons generally maintain a cordial and proper relationship with other clubs and subscribe to the same code of conduct as virtually all other three piece patch motorcycle clubs.

Iron Order

The Iron Order proclaims that it is a special motorcycle club that does not have to cooperate with other clubs or subscribe to the common code of conduct of three piece patch clubs. The Iron order has branded itself as the “law abiding motorcycle club” in an obvious attempt to brand all other three piece patch clubs as law breaking and to ally itself with various law enforcement agencies. Iron Order members have had numerous confrontations with members of other clubs as a result. In Maryland, the Iron Order has had several confrontations with the Iron Horsemen Motorcycle Club.

On the evening of February 7, four Iron Order members were drinking in Kenny B’s Blue Marlin with several women. A fight quickly ensued after members of the Iron Horsemen entered the bar. After Jansen and other Chosen Sons entered the bar they joined the fight.

Court documents filed in the case allege that in the course of the fight Jansen pushed a woman out of his way and punched a man standing behind her in the face.

The Iron Order members are cooperating with police. One alleges he was struck in the head with a hammer and that someone tried to steal his club vest. Another Iron Order member has alleged that his cell phone was stolen.

David Ian DeCarle, a member of the Road Reapers Motorcycle Club, died Monday afternoon after he hit a very large pothole on Reeves Avenue in Riverhead, New York and crashed his motorcycle. A motorist reported an injured biker and a motorcycle lying in the eastbound lane just before 4:30 p.m. Police transported him to Peconic Bay Medical Center, where he died.

David DeCarle was a cook on the Bridgeport-Port Jefferson Ferry on Long Island.

His club brother LJ James told the Riverhead News-Review that DeCarle, “worked a lot of hours to take care of this wife and newborn boy. He worked and he rode his bike for fun. It was his form of relaxation. He liked to ride. He was great member of the club. He was a big man but never a bully. He was always friendly. He always had a smile. He was always looking to help people. He was a gentle giant.”

According to James, DeCarle was aware of the inexcusable condition of the roads in Riverhead. “He was saying to tell everyone to be careful out there. He was saying to watch the roads; the roads are really bad. So you know he was being safe.”

No witnesses to the crash have come forward. As of Wednesday morning, the pothole that killed David DeCarle had still not been fixed.

DeCarle is survived by his wife Ksenia and his one-year-old son Desmond James DeCarle.

The Road Reapers will hold a fund raising party for DeCarle’s son and widow Friday night, March 20, at 8 p.m. at the Riverhead chapter clubhouse at 1129 Cross River Drive in Riverhead. There will be a memorial visitation this Saturday, March 21, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the McLaughlin Heppner Funeral Home at 336 Marcy Avenue in Riverhead.

David Ian DeCarle was just 36. He deserved more time.

Requiscat In Pace

Two men have been charged in connection with the February 7 brawl at Kenny B’s Blue Marlin in Dundalk. Maryland. The fight involved members of the Iron Order, Iron Horsemen and Chosen Sons Motorcycle Clubs.

Christopher Jansen, a former Baltimore police officer and a Chosen Son, was arrested on charges of first and second-degree assault, theft and robbery in the aftermath of the fight. Iron Horsemen Eric Lloyd “Animal” Calkins was charged with two counts of first-degree assault, five counts of second-degree assault, assault with a deadly weapon and strong arm robbery.

Jensen and Calkins accusers are former Orlando Iron Order member Timothy “Sentinel” Taylor and Baltimore Iron Order members Timothy J. Kielian, Seth Daniel Gerhart, James Charles Leblanc and John Anthony Hayes.

The Affray

The five Iron Order members were drinking in the bar with several women when Calkins entered and a fight quickly ensued. Jensen joined the fight after he entered and observed four of the Iron Order members hitting Calkins in the head with collapsible batons, Calkins is a veteran who suffered a traumatic brain injury during his military service.

The Iron Order is an enterprise that has branded itself as a “law abiding” motorcycle club in order to form an alliance with various police departments against other motorcycle clubs. According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. “many” Iron Order “members are police and corrections officers, active-duty military and/or government employees and contractors.” The purpose of this enterprise appears to be to claim territory and make money.

The Iron Order is very rich. For example, last year’s Iron Order national run cost $300,000.

After the Iron Order provokes a confrontation with members of another motorcycle club, they immediately request the assistance of the police and cooperate in the prosecution of their adversaries. In some instances, the Iron Order has requested the assistance of police before insigating a confrontation with another motorcycle club. The Iron Order has been involved in at least two gun fights in the last year. In a statement made before the murder of Black Piston Zachariah Tipton last year in Jacksonville Beach, Iron Order Vice-President Michael “Cgar” Crouse said, “I know our club has the advantage. One percenters won’t call the cops. So what the fuck, destroy any fucker that confronts you. It’s a free ticket….”

Mutual Combat

The brawl in the Blue Marlin was an obvious example of “mutual combat.” The Tenth edition of Black’s Law Dictionary defines mutual combat as “A consensual fight on equal terms – arising from a moment of passion but not in self-defense – between two persons armed with deadly weapons.”

“Mutual combat” is a common law defense and it is permissible in Maryland.

In a 2010 case titled State of Iowa v Christopher Spates, the Supreme Court of Iowa noted: “Mutual combat is more than a reciprocal exchange of blows. It requires a mutual intention, consent, or agreement preceding the initiation of hostilities. A charge on mutual combat is warranted only when the combatants are armed with deadly weapons and mutually agree to fight. Thus, an express or tacit agreement to engage in violence, while sufficient, is not required; it is enough that there was a concurrent or mutual expectation that a street battle would ensue….”

“To constitute mutual combat there must exist a mutual intent and willingness to fight and this intent may be manifested by the acts and conduct of the parties and the circumstances attending and leading up to the combat.”

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has concluded an investigation into who released top secret footage of a biker in suburban Vancouver, British Columbia successfully eluding police. The Mounties did it.

The video was shot February 20, uploaded to YouTube eight days ago and has now also been released by MTV. The video has been viewed about 285,000 times. It shows a Harley rider refusing to pull over for police in Surrey, British Columbia. At one point the rider rides into a mall parking lot, then apparently into the mall, then down a moving escalator with police pursuing on foot.

“The video was a compilation that we put together,” Mounted Police spokesman Dale Carr told Yahoo Canada News. “of air services, Surrey RCMP video and Guildford Mall video for evidence.”

“The video is shared with investigators using a site that offers both private and public sharing,” the spokesman explained. “In this case the ‘private’ checkbox had inadvertently been overlooked. We are looking into how that occurred and whether the practice of using that particular site should remain as a standard practice.”

Where Did He Go

Carr didn’t explain why the video is supposed to be secret. The rider faces a charge of “flight from the police” and numerous traffic violations. The chase took place about 15 miles north of the American border and the rider is still at large.

“I’ve been working in police work for 28 years and I’ve never seen a time where we were in pursuit of a motorcycle and it entered a mall, exited a mall, and ultimately we’re still looking for the driver,” the Carr told Yahoo.

Peggy Howard, who is the general manager of the mall, told ABC News the biker never actually entered the mall but instead went down a parking lot escalator and then into a Walmart. “We’re really happy no one got hurt,” she said.

“Ultimately the motorcycle was dumped,” Carr said. Police have the motorcycle. The bike’s battery is decorated with a “Support Your Local Hells Angels Haney” sticker.

According to  multiple published accounts, the Florida Highway Patrol sees nothing improper or illegal in the actions of one its investigators who tried to run a sport bike rider into a concrete wall with an unmarked cruiser.

St. Petersburg television stationWTSP confirmed that the investigator was FHP Sergeant Spencer Ross, pictured above.

Florida Highway Patrol Intelligence

According to his resume, Ross “is a supervisor in the Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Division of the Florida Highway Patrol. As a supervisor, Spencer helps to oversee the central Florida area covering seven counties including the Orlando/Disney area, Daytona Beach and the Space Coast/Cocoa Beach area.”

The resume also states that Ross “has wide-ranging experience conducting criminal investigations, covering domestic and international interests due to the specific nature of his abilities. Spencer is routinely called upon by various agencies to consult on projects concerning identity issues, documents and various other forms of identification that relate to regional, domestic and national security issues….”

Ross was named State Law Enforcement Chiefs’ Association “Investigator of the Year” in 2011. Ross has also worked as an internal affairs investigator for the FHP, which may betray the circumstances that led to the dissemination of the video below.

Covering Up

The attempted vehicular assault occurred on Orlando’s East-West Expressway, State Road 408, last Tuesday, Saint Patrick’s Day. According to Tiffany Walden of the Orlando Sentinel, when “Ross attempted to pull over the biker for the violations on Tuesday, the motorcyclist slowed suddenly, creating a potential traffic hazard while Ross was attempting to exit the travel lanes.”

In a blatantly dissembling statement, FHP Public Affairs Sergeant Kim Montes said Ross pursued the sport biker for “evading a toll.” The toll on the Expressway varies from 25 cents to seven dollars. Usually, tolls are evaded by passing through the express toll lanes. A camera snaps a photo of toll evaders’ license plates and they are then mailed a bill. Montes also said “the motorcyclist’s driving behavior was dangerous to everyone on the roadway.”

“Based on preliminary review, there appeared to be no attempt to ram or to make contact with the motorcycle, however, this incident is currently being reviewed by FHP.” Ross “disengaged when the motorcyclist fled from the scene.” Montes also said Ross obtained the bike’s license plate number, not the toll booth camera.

A Southern Illinois woman named Dawn N. Voss is going to have to wait at least another two months for satisfaction in her lawsuit against the Iron Order Motorcycle Club. The Iron Order, whose members have been involved in numerous, widely publicized, violent confrontations including at least one fatal shooting over the last year describes it self as a “law abiding motorcycle club.”

Voss filed suit against the club’s “Gateway Chapter,” Iron Order patch holder Randy “Linus” Frantz and Christine Frantz on November 26, 2014. John C. “Shark” Whitfield, who serves as “Director of the Division of Legal Affairs” for the three piece patch club as well as Nortonville, Kentucky City Attorney responded to the suit on January 28. The next hearing in the case will be May 27.

The Lawsuit

Voss characterizes the Iron Order as “a business that has numerous members that congregate and gather together for periodic social gatherings in which said numerous members consume a large amount of alcohol, act hostile, and (are) belligerent with each other.”

Sher alleges that on November 27, 2012 she was at the clubhouse at 415 Morrison Avenue in Collinsville, Illinois, as a patron and business invitee of Frantz. He operates a wood working business and among his products was a wooden paddle. He gave the paddle to another, unnamed club member who beat Voss with it and that action caused her to become sick, sore, lame and disordered and to suffer extensive injuries to her wrist, arms, and body. She alleges she lost income and her treatment was expensive.

Subsequently, on January 1, 2014, Voss was assaulted by Christine Frantz , who she identifies as a member of the Iron Order, and Voss suffered more injuries. Voss is seeking damages greater than $150,000. The club can certainly afford that. Multiple club members have stated that a club party last year featuring the fossil rock band Three Dog Night cost more than $300,000.

Voss is represented by an Edwardsville, Illinois attorney named Robert Bas.

Performative Displays Of Machismo

The Iron Order encourages highly performative displays of machismo by its members and publically espouses the diminishment of women.

Club founder and longtime club president Ray “Izod” Lubesky, a former fast food executive with Cinnabon, Ponderosa Steakhouses and Papa John’s Pizza who now runs a painting company franchise in Palm Harbor, Florida, has publically stated: “The club was founded as a law abiding, democratically led club. The truth of the matter was somewhat different.  We were law abiding (barring the speeding, drinking, whores, and other stupid shit we did while partying) but we were not being democratically led.”

Lubesky committed to writing numerous statements that might shed light on the club atmosphere that led to Voss’ beating.

For example:

“We also met their clubhouse whore. The Kentucky chapter was pretty jealous of Indiana because they had their own clubhouse whore and we didn’t. We would soon have our own crew of ladies and our women would start a support club of their own, the Iron Order Maidens, but at this time we didn’t have any women and here Indiana had their own clubhouse whore. She stayed at their clubhouse that had no shower. To give her a shower they took her out back and used a garden hose. Now that’s class.”

And:

“Women can be the most dangerous elements when it comes to MC conflicts. They will go out of their way to create problems just to see fights happen. Somehow they get excitement or orgasms over the blood being spilled for them. I warn the brothers all the time to avoid whores like this. They are nothing but 5 miles of bad road.”

And:

“Doc and I had a great trip together. We visited all our chapters and partied every day. Doc picked up this floozy from the internet. She was not a bad traveling bitch. We didn’t have to wait up on her, she packed the bike and lugged her share of the work. She didn’t complain when we rode through the desert at 110 degrees or over the Rockies at 30 degrees with no winter gear or when we got hammered by a hail and rain storm with a tornado in Oklahoma. By the second week Doc decided he had enough of her. We were cruising into Nashville on our return. Doc told me he had to stop for gas. We just filled up before riding into Nashville like we always do so I didn’t understand why he needed gas. You never want to ride into a big city on an empty tank. It’s better to stop outside the city and not have to pull off some inner city exit in a bad part of town. He tells me to pull off on this specific exit to a specific gas station. We pull off and I go into the convenience store to walk the lizard and get a drink. The whore comes in and gives me a hug crying like a baby. She tells me she is glad to have known me and thanked me for the great trip. I get outside and Doc has all her shit lying on the black top. He tells me we’re leaving her there and going on. I say OK and off we go leaving her at the convenience store. The next day Doc discovered the bitch stole his camera and some other items.”

And:

“I have no idea how many times I have written or talked about this subject but it seems some of our brothers or our new brothers just don’t pay attention. The biker world is full of club groupies, floozies and whores. A full patch can get laid faster than any biker and that is a fact. It may not be with a Shania Twain look alike but it will have tits and pussy. Like my grandfather used to say, ‘You show me tits and a pussy and I’ll show you trouble.’ I know of several brothers who will only mess with girls who are 250 pounds or bigger and there is a never ending inventory or those floating around. Some just like big asses and big tits. Whatever it is you like you can get it out there. These women are on ‘Biker or Not’ and many other E-Z Date web sites. They are always hanging out in biker bars or attending bike nights, just waiting for the next dick they can get hold of. There are a whole lot of problems that can arise from these whores and I ain’t just talking about the clap or drip dick.”

And:

“These groupies are well versed in the biker life. They may tell you they know all the clubbers and can smooth any problems that could come up because of a patch. When a whore says stuff like that you can bet she’s fucked patch holders from more than one club and may still have contacts with other clubs. These women will carry rumors and all the intel they can gather to both sides of the fence. They don’t do it consciously; they just do it for the attention and excitement. They love to tell their friends how they are connected and what they know. Some of them love to be in the middle of the shit when it hits the fan because they know full well women are out of harm’s way. Some of these women have actually caused wars between clubs. They bring nothing but 10 miles of bad road so you need to have your head on straight when dealing with these floozies.”