Black Bikers Join Ferguson Circus
This story was pubished at 1 p.m. on August 20, 2014 and the accompanying photo was changed two hours later. The original photo accompanying this story was not Michael Brown but a bogus photo of a...
View ArticleThe Tipton Murder Investigation Day 56
It has been eight weeks since a patched member of the Black Pistons Motorcycle Club named Zachariah “Nas T” Tipton was shot and killed in a parking area outside Nippers Beach Grille in Jacksonville...
View ArticleAnother Vagos Case Dismissed
Local, state and federal police forces in the West continue to harass members of the Vagos Motorcycle Club with marginal or unwarranted prosecutions. The prosecutions, which have popped up over a wide...
View ArticleCharges Dismissed Against Rockford Angels
The Winnebago County State’s Attorney’s Office dismissed charges of armed robbery, aggravated kidnapping of a child younger than 13, unlawful possession of a stolen vehicle, aggravated battery with a...
View ArticleOperation Devils Professor
August is the dog days of news and Sons of Anarchy won’t be back on the air for another 13 days. So it is not exactly shocking that a British national newspaper called The Daily Mail ran a story today...
View ArticleWe Grow Old
A couple of recent articles indicate that motorcycling may be going the way of the buggy whip. The Los Angeles Times has reported that a study by the Motorcycle Industry Council suggests that the “core...
View ArticleGeorgia Outlaws Case Continues
Three men named Larry McDaniel, Howard Brown and Sean King are scheduled to begin a North Korean style show trial in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on September...
View ArticleThe Gang Member Firefighter Case
An interesting civil lawsuit that has lingered in federal court since last January and had lingered in Santa Cruz County Superior Court for two months before that, was refiled Monday in the Federal...
View ArticleOutcasts And Wheels Of Soul
Police in Birmingham, Alabama and Atlanta and federal police are investigating multiple, linked, violent confrontations between members of the Outcast and the Wheels of Soul Motorcycle Clubs. Both...
View ArticleSumming Up Sons Of Anarchy
Five days ago, affirming a racketeering conviction in Florida, Ed Carnes who is the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit wrote an amazing sentence that would have...
View ArticleBerkshire Murder Final Chapter
Trial is underway for Caius Veiovis, the most self-dramatizing of the defendants in the sordid, triple murder of three Pittsfield, Massachusetts men in 2011. The defendant pronounces his unique name...
View ArticleMoney, Money, Money, Money
The numbers are in for the motorcycle rallies in Sturgis, South Dakota and Atlantic Beach, South Carolina. Guess who won. You, and you know who you are, dropped a collective total of $18,822,304 with...
View ArticleIron Order Murder Day 78
Today is the 78th day since a Black Piston named Zachariah “Nas T” Tipton was shot by a still unnamed member of the Iron Order Motorcycle Club outside Nippers Beach Grille in Jacksonville Beach,...
View ArticleHarvest Moon Marks Return Of Motorcycle Hunting Season
Usually we don’t bring this up for another month or so, until the rutting begins, but the Harvest Moon is waning and the motorcycle hunting season appears to be off to an early start. At least that’s...
View ArticleFinal Warlocks Trial Begins
Jury selection began today in the trial of Paul Wayne “Dog” Smith at the Seminole County Criminal Justice Center in Sanford, Florida. About 80 prospective jurors were present when the court session...
View ArticleSmith Trial Day Two
Blaming the victim is a venerable, if risky, strategy in criminal defense. It sometimes works because juries tend to include a disproportionate number of people who are too stupid to get out of jury...
View ArticleDobyns Wins $173,000
Jay Dobyns lawsuit against his former employer, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is finally resolved. The bad news is that Jay Dobyns is now officially a hero. A Federal District...
View ArticleMore Iron Order Loose Lips
The Iron Order Motorcycle Club has a national election coming up this weekend and the sources are singing like birds. The Aging Rebel believes that at only ten-years-old with more than 4,000 members,...
View ArticleSmith Trial Day Three
The trial of Paul Wayne “Dog” Smith is an example of what Yogi Berra called ‘‘déjà vu all over again.” He is the fourth defendant to be tried for the same alleged crime – the murder of three men who...
View ArticleMongols Nation Case Still In Limbo
The Mongols Nation Case has been continued yet again. A jury trial to determine whether the Mongols Motorcycle Club is guilty of racketeering and conspiracy to racketeer was most recently scheduled to...
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