Martinez Pleads Not Guilty
Mongols Motorcycle Club patch holder David Martinez, told Judge Renee F. Korn he was not guilty at his arraignment at the county courthouse in downtown Los Angeles yesterday. Korn denied him bail...
View ArticleThe Neenah War On Motorcycle Clubs
Eagle Nation Cycles in Neenah, Wisconsin and four individuals have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the City of Neenah, its police department, its police chief, one of the city’s police...
View ArticleDeconstructing The Tipton Whitewash
More and more with the passage of time, State Attorney Angela Corey (above) and Assistant State Attorney Brian Brady’s official account of the homicide of Black Piston Zachariah “Nas T” Tipton by Iron...
View ArticleJon “Murf” Murphy
Jon “Murf” Murphy, who enjoyed motorcycles, cars, guns, steamed crabs and beer, lost his long battle with cancer on November 11. Jon Murphy was a 40-year-long member of the Baltimore chapter, which is...
View ArticleNo Crime No Problem
Entrapment is as American as cherry pie, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. A three judge panel overturned the dismissal of a case against two men named Antuan Duane “Rat Tone” Dunlap...
View ArticleCop Club Tough Guy Gets Three Years
Robert “Snap” Litzenberger, a former member of the Enforcers Motorcycle Club, which describes itself as a law enforcement and military motorcycle club, was sentenced to three years in a Florida prison...
View ArticleThe King-Brown Case Goes On
Three crooked politicians named United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates (above), Assistant United States Attorney Lawrence R. Sommerfeld and Special Assistant United States Attorney Erin E. Sanders...
View ArticleProsecutorial Games In Rockford HA Case
Seven members of the Rockford charter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club pled not guilty Tuesday to the same set of charges against them that were dismissed last August. Richard L. Todd, Robert A....
View ArticleRebels Cooperating
Members of the Rebels Motorcycle Club are cooperating with prosecutors after a brawl and gunfight between Rebels and members of the Leathernecks Motorcycle Club six weeks ago in Rochester,...
View ArticleMerry Christmas From The Ventura County Sheriff’s
The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office had a busy Sunday. Two local motorcycle clubs, a three piece patch club and a one piece patch club, had a brief and non-violent disagreement at the David Mann...
View ArticleThe Longest Trial
The sputtering trial of three Hells Angels named Timothy R. Bianchi, Nicholas F. Carrillo and Josh L. Johnson in Lake County, California is starting to look like a permanent institution. The three men...
View ArticleHeien v. North Carolina
The Supreme Court of the United States chipped another little piece off the Fourth Amendment Monday. The ruling is not as contemptuous of civil liberties as it has been widely reported to be but it did...
View ArticleCue The Clown
There was a half day of testimony last Friday in the Lake County, California trial of three Hells Angels named Timothy R. Bianchi, Nicholas F. Carrillo and Josh L. Johnson. The three men are accused of...
View ArticleMotorcycles Are Scary
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released a six page report last Friday titled “2013 Motor Vehicle Crashes: Overview” accompanied by six pages of statistical tables. Normally that...
View ArticleSturgis 2090
Harley-Davidson announced this morning that Harley is now the “official motorcycle” of the annual Black Hills Rally in Sturgis, South Dakota. The annual rally was started by an Indian Motorcycle...
View ArticleExpertise, Talk And Gossip
The Lakeport, California trial of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club resumed last week. Technically, only three members of the club named Timothy R. Bianchi, Nicholas F. Carrillo and Josh L. Johnson are...
View ArticleWarrantless Radar Searches
Both USA Today and the Daily Mail reported yesterday that at least 50 American police forces, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Marshals Service, have been using a device...
View ArticleJorge Gil-Blanco’s Resume
CURRICULUM VITAE JORGE GIL-BLANCO Expert Qualifications: Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs Law Enforcement Experience and Assignments January 1973 to September 1974 Los Angeles Police Department Patrol Officer...
View ArticleVLAD Laws And Rupert Murdoch
An academic study released earlier this week portrays the Australian state of Queensland’s Vicious Lawless Association Disestablishment (VLAD) laws, aimed at outlawing motorcycle clubs, as a cruel and...
View ArticleDevils Diciples Still On Trial
As this is being written, the trial of Devils Diciples National President Jeff Garvin “Fat Dog” Smith, National Vice-President Paul “Pauli” Darrah and alleged National Warlord Cary “Gun Control”...
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