Five Reported Sentenced
Jonathan McFadden of the Rock Hill, South Carolina Herald reported Friday morning that five defendants in the “Hells Angels biker gang” racketeering case were sentenced yesterday in the federal court...
View ArticleLoose Cannons Clubhouse Shootings
There was a gunfight early Sunday morning between members of the Loose Cannons and the Devils Diciples Motorcycle Clubs. The fight erupted about 1:30 a.m. during a party at the Loose Cannons’ clubhouse...
View ArticleJason Fogle Sentenced
The crusade against the Rock Hell City Nomads charter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club claimed another victim two and a half weeks ago. Jason Brian “Trouble” Fogle, a former prospect with the...
View ArticleAttack Of The Bots
The Aging Rebel was offline for about eight hours yesterday due to what was described at the time as “an extremely advanced botnet attack that is targeting WordPress logins. The nature and rate of the...
View ArticleAdios Whiskey Row Chapter
Back in February, Mike Koepke, the Vice-President of the Hells Angels Arizona Nomads charter, sent an open letter to the local Iron Brotherhood Motorcycle Club’s Whiskey Row chapter in Prescott....
View ArticleAttack Of The Bots Continues
Just so everybody knows: 9:00 a.m. Pacific “As many of you have already heard, we are experiencing issues with a number of hosts across all of our datacenters. If you are writing because you are...
View ArticleThe Kingman Civil Rights Suit
Melissa Summerson, a long-time employee of Kingman, Arizona who was fired three days after Christmas in 2012 because her husband belonged to the Desert Road Riders Motorcycle Club filed a federal civil...
View ArticleOperation Red Harvest Update
The hot air balloon called Operation Red Harvest finally started deflating today, a mere thirteen months after the self-congratulatory press conference. Red Harvest was the secret investigation that...
View ArticleSensenbrenner’s Bill
Jim Sensenbrenner, a Republican Congressman from Wisconsin, has introduced a bill called the Stop Motorcycle Checkpoint Funding Act. The Bill, H.R. 1861, would prohibit the Department of Transportation...
View ArticleMay Is Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month
Maybe it will happen like this. I’ll catch a long parade of impossibly slow trucks on a secondary, two lane road. I dream those roads. They float and dance in my imagination like bingo balls – the 95...
View ArticleMongols Case Almost Resolved
After fifty-four months, there is still one defendant in the Mongols federal racketeering case U.S. v. Cavazos et al. awaiting his day in court. He is Peter “Bouncer” Soto. Another defendant named...
View ArticleRolling Thunder 2013
Decoration Day, which became Memorial Day, spontaneously began during the American Civil War – a war fought mostly by conscripts – as a day set aside to tend and decorate the graves of that war’s dead....
View ArticleDan Bifield’s Sentencing Statement
Dan Bifield, the lead defendant in the recent federal racketeering case in Columbia, South Carolina will be sentenced tomorrow. He is likely to spend the rest of his life in prison. His sentencing...
View ArticleBurgess Appeal Denied
What may have been Dave Burgess’ last best chance at vindication was denied last Friday by United States District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson. Burgess had argued that his trial lawyer, a court...
View ArticleBifields Sentenced
Daniel and Lisa Bifield, the South Carolina couple charged with racketeering after an elaborate and expensive two-year-long sting, were sentenced this afternoon by Judge Cameron McGowan Currie. Daniel...
View ArticleThe Last American Outlaw
The tide may finally be turning against Gangland, the execrable, ATF enabled “reality” show that chronicled and justified the expensive and bogus federal crusade against “gangs.” Next Saturday, June...
View ArticleThe Philly Outlaws Case
The Outlaws case in Philadelphia is starting to look like a George V. Higgins novel – overflowing with colorful cynics caught between the feds and a hard place. The Philadelphia Outlaws, who used to be...
View ArticleMore Chief Finn
The Mongols fiasco a year ago may have had less to do with the firing of Boulder City, Nevada Police Chief Thomas Finn’s firing than first appeared. The City Council may have known that Finn was a...
View ArticleDobyns Trial Begins Monday
Jay Dobyns, the self-dramatizing Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Agent who semi-successfully infiltrated a Hells Angels charter in Prescott, Arizona, sort of wrote a book about it,...
View ArticlePee-Ka Garcia Case Goes Cold
The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office told Stephen Baxter of the Santa Cruz Sentinel last Friday that the murder of Mongol Eric Dean “Pee-Ka” Garcia has become a cold case. Deputy April Skalland told...
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