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The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (HAMC) is an international outlaw motorcycle club whose members typically ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles. In the United States and Canada, the Hells Angels are incorporated as the Hells Angels Motorcycle Corporation. Common nicknames for the club are the "H.A.", "Red & White", and "81". [10]
Bloody Hammers Motorcycle Club; Bridgerunners Motorcycle Club [59] Brothers Motorcycle Club, in Anchorage, Alaska (patched over in 1982) [83] [84] Brothers Fast Motorcycle Club, in Denver, Colorado (patched over in 2001) [85] Chosen Brothers Motorcycle Club(Indiana) Confederate Angels Motorcycle Club, in Richmond, Virginia (defunct) [86] [87]
Absorbed by the Hells Angels in 1977 to become the first Hells Angels Motorcycle Club chapter in Canada. [139] [140] [141] Rebels: 1969 Brisbane, Australia Originally known as the Confederates, this outlaw OMCG has 70-something chapters worldwide and is the largest in Australia. Rebels: 1968 Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
The club is based primarily in the Mountain states and the Midwest. [1] The first chapter outside Colorado was the Iowa chapter which was founded in 1968, and an alliance with the Hells Angels enabled the Sons of Silence to further expand. [11]
The Bandidos Motorcycle Club, also known as the Bandido Nation, [1] is an outlaw motorcycle club with a worldwide membership. [6] [7] [8] Formed in San Leon, Texas, in 1966, the Bandidos MC is estimated to have between 2,000 and 2,500 members [5] and 303 chapters located in 22 countries, [4] making it the second-largest motorcycle club in the world behind the Hells Angels.
In the June 6 assault in Ocean Beach, three men, ages 19, 20 and 21, were chased by members of the Hells Angels gang. Two were severely beaten.
Clash between the two clubs at a Hells Angels-sponsored "Hell raiser Ball"in Plainview, New York on February 23, 2002, resulted in the arrest of 73 Pagans and 2 Angels, one biker was killed and 10 injured. [69] [70] Hells Angels recruit Pagans to form a chapter in Philadelphia in 2004, resulting in the conflict flaring up between the two groups ...
Anchorage Hells Angels chapter sergeant-at-arms Anthony "Tony Truth" Tait volunteered to become a paid informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1985, and he provided the government with detailed information on the club's organization and criminal activities – such as drugs and explosives trafficking – for two years. [27]