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While Oakland Hells Angels president Sonny Barger was recovering from an operation for throat cancer in the early-mid 1980s, O'Farrell served as acting president of the chapter beginning in 1983. As Oakland is the location of club's unofficial "mother chapter", he was additionally the de facto leader of the Hells Angels internationally.
Ralph Hubert "Sonny" Barger Jr. (October 8, 1938 – June 29, 2022) was an American outlaw biker who was a founding member of the Oakland, California chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in 1957. [3]
The Hells Angels was founded in the 1940s in Fontana, but Barger formed the Oakland chapter in April 1957. He became the club’s national president, its most visible and voluble figure.
Hells Angels Oakland chapter president and national leader Sonny Barger was arrested on narcotics charges after Donald Howarth, a film studio property manager and 1967 Mr. America from Studio City, was apprehended while walking towards Barger's Oakland home with seventeen ounces of cocaine and thirty ounces of heroin (with an estimated retail ...
Sonny Barger, founding member of the Oakland chapter of the Hells Angels motorcycle club, at a book signing in London circa 2002. Andy Drysdale/Shutterstock Sonny Barger, who founded the Oakland ...
Hells Angels founder Sonny Barger and his wife, Sharon, are shown after his release on $100,000 bond in San Francisco in 1980. Barger, the leather-clad figurehead of the notorious Hells Angels ...
The Oakland charter is responsible for making major decisions within the club and granting new charters. Any motorcycle club seeking to join to the Hells Angels must apply to the Oakland charter for membership, and the applicant club must be monitored and approved of by the Oakland Hells Angels before being granted membership. [24]
In October 1988, Ralph "Sonny" Barger, the Hells Angels' Oakland (California) chapter president and reputed national leader, and Michael Vincent "Irish" O'Farrell, the former Oakland president, were convicted of plotting to carry out bomb attacks in Louisville and elsewhere against members of the Outlaws. Three other club members were also ...