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The first Hells Angels chapter in France was founded on 18 April 1981 when the Hells de Crimée ("Hells of Crimea") gang in Paris was granted a charter by the Dutch Hells Angels. [ 54 ] [ 100 ] It was not until 1987, however, that the French Hells Angels were incorporated as a société à responsabilité limitée . [ 100 ]
A supporter pin of the New York City Hells Angels charter with the paraphrases "81" and "Big Red Machine".. Numerous police and international intelligence agencies classify the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (HAMC) as a motorcycle gang and contend that members carry out widespread violent crimes, including drug dealing, trafficking in stolen goods, gunrunning, extortion, and prostitution rings.
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]
The U.S. Department of Justice says Hells Angels is one of multiple outlaw motorcycle gangs posing a "serious national domestic threat" due to drug trafficking and smuggling crimes. Show comments ...
A grand jury indicted 17 members and associates of a Hells Angels motorcycle gang in a seemingly unprovoked and brutal attack targeting three Black men in San Diego this spring.
Federal agents arrested six members of the Hells Angels motorcycle club on suspicion of kidnapping, first-degree robbery, making criminal threats and other charges in an early-morning raid in Kern ...
The Hells Angels were retained as contract killers by both factions involved in the Cleveland mob war of 1975–78, in which the Cleveland crime family feuded with Irish gangster Danny Greene and his Celtic Club for control of criminal rackets in the city.
An entire chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club was arrested on various violent charges, ... A grand jury indicted 14 of the 17 with the assault and handed hate crime charges to 11 of those ...