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The Mongols Motorcycle Club is considered a motorcycle gang by law enforcement and intelligence agencies in various countries internationally. [3] [12] [13] Mongols members have a long history in the illegal drugs trade (especially methamphetamine), money laundering, robbery, extortion, firearms violations, murder, and assault, among other crimes.
The ATF then staged the murder of a Mongols member by photographing and videotaping a law enforcement officer posing as the rival biker laying in a shallow grave, splattered with lamb blood and brains. [54] Dobyns had bloodstained Mongols "colors" mailed to the Hells Angels from Mexico, and provided a videotape and pictures of the staged killing.
The Mongols Motorcycle Club was formed in Montebello, California on December 5, 1969. [2] The club had ten founding members, the majority of whom were Vietnam veterans. [15] [16] The first national president of the Mongols, Louis Costello, named the club in honor of Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire.
Born in Hammond, Indiana, Dobyns was raised in a middle-class family in Tucson, Arizona, where his father had moved the family looking for work as a carpenter. [2] [13] He was a standout athlete in several sports at Sahuaro High School before receiving a football scholarship to attend the University of Arkansas in 1980. [14]
In 2016 he was jailed for 4½ years after deliberately driving a car into the bedroom of a home in Nollamara. He had been out of prison for six weeks. [5] In 2020 he was arrested following allegations of attempting to destroy evidence by flushing cocaine down a toilet during a police raid. [6] He received a suspended sentence.
The Mongols objected to this, infuriating the Angels. [82] The Hells Angels declared war on the Mongols at a meeting on July 7, 1977. The conflict would result in the deaths of four Mongols members and an innocent fifteen-year-old boy. Mongols member Allyn Bishop was shot off his motorcycle in Kern County on July 29, 1977. [5]
Gangland Undercover is a Canadian-American fact-based drama television series written and created by Executive Producer Stephen Kemp and co-writer Noel Baker. It was inspired by the story of Charles Falco [1] a former ATF confidential informant (CI) who infiltrated an outlaw motorcycle club.
Motorcycle club members meet at a run in Australia in 2009. An outlaw motorcycle club is a motorcycle subculture.It is generally centered on the use of cruiser motorcycles, particularly Harley-Davidsons and choppers, and a set of ideals that purport to celebrate freedom, nonconformity to mainstream culture, and loyalty to the biker group.