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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.
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.
Ruben Cavazos (born December 28, 1956) is an American criminal, and former International President of the Mongols Motorcycle Club. His autobiography, Honor Few, Fear None: The Life & Times of a Mongol, was published by HarperCollins in 2008. [1]
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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.
The Miri clan is mostly active in Bremen, partly also in Essen and Berlin. The organization is active in protection rackets, arms-, drug- and illegal medicine trafficking, as well as trafficking and exploiting people for prostitution. In Bremen, around 30 families with 3,500 members are assigned to the Miri clan, and over 8,000 - 10,000 nationwide.
One of the largest gangs in New Zealand, and for a time, the nation's largest outlaw motorcycle club. Also operates in the Commonwealth of Australia. [78] Highwaymen: 1954 Detroit, US Currently the largest outlaw motorcycle club in the city of Detroit. [79] Homietos Motorcycle Club: N/A N/A Active as of 2023 in Oklahoma City, Kansas City, and ...
William Queen was a nearly 20-year ATF veteran as well as a motorcycle enthusiast when, in 1998, a "confidential informant" contacted Queen's superiors, offering to help place an agent inside the San Fernando Valley chapter of the Mongols. Queen's work was soon to become the most extensive undercover operation into a motorcycle gang in the ...