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Gregory Woolley (26 February 1972 – 17 November 2023) was a Haitian-born Canadian mobster associated with the Hells Angels motorcycle club. [1] [2] [3] Woolley was the protégé and bodyguard of Maurice Boucher, a controversial senior Hells Angels leader who led his chapter in a long and extremely violent gang war against the Rock Machine, in Quebec, from 1994 to 2002. [4]
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]
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 ] With a membership of over 6,000, and 592 charters in 66 countries, the HAMC is the largest "outlaw" motorcycle club in the world.
Federal authorities argue the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, which was founded in California more than 70 years ago, engages in the trafficking of drugs and firearms.
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.
Seventeen people pleaded not guilty Monday to various charges involving an attack on three Black men by members of the Hells Angels biker gang in San Diego this year, the San Diego County District ...
A turf war between the Hells Angels and the Black Army on Funen led to a number of clashes which resulted in the clubhouses of both gangs in Odense being temporarily closed by police in October 2016. The Hells Angels were the suspects in a grenade attack on the Black Army clubhouse in Herning, which took place on 13 December 2016. [91]
Benesh, who had been attempting to establish an Austin chapter of the Hells Angels, was shot in the head by an unseen sniper, as he was leaving a North Austin restaurant with his girlfriend and two children. Police said that Benesh was flanked by other people and the shooter used only one bullet, fired at a distance from a high-powered rifle.