The Aging Rebel

18. January 2012

The Mongols Racketeering Trial

After a delay of 25 months, the Mongols racketeering trial originally scheduled to begin in Los Angeles on December 16, 2008 will finally get under way. Many of the details have evolved. The judge who was to preside, Florence-Marie Cooper, died in January 2010. When the Glendale office of the ATF found out Cooper was [...]

4. January 2012

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Motorcycle Noise And Money

It is tempting for bikers to laugh off the holy crusade against “motorcycle noise” and aftermarket exhaust pipes. In the first place, the reasons for replacing the stock exhaust on a Harley are obvious to the people who do it. Back in the day, 82 inch Shovelheads made about 70 horsepower right out of the [...]

Ciccone, Kozlowski To Testify At Ablett Trial

27. December 2011

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Ciccone, Kozlowski To Testify At Ablett Trial

The outlines of the prosecution and the defense in the trial of Mongol Christopher Bryan “Stoney” Ablett are beginning to appear out of the legal fog. Ablett is accused of murdering Hells Angel San Francisco charter President Mark “Papa” Guardado on September 2, 2008 on behalf of the “Mongols gang.” The trial is scheduled to [...]

25. January 2012

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Ablett Trial Recesses

The trial of Mongols Motorcycle Club patch holder Christopher Ablett wrapped up its third day Wednesday. Ablett is accused of murdering Hells Angels Frisco charter President Mark Guardado in a street fight in San Francisco in September 2008. The trial will recess tomorrow. The case was nationally sensational for about six months in late 2008 [...]

24. January 2012

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Ablett Trial Underway

The trial of Mongol Christopher Ablett (above), charged with racketeering and the murder of Hells Angel Mark Guardado, began yesterday in a sealed court. The room was closed for 25 minutes while an FBI agent named Jake D. Millspaugh testified that an unnamed “Confidential Human Source” probably didn’t actually know what he was talking about. [...]

23. January 2012

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George Christie Trial Postponed

The trial of long-time Hells Angels Ventura charter President George Christie has been postponed for four months. Last Friday U.S. District Judge Jacqueline H. Nguyen ordered the trial continued until May 1. The trial had been scheduled to begin January 31. The government is accusing Christie of being the godfather of the tattoo business in [...]

21. January 2012

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Don’t Talk To Cops Ever

There are, to paraphrase a common biker saying, two kinds of people: Those who have been arrested and those who will be. The video below, published here at the urging of a reader, presents a brief primer on the pitfalls of talking to the police. It runs almost 50 minutes but if you have not [...]

21. January 2012

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CORRECTION

In a story published January 19 titled “Sparks Shenanigans” this page reported that Nevada District Attorney Karl Hall: “ still refuses to name the Vago who gave extensive grand jury testimony that led to the indictment that charged all three defendants with conspiracy to commit murder. Hall described the man as in fear for his [...]

20. January 2012

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Ray Foakes Gets 70 Months

Ray Foakes, a member of the Sonoma County charter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, was sentenced to 70 months in prison Tuesday for signing a fraudulent mortgage application. Federal prosecutor’s and defense attorney’s commonly call the charge “the head shot.” It was the charge federal prosecutors used to get former Baltimore Police Commisioner Ed [...]

19. January 2012

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Sparks Shenanigans

Nevada must have become a province of North Korea – because that is the most likely explanation for the actions of Comrade Chief Deputy District Attorney Karl Hall in a pre-trial hearing in Reno Tuesday. Hall is prosecuting two Vagos, Ernesto Gonzalez and Gary Stuart Rudnick, and one Hells Angel named Cesar Villagrana for a [...]

18. January 2012

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SOPA And PIPA

If you surf the web, you have probably noticed today that numerous high profile sites including Google, Wikipedia, EBay, Facebook, Yahoo and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are protesting two proposed laws called SOPA and PIPA. If you have found anything on this site that is informative, interesting or amusing you should know what these laws [...]

10. January 2012

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Palafox Charges Dropped

The trumped-up charges against Vagos President Pastor Palafox have been dropped. Palafox was one of 12 members of the Vagos Motorcycle Club arrested by 500 state, local and federal police officers in six Southern California counties on October 6. Police called the arrests “Operation Simple Green.” The raids were precipitated by a violent brawl between [...]

9. January 2012

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More Ventura Angels Woe

Ventura County Superior Court Judge Charles Campbell sentenced Hells Angel Aaron McIntosh to 120 months in prison today for stealing a motorcycle belonging to former Hells Angel James David Ivans, Jr. McIntosh had also convicted of “committing a criminal felony while participating in a criminal street gang.” He had faced a possible sentence of 164 [...]

9. January 2012

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The Tattoo Godfather

The government wants to portray George Christie as the godfather of tattoos when the trial of the retired President of the Ventura charter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club gets underway January 31. Christie owns a Ventura tattoo shop named “The Ink House.” He and alleged co-conspirators Kyle Gilbertson, Brian Russell, Richard Russell and Benito [...]

6. January 2012

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Pagans Informants Still Singing

The foul stink of the Pagans racketeering case, US v. Barbeito et al., lingers in West Virginia. The case began in October 2009. The principal accusation against the defendants was that the Pagans Motorcycle Club held a lottery. Charges against many of the 55 defendants were dismissed. The lead defendant, former club President David Keith [...]

4. January 2012

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Last Mongols Murder Suspect In Custody

Police now have five suspects in custody in the murder investigation of two members of the Mongols Motorcycle Club in August. Jose Castillo, 27 was arrested by U.S. Marshall’s Deputies at a home in San Jose yesterday. Suspects Mando and Armando Lopez, both 22, were arrested in Las Cruces, New Mexico last week. Suspect Francisco [...]

4. January 2012

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HA Road Rage Update

Eddie Hall, the East Bay Paratransit driver who ran over and killed a man named George Lopez Jr. (photo above) October 22 will not enter a plea until January 31. The plea hearing is scheduled for 9 a.m. in the Hayward Hall of Justice. Hall is being held without bail in the Santa Rita Jail. [...]

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The Mongols Racketeering Trial

Motorcycle Noise And Money

Ciccone, Kozlowski To Testify At Ablett Trial

Ablett Trial Recesses

Ablett Trial Underway

George Christie Trial Postponed

Don’t Talk To Cops Ever

CORRECTION

Ray Foakes Gets 70 Months

Sparks Shenanigans

SOPA And PIPA

Palafox Charges Dropped

More Ventura Angels Woe

The Tattoo Godfather

Pagans Informants Still Singing

Last Mongols Murder Suspect In Custody

HA Road Rage Update

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