The Aging Rebel

The New York Mongol

RICO prosecutions of motorcycle clubs are always demonstrations of propaganda – or as bureaucrats prefer to call it, “perception management.” To date, there may be no shinier example of perception management than a quickly forgotten publicity stunt called “Operation On The Road Again.” On September 15, 2010 a Department of Justice perception manager announced: “Earlier [...]

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Jury Has Ablett Case

The racketeering murder trial of Mongols Motorcycle Club patch holder Christopher “Stoney” Ablett was scheduled to go to the jury late today. Ablett was tried for killing Hells Angels San Francisco charter President Mark “Papa” Guardado in a street fight in San Francisco in September 2008. There is no doubt that Ablett killed Guardado. Ablett [...]

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Easy Rider Again

For awhile, the airwaves hummed with shows featuring colorful welders and “custom choppers.” One of those shows was called American Thunder and it was different from all the rest because instead of welder it featured a model named Michelle Smith. (Seen squatting in the photo above.) When the depression hit and people became less interested [...]

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The Ablett-Guardado Fight

Details of the fight that killed Hells Angels Frisco charter President Mark “Papa” Guardado on September 2, 2008 have finally been entered into the public record. Guardado died in the street outside a bar called Dirty Thieves at the corner of 24th Street and Treat Avenue in San Francisco at the hands of Christopher Ablett, [...]

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Ablett Takes Stand

The trial in San Francisco of Mongols Motorcycle Club member Christopher “Stoney” Ablett is about to conclude. Ablett is charged with the racketeering murder of Hells Angels Frisco charter President Mark “Papa” Guardado outside a bar in San Francisco in September 2008. If convicted, Ablett faces life in prison. He could know his fate as [...]

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More SOA Sir Please

It looks like the cultural sensation Sons of Anarchy is going to last for at least seven years, like Egypt’s famine or a plague of locusts. Kurt Sutter, the thespian, playwright, blogger, rebel and raconteur who imagined this drama about motorcycle outlaws without any influence whatsoever from Chuck Zito has stated that he thinks he [...]

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Roll On Big Justice

The Christopher “Stoney” Ablett racketeering trial, which is a proxy for the Mongols Motorcycle Club racketeering trial, rolls on in San Francisco. Ablett is accused of murdering Hells Angels Frisco charter President Mark “Papa” Guardado on behalf of the “Mongols criminal enterprise” in a street fight in the Mission District in September 2008. Ablett faces [...]

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Thomas Heath Sentenced

The great wheel of tragedy turned again yesterday. A 64-year-old Hells Angel named Thomas Heath was sentenced to prison. It will be his second trip to the penitentiary and although he plans to appeal it is unlikely that he will ever be released. Heath’s biography is Faulknerian. “It’s all now you see,” the greatest American [...]

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Ablett Trial Ends Week Two

The last two days of the murder and racketeering trial of Christopher Ablett have been dominated by a fight at a peace rally in June 2008 and the testimony of an ATF undercover agent. Ablett, a member of the Modesto chapter of the Mongols Motorcycle Club is accused of murdering Hells Angels Frisco charter President [...]

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Smith, Ciccone, Fish Testify At Ablett Trial

Three important witnesses testified at the continuing trial Of Mongol Christopher Ablett Tuesday. Ablett is accused of racketeering and of murdering Hells Angel Mark Guardado in San Francisco in September 2008. The prosecution is trying to prove three allegations that could put Ablett in prison for life. The first is that Ablett intentionally murdered Guardado. [...]

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