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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. [...]
Continue reading...Steve Martin “187” Tausan
28. October 2011
Steve Martin “187” Tausan (above photo right in Red and White), the Sergeant-at-Arms for the Santa Cruz charter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club and a former member of the club’s San Jose charter died October 15, 2011 at the funeral for his close friend Jeffrey “Jethro” Pettigrew. Tausan was a complex, widely respected and [...]
Continue reading...Daniel “Coconut Dan” Horrigan
5. September 2011
Daniel “Coconut Dan” Horrigan died this summer in Carson City, Nevada. Horrigan, a long time confidential informant for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was responsible for both the widespread expansion of the Mongols Motorcycle Club in 2007 and 2008 and for many of the most damning accusations leveled against that motorcycle club [...]
Continue reading...Bill “Sputnik” Strain
25. June 2010
Bill “Sputnik” Strain, probably the best known biker’s rights advocate in the United States, died June 23rd, 2010. Everybody knew Sputnik. He was a beefy, gnarled, old Cherokee with tattoos framing his Mohawk haircut. He wore a thick goatee without a mustache and he was so well respected by people across the political spectrum that [...]
Continue reading...Dennis Hopper
1. June 2010
Dennis Hopper, without whom there would never have been an Easy Rider, died May 29th in Venice, California. Hopper co-wrote, co-starred in and directed the film. Easy Rider is, all at once, one of the worst films ever made and one of the most iconic movies ever. It gave a name to the first, real [...]
Continue reading...Who The Tulsa Sheriffs Killed
21. May 2010
Russell Andrew “Roc” Doza was born in Munich, Germany on January 16th, 1961. He was named for his godfather, Russell Andrew Hall. His father was a career soldier and his father and his mother were often separated. When Russell Doza was about two, he asked his mother, Leona, for a glass of Kool Aid. His [...]
Continue reading...Fernando Fernandez
19. March 2010
Fernando Fernandez of Chula Vista, California and a member of the Dago chapter of the Mongols Motorcycle Club died at 9:40 pm Thursday, March 18th in the Intensive Care Unit of Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego. Fernandez was removed from life support yesterday morning, briefly flat lined, revived, and finally succumbed last night. Fernandez [...]
Continue reading...Jeremy H. “Coal” Steigerwalt
31. January 2010
Jeremy H. “Coal” Steigerwalt of Ephrata, Pennsylvania was killed around 7 pm on January 18th after his motorcycle collided with an unidentified vehicle in the northbound lane of Route 222 in Mannheim Township. Steigerwalt died of traumatic brain injury and was pronounced dead at the scene. There were no witnesses to the accident. Police are [...]
Continue reading...Tommy “Tommy Gun” Martinez
19. January 2010
Tommy “Tommy Gun” Martinez died December 24th, 2009. He was a patch holder in the American Latino Motorcycle Association. A.L.M.A. is a one piece patch club in Phoenix and the club lost two brothers in less than two weeks. Max Joseph “Dragon” Aragon died January 3rd as he was returning home from Martinez’ wake. Martinez [...]
Continue reading...Florence-Marie Cooper
17. January 2010
Florence-Marie Cooper, the presiding judge in the current Mongols case, died late Thursday night. At least partly because prosecutors have hidden so much of the case against the members and associates of the Mongols Motorcycle Club, that case will probably be her least well known. She will probably be remembered longest for being the judge [...]
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4. January 2012
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