The Aging Rebel

A Criminal Enterprise

Operation Black Rain, the three year long, $150 million investigation of the Mongols and other motorcycle clubs, was a crime wave punctuated by at least three deaths, at least two six-figure “drug deals,” countless smaller drug deals, numerous assaults, hate crimes, multiple firearms violations, payoffs, perjury, embezzlement, obstruction of justice, theft and even wildlife poaching. [...]

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The Guardado Murder

Thirty-seven months ago for two hours, maybe a little longer, a man sat or stood in a bar called Dirty Thieves at the corner of 24th Street and Treat Avenue in San Francisco. Dirty Thieves is a pleasant and popular dive bar and according to at least one witness the man who sat there was [...]

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Trouble In Tennessee

There was another motorcycle-outlaw-related news spectacular in Southeastern Tennessee the other day. Television just doesn’t get any better than a lock off shot of a bunch of Outlaws doing the perp walk in bright orange jumpsuits. The online faux newspaper, the Chattanoogan -not a newspaper but an amazing simulation- gave this utterly contrived and cynically [...]

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The Bloody Williamson Biker Menace

A small town bully named Dennis Presley called a press conference Wednesday in Marion, Illinois to give the people fair warning that only he is ready to confront the outlaw biker invasion that is about to overrun Williamson County. Williamson is a rural county in Southern Illinois and like most counties near the Mason-Dixon line [...]

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Joshua Embry Square One

The greatest American mystery novelist was a man named Ross MacDonald who lost his mind and died in 1983. None of his plots were ever obvious. His stories always involved the baring of dark, antique and sometimes institutionalized secrets. In his last novel, MacDonald’s cynical and softhearted hero concluded, “We’re all guilty.” Joshua “Chewy” Embry, [...]

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Not Forgetting Joshua Embry

This is one small example of how American justice works. Last November 15th, a 26-year-old member of the McLean County Chapter of the American Outlaws Association was stabbed in the heart outside a country music bar called the Six Strings Club in Bloomington, Illinois. The victim (pictured above) was named Joshua C. “Chewy” Embry. He [...]

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Mark Walker Arrested

Mark Edward “Mean Mark” Walker, 42 and a member of the American Outlaws Association, has been arrested in Ivy Bend, Missouri on a charge of attempted second-degree murder. Walker was awakened at precisely 6:43 yesterday morning by a total of 26 sworn peace officers comprising: Thirteen members of the Missouri State Water Patrol Special Weapons [...]

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Operation Avalanche

This week the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Bureau of Narcotics Investigation culminated an eight month long surveillance of the American Outlaws Association’s Wilkes-Barre chapter with the arrest of 16 men and three women. And, with much braying and bragging and posing for pictures and the symbolic crashing of cymbals and blaring of trumpets. Warrants were also [...]

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Outlaw Murdered

Joshua C. “Chewy” Embry, a member of the McLean County Chapter of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club, was stabbed in the heart outside a country music bar called the Six Strings Club in Bloomington, Illinois last Saturday night. Police found Embry bleeding in the street about 11:35 pm. A security guard at the club attempted to [...]

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Sioux Falls Prosecution Rests

The Prosecution rested Friday in the Sioux Falls, South Dakota trial of two Hells Angels accused of shooting three members of the American Outlaw Association (AOA) and two women who were riding with the Outlaws. The trial is supposed to determine the truth behind a shooting during the Black Hills Rally in August, 2006 that [...]

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