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Mongols Case Staggers On

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

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Mongols Case Staggers On

The federal persecution of more than 120 men who were members of the Mongols Motorcycle Club between 2005 and 2009 continues. That persecution can be roughly summarized in the names of three criminal and two civil cases which included: U.S. v. Cavazos et al.; U.S. v. Maestas et al.; U.S. v. Christopher Ablett; and Ramon [...]

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Black Rain UC Avoids Arrest, Wins Praise

Thursday, December 8, 2011

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Black Rain UC Avoids Arrest, Wins Praise

The San Gabriel Valley Tribune, which has as much suction with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as any newspaper in the country, reports that Montebello (California) Police Department “gang expert” and frequent ATF Task Force Officer Sergeant Chris Cervantes was detained by police during a party at the Residence Inn in San [...]

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Bouncer’s Run Ends

Monday, September 5, 2011

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Bouncer’s Run Ends

Peter “Bouncer” Soto was arrested by La Policía Estatal Preventiva (The Baja California Preventative Police or PEP) in the La Sierra section of Tijuana, Mexico on July 26. PEP spokesman Alfredo Arenas Moreno said the arrest was the fruit of a routine sweep. Soto was indicted in October 2008 under the RICO statute for being [...]

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Mongols Patch Hearing

Friday, September 10, 2010

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Mongols Patch Hearing

As previously stated here, a hearing will be held on Monday, September 13, 2010 at 9:30 a.m. on the issue of whether former Mongols Motorcycle Club President Ruben “Doc” Cavazos owns the name and patch of the Mongols Motorcycle Club and therefore may be compelled to forfeit it to the United States as part of [...]

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Slices Of Rebel’s World

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

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Slices Of Rebel’s World

January 21, 2009 MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES SUBJECT: Freedom of Information Act A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency. As Justice Louis Brandeis wrote, “sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.” In our democracy, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which encourages accountability through transparency, is the [...]

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Russell Doza Was Murdered

Sunday, May 9, 2010

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Russell Doza Was Murdered

Informed sources, speaking on conditions of anonymity, believe that Russell Andrew “Roc” Doza was murdered by police, that a conspiracy exists within the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office to cover up that murder and that neither the Tulsa Police Department nor the Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s Office can be trusted to discover or reveal the truth about [...]

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Where The Ablett Case Stands

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

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Where The Ablett Case Stands

The Joker in the Mongols case has always been the prosecution of Christopher Bryan Ablett. Ablett is accused of the murder of Hells Angels San Francisco Charter President Mark “Papa” Guardado on September 2nd, 2008. News reports at the time stated that Guardado, who died when he was forty-six, got into an argument with another [...]

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Pagans Case In Mid-Storm

Thursday, March 4, 2010

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Pagans Case In Mid-Storm

A hurricane of paper has been hammering the Pagans case for weeks. Maybe the prosecution isn’t ruined yet but the shingles are flying off. The shutters are flapping like wings. The doors are chattering against their frames. And in the odd moment when you can see through all those flying defense motions it looks like [...]

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Let’s Meet Sutar

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

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Let’s Meet Sutar

The Feds called him “Sutar.” In Norse mythology the Twilight of the Gods would begin when a Sun spirit named Sutar came north out of the hot place to destroy the old order. Norse mythology figures prominently in the identity of the Pagans Motorcycle Club so when the FBI hired an informant in April 2004 [...]

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Feds Declare Victory Over Mongols

Thursday, January 14, 2010

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Feds Declare Victory Over Mongols

A woman named Maritza Velazquez, a staff writer for a paper called the San Gabriel Valley News, ran a story about the Mongols case Tuesday. Now this page has to point out how misleading and inaccurate most of what she wrote was. Velazquez story was picked up by the Associated Press Tuesday afternoon and has [...]

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