The Aging Rebel

FBI Memo Leaked

A whistle-blower blog you should know, Public Intelligence, released a confidential FBI memo yesterday about the Vagos copyrighting their Loki patch. You can access that report here. David Kravets, a senior staff writer for the much better known publication Wired picked up the story this morning and limped with it.  You can read his take [...]

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Operation Quiet Acquittal

Four of seven men who were arrested in December 2009 in a roundup that Arizona law enforcement officials branded “Operation Quiet Riot” were acquitted yesterday in Kingman, Arizona. The four men were Gerald Roy Smith, Dale Leroy Hormuth, Stephen Michael Helland, and Rudolfo John “Rudy” Martinez. All four were accused of rioting and assisting a [...]

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Operation Catch 22

GIITEM, which is an acronym for the Arizona “Gang and Immigration Intelligence Team Enforcement Mission,” arrested ten members of the Vagos Motorcycle Club Leap Day morning. The official announcement of the arrests states 11 Vagos were arrested. According to GIITEM (pronounced Git‘em) spokesman Bart Graves, “The arrests culminated an eight-month investigation into the resurgence of [...]

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Keith Silva Sentenced

Keith Allen Silva, a former President of the Berdoo chapter of the Vagos Motorcycle Club, was sentenced to 75 years in state prison last week for murder. Silva and a former Berdoo chapter Sergeant at Arms named David Anthony “Kilo” Beltran were convicted of killing a Vagos prospect named Dennis Daoussis (photo above). Beltran was [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Bail Set For Two Vagos

Washoe District Judge Connie Steinheimer set bail today for two men who were indicted for conspiracy to commit second degree murder in the aftermath of a brawl between Hells Angels and Vagos in Sparks, Nevada on September 23. Steinheimer set bail at $2 million for San Jose Vago Ernesto Manuel Gonzalez. Gonzalez is also charged [...]

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Following Simple Green

The charges brought against 12 members of the Vagos Motorcycle Club, as a result of a made for media law enforcement drama called “Operation Simple Green,” still have not been dismissed. The incarceration of two of those Vagos, Thomas Henry Gibson and Andrew Eloy Lozano, illustrates that in post-millennial California justice is a television show. [...]

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Cops Playing Seal Team Six

The ongoing war between America’s self-appointed heroes and the biker menace may have reached a new low of vileness and surreality during “Operation Simple Green” last week. This episode from the domestic war on people who must be terrorists because they are not little puppies has all the elements of a great story. Unfortunately, no [...]

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Vagos Raids Summary

Five hundred state, local and federal police officers participated in a series of raids in San Bernardino, Imperial, Riverside, Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego and Santa Barbara counties in Southern California this morning on residences and other locations associated with members of the Vagos Motorcycle Club. The raids culminated what authorities described as an 18 [...]

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