[5], On March 6, 1977, a woman was allegedly stripped of her clothing, beaten and forced to ingest LSD by Hells Angels members and their girlfriends at the residence of the club's San Diego chapter president. [6] The West Coast faction of the HAMC has also been especially active in the infiltration of legitimate businesses, including motorcycle and automobile services, catering operations, bars, restaurants, and antique stores. The Mongols had previously denoted each individual chapter location on their colors, and the Hells Angels considered their switch to state patches a threat to their territory. Four boys aged three to six, who were the children of Hells Angels members, were sent to juvenile hall. [1][2] Members of the organization have continuously asserted that they are only a group of motorcycle enthusiasts who have joined to ride motorcycles together, to organize social events such as group road trips, fundraisers, parties, and motorcycle rallies, and that any crimes are the responsibility of the individuals who carried them out and not the club as a whole. [183][184], On October 26, 2001, a fight between a small group of Hells Angels and Vagos escalated into a mass brawl involving up to 80 participants at a motorcycle swap meet held at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa. [40][41], Thirty-three members of the Oakland Hells Angels chapter, including the club's president Sonny Barger, and four of their girlfriends were arrested on drug charges after police raided a bar and a duplex apartment in the city on August 30, 1968. Hells Angels MC Parramatta - 2011. Two of Garceau's acquaintances, Greg Rambo and Larry Tom Whittington, disposed of the bodies by placing them inside a hollow bedroom dresser which was then buried beneath a layer of concrete in the yard behind Rambo's residence in Shandon. 21 Hells Angels picked up in raids by law officers, Murder suspected in death of SM native, Hells Angels member, Hells Angels revenge plot alleged in documents, A Biker Shot Dead Is Laid to Rest, And a Bloody Turf War Rages On, Cold case: Father seeks justice for Hells Angel son, 17 Arrested After 2-Year Drug Trafficking Probe, Federal Racketeering Charges Brought Against 42 Members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, Hells Angels members sentenced to prison for brawl, 2 Hells Angels receive prison time over melee, "Hells Angels leader in S.F. Crabtree testified in front of a grand jury that he and two Hells Angels Kenneth Owen and Sergey Walton, the Oakland chapter president stole bottles of phenyl-2-propanone and enough glassware to build five methamphetamine laboratories during a heist at a local chemical company in January 1977. [11], The DEA, along with state and local law enforcement agencies, began investigating the HAMC's San Jose and Grass Valley-based California nomads chapters as a result of intelligence suggesting that the Hells Angels was manufacturing and transporting methamphetamine to Savanna, Georgia. [210] He also covertly recorded club meetings by wearing a wire. [96], Mark Gary Robles, sergeant-at-arms of the Hells Angels' San Diego chapter, was fatally shot several times in the back before his body was discovered in his parked van in San Diego's Clairemont neighborhood in October 1976. [42], Hells Angels Oakland chapter president and national leader Sonny Barger was arrested on narcotics charges after Donald Howarth, a film studio property manager and 1967 Mr. America from Studio City, was apprehended while walking towards Barger's Oakland home with seventeen ounces of cocaine and thirty ounces of heroin (with an estimated retail worth of $350,000) in a suitcase on April 11, 1970. [24][16], For at least five years beginning in 1967, the Oakland chapter of the Hells Angels turned over weapons acquired on the black market or locations of weapons, which could otherwise be used by Black Panther Party and Weather Underground radicals, to the Oakland Police Department (OPD) in exchange for the release of jailed Hells Angels members. [149] Zerby, who was forced to retire from his law enforcement agency due to the injuries he sustained in the explosion, died in 2021 at the age of seventy-nine. In 2001, eleven men associated with the Hells Angels in Fresno were arrested for allegedly assaulting members of another motorcycle club that had ignored their order to disband. [161] He had been returning to San Diego after attending the Laughlin River Run motorcycle rally. On February 13, 2007, Eunice was sentenced to two-and-a-half years' imprisonment and Foakes was sentenced to twelve months',[171] while Hannigan was sentenced to two years' on February 23, 2007. [48], Drug dealer Gail Elmer English and Vallejo HAMC chapter president John Henderson were killed, and another Hells Angel, Ted DeWilde, was left in critical condition as a result of a gun battle at English's Vallejo home on November 1, 1973. A documented member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club has been sentenced to five years behind bars for hitting a 60-year-old man during a hit-and-run accident in Oceanside, Calif. [202] In addition to the racketeering charge, a second count of the indictment charged James Brandes with the murder of fellow Hells Angel Ray Keefauver, and the attempted murders of SJPD sergeant John Kracht and Solano County Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement inspector William Zerby. On February 29, 1968, two other Hells Angels, Theodore Moses Medina and Ralph D. Ladd, were found guilty of marijuana possession. In 2011, two Hells Angels members stabbed two Mongols at a bar in Sturgis, South Dakota. shot dead in fight", "Hells Angels: Rival Motorcycle Gang Member Convicted in Killing of S.F. The HAMC clubhouse in El Cajon was raided as part of the operation. No casualties were reported. [38], A woman alleged that she was beaten and assaulted with a rubber dildo by two San Diego Hells Angels members' girlfriends, and that she was forced to orally copulate a Hells Angel and a German Shepherd dog after she accepted a ride home from a biker funeral with the group in 1975. After his death, Grondalski's Hells Angels tattoo was severed from his body and later disposed of by Lester in the toilet of a recreational vehicle owned by associates of his. Hells Angels MC Nomads - 1980. Glore was allegedly assassinated over a personal dispute with Russell Beyea,[106] a senior member of the Oakland Hells Angels. Hells Angels MC North Crew - 1998. Despite his testimony, both Gilbert and Beyea were convicted of second-degree murder on August 17, 1972. Heath was sentenced to an additional seven years' in 1994 when he pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder for killing a rival biker and an innocent bystander with a bomb in Los Angeles on September 24, 1977, during a war with the Mongols. [110], A Hells Angels member was hospitalized with a skull fracture and multiple abrasions when he was beaten unconscious by a group of bar patrons after he brandished a hunting knife following a disagreement with another patron at an East San Diego bar on January 26, 1975. Last summer, Guy Castiglione, the president of the San Diego chapter of the Hells Angels, pleaded guilty to gang charges, admitting that he had conspired to distribute methamphetamine and. Laurence Richard "Large Larry" Lajeunesse, a senior member of the Hells Angels' San Fernando Valley chapter, and his girlfriend Tammie Ann Brannigan were shot to death in the converted industrial garage in Chatsworth, Los Angeles where they lived on December 3, 1998 by Daniel Ray Waring, who was described by prosecutors as an aspirant Hells Angels member involved in a feud with Lajeunesse over methamphetamine dealing. [16] The raid also pertained to a robbery in a nearby alley of a man who was allegedly knocked unconscious and dispossessed of his wallet. Motorcycle parts such as handlebars and tail pipes were used as weapons in the melee, which ended when officers from four local police departments and the Orange County Sheriff's Department arrived at the scene approximately five minutes after the fighting began and bikers began to flee. Their structure consists of a president, vice president, sergeant at arms, secretary, treasurer, road captain, prospects, and hang-arounds. According to informants, he was killed by the Hells Angels, who believed that he was cooperating with authorities. Http://www.hellsangelsdago81.com THIS PAGE IS STRICTLY FOR SUPPORT GEAR AND EVENT NOTICE. [39] At that time, the HAMC became involved in a drug war with the Gypsy Jokers in the San Francisco Bay Area. [8] Barger was paroled on November 3, 1977, after serving four-and-a-half years of his sentence. [177] Police stated that O'Farrell's killing may have been the result of a power struggle between the HAMC and the Aryan Brotherhood in the East Bay. [27], Vallejo Hells Angels chapter member Kenneth Owen was charged with two felony counts after police discovered methamphetamine and prohibited firearms a derringer, two rifles and an Ithaca sixteen-gauge shotgun at his home, a rural property in Solano County, during a raid led by Solano County Sherriff's Office narcotics detective William O. Man Convicted of Quadruple Slayings in Hells Angels Trial, Mendocino County man accused of killing 5-year-old in 1986 slaying of ex-member, family, Feeling of betrayal leads Hell's Angel to turn informant, Two Hells Angels held in quadruple killing, Applause Break Out When Hells Angel Gets Life In Killing Of Family, Conspirator sentenced in Hells Angels '86 slayings. [28] Friedli was convicted of maintaining a place for the unlawful use of marijuana, and unlawful possession of a firearm by a former felon. Photo credit: wpr.org. [44] The charges were later dismissed, although he was sentenced to ten years in prison after being convicted of the shooting of a bartender on January 26, 1971. Johnson's girlfriend, Linda Sue Osborne, was also charged in the case. [117] The case was documented in the North Mission Road episode "Hells Angels Mystery", which aired on August 22, 2005. Lester used a sleeping bag to conceal his victims' bodies and then dumped their vehicle in a river. [11], Shortly after the foundation of the Hells Angels' North Sacramento chapter in 1956, twelve club members were arrested at a house party in Sacramento's Ben Ali neighborhood. The raids were the result of a three-week investigation. [23], Eight Hells Angels were arrested when a fight broke out in a Daly City tavern on April 15, 1966, following the funeral of San Francisco HAMC chapter member Larry Dean Lucas, who died in a motorcycle accident near Santa Maria on April 9. A member of the San Diego Chapter of the Hells Angels wassentenced today to 57 months in federal prison for conspiring withother Hells Angels to murder members of the Mongols. [214] Other members of the California and Alaska chapters were convicted on state drug and firearm charges either side of the federal trial. His successor as San Francisco chapter president, "Flash" Gordon Gary Grow, operated a brothel in partnership with Odis "Buck" Garrett, president of the nomads chapter in Vallejo. [5][98], San Francisco HAMC chapter president Harry "the Horse" Flamburis and his girlfriend Dannette Barrett were each shot in head and killed after being bound at their home in Daly City on January 6, 1977. [5] With over 300 members statewide, the Hells Angels are the most significant motorcycle gang in California in terms of membership and criminal activity. Two Members of Pagan's Motorcycle Club Indicted for Shooting at Hells Angels Rival Drug Enforcement Administration Daniel J. Kafafian, Acting Special Agent in Charge New Jersey @DEANewJerseyDiv December 17, 2021 Contact: Timothy P. McMahon Phone Number: (571) 776-1150 For Immediate Release An enhanced and slowed down version of the original film footage was produced for the police, and after examining it, Alameda County Sheriff's Office sergeant Scott Dudek said Passaro, who died in 1985, was the only person to stab Hunter and he did so only after Hunter pointed a handgun at the stage where the Stones were performing. [175], On May 21, 2017, Mongols member Joshua Herbert exited a car driven by another, unidentified, man and opened fire with a revolver on a group of five Hells Angels members who were refuelling their motorcycles at a Shell gas station in Riverside, killing Orange County Hells Angel James Duty and wounding another. However, "Two attempts to prosecute club members under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ended in mistrials in the early 1980s." Another Hells Angels member, Michael Musick, was wounded in the attack. A state trooper was. Seslar was killed because he happened to be present at the time of the murders. He claimed that violence only started once the crowd began vandalizing the Hells Angels' motorcycles. [59] Former Winston-Salem chapter officer Charles Terry Norman testified against members of his former club in the case, which also resulted in the convictions of Carl Dulinsky and Harris Blane Shimel. [92] Brandes' first trial ended in a mistrial in July 1980[94] as did the retrial in February 1981. A Hells Angel member, Alan Passaro, was later acquitted of murder on grounds of self-defense. She has never been located and it is believed that she was the victim of a homicide. The Argentine branch of the HAMC was established with a charter in Buenos Aires on 16 June 1999.. American Hells Angels member Paul Merle Eischeid, who fled the United States in 2007 after being charged with drug trafficking, racketeering, kidnapping and homicide, was apprehended in San Isidro, Buenos Aires on 3 February 2011 after being tracked by the U.S. Sept. 25, 2011 -- A Hells Angels leader was shot dead and two members of the rival Vagos motorcycle club were injured, in a shooting at Nevada casino, authorities said . Authorities believed that Hells Angels members and associates were operating a large-scale methamphetamine distribution ring, with clandestine laboratories in San Bernardino, Butte and Modoc counties. Garrett, who oversaw what prosecutors described as the largest methamphetamine manufacturing and distribution case in the United States, made millions of dollars from distributing thousands of kilograms of the drug. [11] O'Farrell was shot and stabbed to death by two men during a bar fight in San Leandro on June 6, 1989, while awaiting sentencing. [211], Owen was convicted of selling three pounds of methamphetamine to Tait, and was sentenced to 41 years in prison and a $2.1 million fine on September 9, 1988. [16], Five people were charged with inciting a riot and one with the illegal possession of a weapon after the Tulare County Sheriff's Department, the California Highway Patrol and local police dispersed approximately 200 members of seven motorcycle clubs from across California, including the Hells Angels and the Galloping Goose, who converged in Porterville on August 31 and September 1, 1963. He returned, producing a handgun. His girlfriend, Sharon Gruhlke, was a co-defendant; her case ended in a mistrial when a jury failed to reach a verdict. Travelling the country at government expense, Tait made documented purchases of weapons, explosives and drugs from the Hells Angels. [132] Lester and Diaz later claimed that the killings at the Grondalski home began after a .45 caliber pistol that Lester was using to threaten Billy Grondalski accidentally discharged, killing him instantly, and that the remaining family members were killed to eliminate witnesses. Thompson claimed that the Aryan Brotherhood had been approached by the Hells Angels leadership in California to carry out the murders but had turned down the contract because of their unwillingness to kill children. On April 5, 1973, Hells Angels members John R. Fisher, Glenn M. Little, John W. Stratton, David L. Winn and Thomas A. Neilly were among eleven motorcycle gang members convicted in Los Angeles of rape and sex perversion. [129] He died from cancer at the age of fifty-eight on December 29, 2004, while on death row at San Quentin State Prison.[130]. "Bill" Zerby on June 21, 1977. Their connection with the club in this article is unknown. Convicted Hells Angels member back in jail By Michael J. Williams Jan. 25, 2013 3 PM PT A Hells Angels member from Temecula who was convicted in October of making criminal threats was taken. [200], On August 12, 1980, the government returned a superseding RICO indictment, which omitted the allegation that the HAMC itself constituted a criminal enterprise, against fourteen defendants including some of those in the original case. [105], Three members of the Hells Angels' Los Angeles chapter were arrested on January 6, 1978, in connection with the theft of two thousand pounds of dynamite, which was stolen from a construction site in San Diego County in September 1977. Following the seizure, search warrants were served on the residences of all known members of the Los Angeles Hells Angels. Many members of the club have reached at least a low level of fame for their . The Grateful Dead refused to play following the Balin incident, and left the venue. [47], Barger was sentenced to a prison term of ten years-to-life on March 16, 1973, after he was convicted of possession of narcotics for sale (thirty-seven grams of heroin), and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon. Fairgrounds Swap Meet, "Jeffrey Pettigrew Obituary San Jose, CA | Mercury News", https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ibwgOdMW4HST2knpL-hAZ-VFCagg?docId=e7d3b66d21384619a5bf7aa134859fb4, "Documents: Biker from another San Jose gang shot Hells Angel chief in back The Mercury News", "UCSF police take man into custody in connection with Hells Angels homicide - San Jose Mercury News", "Police: Hells Angels funeral shooter may be dead", 5 arrested following shooting at Highland bar, 1 dead, 4 injured in San Bernardino lounge shooting, James Dickson identified as man killed in San Bernardino bar shooting that wounded 4 others, California killing cited in Henderson bikers shooting case. Hells Angels members clash with a group of anti-Vietnam protesters at the border of Berkeley and Oakland, Calif. A violent melee broke out when 35 members of the motorcycle gang broke through barricades and attacked demonstrators. During this investigation agents and detectives prevented a kidnapping. [31] Dennis L. Thomas and David Lee Baumgardner pleaded guilty to possession of marijuana on November 27, 1967. [5][145] Forty-two HAMC members and associates were served with grand jury subpoenas on March 27, 1978, as part of the investigation into the bombing. Laffing Devils MC are an outlaw motorcycle club in San Diego, California formed around 2006. Several club members and associates in California and Georgia were arrested. [146][147] In or around November 1978, Brandes stated to a reporter for Rolling Stone magazine that "Zerby drew a line and stepped over it. [102] Although police at the time suspected two or three possible motives,[103] the murders have never been solved. Owen for intruding on Owen's narcotics franchise. Montgomery, a resident of the city who was receiving medical treatment after earlier being beaten at a local tavern. [43] The drug charges against Barger were later dismissed, although Howarth was convicted and sentenced to serve five years-to-life in prison. [178] Two Aryan Brotherhood members charged with O'Farrell's homicide, Aaron "Jerry" Marsh and Michael Bruce "Tank" Shepherd, were arrested in the following weeks. [20], A group of Hells Angels members, as well as some of their girlfriends, were charged in connection with a fight which broke out during a birthday celebration at a cafe in San Francisco in September 1965. The handgun used in the killings was melted down with a blowtorch and the slag was scattered over several northern California counties by Michael W. "Little Mike" Tankersley, a member of the Hells Angels' Sonoma County chapter. [104] The house in which Flamburis and Barrett were killed was burned down in an apparent arson on April 24, 1977. The Hells Angels is one of the most well-known biker clubs in the world, and it all started with a group of motorcyclists in Fontana, California . Crowd management proved to be difficult, resulting in both spectator injury and death. Shop all Back in Stock Support 81 Ladies Zip Hoodie $59.99 USD Alan Forbes FRISCO Sweatshirt $39.99 USD Support 81 Windbreaker - Red Print $74.99 USD SF - Support Frisco Hoodie $39.99 USD View all Shop Accessories and Apparel Men's Gear Women's Gear Hats/Beanies/Facemasks [186], In 2011, president of the San Jose chapter Jeffrey Pettigrew,[187] was shot four times in the back on September 23, 2011, at a casino in Sparks, Nevada. "[22] President Johnson did not reply to the letter. [156] Another Hells Angel, Thomas Heath, was convicted in 1994 of two counts of second-degree murder for the killings of Hernandez and Jimenez. [50] Members of the Aryan Brotherhood attempted to shoot Crabtree and also interrogated his friends in an effort to collect the bounty. [44] Cross was also imprisoned, for possession of amphetamine in 1975, however, and Barger allegedly continued to lead the Hells Angels from his cell at Folsom Prison. Numerous police and international intelligence agencies classify the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club as a motorcycle gang and contend that members carry out widespread violent crimes, including drug dealing, trafficking in stolen goods, gunrunning, extortion, and prostitution rings. [169] The arrests were carried out as part of a five-state operation involving over 700 federal, state and municipal law enforcement officers which resulted in the arrests of fifty-seven Hells Angels across the country and the seizure of approximately 125 firearms, more than a thousand rounds of ammunition, several stolen vehicles and a quarter-pound of methamphetamine. [53] He was one of four members voted out of the San Diego chapter during the fall of that year. [133] The day after the murders, Lester and Sonoma County Hells Angels member "Big Arm" Charles Francis Haas returned to the home and set fire to it in an effort to destroy evidence. [5], Four police officers were fired and another four were suspended as a result of a brawl between policemen and Hells Angels members outside the HAMC clubhouse in Oakland on April 2, 1978. [30] On March 20, 1967, four of the accused were released due to lack of evidence. Due to his testimony, the attempted murder charges against him were reduced to three counts of aggravated assault, for which he was sentenced to serve six years' imprisonment, with three-and-a-half years suspended, concurrent to any sentence stemming from the assault charges in California, from which he ultimately escaped prosecution. Hells Angels MC Melbourne - 1975. Kracht, who was in charge of all SJPD motorcycle gang investigations, had been involved in arresting numerous Hells Angels members, and he had testified against club members on several occasions. According to police, after the shooting, the suspect, Steve Ruiz, disappeared and one or more people tampered with the crime scene, washing away bloodstains and removing evidence of the shooting. At one point, Marty Balin of Jefferson Airplane was knocked unconscious following an altercation with an Angel, an event later depicted in Gimme Shelter. A founder of the Hells Angels testified Thursday at a racketeering trial here for two former top leaders of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club that a man killed by Bandidos members in 2006 in Austin was . Ernesto Manuel Gonzales was later arrested in San Francisco in connection with the death of Pettigrew. [93] The initial trial ended in a mistrial in July 1980[94] as did the subsequent retrial in February 1981. named Roseberry sports a "one percenter" patch a badge of honor for the Angels and other motorcycle clubs whose members revel in and celebrate their outlaw status, 1965. According to Barger's chief attorney James Crew, Ivaldi himself was involved in the conspiracy to kill Agero and, knowing he was a prime suspect and fearing retaliation from the "Texas Mafia", he tried to shift the blame to the Hells Angels. [43] The killing of Agero was one of five possibly linked murders committed in the area around that time. The Lynch Report, compiled over a six-month period and released on March 15, 1965, detailed various alleged crimes committed by the club, such as assault, robbery, forgery, car theft and trafficking in narcotics. [150] The 1982 made-for-television film Hear No Evil was based on the incident. [34] On September 6, 1964, two girls, aged fourteen and fifteen, were allegedly taken from their dates and gang raped by Hells Angels members. 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The incident, for which Lester spent four years in state prison, was reportedly the result of a dispute over $5,000 worth of methamphetamine.[111]. They have been associated with the manufacture and distribution of illegal drugs, including methamphetamine. 1948. [27], Hells Angels member Charles "Crazy Chuck" Forsyth was arrested in possession of marijuana on February 16, 1967, and the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department was subsequently granted a warrant by the Ontario Municipal Court Judge Richard C. Garner to search the Gray Ranch in Alta Loma, which served as the headquarters of the club's San Bernardino chapter, as deputies had probable cause to suspect the ranch contained more marijuana. [8], Hells Angels associate Henry Crabtree was extradited from Arkansas where he was charged with the October 18, 1979 murder of Michael Burch in November 1979 to testify for the government against nine East Bay club members and associates, implicating the bikers in drug dealing which took place between 1968 and mid-1977. [154] Fourteen of those arrested were "patch holding" members of the San Diego chapter. A federal judge Friday upheld a U.S. magistrates ruling allowing Hells Angels San Diego president, Douglas Dutch Schultz, to apply the $300,000 property bond he posted in a pending drug case as bond in a subsequent case. HELLS ANGELS, HAMC, and the Death Heads (winged skull logos) are trademarks owned by Hells Angels Motorcycle Corporation, registered and/or applications pending in the United States, Europe, China and many other countries. [188] Cesar Villagrana, who had been with Pettigrew, was charged with discharging a firearm and other offenses. Nevada - SPARKS, Nev. - Officials know who killed . "[76], On January 22, 1972, five Oakland Hells Angels Sonny Barger, Russell Stanley Beyea, Bobby V. "the Durt" England, Gary Benjamin Popkin and Bert Samuel Stefanson were charged with attempted murder, kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon after being arrested while driving through Redwood Regional Park by police and park rangers who discovered two bound, gagged and beaten club prospects William D. Hood and Danny Jarman in the trunk of the vehicle. The photo below is from the 1965 Oakland Hells Angels Dance, featuring the President of every California Chapter, except Rex Cardenas from San Diego, and including Lil John who was President of the Satans Slaves at the time. SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A member of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang accused of fatally stabbing a rival at a Hillcrest taco shop last year pleaded not guilty to . [204] Six people were arrested including San Francisco chapter president Gary Kautzman and forty firearms were confiscated in the Bay Area. The case was the result of a months-long investigation into the chapter by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), IRS Criminal Investigation and two local police departments. According to prosecutors, Garrett had ordered the killings of Compton and her daughters in retaliation for her testimony without approval from the HAMC. An M3 submachine gun, a High Standard .22 Pistol fitted with a silencer, ammunition for both weapons, rubber gloves, camouflage clothing and a hand-drawn map to Morgan's home were found at Johnson's residence, and an electronic listening device with a parabolic microphone was found in Peters' residence after search warrants were issued. It doesn't seem likely that the Hells Angels would give two flips about a couple of TV show MC clubs. [12] After being elected sheriff of Sacramento County in January 1961, John Misterly began a campaign of surveillance and purported harassment against the Hells Angels. A swastika flag and a picture of Adolf Hitler, with the inscription "Hitler is alive, our buddy", were also found on the premises. He was granted immunity from prosecution in the Grondalski case other than for the murders in return for his testimony, and also hoped for a reduced sentence in the drug case. Marshal Service, Diplomatic Security . [27], Members and associates of the Hells Angels in Sacramento, San Diego and the San Francisco Bay Area were arrested and charged with racketeering and drug trafficking on May 2, 1985, as part of Operation Roughrider, a three-year FBI investigation into the club. September 29, 2011 (San Diego) Updated 10 p.m. -- Keith Slotter, Special Agent in Charge of the San Diego FBI office today announced arrest of 36 people with ties to the Hells Angels. 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