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Larger outlaw motorcycle clubs have been known to form support clubs, also known as "satellite clubs", which operate each with their own distinctive club name but are subservient to the motorcycle club that has established them. They offer support to the principal club in a number of different ways.
The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (HAMC) is designated an outlaw motorcycle gang by the Department of Justice. [1] Based primarily in the Southwest , the Pacific Northwest , the Great Lakes region , the Mid-Atlantic and New England , [ 2 ] there are an estimated 92 Hells Angels chapters in 27 U.S. states, with a membership of over 800. [ 3 ]
In the United States and Canada, the Hells Angels are incorporated as the Hells Angels Motorcycle Corporation. Common nicknames for the club are the "H.A.", "Red & White", and "81". [ 10 ] With a membership of over 6,000, and 592 charters in 66 countries, the HAMC is the largest "outlaw" motorcycle club in the world.
A California judge earlier this month sentenced three Hells Angels members to life in prison for murder in aid of racketeering. Jonathan Nelson, Brian Wayne Wendt and Russell Taylor Ott were ...
An entire chapter of the Hells Angels motorcycle club has been arrested on various violent charges including kidnapping, first-degree robbery and assault with a firearm, California authorities ...
An entire chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club was arrested on various violent charges, police say.. Six members of the Hells Angels biker gang were arrested in Bakersfield, California, on ...
A supporter pin of the New York City Hells Angels charter with the paraphrases "81" and "Big Red Machine".. Numerous police and international intelligence agencies classify the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (HAMC) 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.
The first Hells Angels chapter in France was founded on 18 April 1981 when the Hells de Crimée ("Hells of Crimea") gang in Paris was granted a charter by the Dutch Hells Angels. [ 54 ] [ 100 ] It was not until 1987, however, that the French Hells Angels were incorporated as a société à responsabilité limitée . [ 100 ]