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The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (HAMC) is an international outlaw motorcycle club whose members typically ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles. 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]
The Outlaws' long-standing rivalry with the Hells Angels began when three Hells Angel bikers were executed by Outlaw members in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on April 27, 1974. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] [ 27 ] The triple murder was carried out in retaliation for the earlier beating of an Outlaw by a Hells Angel, which took place in New York City on December 31 ...
Absorbed by the Hells Angels in 1977 to become the first Hells Angels Motorcycle Club chapter in Canada. [139] [140] [141] Rebels: 1969 Brisbane, Australia Originally known as the Confederates, this outlaw OMCG has 70-something chapters worldwide and is the largest in Australia. Rebels: 1968 Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
The U.S. Department of Justice says Hells Angels is one of multiple outlaw motorcycle gangs posing a "serious national domestic threat" due to drug trafficking and smuggling crimes. Show comments ...
The U.S. Justice Department designates Hells Angels, founded in the years after World War II in Fontana, California, as an outlaw motorcycle gang and criminal enterprise.
‘Getting real:’ Outlaw biker gang violence goes back to the 1940s. Outlaw motorcycle gangs sprung up in the United States in the 1940s. The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club was founded in 1948 ...
Bloody Hammers Motorcycle Club; Bridgerunners Motorcycle Club [59] Brothers Motorcycle Club, in Anchorage, Alaska (patched over in 1982) [83] [84] Brothers Fast Motorcycle Club, in Denver, Colorado (patched over in 2001) [85] Chosen Brothers Motorcycle Club(Indiana) Confederate Angels Motorcycle Club, in Richmond, Virginia (defunct) [86] [87]
Amidst growing membership and increasingly sophisticated criminal activity, federal law enforcement agencies within the United States Department of Justice began classifying outlaw motorcycle gangs as "non-traditional organized crime" beginning in 1981, identifying four of the gangs—the Hells Angels, the Outlaws, the Pagan's and the Bandidos—as the largest and most powerful.