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The author Hunter S. Thompson called Barger "the Maximum Leader" of the Hells Angels, [6] and Philip Martin of the Phoenix New Times described him as "the archetypical Hells Angel", saying he "didn't found the motorcycle club ... but he constructed the myth". [7] Barger authored five books, and appeared on television and in film.
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.
On 1 May 1987, Boucher became a "full patch" member of the Hells Angels, just three days after the murder of Martin Huneault, a leader of a rival outlaw biker gang, the Death Riders. [35] It is widely believed that Boucher killed Huneault to become a "full patch" member of the Angels' Montreal chapter, the oldest and most prestigious Angel ...
Ralph "Sonny" Barger, the Hells Angels motorcycle club leader who became the rough-hewn face of America's outlaw biker culture and the restlessness, hard living and criminality that came with it ...
In 1988, Sonny Barger and 9 other Hell's Angels stood trial in Louisville, accused of running guns and explosives to blow up rival gang members. How Hell's Angels 'maximum leader' Sonny Barger got ...
The famed biker had been battling cancer. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Gregory Woolley (February 26, 1972 – November 17, 2023) was a Haitian-born Canadian mobster associated with the Hells Angels motorcycle club. [1] [2] [3] Woolley was the protégé and bodyguard of Maurice Boucher, a controversial senior Hells Angels leader who led his chapter in a long and extremely violent gang war against the Rock Machine, in Quebec, from 1994 to 2002. [4]
The decades-long conflict between the Hells Angels and the Outlaws reportedly originated from a personal feud between two members of the Aliens biker gang in 1969, when the wife of Sandy Alexander was allegedly raped by fellow club member Peter "Greased Lightning" Rogers while Alexander was in California meeting with Hells Angels leader Sonny ...