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Motorcycle club members meet at a run in Australia in 2009. An outlaw motorcycle club, known colloquially as a biker club or bikie club (in Australia), is a motorcycle subculture generally centered on the use of cruiser motorcycles, particularly Harley-Davidsons and choppers, and a set of ideals that purport to celebrate freedom, nonconformity to mainstream culture, and loyalty to the biker group.
The Outlaws are classified by various law enforcement agencies in the United States as one of the "big four" motorcycle gangs, along with the Bandidos, the Hells Angels, and the Pagans. [ 78 ] [ 79 ] [ 80 ] The Department of Justice contends that the club is involved in organized crime , including drug trafficking, extortion, money laundering ...
The Biker Trials: Bringing Down the Hells Angels. Toronto: ECW Press. ISBN 978-1550226386. Barker, Thomas (2007). Biker Gangs and Organized Crime. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0323298704. Edward Winterhalder; Wil De Clercq (2008). The Assimilation: Rock Machine Become Bandidos: Bikers United Against the Hells Angels. ECW Press. ISBN 978-1-55490 ...
The victim had announced he was leaving the club, but suffered a beating at the Custom Motorcycle auto shop in Grants Pass, Oregon, and was then taken to his home where they attempted to rob him they failed. [34] Three Vagos members were arrested on June 9 and 10, 2009, and charged with sexually assaulting a woman in San Jose, California. [35]
The Sons of Silence are classified as an outlaw motorcycle gang by the United States Department of Justice and have traditionally been considered part of the "big five" biker gangs, along with the Bandidos, the Hells Angels, the Outlaws and the Pagans. [4] [11] The club has since been surpassed in membership size by the Mongols, however. [6]
The claim: Video shows Hells Angels on the way to Colorado to confront Venezuelan gangs. A Sept. 1 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) includes a video of dozens of bikers traveling ...
Two women affiliated with the Wheels of Soul Motorcycle Club were charged with the illegal purchase and transfer of firearms during 2020 in Pennsylvania. [16] A drug bust in Isle of Wight County Virginia in 2023 led to the arrest of a high-ranking member of the Wheels of Soul motorcycle gang. [17]
The women were supplied to topless bars along Florida's Gold Coast to work as dancers and prostitutes. [9] The bikers maintained control over these women using various methods, including gathering information on and threatening the lives of their families, and would occasionally buy and sell their old ladies amongst themselves. [7]