Harrahs on the morning of the melee while "carrying guns, knives, Stephen is a former staff writer and columnist at, Become a member to support the independent voice of Phoenix Yavapai County Superior Court Judge William T. Kiger had similar reservations, kicking the original indictments back to a grand jury after weighing Zavos testimony a short-lived but significant legal victory for the Hells Angels. The group's reputation and membership grew during the 1950s, but it was during the turbulent 1960s that the Hells Angels bikers truly made a name for themselves. Hells Angels members and their girlfriends ("old ladies") converse around a table in their clubhouse. The Cliff Notes version: The Dirty Dozen were several degrees more ruthless and aggressive, according to longtime member Robert Chico Mora, who patched-over to the Hells Angels during the aforementioned merger. The version of the shooting offered by the source is largely corroborated by a Phoenix Police report obtained by PHOENIX magazine. Richard Gaxiola, a Phoenix-based attorney who represents Koepke and has defended Hells Angels in previous cases, insists that the seven-point Arizona statute for defining a criminal street gang is overly broad and a crass gambit for GIITEM to justify government funding by turning the Hells Angels into perennial hobgoblins. In 1987, he was again arrested on federal conspiracy charges of drug and gun running in California, but found himself on trial in Louisville, Kentucky, accused of supplying explosives to destroy the Outlaws motorcycle gang there in a territorial dispute. Theyre also impenetrable, talking to media little and law enforcement less. Hells Angels | History & Facts | Britannica The Yavapai County Attorney accepts the Vagos account of the incident in essence, that the Hells Angels fired on them unprovoked as they rode past the two-story stucco house, triggering the fusillade while the Hells Angels and their attorneys broadly maintain that it was an ambush on the part of the Vagos. Richard John Devries, who police identified as the Las Vegas Hells Angels chapter president, and club recruits Russell Smith and Stephen Alo were arrested late Sunday, several hours after the .
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