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  • Businesses fight for bikie eviction after fire bomb attack leaves them uninsured

    From the Herald-Sun Newspaper, Melbourne, Australia – 7th August 2013.
    CONCERNED owners at a business estate in Dandenong are fighting to have a bikie clubhouse evicted following a fire bomb attack that left their businesses uninsured.

    The upset owners are calling on the Premier to act as a flood of outlaw motorcycle clubs cross the border into Victoria.

    CHU Insurance have refused to renew the $30 million policy covering 81 businesses in the estate in Dunn Crescent, Dandenong South, thanks to the resident Bandido’s chapter at number 42, citing ‘moral risk’ as the reason.

    Moral risk is attracted by the likes of brothels, firework manufacturers and gun clubs.

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  • 2013 Conference Hotel Rooms

    From: <CSchoville@azdps.gov>
    Date: Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 7:59 PM

    The IOMGIA Host hotel in downtown St. Paul has sold out the room block for Saturday night before the conference. Please send this e mail to all current IOMGIA members, including those that have signed up to attend this years conference.

    The host hotel has made arrangements to have a partner property honor our IOMGIA room rate for Saturday night. The overflow hotel is near the Minneapolis airport and provides a shuttle from the terminals to the overflow hotel. Attendees will need to make arrangements to travel from the overflow hotel to the IOMGIA host hotel on Sunday prior to the conference.

    Although not a perfect solution for those that are late making arrangements or that were waiting for approval, it is a great alternative to the high prices other hotels are charging in the downtown area on Saturday night.
    Chuck Schoville
    Thank you so much for using the Crowne Plaza Hotel & Suites as your overflow hotel for your upcoming event in St. Paul! We are honored to be hosting you!

    The following is a reservation link that I encourage you to forward on to those who still need overnight accommodations for Sept. 7 th. 

    Click HERE to book your guestroom!

    Your guests can simply click on the above link to pick up a room within your reserved room block, and hold a room under their own name and credit card number. Of course, please let me know if you have any questions at all.

    Again, thank you!

    We look forward to hosting you!

    Vanessa Dusk-Strom │ Sales Manager
    Crowne Plaza Hotel & Suites Minneapolis Airport
    Three Appletree Square | Bloomington, MN 55425
    Hotel: 952-854-9000 | Direct: 952-876-8652
    Fax: 952-876-8657
    vanessa@cpsuitesmsp.com | www.cpsuitesmsp.com

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    From: <CSchoville@azdps.gov>
    Date: Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 8:23 PM
    Subject: Cut off date

    The hotel cut off date is August 19, 2013 for the guaranteed room rate of $121.00. After August 19, 2013, the hotel has the right to raise the rates and to also release any unused rooms from the IOMGIA room block.

    Chuck

     

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  • Vagos Homicide Trial in Reno, Nevada

    Prosecution wrapping up case in biker trial
    RENO, Nev. (KRNV & MyNews4.com) – August 2, 2013
    The prosecution is wrapping up its case in the trial of a biker accused of murder.

    Ernesto Gonzalez faces charges in the shooting death of Jethro Pettigrew. Prosecutors say Gonzalez was part of a plan by the Vagos motorcycle gang to kill a member of the Hells Angels. The two groups clashed inside John Ascuaga’s Nugget during Street Vibrations two years ago. A San Francisco police officer testified today after the shooting, saying Gonzalez was afraid of being killed by the Hells Angels when officers arrested him in California.

  • Niagara Regional Policeman Convicted of Tipping Off Bikers

    Cop convicted of tipping off bikers
    By Tony Ricciuto, Niagara Falls Review (Canada Friday, August 2, 2013

    WELLAND – A Niagara Regional Police officer, who was found guilty of breach of trust for leaking information to the Hells Angels, says he intends to appeal the judge’s decision.
    Frank Dean Rudge was convicted Friday in a Welland courtroom for leaking confidential police documents to the motorcycle gang during a two-year period between August 2004 and September 2006.

    Rudge showed no reaction as the verdict was read out in court. Wearing a black suit and tie, he sat beside his lawyer, Ronald Brady, when the verdict was delivered.

    “I do not believe Rudge’s evidence. It does not leave me with a reasonable doubt and I am not left with a reasonable doubt on the basis of all the evidence,” said Justice Peter Hambly, of the Superior Court of Justice.

    ”My belief that he did so is much closer to absolute certainty than it is to a belief on a balance of probabilities.”

    After delivering his verdict, the judge ordered a break in the proceedings. Court resumed a short time later to order a pre-sentencing report and to schedule a date for sentencing.
    During the break, NRP Chief Jeff McGuire was seen arriving at the courthouse.
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  • Iron Horsemen Leader Robert Grieninger Convicted

    Iron Horsemen president the latest Maryland motorcycle-club leader to face criminal charges
    By Van Smith City Paper (Baltimore MD) June 20, 2013

    First it was the Pagans, then it was the Outlaws, and now it’s the Iron Horsemen. Maryland leaders from all three motorcycle clubs have landed in trouble in recent times.

    In the fall of 2009, the national president of the Pagans Motorcycle Club, David Keith Barbeito of Myersville, near Frederick, was indicted in West Virginia in a massive racketeering conspiracy to which he later pleaded guilty and in 2011 was sentenced to 30 months in prison. Federal inmate records show he was released in December 2011.

    Earlier this year, the president of the Philadelphia chapter of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club, Ronald L. “Bugs” Sells of Churchville, near Belair, was charged in amethamphetamine conspiracy to which he has since pleaded guilty, and is scheduled to be sentenced this summer. Two Baltimore men – Michael Privett and Robert Mansfield – were also charged in Pennsylvania as a result of the FBI’s undercover infiltration of the Outlaws chapter.

    Most recently, and until now unreported by the media (or so it seems, based on Google searches), in May the president of the Southern Maryland chapter of the Iron Horsemen Motorcycle Club, Robert Scott Grieninger, pleaded guilty to a drugs-and-weapons indictment that resulted from a July 2012 raid on the business he manages, Scooters Garage in La Plata, according to court records. Also pleading guilty in the Charles County case was Grieninger’s nephew, Christopher Scott Grieninger. Both are scheduled to be sentenced in August. Calls to their attorneys were not returned by press time.

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  • Police Biker Clubs Draw Scrutiny in Wake of Bar Brawl

    Police Biker Clubs Draw Scrutiny in Wake of Bar Brawl
    Gang Investigators Fear Motorcycle Groups Hurt Credibility of Law Enforcement
    Zusha Elinson Wall Street Journal July 22, 2013

    Prosecutors are considering criminal charges against four members of the Iron Brotherhood motorcycle club for their roles in a Christmastime bar brawl in Prescott, Ariz., that sent one man to the hospital.

    Their nicknames are Tarzan, Mongo, Guido and Top Gun. They rode Harley Davidson motorcycles, wore vests decorated with skulls and some allegedly carried knives and brass knuckles.

    ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Moctezuma’s Bar in Prescott, Ariz., where a brawl took place last December involving members of the Iron Brotherhood Motorcycle Club.

    And their day jobs were police chief, county sheriff’s sergeant, police officer and paramedic.

    An increasing number of police officers are forming motorcycle clubs, and hundreds now exist nationwide, according to experts on motorcycle gangs. Gang investigators fear that such clubs, some of which have the trappings of outlaw biker groups, can hurt the credibility of law enforcement and undermine criminal cases brought against traditional gangs.

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  • Wheels of SoulMC Shotting South Carolina Homicide

    3 dead in wild shooting at SC motorcycle gear shop
    Posted: Jul 01, 2013 1:56 PM EDTUpdated: Jul 01, 2013 1:56 PM EDT
    By WCBD News

    NORTH CHARLESTON, SC –
    Employees at Cycle Gear said they knew the three victims involved in a Saturday afternoon triple homicide only by face, not by name.

    “Some of our regular customers were in here, had been in here for awhile,” store manager Stan Foxworthy said.

    A manager of Cycle Gear said a physical fight started inside the store but then moved outside of the building. Foxworthy said the argument escalated quickly inside so he immediately called 911.

    “A third (one) joined them that knew them then a number of others had followed that person here. Words were exchanged, not sure what words, fists started flying.”

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  • Pagans Fight At Delaware Hooters Bike Night

    One injured in fight between current, former Pagans at Hooters
    Delaware On Line Jun. 6, 2013

    The melee at the Hooters near New Castle Wednesday night was between current and former Pagans Motorcycle Club members and sent one person to the hospital with deep facial cuts.

    About 50 people brawled outside the restaurant along U.S. 13, where more than 100 motorcycles were parked in the lot. The fight was between Pagans and former club members who left the group recently over differences, a source told The News Journal today.

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  • Pagans MC Member Arrest

    Elizabeth Township man arrested after firing gun into a crowd
    July 2, 2013 By Torsten Ove / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

    A member of the Pagans motorcycle gang, angered that a black man was hanging around his house in Elizabeth Township with a group of his stepdaughter’s friends on Sunday night, retrieved a rifle and opened fire on the man and several others, according to police.
    Charles Motte, 51, is charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault and related offenses.

    Police said Mr. Motte, who was wearing Pagan colors and insignia, came home Sunday night to find several young people, all friends of his stepdaughter, in front of the house. One of them, Mykhael Kelley, 19, is black. Using a racial slur, Mr. Motte yelled that he didn’t want Mr. Kelley at the house, then went inside and retrieved a .22-caliber rifle and fired a shot from an upstairs window at Mr. Kelley and a friend, Kelsey Gory, 18, as they stood in the driveway along with several other witnesses.

    No one was hit, but a 46-year-old woman from Mount Pleasant who was also outside in the driveway, Andrea Faircloth, collapsed from a seizure and was taken to a local hospital.
    Police took Mr. Motte into custody and confiscated two rifles after searching the house.
    He was being held in the Allegheny County Jail.

    Torsten ove: tove@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1510.

    First Published July 2, 2013 1:03 pm