https://montrealgazette.com/news/lo...-montreal-monteregie-target-hells-angels

More drug-trafficking raids in Montreal, Montérégie target Hells Angels

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...rafiquants-presumes-perquisitionnees.php

Drug trafficking After the Hells' lair, the houses of suspected traffickers searched

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2...ur-les-trafiquants-lies-aux-hells-angels

Police increase pressure on traffickers linked to the Hells Angels

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/06...er-betrayals-and-deeply-guarded-secrets/

Three Hells Angels sentenced to life in case that centered on murder, betrayals and deeply-guarded secrets

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/3-bay-area-based-hells-angels-members-sentenced-to-life-da/

https://vancouversun.com/news/crime/original-independent-soldiers-gang-member-murdered-princeton-bc

Original Independent Soldiers gang member found murdered near Princeton

https://flashbak.com/strange-and-terrible-hunter-s-thompson-and-the-hells-angels-1965-468555/

Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In the mid-1960s Hunter S. Thompson was on assignment with the Hell's Angels in California

I really should read that book again. Dr gonzo is one of my favorite authors it's been a long while since I read that book.

There was actually a Hells Angels book before that one, which I think was the first outlaw biker book ever.Freewheelin Frank, it's transcribed interviews with a young Secretary of the Frisco Angels. It's been reprinted now, I have an original. It's not like Thompsons book.

More like a window into another time, like The Bikeriders book.

https://www.kget.com/news/crime-watch/all-members-of-hells-angels-bakersfield-arrested-kcso/

All members of Hells Angels Bakersfield arrested: KCSO

https://www.latimes.com/california/...field-on-suspicion-of-kidnapping-robbery

https://abc7.com/post/entire-bakersfield-chapter-hells-angels-motorcycle-gang-arrested/14999994/

Entire Bakersfield chapter of Hells Angels arrested in multi-agency investigation

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...thirsty-reign-terror-Britains-roads.html

Sons of Anarchy in the UK: Inside the US biker gang that inspired Tom Hardy film The Bike Riders and their bloody thirsty reign of terror on Britain's roads

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...lls-angels/ar-BB1lATkh?ocid=BingNewsVerp

Former undercover cop reveals what it is like inside the Hells Angels

Published 15:04 29 Jun 2024 GMT+1
Former Hells Angels leader has lifted the lid on life in one of the most violent biker gangs
Charles 'Peewee' Goldsmith told how he witnessed a man's intestines get torn out of his body
Olivia Burke

Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions which some readers may find distressing.

If you've ever fancied yourself as a member of Hells Angels, the haunting stories from this former leader who headed up one of one of the world's most violent biker gangs might make you think twice.

A chat with Charles 'Peewee' Goldsmith is sure to set you back on the straight and narrow, as although he might have looked bada** on the back of a Harley-Davidson while head-to-toe in leather, the reality is a lot more menacing than you may think.

He was the ex-President of the club and a kickboxing heavyweight, so he certainly wasn't someone to be messed with.

https://www.ladbible.com/news/us-ne...ee-goldsmith-biker-gangs-707741-20240629

To the best of my knowledge, the "New York" Chapter of the Hell's Angels is no longer located in Lower Manhattan, as it was for decades. Nor has it been for many years already.

Nowadays, (like so many other true, dyed-in-the-wool "New Yorkers") They've relocated their membership out to Nassau County, on Long Island...out to the town of Hempstead.

They took over a fortress-like industrial building, on a large property, and then protected it by encasing the property behind a high, razor-ribboned fence.

German Shepard guard dogs roam the lot, and 24/7 video surveillance monitors all comings and goings.

If I'm not mistaken, this particular L.I.-based chapter hosts about two-dozen fully patched members, and dozens more hang-arounds.

Yes they moved.Their old clubhouse was probably the most famous in the world.

https://www.gettyimages.nl/detail/f...alty-free-beeld/1304018683?adppopup=true

As a kid, living in Downtown New York, I used to walk past their clubhouse off 1st Avenue, nearly every week. It was just a few blocks off Houston Street, and a flew blocks north of Little Italy. Their clubhouse was located in what is considered to be the East Village. Not the traditional "Greenwich Village' on the west side that most everybody in the world knows about, and talks about. But it "was" still The Village. The Village's more "gritty"side, if you will. lol.

I know Hells Angels has a new clubhouse in Throggsneck. But there are several East Coast charters.

German Shepherds, Dobermanns and Rottweilers are good guard dogs lol..

I believe that's correct, Hollander. The Lower Manhattan chapter later relocated up to the Bronx. I'm not certain, but I believe it may have been because they lost their lease and had to move.

Although, I had also heard that they had owned the building too. So who knows.

Within New York State and the adjoining Tristate area of NY, NJ, CT and PA, without a doubt, the Hells Angels biggest competition and threat is The Pagans.

They are known "arch enemies" of one another and it's been said (by several knowledgeable law enforcement sources that investigate outlaw MC clubs) that between the two clubs, The Pagans are the more vicious and deadly of the two.

Burt, a member of the Hells Angels Downtown Manhattan chapter, poses for a photo sitting on his Harley, in front of Maria’s Grocery Store, just a few doors down from the Hells Angels clubhouse on E. 3rd Street in the East Village.

They owned it but ownership turned into a legal deal after Sandy Alexander died. His family said he owned it, the club said the club owned it. It went to court. Can't remember if full result was ever published. Maybe an agreement was reached to split some of the money?

You can Google articles on it.

24 would be a pretty large charter by today's standards, I think?

https://www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/former-hells-angels-president-speaks-out-amid-charges/

Former Hells Angels president speaks out amid charges

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...le-sans-histoire-cibles-par-des-tirs.php

Hells Angels Promoter and Unremarkable Family Targeted by Gunfire

1984 - The Hells Angels annual “block party” on E. 3rd Street, off First Avenue, in Lower Manhattan.

THIS is a very cool old photograph of New York City's Hells Angels. Iconic, to say the least.


Good catch MS.

Hells Angels are turning this Long Island church into a local headquarters



December, 2018.

An old church in Centereach was converted into a new Hells Angels “Suffolk County” clubhouse.

Lord hear our prayer — and our revving engines.

The notorious Hells Angels Motorcycle Club has bought a church on Long Island to turn into its local headquarters — leaving some residents aghast given the group’s ungodly history.

“All of us are a bit concerned about it because we have young kids and we don’t know what their intention is,” explained Farro Paul, a longtime resident of Centereach, where the property is located.

“A club like this doesn’t belong in a private neighborhood,” the 50-year-old added. “In the ’70s they were a big gang. Now they are involved with nonprofits. I don’t know what they’re up to. There’s a lot we don’t know.”

A Suffolk County police spokesman confirmed the Hells Angels purchase on Monday, along with local officials. The group scored a former Baptist church on Lynbrook Street, but is still working to get the building up to code.

Paul told The Post that members of their Suffolk County chapter moved in several weeks ago and immediately installed a high chain-link fence around the property. A red and white neon sign saying “Hells Angels” was hung as well — right above the old church entrance.

“The sign bothers us,” seethed another neighbor, who declined to give their name.

“The lights are ominous. It looks like the Vegas Strip,” they said. “Every time I leave my house, I’m aggravated.”

Attorney Ron Kuby, who represents the Suffolk County chapter, insists that there’s nothing to worry about.

“They look forward to being productive members of the community and good neighbors — as they have been elsewhere,” he said, noting how the group held a toy drive at the new HQ building earlier this month. “We all recognize that they have a fearsome reputation, but in practice, they are simply a private organization of motorcycle enthusiasts who largely keep to themselves and mind their own business … I have no doubt that in Suffolk County, the neighbors will get to know them.”