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Published Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009 | 9 a.m.
Updated Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009 | 5:26 p.m.
Metro Police served six search warrants today on residences and clubhouses allegedly linked to the Hells Angels motorcycle gang.
Police and SWAT members swarmed a Hells Angels clubhouse in the 800 block of Torrey Pines Drive, which shut down traffic at Washington Avenue in northwestern Las Vegas at about 6 a.m. today.
Other addresses where police searched in addition to the clubhouse included 4905 Cannon Blvd., 5205 Your Ave., 6424 Fisher Ave., 4389 Bluecrest Road, all in Las Vegas, and 927 Center St., in Henderson.
Police weren't releasing details about their investigation or what they seized while executing the search warrants. Police are continuing their investigation, Metro Officer Barbara Morgan said.
Recent activity involving rival motorcycle gangs in Las Vegas occurred late last year when two groups confronted each other at a downtown Las Vegas wedding chapel.
Two people were taken to University Medical Center on Dec. 20, 2008, after being stabbed at the Special Memory Wedding Chapel on Fourth Street, police said.
One motorcycle gang was attending the wedding of two of its members when a rival gang showed up for a wedding ceremony an hour later, police said. Once the two groups came face to face, a fight broke out, leading to the stabbing. Police have surveillance video of the incident.
The Hells Angels have been a presence in Las Vegas for decades and that includes an estimated 900 motorcycle gang members and their associates living in Las Vegas, according to police.
An April 2002 shootout inside Harrah's Laughlin casino killed three bikers, Salvador Barrera, Robert Tumety and Jeremy Bell, as the Hells Angels and the Mongols clashed.
Forty-two members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club were indicted by a federal grand jury in November 2003 in Las Vegas on charges stemming from that gun battle. But a Nevada Supreme Court decision in March 2006 overruled conspiracy charges in the case.
For more than a quarter-century motorcycle clubs have gathered in Laughlin in the spring for an annual River Run, which is where the deadly shooting occurred in 2002.
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Hey, nice that the Sun provides a link right under the story to "buy hell's angel's patches" at great prices!
Methamphetamine is a true SCOURGE.
The real heros are our Army, Navy and Air force, NOT metro police.
It's a gang. It's not a motorcycle club. Don't neglect the other gangs. Get in there and make sure this is cleaned up.
Metro should just hire the Monguls to do their dirty work next time !
Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
Metro do a damned good job, stop taking cheap shots at the men who actually go out there and take care of people, unless of course you are so big and tough that you can go and do it for them?
Thought not.
The H.A.s always seem to get a bad rap wherever they go. They're a good club and if you just leave them alone they won't bother anybody. Most H.A.s are respectable people just living the life. If they want to arrest or investigate gangsters they should look more closely at Congress. There's more criminal activity there than the H.A.s have ever been a part of. Illegals, Hispanic gangs, gang-bangers, the Bloods and the Cripts cause more problems than the H.A.s ever have. I'll support my Local Red and White any day.....
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/bridgewa...
Hells angels in the USA re know for the large Percent of their gang members getting busted for harming raping molesting and murdering women and children .
Any scumbag that supports hells angels must hate America and American women and children.
I wonder if that hells angel leader from Nevada told on other hells angels involved in child Pornography with him?
Hells Angels rules specifically say no child abuse/porn, rape, and abuse towards woman among many other rules.
Do your homework.
Sevenhills,
They tolerate lotsa abuse against women, trust me. You failed your homework.
LOL Seven hills I get so upset when hells angels try to lie their way out , I could not even compose my self to type. LOL
Its a fact USA Hells angels have a very Large Percent of members that harm rape molest and murder women and children all across America.Its a fact Hells angels are cowards and punks and cannot fight unless they greatly out number their rivals. USA Hells angels are the sewage at the bottom of the Barrel.
Do your Home work PUNK>
I Hope All the Nevada Hells angels get busted on the child Pornography that their leader was captured with.
All You hells angels and supporters that support all your Hells angel members that got busted with child porn or harming raping molesting and murdering women and children are just as guilty for harming raping molesting and murder all the women and children as the members that committed those disgusting cowardly crimes on those women and children.
Leave the bikers alone"
Don't the cop suckers have anything better to do
Go roust some homeless people or gun down someone in a traffic stop
Your pathetic
All your doing is trying to gain some public support from all the
bad press lately. but stupid is as stupid does because it seems the
neighborhood seems to like their HA neighbors.
You picked the wrong group of people to lift your character support
You cops are a bunch of nitwits
Did metro have to leave so much damage in their wake when they went through that house on Torrey Pines (as seen on TV). I hope the neighbors are thankful seeing a house now with broken windows, smashed in garage door and trash everywhere; that makes the neighborhood have a great resell value.
Hells angels are not Bikers , Hells angels just try to drag Bikers into it because a lot of punk bikers are like brain washed fools and will support Hells angels without looking at the facts .
I am sure no one in the neighborhood wants these Hells angel sewage around. No one wants Hells angels around except men that harm rape molest and murder women and children or the moron bikers men that date a Hells angel.Read these stories this is just some of the many horrible stories in recent years about hells angels.
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/bridgewa...
Hells angels in the USA re know for the large Percent of their gang members getting busted for harming raping molesting and murdering women and children .
Any scumbag that supports hells angels must hate America and American women and children.
Sounds like a scene from Sons of Anarchy.
With seizures and raids of compounds etc. rent don't buy, and have no records or computers.
Motorcycle Gangs are the scourge of society, they are the main providers and movers of Meth Amphetamine. They conduct murder and mayhem just as bad as any mafia ever does , and the main cause of noise pollution everywhere they go. There is nothing cool about not taking a bath , wearing rotting smelly clothing, raping and beating their women (and possibly yours) to a pulp. They could do us all a favor and just kill each other off and disappear from face of the earth..
hells angels are not what they used to be years ago. i still rather support them than our so called police department.
The LVPD kills many more people a year than the hells angels do.
Its too bad they don't go after the Hell's Angel (He says he's a Hells Angel, he wears the red bandana) who is terrorizing a trailer park in N. Las Vegas on N.Las vegas blvd. He is extorting money and beating people up and everyone is affraid to do anything, including the cops.