Thread started by dl1245 at 10.21.08 - 6:03 pm

No wonder why S&S had their last ride this week..jus kidding..but this seems to come pretty close to fucking with the 1st amendment..

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE49K8U120081021




LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Federal agents and police in seven states arrested more than 60 members of the Mongols motorcycle gang on Tuesday in a sweep that also targeted for the first time an outlaw group's "intellectual property," prosecutors said.

The arrests cap a three-year undercover investigation in which U.S. agents posed as gang members and their girlfriends to infiltrate the group, even submitting to polygraph tests administered by the bikers.

Those arrested were charged in an 86-count federal racketeering indictment accusing the California-based gang of engaging in criminal acts ranging from murder and robbery to extortion, money laundering, gun trafficking and drug dealing.

The Mongols are particularly associated with violent attacks on blacks and have engaged in an escalating battle with the rival Hells Angels gang since clashing in a 2002 casino riot in Laughlin, Nevada, prosecutors said.

The gang also has been feuding with Mexican-based organized crime figures over the Mongols' drug trafficking in areas controlled by the Mexican mob, according to authorities.

"In addition to pursuing the criminal charges set forth in the indictment, for the first time ever, we are seeking to forfeit the intellectual property of the gang," U.S. Attorney Thomas O'Brien said in a statement.

He said the name "Mongols," which appears on the gang's arm patch insignia, was trademarked by the group. The indictment seeks a court order outlawing further use of the name, which would allow any police officer "who sees a Mongol wearing this patch ... to stop that gang member and literally take the jacket right off his back," O'Brien added.

The 61 gang members and 10 other defendants arrested so far were rounded up in raids conducted in California, Nevada, Colorado, Oregon, Washington state, Florida and Ohio. Most were taken into custody in the Los Angeles area, prosecutors said.

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the only thing sns ever killed was a 30 pack.



ruinedbyidiots
10.21.08 - 6:08 pm

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"Mongols," which appears on the gang's arm patch insignia, was trademarked by the group. The indictment seeks a court order outlawing further use of the name, which would allow any police officer "who sees a Mongol wearing this patch ... to stop that gang member and literally take the jacket right off his back,"

They'll have to cut me down b4 they can take the Midnight Ridazz shirt off my back!



trickmilla
10.21.08 - 6:19 pm

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Huh - that gang used to be big where I grew up (Tujunga), and I ever recently heard they were still all up there, just on the down-low.



turrican
10.21.08 - 6:20 pm

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yeah bullshit.

i just saw mongols yesterday in pasadena.



HANDBONE
10.21.08 - 11:22 pm

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Huh - that gang used to be big where I grew up (Tujunga), and I ever recently heard they were still all up there, just on the down-low.

turrican
10.21.08 - 9:20 pm

yup...

i just moved up here a year ago and since then a couple of severed heads have been credited to them. trippy ass shit.



coldcut
10.22.08 - 1:26 am

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