Hells Angels MC criminal allegations and incidents

[5] American Hells Angels member Paul Merle Eischeid, who fled the United States in 2007 after being charged with drug trafficking, racketeering, kidnapping and homicide, was apprehended in San Isidro, Buenos Aires on 3 February 2011 after being tracked by the U.S.

[7] On 14 May 2016, three people were seriously injured as a result of a shootout between the Hells Angels and Los Tehuelches, a rival motorcycle gang with Neo-Nazi sympathies consisting primarily of active and former police officers, at a highway gas station in Luján, Buenos Aires.

Two men – Los Tehuelches leader Leo Gatto, and Hells Angels president Daniel "Dani La Muerte" Díaz León, a celebrity bodyguard and television personality – were shot several times, while a woman was run over.

The previous day, authorities in Saxony had offered a €10,000 reward for information on Matz, who was wanted in relation to a shooting in Leipzig on 25 June 2016 in which a member of the United Tribuns gang was killed and two other men were critically injured.

Shortly thereafter, the Filthy Few, an Amager-based club, merged with the Nøragersmindebanden to form Bullshit MC, settling in Freetown Christiania where they benefited from the trade in cannabis products and challenged the Hells Angels for control of Copenhagen's biker scene.

[27] In November 1983, Bullshit president Henning Norbert "Makrellen" Knudsen (January 15, 1960 – May 25, 1984) was interviewed on the live television show Mellem Mennesker ("Between Humans"), which aired on DR TV, and stated that he would not allow an American motorcycle club such as the Hells Angels to gain control in Denmark.

[32] After gang violence had already erupted in Finland, Norway and Sweden, the war reached Denmark on December 25, 1995, when two Hells Angels members were beaten up by Bandidos at a nightclub in Copenhagen, signaling the beginning of a number of violent incidents between the clubs in the country.

In a statement, Chief Inspector Poul Kjeldsen of the Copenhagen Police said that eight of those arrested would be charged with "working in a professional and hierarchical organisation which has sold several hundred kilos of cannabis over an extended period".

In September 2023, Keith Svendsen, Executive Vice-President of Maersk, stated that around 30 full-time and freelance employees at the port are affiliated with the Hells Angels, and use shipping containers to transport illegal items such as cocaine.

[53] Narcotics officers raided the Paris Hells Angels clubhouse in July 1991, discovering pump-action shotguns and an elaborate system which could be used to evacuate several kilograms of cocaine via a compressed air tube.

[57] Following an investigation which began in 2011, police arrested fifteen Hells Angels members in connection with cocaine trafficking, weapons possession, theft and violence as the bikers attended the inauguration of a tattoo parlor in Bordeaux on 26 January 2013.

Police also seized a stolen Harley-Davidson motorcycle, several bulletproof vests, 9mm parabellum and 38 special caliber handguns, as well as 300 grams of cocaine, a kilo and a half of cannabis resin and 15,000 euros.

After a leading member of the Hells Angels, Norbert "Butcher" S., 34,[63] had beaten up a 42-year-old woman, waitress, prostitute, cocaine addict and drug courier, who tried to burn herself to death, she pointed him out to the police and disappeared.

[104] According to German officials, in the 2020s, a Hells Angels leader named Ramin Yektaparast directed attacks on Jewish Synagogues in Germany to assist the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

[118] Dutch Hells Angels allegedly murdered Stephen "Grumps" Cunningham, a senior member of the club's Nomads chapter in England, who disappeared after boarding a ferry from Ramsgate to Ostend, Belgium on 9 September 1997.

[132][133] Seven Hells Angels received prison sentences of up to ten years for their part in the murder of Bradley Earl Haora, a nineteen-year-old Highway 61 member killed with a shotgun in Mount Eden on 29 December 1975.

[142] In July 2019, Portuguese prosecutors charged 89 members of Hells Angels with involvement in organized crime, attempted murder, robbery, drug trafficking, qualified extortion and possession of illegal weapons and ammunition.

[144] Two luxury cars, 12 motorcycles, US$200,000 in cash, a "lethal weapon", and 100 grams of cocaine were seized during raids carried out in Bucharest and Ilfov County by Romanian organized crime prosecutors in partnership with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Department of Homeland Security.

[5] The Hells Angels became associated with the Johannesburg "bouncer mafia", a criminal network involved in narcotics trafficking and extortion in the city's nightclub industry that emerged in the late apartheid era.

[151] In early 1994, Hells Angels member Lucky Sylaides was arrested by police detectives after firing an unlicensed Uzi submachine gun into the air outside his tattoo parlour in Durban's central business district.

[157] HAMC member Edward Jacobs was beaten with a baseball bat and robbed of watches and approximately R100,000 in cash by bouncer Gary Beuthin, his girlfriend Melanie van Niekerk and nightclub owner Warren Schertel after responding to an adult classified advertisement in Sandton, Johannesburg on November 17, 2007.

[161] Andre Vogel, a hitman who pleaded guilty to the contract killing of bouncer Billy van Vuuren, testified in October 1999 that the Hells Angels were connected to a drug syndicate that hired him for the murder and that he was paid in cash afterwards directly by Kevin Brown, the club's Johannesburg chapter president.

The U.S. authorities had less success prosecuting the South Africans; Hall was shot dead during a burglary at his Johannesburg home in May 2002,[163] and Conway emigrated to the United Kingdom before he could face charges, where he died on 24 November 2018, aged 52.

[170] On 21 April 2009, a further 22 Hells Angels members were arrested as part of the Valkiria investigation, when more than 30 properties in Barcelona, Valencia, Málaga, Madrid and Las Palmas were raided in a joint operation by the Mossos d'Esquadra and the Civil Guard.

[175] On 28 September 2022, members of the Hells Angels, who were in Ibiza celebrating a club anniversary, were involved in a street brawl with a group of young men of North African origin, which resulted in several injuries.

[178] The Mallorca chapter of the Hells Angels was founded in November 2009 by two brothers, Abdelghani and Khalil Youssafi, and led by Frank Hanebuth, who was a fugitive from authorities in Germany and living in a luxury villa in Lloret de Vistalegre.

[182] Among those who took plea deals were Mallorca Hells Angels chapter vice president Khalil Youssafi, who agreed to pay a fine of €36,720 in order to avoid serving a 38-year prison sentence, and Paul Witworth, a British national who allegedly maintained links with the Clerkenwell crime syndicate of London.

[188] Police foiled an alleged kidnapping by the Hells Angels when they rescued a naked, bound and gagged man from the boot of a car after he had been bundled into a BMW and driven away in the southern Gothenburg suburb of Askim on 24 November 2011.

[194] Australian Hells Angels member Luke Joshua Cook and his Thai wife Kanyarat Wedphitak were sentenced to death in November 2018 after being found guilty of attempting to smuggle half a ton of methamphetamine from China into Thailand on board a yacht in June 2015.

[205] According to the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS), the British Hells Angels are involved in cannabis and amphetamine trafficking, as well as contract killing, extortion, prostitution, money laundering and credit card fraud.