Hells Angels MC criminal allegations and incidents in California

[16] A group of Hells Angels armed with can-openers fought with United States First Fleet sailors on shore leave from the USS Bon Homme Richard, at a San Pablo drive-in theater on June 15, 1957.

OPD sergeant Edward "Ted" Hilliard testified in 1972 that he accepted guns, dynamite and grenades from the club's president Sonny Barger in return for deals on arrests during at least fifteen separate meetings, the most recent of which took place in the spring of 1971.

[30] On February 18, 1967, thirteen Hells Angels members, including "Berdoo" chapter president Otto Friedli, and eight women were arrested on drug and weapons possession charges when 27 officers of the Sheriff's Department vice squad and special enforcement unit, and the California Highway Patrol raided the ranch.

[5] Thirty-three members of the Oakland Hells Angels chapter, including the club's president Sonny Barger, and four of their girlfriends were arrested on drug charges after police raided a bar and a duplex apartment in the city on August 30, 1968.

Barger temporarily resigned as president of the Oakland chapter in June 1970 to fight the charges, but returned to the position within months after his successor, John "Johnny Angel" Palomar, was sentenced to a ten-year prison term for shooting a bartender.

According to Barger's chief attorney James Crew, Ivaldi himself was involved in the conspiracy to kill Agero and, knowing he was a prime suspect and fearing retaliation from the "Texas Mafia", he tried to shift the blame to the Hells Angels.

Three men – drug dealers Kelly Patrick Smith, Willard Thomas and Gary Kemp, an acquaintance of Ivaldi – were found shot to death in a house near San Leandro the day after Agero's murder, and the body of a woman, Karen S. Long, was discovered in the trunk of a car in Oakland on May 26.

Crabtree, who had grossed $100,000 per month from selling methamphetamine he obtained from HAMC members, withdrew from the club's milieu in August 1977 and began cooperating with authorities in January 1978 after learning that Oakland chapter enforcer James Brandes had put a $10,000 contract on his life in the belief that he had turned informant.

Crabtree testified in front of a grand jury that he and two Hells Angels – Kenneth Owen and Sergey Walton, the Oakland chapter president – stole bottles of phenyl-2-propanone and enough glassware to build five methamphetamine laboratories during a heist at a local chemical company in January 1977.

[12] The DEA, along with state and local law enforcement agencies, began investigating the HAMC's San Jose and Grass Valley-based California nomads chapters as a result of intelligence suggesting that the Hells Angels was manufacturing and transporting methamphetamine to Savanna, Georgia.

[12] Hells Angels member Obediah Breer was arrested on state charges on August 15, 2018, when a police SWAT team executed a search warrant on his Escondido residence and discovered cocaine, methamphetamine, pharmaceutical pills and a firearm.

[71] By the time The Rolling Stones took stage, numerous incidents of violence had occurred both between the Hells Angels and internally within the crowd, not the least of which featured a circus performer weighing over 350 pounds stripping naked and running amok amid the concertgoers.

[92] The feud was reactivated when 50 to 100 members of the rival clubs clashed at a motorcycle trade show in Long Beach on February 10, 1989, resulting in San Bernardino Hells Angels chapter sergeant-at-arms Aristeo Andres "Art" Carbajal being stabbed to death and several others wounded.

[96] Although police surmised at the time that Tate's death was connected to the River Run riot, a fatal confrontation between members of the Hells Angels and the Mongols which occurred in Laughlin, Nevada, earlier that day,[97] the homicide has gone unsolved.

[104] Three Californian Angels – Maurice "Pete" Eunice, Raymond Foakes and James Hannigan – were among the six club members convicted of committing a violent crime in the aid of racketeering following their extradition to Las Vegas, Nevada, to face charges.

Marsh was taken into custody in Manteca on June 27, and Shepherd was apprehended by San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department deputies and California Highway Patrol troopers on Route 60 on July 26 after a high-speed chase through Chino and Ontario.

[114] Marsh was strangled to death in Pelican Bay State Prison on July 25, 1997, by cellmate Gary J. Littrell after refusing an order from the Aryan Brotherhood leadership to murder another inmate,[115][116] and Shepherd committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell at Santa Ana Central Jail in December 2004 shortly after pleading guilty in a RICO case.

[117][118] On October 26, 2001, a fight between a small group of Hells Angels and Vagos escalated into a mass brawl involving up to 80 participants at a motorcycle swap meet held at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa.

"Baby Huey" Wethern and his wife Helen, near Ukiah, where they discovered the bodies of two club prospects – Charles "Charlie" Baker and Thomas Shepherd "Big Tom" Shull – and a woman, Patricia Ann McNight, in abandoned wells on October 30 and November 1, 1972.

[142] DeWilde later disappeared, allegedly murdered, welded inside a fifty-five-gallon drum and disposed of in the San Francisco Bay by his fellow Hells Angels who became concerned that methamphetamine addiction and pending prison time may have caused him to cooperate with authorities.

[9] Vallejo Hells Angels chapter president Dennis C. Myhre was one of five men charged with various counts of rape and sex perversion in relation to a January 13, 1974, sexual assault reported by a twenty-three-year-old Richmond woman.

[9] Oakland Hells Angels chapter member Ray Dale "Stork" Keefauver, who had been scheduled to testify for the prosecution in a Redwood City murder trial, was found shot to death in a ravine near Port Costa on June 16, 1974.

[5] Bert Stefanson and Sergey C. Walton, both members of the Hells Angels' Oakland chapter, were charged with weapons and narcotics violations when police found loaded pistols, hand grenades, tear gas canisters, blasting caps, three bags of cocaine and $8,911 in cash in the car in which they were travelling after they were stopped for speeding in Sacramento in March 1972.

On February 16, a heating and air conditioning company owned by the patron and his partner in Santee was targeted in an arson attack, which law enforcement believe was carried out by the HAMC in retaliation for the injuries suffered by the Hells Angel in the earlier incident.

[177] Waring, a tow truck driver who worked as an informant for California Highway Patrol detectives for over ten years,[178] was convicted of first-degree murder on October 12, 2001, and sentenced to two consecutive life prison terms without the possibility of parole on February 8, 2002.

In order to pay off a $5,000 debt for amphetamine given to her on consignment by Garrett, as well as room and board provided, Compton was forced to begin working at the "Love Nest", a Hells Angels-owned massage parlor in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, where she was required to perform sex acts on patrons.

[195] Silva was never charged in the case because prosecutors felt it was not worth the expense and effort as he was already awaiting execution at San Quentin for the 1981 kidnapping, rape, torture, and murder of two college students in Lassen County, Kevin Thorpe and Laura Craig.

[232] The operation, involving approximately a thousand law enforcement personnel, resulted in the arrests of a total of 133 Hells Angels members and associates during around fifty raids in eleven states, and the seizure of $2 million in cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamine, hashish, PCP and LSD, as well as weapons including Uzi submachine guns and rocket launchers.

[246] Barger and O'Farrell were among ten Hells Angels from California and Alaska extradited to Louisville, Kentucky, to face trail for conspiring to transport firearms and explosives across state lines in order to kill members of the Outlaws in retaliation for the death of John Cleave Webb.

[253] On February 11, 2015, SWAT officers and Riverside County Sheriff's Department deputies raided the Hells Angels clubhouse on West 19th Street in San Bernardino, serving a gang-related warrant and arresting one member of the club.