[1] John Ciccone, an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives who was present told the Canadian journalists Julian Sher and William Marsden: "They [the Mongols] just stood there and eye-fucked everybody.
[6] At about 9:30 pm on 26 April 2002, a group of Mongols went into the Golden Nugget casino to surround a Hells Angel motorcycle on display in the front lobby to prevent anyone from seeing it.
[8] Jay Buhr, a blackjack dealer remembered the exchange shortly after 2 am where the Hells Angel said: "We don't want to start this in here.
[9] A guest, Jeffery King, who had just arrived in the front lobby to check in was told by the Angels who stormed in: "Better get the fuck out of here because trouble is about to start".
"[10] Richard saw a man bleeding from a gunshot wound trying to push his bikers vest with the Mongol patch behind the slot machines.
[10] Another tourist, John Davidson, took cover under the gambling table along with his chips worth $1, 200 and had to pull down the blackjack dealer who stated: "She was screaming out of control".
[10] A blackjack dealer who had taken cover under the roulette wheel called her husband on her cell phone to ask if he was safe.
[10] Sher and Marsden wrote: "With little regard for innocent bystanders, the bikers went at each other like Vikings on a battlefield-and it was all captured on more than four hundred surveillance tapes".
[10] A Hells Angel, Cal Schaefer, was recorded by the cameras swinging a ball-peen hammer at two Mongols, to be followed by pulling out his handgun and firing several shots.
[13] After a Hells Angel emptied a round from his handgun and was in the process of reloading, Buhr shouted at him: "Hey buddy, get out of the pit because if somebody starts to shoot at you, all of the rest of us are in danger!
[15] The security cameras recorded the Mongols Enrique Muñoz staggering out from the casino bleeding from a bullet wound in his chest.
[15] Joining him were his fellow Mongols Davey Carmargo who had a bullet wound in his leg and Anthony Salvador Barrera who had been stabbed in the chest.
[19] Sher and Marsden wrote: "And while the Mongols fled, stuffing their vests in garbage cans and air vents to avoid being identified by the police after the battle, not a single Hells Angel took off his colours".
[1] The informant Michael Kramer recorded the Hells Angels West Coast Officers Meeting on 18 May 2002 in the clubhouse of the San Bernardino chapter.
[21] The attorney-general of Nevada wanted to prosecute the Hells Angels and Mongols as individuals while the federal government wanted to indict the Hells Angels and Mongols as criminal organizations under the Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering Activity act, which required proof that a person committed a violent crime in the service of a criminal organization.
A policeman who did not wished to be named told Sher and Marsden: "The U.S. district attorney was having problems with the state DA.
Plus, the homicide detectives with Las Vegas police were protecting what they had had, and you had an AFT office where no one had worked big cases and knew what direction to take it in".
[21] At the request of Thomas Allen, a detective with the Las Vegas police, the investigation of the riot was handed over to John Ciccone of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives who often handled biker-related cases.
[22] The Supreme Court of Nevada sided with motions by the lawyers for the Hells Angels that there were "major flaws" in the federal indictments under the Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering Activity act, and dismissed the charges.
[25] Frederick Donahue, one of the Hells Angels indicted after the incident, evaded capture for six years before surrendering in July 2008.