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Denver will pay $50,000 to settle claims filed after police raided a Hells Angels clubhouse in the summer of 2001 and detained other members of the motorcycle gang at a swap meet early this year. City officials also drafted a letter of apology. The settlement was reached with 18 people - 11 involved in a federal lawsuit filed after the raid of the Hells Angels clubhouse northwest of downtown, and seven others who were detained and questioned by police earlier this year. "Hopefully, this will send a message to the Denver Police Department that they can't stereotype people," said David...

TAMPA -- The man considered the top Outlaw Motorcycle Club member in the world set out to claim Florida and other states as territory in a decades-long "campaign of terror," federal prosecutors told a jury Tuesday. Through killings, bombings and intimidation, Harry "Taco" Bowman commanded his legions of bikers and lived by the credo, "Snitches are a Dying Breed," Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Kunz told jurors in opening statements at Bowman's racketeering trial. "What this case is not about is individuals who have chosen a different lifestyle, wear long hair, ride motorcycles and want to be left alone," Kunz said....

Phish's Mike Gordon ArrestedBassist booked for child endangerment Mike Gordon Phish bassist Mike Gordon, 38, was arrested Monday, August 11th, on charges of child endangerment after he was found with a nine-year-old girl in a secluded boathouse during a show by the Dead in Jones Beach, New York. According to a statement released by Major Richard O'Donnell of the New York State Park Police, Gordon was charged with a misdemeanor count of child endangerment and trespassing. "The arrest was the result of a complaint by the mother of a nine-year-old girl," reads the statement. "The mother became concerned when she...

One man was wounded and dozens arrested Tuesday morning in law enforcement raids statewide that targeted outlaw bikers suspected of bomb-making, murder for hire and narcotics violations. Carlos Baixauli, an agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said more than 500 law enforcement officers took part in the operation, serving warrants on 18 Hells Angels Motorcycle Club members and associates. ... Baixauli said Tuesday morning's raids culminated a two-year investigation by Phoenix police and BATFE agents who infiltrated criminal gangs with three undercover officers that led to 14 indictments. Thirty-five search warrants and 36 arrest warrants...

Man injured in raid targeting gun, drug trafficking and worse 07/08/2003 By News Channel 3 / azfamily.com Staff PHOENIX -- More than 500 federal, state and local law enforcement officers armed with 40 search warrants and 36 arrest warrants fanned out across Arizona Tuesday . Tom Mangan, spokeman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, said the raids are the culmination of a two-year undercover investigation targeting firearms trafficking, drug trafficking, bomb-making and murder-for-hire. Mangan says officers intended to seize machine guns, bombs, bomb-making materials and drugs during the raids, which focused in part on outlaw motorcycle gangs....

Hells Angels 'offended' to be linked to terrorism Authorities seized 'colours' at airport, then dropped case Adrian Humphreys National Post Thursday, January 16, 2003 The secretive airport seizure from a member of the Hells Angels that led prosecutors to consider charges under the Anti-Terrorism Act was simply the biker's jacket with the gang's insignia stitched to the back, the National Post has learned. The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club conducted an "internal investigation" after reports that an item seized from a Quebec member at Montreal's Dorval airport raised the spectre of the world's most notorious motorcycle gang being linked to terrorist...

VICTORIA, B.C. — It could have been an unprecedented law-enforcement victory: Last year's seizure by U.S. agents of more than 2½ tons of pure cocaine aboard a Canadian fishing boat off Washington's Cape Alava was the biggest drug bust ever in the Pacific Northwest. But more than 16 months later, no one has been arrested or charged with a crime in the United States or Canada. The boat's captain — caught carrying more cocaine than is usually seized in all of Canada in a year — is protected from prosecution by the very system he betrayed. And Canadian drug investigators...