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"Police Fear Retaliatory Attack, Vow Crackdown On Gangs (Biker Gangs In Maine)"
Bangor Daily News ^ | April 21, 2005 | Bangor Daily News
Posted on 04/22/2005 2:48:42 AM PDT by MisterRepublican
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "PORTLAND, Maine — Portland police fear that a shooting this week at a tattoo parlor may have been the prelude to a turf war among motorcycle gangs and are planning a crackdown in hopes of preventing further violence.
Police Chief Michael Chitwood said he is boosting patrols in anticipation of a retaliatory attack following the shooting Tuesday of a 58-year-old Denmark man at the Portland Tattoo Shop. The bullet grazed the victim's groin before passing through his leg.
Police believe the shooting was a premeditated attack by members of the Outlaws motorcycle gang on a group believed to be allied with Hell's Angels."
FBI Probing Reports Of Fake Hospital Inspectors-WP
NEW YORK --The FBI and other law enforcement agencies are looking into incidents in which people masquerading as unannounced inspectors were found poking around three hospitals in Boston, Detroit and Los Angeles, the Washington Post reported in its Friday editions.
In each case the impostors were stopped by security guards or hospital staff, and then either left or were expelled, the Post reported. No one has been arrested, and neither the identity of the intruders nor their motives are known, the Post reported.
"There is no working hypothesis. It could be any number of things, from identity theft to something more nefarious," an FBI spokesman, who declined to be named, said, according to the Post.
The Department of Homeland Security is also "aware of these suspicious reports," said Brian Roehrkasse, a department spokesman, the Post reported. He added the agency does not have "any intelligence information that indicates al Qaeda is planning an attack or targeting hospitals," according to the Post report.