Laughlin Casino Biker Fight
The Hells Angels members brawled with rival Mongols biker gang members at a 2002 motorcycle rally in Laughlin, a Colorado River resort town some 100 miles south of Las Vegas. Two Hells Angels.
LAS VEGAS — Videotape images show rival motorcycle gang members wielding guns, knives, wrenches, and chairs in a brawl that killed three and injured at least a dozen in a southern Nevada casino in 2002.
The footage is among hundreds of hours of videotape jurors may view during the trial of 11 Hells Angels charged in the deadly casino brawl.
— An escalating turf battle between rival motorcycle gangs erupted into a shootout at a casino Saturday morning, killing three people, sending panic-stricken gamblers diving for. The River Run riot was a violent confrontation between the Hells Angels and the Mongols motorcycle clubs that occurred on April 27, 2002, in Laughlin, Nevada during the Laughlin River Run. — A civil court jury has found Harrah's Laughlin liable for injuries suffered by bystanders when a deadly brawl broke out between rival biker gangs during a popular motorcycle.
Federal prosecutors were expected yesterday to tell jurors that the bikers plotted to attack the rival Mongols gang at the Harrah's Laughlin hotel-casino after years of friction erupted into violence at a crowded motorcycle rally.
They are the first of 42 men — from California, Washington, Arizona, Alaska, and Nevada, and ranging in age between 28 and 63 — to stand trial in the brawl. All face the possibility of life in prison if convicted of the most serious charge, racketeering-attempted murder.
Each has pleaded not guilty, and defense lawyers have said the men will argue that they were attacked first.
'The tapes are going to reveal clearly that the Hells Angels were threatened and were engaged in lawful self-defense,' a lawyer, David Chesnoff, who represents a defendant, Calvin Schaefer of Chandler, Ariz., said.
Mr. Chesnoff has argued previously that police knew trouble was brewing and that federal agents missed a chance to prevent violence at the 2002 Laughlin rally, an annual event that draws tens of thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts to the Colorado River resort town about 100 miles southeast of Las Vegas.
Two Hells Angels were shot to death and a Mongols member died of stab wounds at the event.
Another Hells Angels member was later found shot to death near his wrecked Harley-Davidson motorcycle on Interstate 40 in California, about 100 miles from Laughlin.
Court officials say the trial could take three months or more, with 11 defense lawyers questioning witnesses.
Federal prosecutors declined comment Monday through a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Las Vegas.One defendant in the case remains a fugitive.
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Laughlin Casino Biker Fight
As promised, the Sons of Silence Drug Trafficking Gang began the systematic
annihilation of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club beginning with pitting rival
motorcycle club members against Hells Angels Club Members gambling in Laughlin,
NV during the annual Laughlin, NV River Run motorcycle gathering. This one
incident spells just the beginning for the end of the entire Hells Angels
Motorcycle Club. The most famous Hells Angel in their history, Sonny Barger,
had been forewarned of the pending destruction of his former mates in the Hells
Angels Motorcycle Club. Barger apparently spread the word of the impending
assaults on Hells Angels members sparking the attacks in Laughlin which ended
with three dead and twelve injured.
The Denver based Sons of Silence drug gang is enforcing a vendetta against the
Hells Angels as the result of former Hells Angel Sonny Barger's misuse of Angel
resources from clear back in the early 1970s. Far from the 'final assault' on
Hells Angels Club members as predicted, this attack by rival motorcycle club
members represents just the beginning for the end of the International Hells
Angels Motorcycle Club whose extermination is being orchestrated by the Sons of
Silence.
Laughlin Casino Biker Fight Video
The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, who along with their biker counterparts,
proudly display their colors in full view for all to see, are no match for the
Sons of Silence whose membership is secret and whose members are all former
children of the original members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club across the
American Midwest and Rocky Mountains. The identity of the Sons of Silence,
whose name means much more than any mechanically thinking mind can comprehend,
are not known to even one member of law enforcement nor has any Sons of Silence
member ever been apprehended by law enforcement. The name Sons of Silence was
originally coined from the SS symbol of the former Nazi secret police feared in
Germany during WW II. The more law enforcement searches for the Sons of
Silence, the more they find themselves completely frustrated with their search
as no Sons of Silence member has ever been identified by law enforcement let
alone apprehended.