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Pagans Biker Gang Busted In Plot To Off Hells Angels

91510pagans.jpg In a page right out of the show "Sons of Anarchy," seventeen members of the motorcycle club The Pagans were arrested today in a plot to kill their arch-enemies, the Hells Angels. Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents arrested the members this morning at the alleged headquarters of the Long Island Pagans, the House of Tattooing in Rocky Point. They face charges of conspiracy to commit murder, assault (some using "axe handles, boots, billiard balls, and a pipe wrench"), distribution of cocaine and oxycodone, conspiracy to commit extortion and weapons charges (PDF).

Among those arrested were leaders John Richard Ebeling, Jr., who was the president of the Pagans Long Island chapter, and now oversees the activities of Pagan chapters around the east coast, and Jason "Roadblock" Blair, who succeeded Ebeling as president of the Long Island chapter in May. The club was infiltrated by ATF agents, including one who rose to the rank of Vice President in the club.

The Pagans have about 900 members in 44 chapters between New York and Florida, and are said to be having a resurgence in LI in recent years. Between 1999 and 2002, more than 100 members of the Pagans were convicted in federal prosecutions on Long Island, most stemming from a failed attack on the Hells Angels in 2002. Despite the apparent grizzly nature of the club, neighbors on LI were surprised at the arrests: "They were very peaceful," said Chris Grzymala, who runs Shore Line Insurance down the block from the tattoo parlor. "They are terrific neighbors," another neighbor told Newsday.

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  • MichaelGuy

    If the government realy wanted to stop drug sales and distribution it would make urine test for drugs a prerequisite to receive welfare/foodstamps, rent and utility aid etc.Today, Those who chose to be addicts can even get SSD disability checks so they can spend US taxpayer money, plus money borrowed from communist China, on drugs and alcohol. The dug cartels then take some of these profits and pay off ACLU lawyers and liberal politicians so that this system continues.  We have to pee in bottles for the honor of paying taxes and getting some left in our paychecks.  Or just legalize drugs , and let employers, drivers license centers and HHS welfare offices shut off tax payer financed drug use.
      Now the fashion is to pay agents to join motorcycle clubs while letting millions of illegal aliens, many of whom are carrying in drugs, into America. Perhaps that because illegal aliens also vote?

  • Michael

    Wow dgeee do you hells angels really think anyone is going to believe you low level street sewage that go out and pick up men to support you just to get by are a real criminal organization LOL You are a crimmal organization maybe but at a street level you freak. HA don't have connections they rat big difference.

  • dgeee

    I could be crazy, but I think the Angels work for the US government. How else can you manufacture and sell crystal, carry and sell weapons, kill people and get away it? And I'm not so sure the bungling of the govt. case against the Angels a few years ago wasn't an intentional screw up. They're an international network of drugs and gun runners- people that bad are usually taken down the way the mob was, but they are allowed to flourish. And it was started by former Korean War vets. Outlaw bikers my ass. The government has given them carte blanche and you've got to wonder why.

  • Michael

    The SILENT WAR No reporter or ATF agent wants to talk about. USA Hells angels VS the women and children of the USA >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> http://www.topix.com/forum/city/bellmore-ny/TMLJFK4IJK7MTD3B0

    Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=109476&tstart=0&start=100#ixzz0zhQgNnhE

  • Michael

    CHECK out the Hells angels BIG House Crew for DAVE BURGESS this is what all the 81 wearing freaks in the USA Help support . These 81 freaks are who the police should be taking off the streets.



    Hell's Angel & Nevada brothel owner Dave Burgess convicted of child pornography PDF Print E-mail

    Saturday, 19 July 2008

    Former brothel owner gets 15 years in child porn case

    Associated Press

    Las Vegas Review-Journal

    Jul. 19, 2008

    http://www.lvrj.com/news/25644904.html

    CHEYENNE, Wyo.-- A former Nevada brothel owner has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for his conviction on two child pornography charges in Wyoming.

    David Burgess was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court for possessing and transporting child pornography.

    U.S. District Judge Alan B. Johnson also sentenced the 55-year-old Hells Angel motorcycle club member to 10 years of supervision upon his release, lifetime registration as a sex offender and a fine of $20,000.

    Investigators found two hard drives containing thousands of images of child pornography in Burgess' motor home after a traffic stop last summer in western Wyoming. A jury convicted Burgess in April on both charges against him.

    Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=109476&tstart=0&start=60#ixzz0zf8FzknJ

  • robingee

    "You know you're dealing with da Vipers!"

  • Michael

    After reading a couple dozen news articles about the goofy pathetic freaks in the USA hells angels I conclude.

    As the USA hells angels seem to have declared War on the women and children of the USA the Fed is supporting and protecting hells angels when the fed should be going after the hells angels and the men that date hells angels.

    Leave the Bikers be go after the scumbag hells angel and the men that date hells angels in those freak 81 affiliate clubs.

    Remember its Dave Burgess the hells angel child porn convict leader busted with I think I read the largest child porn bust by the FBI and hells angels support this freaks on their big house crew.If these freaks in the 81 stop supporting dave will he talk on the whole USA hells angels clubs involvement with his child porn ? HMMM why do all these 81 wearing freaks support this scumbag Kiddie porn hells angel freak ?

    http://www.topix.com/forum/city/bellmore-ny/TMLJFK4IJK7MTD3B0



  • jaycjay

    I could never be a Pagan, because I'd be embarrassed to have to wear something with that blatant grammatical error.

    But I have met some of them. Some are kind of grizzly.

  • SonnyBobiche

    Can't we all just get along?

  • John L

    Great!

    Can the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives please do something about the gang situation here in NYC? Please.

    The NYPD is too busy filling their quotas to handle it.

  • Rocknrope

    "Despite the apparent grizzly nature of the club"

    Did you really mean to use this word, Ben, as in bear-like?

  • Michael

    After reading a couple dozen news articles about the goofy pathetic freaks in the USA hells angels I conclude.

    As the USA hells angels seem to have declared War on the women and children of the USA the Fed is supporting and protecting hells angels when the fed should be going after the hells angels and the men that date hells angels.

    Leave the Bikers be go after the scumbag hells angel and the men that date hells angels in those freak 81 affiliate clubs.

    Remember its Dave Burgess the hells angel child porn convict leader busted with I think I read the largest child porn bust by the FBI and hells angels support this freaks on their big house crew.If these freaks in the 81 stop supporting dave will he talk on the whole USA hells angels clubs involvement with his child porn ? HMMM why do all these 81 wearing freaks support this scumbag Kiddie porn hells angel freak ?

    http://www.topix.com/forum/city/bellmore-ny/TMLJFK4IJK7MTD3B0

  • Cannibal

    Are you guys done making out?

  • SonnyBobiche

    If you are implying some sort of homosexual behavior on the guys, it's a good thing that you are doing it from the safety and anonymity of the internet. Otherwise, these guys could show you their own version of weapons of ass destruction.

  • Rocknrope

    Actually wondering if he meant to use the word "grisly" instead of "grizzly." You're the one who jumped to the homosexual reference, which didn't even occur to me. Funny how it occurred to you so quickly....

  • Dogsbody

    Well I've learned something new today - I never knew there were two seperate words "grisly" and "grizzly". I always thought they were one and the same, and that Grizzly Bears were so named because they were capable of inflicting grizzly [sic] attacks on people. But now I know that an attack by a grizzly bear (a "grizzly attack", if you like), would actually be a grisly (i.e. gruesome or repulsive) attack.

    Grizzly can also mean "speckled with grey", especially with hair and beards. Which is true of many biker-types. So the club could be both grisly and grizzly.

  • jaycjay

    You even said "as in bear-like" so it was clear to me what you meant. But then, I didn't even know there was some meaning of the word that had homosexual connotations, so I wouldn't have assumed anything like that anyway.

    Can't find anything like that among the Urban Dictionary's definitions either.

  • eitan

    idiot 1: What you just said sounds gay.

    idiot 2: Fuck you, you're gay.

    idiot 1: Na uh, you are.

    idiot 2: What YOU said sounds gay.

    idiot 1: no it doesnt.

    idiot 2: yes it does.

  • Rocknrope

    You know how I know you're gay? I saw you make a spinach dip in a loaf of sourdough bread once.

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