Diablos Motorcycle Club
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Founding location | San Bernardino, California [1] |
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Years active | 1964-present[citation needed] |
Territory | Southern California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Indiana |
The Diablos Motorcycle Club is a "one-percenter" outlaw motorcycle gang[2][3][4] in the United States with chapters in several cities.
On September 24, 1998, Diablo club member Raymond "Stoney" Stone and seven other members were charged with various crimes (including Stone's confession in his involvement in the 1992 murder of rival gang member Mike D'Amato of Wallingford, Connecticut's James Gang MC for which he would be sentenced to 20 years imprisonment).[5]
Keith Gallagher, the vice president of the Diablos' national chapter, was indicted on charges of cocaine trafficking on January 24, 2006.[2]
Diablos member Jerry Louis Fantauzzi was arrested on December 7, 2005, following a long-term investigation into the Diablos in Waterbury and Meriden, Connecticut. On November 20, 2006, he was sentenced to ten years imprisonment on charges of drug dealing.[6]
References
- ^ http://www.powersportsnetwork.com/motorcyclenewsdetail/id=1144/newsarticle1144.htm
- ^ a b Bauermeister, Alex (January 24, 2006), National Motorcycle Gang Vice President Indicted On Cocaine Distribution Charges (press release), Massachusetts Attorney General, archived from the original on 24 September 2006
- ^ Boyce, Brian M. (December 11, 2008), "U.S. District Court hands out 20 drug indictments", The Tribune-Star
- ^ "METRO NEWS BRIEFS: CONNECTICUT; Biker Gets 20 Years For Killing a Rival", The New York Times, September 26, 1998
- ^ Devito, Carlo. Encyclopedia of International Organized Crime. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2005. ISBN 0-8160-4848-7
- ^ Diablos Member Sentenced to 10 Years in Federal Prison