[179] Shepherd allegedly admitted his guilt in the killing to his lawyer Steven Gore. Travelling the country at government expense, Tait made documented purchases of weapons, explosives and drugs from the Hells Angels. [197] Twenty-one of those were arrested during large-scale raids involving approximately 200 federal agents on the day of the indictments. The case was the result of a months-long investigation into the chapter by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), IRS Criminal Investigation and two local police departments. Man Convicted of Quadruple Slayings in Hells Angels Trial, Mendocino County man accused of killing 5-year-old in 1986 slaying of ex-member, family, Feeling of betrayal leads Hell's Angel to turn informant, Two Hells Angels held in quadruple killing, Applause Break Out When Hells Angel Gets Life In Killing Of Family, Conspirator sentenced in Hells Angels '86 slayings. Rather than grab ahold of Jesse or land a haymaker, he rammed Jesse in the chest and knocked him backward. [62], Nine members and associates of the San Diego Hells Angels chapter were indicted on narcotic and weapon violation charges in December 1990. [73][74] Hunter was stabbed to death. A Vacaville man who is a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club's Vallejo chapter pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to being a felon in possession of a firearm and faces as much as 10 . An informant had led investigating detectives to the location of the automobile in which Long's corpse was found. [162] Although police surmised at the time that Tate's death was connected to the River Run riot, a fatal confrontation between members of the Hells Angels and the Mongols which occurred in Laughlin, Nevada earlier that day,[163] the homicide has gone unsolved. The organization of the Peckerwoods Motorcycle Club is similar to larger motorcycle clubs, including the Hells Angels MC and Mongols MC. [91] Alvin Prater was allegedly killed over the theft of an engine block from a Harley-Davidson motorcycle belonging to a Hells Angels member. [92] Brandes' first trial ended in a mistrial in July 1980[94] as did the retrial in February 1981. [20], A group of Hells Angels members, as well as some of their girlfriends, were charged in connection with a fight which broke out during a birthday celebration at a cafe in San Francisco in September 1965. The OPP hopes to educate the public in the next year about the dangers of supporting outlaw motorcycle gangs and their activities, he added. According to prosecutors, Garrett had ordered the killings of Compton and her daughters in retaliation for her testimony without approval from the HAMC. [8] Barger was paroled on November 3, 1977, after serving four-and-a-half years of his sentence. [5], On March 6, 1977, a woman was allegedly stripped of her clothing, beaten and forced to ingest LSD by Hells Angels members and their girlfriends at the residence of the club's San Diego chapter president. View club history, patch, The Devils Ride involvement and more. Johnson's girlfriend, Linda Sue Osborne, was also charged in the case. Membership - 2500 (5000+ globally) Major Presence - California. Thompson claimed that the Aryan Brotherhood had been approached by the Hells Angels leadership in California to carry out the murders but had turned down the contract because of their unwillingness to kill children. [28] Friedli was convicted of maintaining a place for the unlawful use of marijuana, and unlawful possession of a firearm by a former felon. On November 19, five Hells Angels members led by the club's reputed national leader Sonny Barger held a press conference at their bail bondsman's office, announcing that the club would not attend the protest the following day as "Any physical encounter would only produce sympathy for this mob of traitors", according to Barger. Hells Angels members clash with a group of anti-Vietnam protesters at the border of Berkeley and Oakland, Calif. A violent melee broke out when 35 members of the motorcycle gang broke through barricades and attacked demonstrators. [167], A two-year ATF investigation of the HAMC resulted in the arrests of twenty-six club members in the San Fernando Valley, San Francisco and Ventura County on December 3, 2003, on racketeering charges filed at the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada and stemming from the River Run riot. [28] On February 18, 1967, thirteen Hells Angels members, including "Berdoo" chapter president Otto Friedli, and eight women were arrested on drug and weapons possession charges when 27 officers of the Sheriff's Department vice squad and special enforcement unit, and the California Highway Patrol raided the ranch. Marsh was taken into custody in Manteca on June 27, and Shepherd was apprehended by San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department deputies and California Highway Patrol troopers on Route 60 on July 26 after a high-speed chase through Chino and Ontario. [5], Members of the San Bernardino Hells Angels chapter, along with bikers from the Glendale chapter of the Mongols, the Straight Satans of Venice, and the Glendale Night Riders, committed a sexual assault on a fifteen year-old girl in August 1972. The conflict would result in the deaths of four Mongols members and an innocent fifteen-year-old boy. But, there Fuzzy is, big as life, ordering the two clubs around like he just rolled in from the 1%er mountaintop. Two of Garceau's acquaintances, Greg Rambo and Larry Tom Whittington, disposed of the bodies by placing them inside a hollow bedroom dresser which was then buried beneath a layer of concrete in the yard behind Rambo's residence in Shandon. During this investigation agents and detectives prevented a kidnapping. [6] The West Coast faction of the HAMC has also been especially active in the infiltration of legitimate businesses, including motorcycle and automobile services, catering operations, bars, restaurants, and antique stores. She was also shot by Lester post-mortem. This patch is eerily similar to the patch used by the Hells Angels support club, the Red Devils MC. [3][4], There are more Hells Angels chapters in California than in any other U.S. The incident, for which Lester spent four years in state prison, was reportedly the result of a dispute over $5,000 worth of methamphetamine.[111]. The convictions effectively dismantled the chapter. [93] The initial trial ended in a mistrial in July 1980[94] as did the subsequent retrial in February 1981. 3 talking about this. The HAMC clubhouse in El Cajon was raided as part of the operation. SAN DIEGO - Obediah Breer, Escondido resident and member of the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang, was sentenced yesterday in federal court to 12 years in prison for distributing methamphetamine. [113] Waring, a tow truck driver who worked as an informant for California Highway Patrol detectives for over ten years,[114] was convicted of first-degree murder on October 12, 2001 and sentenced to two consecutive life prison terms without the possibility of parole on February 8, 2002. No copying of the Death Heads or any content here is permitted. [33] The Hells Angels subsequently abandoned the Gray Ranch. The Hells Angels are dangerous fighters. The incident followed a series of shootings and attempted murders between the clubs over the previous eight months in Orange and Los Angeles counties. [62], Los Angeles Hells Angels member and methamphetamine manufacturer Robert Frederick Garceau stabbed to death his girlfriend Maureen Bautista and her fourteen-year-old son Telesforo in a Bakersfield apartment on September 6 or 7, 1984 after Bautista threatened to inform her former lover, drug dealer Eddie Nash, of Garceau's whereabouts and drug operation. McClure was convicted of quadruple murder and sentenced to four consecutive life terms on July 30, 1994. He was also charged with three counts of attempted capital murder after he used his vehicle to ram the car of the police officers who arrested him. Webb, the president of the Anchorage HAMC chapter, who was shot and killed by two Outlaws members outside a bar in Jefferson County, Kentucky on August 12, 1986. LaBand of West Covina. Nevada - SPARKS, Nev. - Officials know who killed . The warrant was based on an incident in which Breer was alleged to have brandished a firearm during a traffic encounter with other motorists on August 5, 2018, and then evaded police officers in a subsequent chase. [49] English was allegedly killed on the orders of senior San Francisco Bay Area Hells Angels member Kenneth Jay "K.O." Support 81 DC - SYL81.com New items View all Items 19th Annual Harvest Run Short Sleeve Tee From $ 25.00 Hi-Vis Support Bar & Shield Short Sleeve Tee $ 25.00 Support DC Baseball Style Long sleeve Tee $ 25.00 Support DC Fast Pack Hoodie $ 45.00 Featured Collections View all Collections Accessories [191], Hells Angels member James Vincent Dickson was among five people arrested after a shooting at the Third Street Tavern in Highland on November 6, 2021, which left three people injured, including two of the suspects. [63], On June 25, 2019, Modesto Hells Angels chapter president Randy Picchi, his wife Tina Picchi, Michael Mize, and club prospect Michael Pack were arrested and charged with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. I don't take that from anybody in the streets, and I sure ain't gonna take that from him. [44] The charges were later dismissed, although he was sentenced to ten years in prison after being convicted of the shooting of a bartender on January 26, 1971. [7] Additionally, the California Hells Angels have associated in criminal ventures with the Aryan Brotherhood,[8] the Mexican Mafia,[9] and the Nazi Lowriders. Sonny Barger, founder of Hells Angels, has died at 83. [102] Although police at the time suspected two or three possible motives,[103] the murders have never been solved. Mark Alan Toycen, the ex-Master-At-Arms for the Hells Angels in San Diego, pleaded guilty earlier to conspiracy to commit . Did mans slaying in California trigger Nevada motorcycle gang shooting? Misterly's supporters told The Sacramento Bee that his "harassment techniques" were "instrumental in the breakup of the Hells Angels", however. According to Barger's chief attorney James Crew, Ivaldi himself was involved in the conspiracy to kill Agero and, knowing he was a prime suspect and fearing retaliation from the "Texas Mafia", he tried to shift the blame to the Hells Angels. He was granted immunity from prosecution in the Grondalski case other than for the murders in return for his testimony, and also hoped for a reduced sentence in the drug case. [5], Four police officers were fired and another four were suspended as a result of a brawl between policemen and Hells Angels members outside the HAMC clubhouse in Oakland on April 2, 1978. [29] The arrests were largely uneventful, although one Hells Angel, David Friedli, had to be restrained when he attacked a photographer from The Sun-Telegram. A former Hells Angels member on Tuesday agreed to a plea deal in the 2011 fatal shooting that was captured on a surveillance video at the San Jose funeral of a leader of the motorcycle group, a . A man accused of being a methamphetamine dealer and associate of the San Diego Chapter of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang was sentenced this week in U.S. District Court to more than 20 years in . [21] He went on to read out a telegram sent to President Lyndon B. Johnson, reading "I volunteer a group of loyal Americans for behind the line duty in Vietnam. [150] The 1982 made-for-television film Hear No Evil was based on the incident. Chad Wilson, a former Hells Angel in San Diego, then Haney, joined the biker gang's newest chapter when it formed last year. Nash had previously paid Garceau to fulfill a contract which he failed to perform, and Nash was subsequently searching for Garceau. [205] The operation, involving approximately a thousand law enforcement personnel, resulted in the arrests of a total of 133 Hells Angels members and associates during around fifty raids in eleven states, and the seizure of $2 million in cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamine, hashish, PCP and LSD, as well as weapons including Uzi submachine guns and rocket launchers. [17] Among numerous incidents of violence, a group of bikers allegedly stormed Sierra View District Hospital in an attempt to continue a fight with G.E. [159], The feud between the Hells Angels and the Mongols was reactivated when 50 to 100 members of the rival clubs clashed at a motorcycle trade show in Long Beach on February 10, 1989, resulting in San Bernardino Hells Angels chapter sergeant-at-arms Aristeo Andres "Art" Carbajal being stabbed to death and several others wounded. Four boys aged three to six, who were the children of Hells Angels members, were sent to juvenile hall. Hells Angels MC Nomads - 1980. [193][194] In an incident that law enforcement theorized was carried out in retaliation for Dickson's killing, six Vagos and one Hells Angel were injured when a group of Angels opened fire on Vagos bikers on U.S. Route 95 in Henderson, Nevada on May 29, 2022. [70][71][72] As the song began, a man in the audience, Meredith Hunter, was allegedly harassed, then violently pushed back by the Hells Angels. There are also the Hells Henchmen, who are based mainly around the Chicago area and have connections with the Hells Angels and were involved in a dispute with the Outlaws MC in 1994 which resulted in their clubhouse being bombed. Ryan said the San Diego chapter - dubbed Dago - is regarded highly within the 300 worldwide Hells Angels branches and is of strategic importance because of its proximity to the Mexican border. Despite his testimony, both Gilbert and Beyea were convicted of second-degree murder on August 17, 1972. [176], Oakland Hells Angels chapter vice-president Michael O'Farrell was killed after being stabbed in the neck, chest and back, and shot four times from behind at a San Leandro bar on June 6, 1989. The accusation, according to investigators, is Fuller stabbed the Mongol member in the. [175], On May 21, 2017, Mongols member Joshua Herbert exited a car driven by another, unidentified, man and opened fire with a revolver on a group of five Hells Angels members who were refuelling their motorcycles at a Shell gas station in Riverside, killing Orange County Hells Angel James Duty and wounding another. [50] Members of the Aryan Brotherhood attempted to shoot Crabtree and also interrogated his friends in an effort to collect the bounty. His successor as San Francisco chapter president, "Flash" Gordon Gary Grow, operated a brothel in partnership with Odis "Buck" Garrett, president of the nomads chapter in Vallejo. I Was a Hells Angel for 40 Years. 43 Rules Hells Angels Members Have To Follow. Hells Angels president Douglas Chester (Dutch) Schultz, 32, was sentenced to five years in prison Monday for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamines and using a telephone to facilitate a drug transaction. Hells Angels MC Hells End - 2006. Mongols gang members attacked a Hells Angels member in 2005 at a Toys-for-Tots charity ride at a Chuck-E-Cheese in San Diego, stealing his Hells Angels attire. SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A member of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang accused of fatally stabbing a rival at a Hillcrest taco shop last year pleaded not guilty to . Sonny Barger, the leather-clad fixture of 1960s counterculture and figurehead of the notorious Hells Angels motorcycle club who was at the notorious Rolling Stones concert at Altamont Speedway,. [61] Over forty witnesses including former Aryan Brotherhood council member Michael "Iron Mike" Thompson testified during each of the trials, held in Hillsboro, Oregon. [143], San Jose Police Department (SJPD) sergeant John Kracht survived an attempt on his life when a bomb detonated near his car on February 19, 1977. The iconic biker's death, reportedly caused by a"brief battle" with cancer, was announced in a statement on his official Facebook page . [46] John Joseph Devaney, Long's former husband, was found dead in a car in Hayward on June 14 in an apparent suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. [126] McClure's alleged accomplice in the murders, fellow Hells Angels associate Benjamin Wai "Psycho" Silva, was never charged in the case; prosecutors felt it wasn't worth the expense and effort as he was already awaiting execution at San Quentin State Prison for the 1981 kidnapping, rape, torture and murder of two college students in Lassen County. Motorcycle parts such as handlebars and tail pipes were used as weapons in the melee, which ended when officers from four local police departments and the Orange County Sheriff's Department arrived at the scene approximately five minutes after the fighting began and bikers began to flee. [183][184], On October 26, 2001, a fight between a small group of Hells Angels and Vagos escalated into a mass brawl involving up to 80 participants at a motorcycle swap meet held at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa. [192] On April 24, 2022, Dickson was killed and three others were wounded in a shooting at the Marquis Lounge in San Bernardino. Sept. 6, 2013 12 AM PT A leader of the San Diego chapter of the Hells Angels was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple felonies, including solicitation of. [52] Schultz was sentenced to five years in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and using a telephone to facilitate a drug transaction on June 30, 1986. The U.S. Department of Justice says the Hells Angels now have as many as 2,500 members in 230 chapters in 26 countries, and are a major source of drug-trafficking. [5], A woman was allegedly gang raped by four members of the San Diego chapter of the Hells Angels on July 27, 1969. [34] On September 6, 1964, two girls, aged fourteen and fifteen, were allegedly taken from their dates and gang raped by Hells Angels members. Fairgrounds Swap Meet, "Jeffrey Pettigrew Obituary San Jose, CA | Mercury News", https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ibwgOdMW4HST2knpL-hAZ-VFCagg?docId=e7d3b66d21384619a5bf7aa134859fb4, "Documents: Biker from another San Jose gang shot Hells Angel chief in back The Mercury News", "UCSF police take man into custody in connection with Hells Angels homicide - San Jose Mercury News", "Police: Hells Angels funeral shooter may be dead", 5 arrested following shooting at Highland bar, 1 dead, 4 injured in San Bernardino lounge shooting, James Dickson identified as man killed in San Bernardino bar shooting that wounded 4 others, California killing cited in Henderson bikers shooting case. The Lynch Report, compiled over a six-month period and released on March 15, 1965, detailed various alleged crimes committed by the club, such as assault, robbery, forgery, car theft and trafficking in narcotics. [27], Members and associates of the Hells Angels in Sacramento, San Diego and the San Francisco Bay Area were arrested and charged with racketeering and drug trafficking on May 2, 1985, as part of Operation Roughrider, a three-year FBI investigation into the club. [59] Former Winston-Salem chapter officer Charles Terry Norman testified against members of his former club in the case, which also resulted in the convictions of Carl Dulinsky and Harris Blane Shimel. The photo below is from the 1965 Oakland Hells Angels Dance, featuring the President of every California Chapter, except Rex Cardenas from San Diego, and including Lil John who was President of the Satans Slaves at the time. Police say Canadian Hells Angels are banned from wearing that patch. [97] Three former Hells Angels later told investigators that Robles was killed by a fellow club member, Douglas Chester "Dutch" Schultz, with approval from the Oakland "mother chapter" during an internal dispute. SAN DIEGO A high-ranking Hells Angels member and accused murderer who allegedly controlled methamphetamine sales in Ocean Beach and Point Loma before his arrest two years ago was. On February 13, 2007, Eunice was sentenced to two-and-a-half years' imprisonment and Foakes was sentenced to twelve months',[171] while Hannigan was sentenced to two years' on February 23, 2007. Compton contacted law enforcement after she was beaten and raped by a patron, resulting in Garrett being indicted on felony morality charges. 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[119] In 1992, he was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment after being convicted of assault with a deadly weapon and dissuading a witness by threats for the beating of his wife at a hamburger stand. Big D, a member of the San Bernardino, a.k.a, "Berdoo" Hells Angels, during a ride from San Bernardino to Bakersfield, California, 1965. . Following the seizure, search warrants were served on the residences of all known members of the Los Angeles Hells Angels. A swastika flag and a picture of Adolf Hitler, with the inscription "Hitler is alive, our buddy", were also found on the premises. Crabtree testified in front of a grand jury that he and two Hells Angels Kenneth Owen and Sergey Walton, the Oakland chapter president stole bottles of phenyl-2-propanone and enough glassware to build five methamphetamine laboratories during a heist at a local chemical company in January 1977. [69] By the time The Rolling Stones took stage, numerous incidents of violence had occurred both between the Hells Angels and internally within the crowd, not the least of which featured a circus performer weighing over 350 pounds stripping naked and running amok amid the concertgoers. Hells Angels MC Darkside - 2013. [88] The victim in the case died of a heroin overdose two days after attorney Hugh Comisky, who was retained as counsel for one of the accused, inadvertently revealed her home address during pretrial proceedings. His testimony led Mendocino County deputies to a ranch, owned by former Oakland Hells Angels chapter vice-president George J. [138] Diaz was convicted of first-degree murder on May 5, 2004, and sentenced to serve twenty-six-years to life in state prison on June 10, 2004. He returned, producing a handgun. Eventually, the irate man was subdued after Angels intervened with fists and makeshift weapons, while a crowd of 4,0005,000 looked on from the edge of the stage. [154] Fourteen of those arrested were "patch holding" members of the San Diego chapter. In the spring of 1965, James "Mother" Miles, the founding president of the Sacramento Hells Angels, disbanded the chapter and relocated it to Richmond, where its members joined forces with Hells Angels from the San Francisco Bay Area to form a Nomads chapter. [8] On January 30, 1978, Zerby was seriously injured and deafened as a result of an explosive device detonated as he was entering a vehicle parked in front of his home in Vallejo. [188] Cesar Villagrana, who had been with Pettigrew, was charged with discharging a firearm and other offenses. [164], Seventeen members and associates of the Hells Angels in San Diego County were arrested on June 11, 2003, as a result of a two-year investigation into drug trafficking and racketeering. 1948. Garrett was additionally charged with continuing criminal enterprise, money laundering and conspiracy to distribute eleven pounds of methamphetamine to the club's Winston-Salem, North Carolina chapter. [105], Three members of the Hells Angels' Los Angeles chapter were arrested on January 6, 1978, in connection with the theft of two thousand pounds of dynamite, which was stolen from a construction site in San Diego County in September 1977. [11], Hells Angels member Obediah Breer was arrested on state charges on August 15, 2018, when a police SWAT team executed a search warrant on his Escondido residence and discovered cocaine, methamphetamine, pharmaceutical pills and a firearm. Other charges included Hitlerism, marijuana possession and theft. [5] Police discovered files on every Hells Angels member in the United States and Europe at his residence. [173], In 2008, Mark "Papa" Guardado, the president of the San Francisco chapter, was shot dead after a bar fight in the Mission District of San Francisco. Baker and Shull had been beaten and strangled to death by Pifer and other members of the club's Richmond chapter after being spiked with LSD at a party on January 15, 1971,[78] while the woman was killed by a gunshot to the head. September 25, 2011, 7:35 AM. Two employees of Schultz's limousine service, Gerald Robert Ladley and Thomas Longnecker, were also charged with distributing methamphetamine from the business. A prosecution witness, Richard Ivaldi, testified that he witnessed Barger shoot Agero dead as he slept at the home of an absent acquaintance, and that Barger subsequently ordered the others to set fire to the residence. A 26-year-old Oshawa woman, a 32-year-old Oshawa man . A man was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a police officer, and two injured people were treated at the scene. [78] Richmond chapter president "Rotten" Richard Allen Barker was convicted of first-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of Baker and Schull in 1975. [28], Approximately 300 Hells Angels descended on Monterey during Labor Day Weekend 1964 for the purpose of raising funds among themselves to transport the body of a former member, who was killed in an accident, back to his mother in North Carolina. [155] Six sticks of dynamite were discovered attached to the vehicle of a San Diego Mongols member on October 11, 1977. [204] Six people were arrested including San Francisco chapter president Gary Kautzman and forty firearms were confiscated in the Bay Area. [110], A Hells Angels member was hospitalized with a skull fracture and multiple abrasions when he was beaten unconscious by a group of bar patrons after he brandished a hunting knife following a disagreement with another patron at an East San Diego bar on January 26, 1975. The Grateful Dead were also scheduled to perform but cancelled at the last minute owing to the ensuing circumstances at the venue. The Hells Angels member, 53-year-old John Fuller of Northeast Ohio, would later die after being shot. Castiglione was sentenced to seventy months' imprisonment on September 22, 2005,[166] and Toycen was sentenced to fourteen years' on July 28, 2006. "Baby Huey" Wethern and his wife Helen, near Ukiah, where they discovered the bodies of two club prospects Charles "Charlie" Baker and Thomas Shepherd "Big Tom" Shull and an unidentified woman in abandoned wells on October 30 and November 1, 1972. SONOMA Nearly three years after 11 Hells Angels were accused of a range of violent crimes in a federal indictment, prosecutors have finally detailed the most sinister allegations against. [84] On April 5, 1973, Moran was convicted of the murder of Baker and acquitted of Shull's murder. [35] The incident prompted an investigation into the Hells Angels and other motorcycle gangs by the Attorney General of California. It was also unclear if members of the Mongols, who also attended the swap meet, became involved. After an Angel's motorcycle was toppled, club members' tempers continued to escalate, their ire spread wide between the audience and performers alike. Garrett, who oversaw what prosecutors described as the largest methamphetamine manufacturing and distribution case in the United States, made millions of dollars from distributing thousands of kilograms of the drug. "[22] President Johnson did not reply to the letter. He was sentenced on January 23, 1998, to four life terms at the maximum-security Pelican Bay State Prison. The club later reinstated him, however, as they had unknowingly violated their national charter by expelling an incarcerated member. [37] James Ezekiel "Jim-Jim" Brandes, vice-president and enforcer for the Oakland HAMC chapter, was charged with the attempted murder of Kracht as well as other crimes as part of a racketeering case against the club in June 1979. [160], Hells Angels member Christian Harvey Tate was killed when several gunshots fired from another vehicle struck him in the back while he was riding his motorcycle on Interstate 40 near Ludlow on April 27, 2002. [18][19], 48 Hells Angels members and their girlfriends were arrested at their clubhouse on San Francisco's Folsom Street on December 5, 1964, on charges of robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, possession of marijuana, contributing to the delinquency of a minor (three of the girls were alleged to be underage), aiding suspected felons, and the alleged rape of a twenty-five-year-old woman, who claimed she was assaulted on the premises the day before. 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