[174] Christopher Bryan Ablett, a member of the rival Mongols MC club, was later arrested for Guardado's murder. [185] Investigators were unable to determine the amount of property damage and the number of people injured due to a lack of cooperation from witnesses. Hells Angels MC Gold Coast - 2012. Ernesto Manuel Gonzales was later arrested in San Francisco in connection with the death of Pettigrew. [205], On November 10, 1987, thirteen Hells Angels including Sonny Barger and his second-in-command, Michael O'Farrell were arrested on drugs, weapons, explosives and conspiracy charges during 26 raids carried out by 250 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and California State Police (CSP) personnel in the San Francisco Bay Area, which also resulted in the seizure of over a hundred weapons, more than $1 million in cash and narcotics, and three methamphetamine laboratories. Bo Bushnell, who has been collecting photo albums and biker gang items, told. [86], Theodore L. "Ted" DeWilde, president of the Vallejo Hells Angels chapter, was indicted on federal gun law violation charges in June 1973 after allegedly selling two dynamite bombs and a machine gun to an undercover federal agent. A swastika flag and a picture of Adolf Hitler, with the inscription "Hitler is alive, our buddy", were also found on the premises. I don't think anyone does if he's a man. Hells Angels Chief Soars as Buddies Fall: Gangs: George Christie Jr. has lectured in schools on ethics, sold his story to Hollywood and been acquitted of murder for hire. 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. A Mongols member in 2008 fatally stabbed the leader of the Hells Angels' San Francisco chapter. [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. Wethern and his wife were charged with drug and stolen property possession,[79] and four other Hells Angels Edward "Junior" Carter, Chester M. "Festus" Green, William Mark "Zorro" Mitten and William John Moran were charged with murder and accessory to murder. [11] O'Farrell was shot and stabbed to death by two men during a bar fight in San Leandro on June 6, 1989, while awaiting sentencing. Another Hells Angels member, Michael Musick, was wounded in the attack. I Was a Hells Angel for 40 Years. 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. When the Hells Angels buried a Harley-Davidson with their leader, Undercover Angels: Books: A celebrated case that virtually cleared Orange County of notorious bikers in the 70s is the subject of the new Chain of Evidence., Hells Angels brothers shot down in Modesto, Hells Angel, girlfriend found dead at home, Fellow Club Members May Have Killed Hells Angel, Police Say, Man Guilty of Killing Hells Angel, Girlfriend, Hells Angel member sentenced to 35 years to life. [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. Women - including one with a bandaged nose - hang out in a bar while . [82] While in protective custody on November 7, 1972, he attempted to blind himself by gouging pencils into his eyes before attempting to strangle his wife. [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. Vice-president Michael Shafer was charged with conspiring to distribute marijuana, conspiring to distribute heroin, distribution of marijuana, and two counts of use of a communication facility to facilitate a drug trafficking offense, and secretary Patrick Gonzales was charged with being a felon in possession of firearm and ammunition, while Ricky Blackwell was charged with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense, and possession of a firearm after suffering a misdemeanor domestic violence conviction. 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. [34] On September 6, 1964, two girls, aged fourteen and fifteen, were allegedly taken from their dates and gang raped by Hells Angels members. A documented member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club has been sentenced to five years behind bars for hitting a 60-year-old man during a hit-and-run accident in Oceanside, Calif. [99][100] $22,000 worth of cocaine and a quantity of LSD was also stolen from a safe at the house. 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. "[75], In 2005, after a two-year exhaustive cold-case renewal of the file, the Alameda County District Attorney's office permanently closed the case. Est. Misterly's supporters told The Sacramento Bee that his "harassment techniques" were "instrumental in the breakup of the Hells Angels", however. 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 . [154] Fourteen of those arrested were "patch holding" members of the San Diego chapter. A founder of the Hells Angels testified Thursday at a racketeering trial here for two former top leaders of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club that a man killed by Bandidos members in 2006 in Austin was . This gang has a large concentration in California. [5] With over 300 members statewide, the Hells Angels are the most significant motorcycle gang in California in terms of membership and criminal activity. Their structure consists of a president, vice president, sergeant at arms, secretary, treasurer, road captain, prospects, and hang-arounds. The Grateful Dead refused to play following the Balin incident, and left the venue. [95], Additionally, Garrett was a suspect in the possible homicide of Rhonda Lynn Yocom, a nineteen-year-old Filipina American woman who was last seen getting into a car with Garrett in Oroville on February 10, 1985, before she disappeared. 1948. [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. With Ryan was another B.C. During the opening act of Santana, the Hells Angels surged into the crowd numerous times to keep persons off stage. Laffing Devils MC are an outlaw motorcycle club in San Diego, California formed around 2006. Laurence Richard "Large Larry" Lajeunesse, a senior member of the Hells Angels' San Fernando Valley chapter, and his girlfriend Tammie Ann Brannigan were shot to death in the converted industrial garage in Chatsworth, Los Angeles where they lived on December 3, 1998 by Daniel Ray Waring, who was described by prosecutors as an aspirant Hells Angels member involved in a feud with Lajeunesse over methamphetamine dealing. [213] Barger and O'Farrell were convicted of conspiracy on October 28, 1988. [201] Eleven of those stood trial. [43] According to police intelligence reports, Barger had designated San Jose chapter president Fillmore Cross as his international successor during a motorcycle run at Bass Lake prior to his imprisonment. The suspects are identified as 33-year-old Dominic Guardado of San Francisco, 43-year-old Julio Moran of San Mateo, 38-year-old David Wiesenhaven of San Francisco, 37-year-old Logan Winterton, and . [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. Despite his testimony, both Gilbert and Beyea were convicted of second-degree murder on August 17, 1972. Hells Angels: Haney / San Diego: Chad is a full patch member of the Hells Angels from the Haney chapter and is formally from the San Diego chapter. Haas implicated Diaz and Lester in the murders after becoming a cooperating witness for the government in February 1994 while awaiting sentencing on a federal drug conviction relating to a large-scale methamphetamine ring in Virginia. The violence allegedly erupted when the bikers attacked two police officers who arrived at the establishment. [156] Another Hells Angel, Thomas Heath, was convicted in 1994 of two counts of second-degree murder for the killings of Hernandez and Jimenez. However, "Two attempts to prosecute club members under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ended in mistrials in the early 1980s." [61] Over forty witnesses including former Aryan Brotherhood council member Michael "Iron Mike" Thompson testified during each of the trials, held in Hillsboro, Oregon. 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The conflict would result in the deaths of four Mongols members and an innocent fifteen-year-old boy. [192] On April 24, 2022, Dickson was killed and three others were wounded in a shooting at the Marquis Lounge in San Bernardino. Two members were arrested and a police officer suffered a broken leg in the scuffle. [170] Three Californian Angels Maurice "Pete" Eunice, Raymond Foakes and James Hannigan were among the six club members convicted of committing a violent crime in the aid of racketeering following their extradition to Las Vegas, Nevada to face charges. On October 5, 1986, former Hells Angels member William Ivan "Billy" Grondalski, his wife Patricia ("Patty"), five-year-old daughter Dallas and seventeen-year-old stepson Nolan Jerami Vandagriff were murdered in their home near Fort Bragg by Gerald Michael "Butch" Lester and Charles Anthony "Chuck" Diaz, the president and vice-president, respectively, of the Vallejo Hells Angels chapter. Following the seizure, search warrants were served on the residences of all known members of the Los Angeles Hells Angels. Perhaps the best-known and most dangerous one-percenter in the US is Hells Angels. [44], In September 1972, Hells Angels member William "Whispering Bill" Pifer, who was suffering from terminal throat cancer while incarcerated at Alameda County jail in Oakland on various state and federal charges, offered police information on a Hells Angels burial ground in exchange for immunity from prosecution in order to spend the remainder of his life as a free man. [35] The incident prompted an investigation into the Hells Angels and other motorcycle gangs by the Attorney General of California. The fight began after two patrolmen began issuing citations for public drunkenness to the bikers, who had gathered to attend a meeting and a birthday party, and forty-one patrol cars later converged at the scene. [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. He was convicted of various conspiracy, possession, distribution, and interstate drug trafficking charges in June 1992 and was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole on September 28, 1992. 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. [27][62] Owen died July 4, 2016. Tankersley had been expelled from the Sonoma County Hells Angels in 1987 and fled the state to escape retribution from the club and also to avoid criminal prosecution. 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. [5] After testifying, Compton fled to a cottage in Gaston, Oregon, where she, her six-year-old twin daughters, Sylvia and Sandra, and Gary Seslar, the nineteen-year-old son of her boyfriend, were shot dead with a .22 caliber handgun after being bound with rope on August 7, 1977. [135] Tankersley also emerged as a witness in February 1996 when he was arrested in Arkansas on a fugitive warrant for assault charges he faced in Marin and Sonoma counties. 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. [66], One major event in Hells Angels' history involved the December 6, 1969 Altamont Free Concert at the Altamont Speedway partially documented in the 1970 film Gimme Shelter[67] featuring Jefferson Airplane, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and The Rolling Stones. [102] Although police at the time suspected two or three possible motives,[103] the murders have never been solved. [49] English was allegedly killed on the orders of senior San Francisco Bay Area Hells Angels member Kenneth Jay "K.O." [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. [128], In 1987, Garceau was sentenced to death in Kern County for the Bautista murders, and an additional thirty-three-years-to-life in Monterey County for Rambo's murder. [151][152], Two San Diego Hells Angels chapter prospects Robert Michael "Mexican Mike" Johnson and William Lester "Filthy Bill" Peters were charged with conspiring to murder San Diego County District Attorney's Office Organized Crime Unit investigator Raymond C. Morgan after being arrested while conducting surveillance of Morgan's residence in Poway on February 27, 1978. San Diego Hell's Angels, truck kills bicyclist near Pringle and Kettner Shredder circling down Community Concourse, particularities of I-15, life of San Diego transit driver, commuting. [39] At that time, the HAMC became involved in a drug war with the Gypsy Jokers in the San Francisco Bay Area. Due to his testimony, the attempted murder charges against him were reduced to three counts of aggravated assault, for which he was sentenced to serve six years' imprisonment, with three-and-a-half years suspended, concurrent to any sentence stemming from the assault charges in California, from which he ultimately escaped prosecution. On February 29, 1968, two other Hells Angels, Theodore Moses Medina and Ralph D. Ladd, were found guilty of marijuana possession. As part of the investigation, authorities seized a methamphetamine lab, along with various amounts of methamphetamine, marijuana and cocaine, as well as forty weapons including several assault rifles and evidence showing a conspiracy involving the Hades Rides and the Monterey Hells Angels chapter to distribute methamphetamine. An informant had led investigating detectives to the location of the automobile in which Long's corpse was found. Pettigrew was in Sparks for 'Street Vibrations', a long-running motorcycle festival in the Reno area. [104] The house in which Flamburis and Barrett were killed was burned down in an apparent arson on April 24, 1977. [133] The day after the murders, Lester and Sonoma County Hells Angels member "Big Arm" Charles Francis Haas returned to the home and set fire to it in an effort to destroy evidence. [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. According to informants, he was killed by the Hells Angels, who believed that he was cooperating with authorities. Castiglione was sentenced to seventy months' imprisonment on September 22, 2005,[166] and Toycen was sentenced to fourteen years' on July 28, 2006. Unauthorized reproduction is punishable by law. During this period, Hells Angels members would reportedly remove their "colors" before entering Sacramento County due to Misterly's hostility towards the club. [54], San Diego Hells Angels chapter president Guy Russell Castiglione and his girlfriend, Kathleen Rebecca Pirelli, were indicted on charges of conspiracy to possess two pounds of methamphetamine with intent to distribute after the drugs were found in Pirelli's purse during a search by U.S. Border Patrol agents at a Temecula checkpoint on May 13, 1989. [5] Days later, San Fernando Valley Mongols chapter president Luis Gutierrez survived a car bombing outside his home. After an Angel's motorcycle was toppled, club members' tempers continued to escalate, their ire spread wide between the audience and performers alike. . Hells Angels MC Darwin - 1993. 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 . [68] The Angels parked their motorcycles in front of the stage in order to create a buffer between the stage and the hundreds of thousands of concertgoers. During this investigation agents and detectives prevented a kidnapping. 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. [23], Eight Hells Angels were arrested when a fight broke out in a Daly City tavern on April 15, 1966, following the funeral of San Francisco HAMC chapter member Larry Dean Lucas, who died in a motorcycle accident near Santa Maria on April 9. 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. Henchmen MC History The Angels had been hired by The Rolling Stones as crowd security for a fee which was said to include $500 worth of beer. Nash had previously paid Garceau to fulfill a contract which he failed to perform, and Nash was subsequently searching for Garceau. Crabtree, who had grossed $100,000 per month from selling methamphetamine he obtained from HAMC members, withdrew from the club's milieu in August 1977 and began cooperating with authorities in January 1978 after learning that Oakland chapter enforcer James Brandes had put a $10,000 contract on his life in the belief that he had turned informant. [44] Gilbert later moved to Spokane, Washington, becoming vice-president of the Hells Angels chapter there, and died at the age of sixty-five on June 22, 2007. HELLS ANGELS, HAMC, and the Death Heads (winged skull logos) are trademarks owned by Hells Angels Motorcycle Corporation, registered and/or applications pending in the United States, Europe, China and many other countries. [45] The four defendants were acquitted on December 29, 1972, following a seven-week trial after Ivaldi's credibility came under scrutiny. [92] The prosecution team, representing the federal government, attempted to demonstrate a pattern of behavior to convict Barger and other members of the club of racketeering offenses related to guns and illegal drugs. The aggression did not subside there. Seslar was killed because he happened to be present at the time of the murders. [11] No suspects have been arrested in the murder. 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. [16] Prior to his death, Flamburis had resisted the Hells Angels' move into prostitution and narcotics racketeering. [37] Morgan, who had been assigned to investigate motorcycle gang activity in the area in 1975, retired from law enforcement and fled California with his family due to intelligence reports that there was a $50,000 bounty on his head. 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. It seems even more unlikely that they would want to get themselves mixed up in a reality show about a couple of wannabe MCs. 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. [64] Three other members of the chapter, including the vice-president and secretary, were indicted for various offences on September 19, 2019. SAN FRANCISCO After a two-month trial, a jury is set to decide the fate of three Hells Angels members accused of murdering a fellow club member who was later illegally cremated, a case. The . [92] Brandes' first trial ended in a mistrial in July 1980[94] as did the retrial in February 1981. [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. [8], Oakland Hells Angels chapter member Ray Dale "Stork" Keefauver, who had been scheduled to testify for the prosecution in a Redwood City murder trial, was found shot to death in a ravine near Port Costa on June 16, 1974. [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. [16] The raid also pertained to a robbery in a nearby alley of a man who was allegedly knocked unconscious and dispossessed of his wallet. 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. ATF agents matched the bomb components to the explosives given to the informant by Renzulli on September 30. [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. The leader of the Las Vegas chapter of the Hells Angels and two other bikers are facing charges, including attempted murder, in the Memorial Day weekend shooting on U.S. 95 that shut down the. Authorities believed that Hells Angels members and associates were operating a large-scale methamphetamine distribution ring, with clandestine laboratories in San Bernardino, Butte and Modoc counties. When serving a warrant at the home of chapter president Ora Ray "Indian Ray" Glore, police found him dead with nine .22 caliber bullet wounds to the head. [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. 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. [83] Carter pleaded guilty to accessory to murder, and charges against Green and Mitten were dropped. [198] Ultimately, eighteen defendants stood trial as a result of dismissals and other legal maneuvers, while others remained fugitives. SAN DIEGO CA - Hell's Angels gang members arrested. 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] Two other members of the Mongols' San Diego chapter Raymond "Jingles" Smith and chapter president Emerson "Redbeard" Morris were shot with an ArmaLite AR-15 assault rifle while riding their motorcycles on Interstate 15 near Escondido on September 5, 1977. 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 . "Bill" Zerby on June 21, 1977. Sam Cutler, the Stones' agent who had arranged to pay the Hells Angels said their role was as bodyguards to the Rolling Stones. [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. On April 5, 1973, Hells Angels members John R. Fisher, Glenn M. Little, John W. Stratton, David L. Winn and Thomas A. Neilly were among eleven motorcycle gang members convicted in Los Angeles of rape and sex perversion. Sonny Barger, founder of Hells Angels, has died at 83. [125] Garrett was also sentenced to four consecutive life sentences in prison after being found guilty on four counts of murder on July 26, 1995. Updated: 7:32 AM PDT August 6, 2011. A Hells Angel member, Alan Passaro, was later acquitted of murder on grounds of self-defense. DO NOT POST ON THIS PAGE OR ASK ANY. [73][74] Hunter was stabbed to death. [5], Hells Angels member Gerald "Butch" Lester shot two people in a van in Sacramento County on October 26, 1977, killing one and wounding the other. Charters: Berdoo Frisco Oakland Richmond Nomads Daly City Dago San Jose Sonoma County Sacramento San Fernando Valley Ventura Monterey Vallejo Orange County Merced County Fresno Santa Cruz RSide North Bakersfield So Cal Altamont . [129] He died from cancer at the age of fifty-eight on December 29, 2004, while on death row at San Quentin State Prison.[130]. After a month-long investigation by the Riverside Police Department, FBI, ATF and California Department of Justice, Herbert was charged with murder and firearm offenses June 21, 2017. The corpses of the family were discovered by firefighters responding to the blaze. [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. No copying of the Death Heads or any content here is permitted. [207] He purchased methamphetamine and cocaine from Kautzman on five occasions between June 4 and November 6, 1982. Her statements led to the excavation of the Bautistas' bodies on March 8, 1985, and the arrest of Garceau in Gorman on March 14, 1985. [155] Six sticks of dynamite were discovered attached to the vehicle of a San Diego Mongols member on October 11, 1977. Two California members of the Vagos motorcycle club at the crime scene were also shot but survived. [211], Owen was convicted of selling three pounds of methamphetamine to Tait, and was sentenced to 41 years in prison and a $2.1 million fine on September 9, 1988. [43], Oakland Hells Angels members Sonny Barger, Sergey Walton, Donald Duane "Whitey" Smith and "Oakland" Gary Benjamin Popkin were charged with the May 21, 1972 murder of Servio Winston Agero a drug trafficker from McAllen, Texas who had travelled to Oakland with a consignment of narcotics for sale which allegedly occurred following a dispute over an $80,000 cocaine deal. 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. Shop all Back in Stock Support 81 Ladies Zip Hoodie $59.99 USD Alan Forbes FRISCO Sweatshirt $39.99 USD Support 81 Windbreaker - Red Print $74.99 USD SF - Support Frisco Hoodie $39.99 USD View all Shop Accessories and Apparel Men's Gear Women's Gear Hats/Beanies/Facemasks Johnson's girlfriend, Linda Sue Osborne, was also charged in the case. 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