Hell's Angels' Cycle Club Feuds-Shooting in New Hampshire
NanLeeCro
By Cissy Taylor
Union Leader Staff, Manchester New Hampshire
Yesterday's shooting in Franklin is not the first time that people
affiliated with the Devil's Disciples have been victims of violence -- and if
the Hell's Angels have their way, it won't be the last. State police have
reported that the Hell's Angels issued a blanket assassination order in the
mid-'90s on the Manchester-based motorcycle gang in retaliation for the group's
affiliation with the Angels' arch-rivals, the Outlaws.
Nationally and even internationally, the Angels and the Outlaws have
battled over the years for dominance in their neighborhoods, which sometimes
cover vast regions, encompassing several states.
The local feud goes back to June 12, 1972, when Angels member Kevin
Gilroy of Lynn, Mass., was shot in the heart and killed by Disciples member
Dean J. Dayutis. Gilroy was on his bike on Interstate 93 in Londonderry, headed
home after that year's motorcycle races in Loudon. Those were the days when
the Devil's Disciples were a stronger group than they are now, officials said.
Dayutis, who fired from a moving vehicle, was not indicted in the shooting
until 1979 and wasn't found by authorities for four more years.
Brought back from Key West, Fla., Dayutis was convicted of second-degree
murder in 1983 and remains imprisoned in Connecticut, where he was transferred
from New Hampshire.
For many years, the Hell's Angels have had a stronghold in New
England, so much so that often members of the Outlaws or the Devil's
Disciples have ridden into New Hampshire without their distinct club
emblems, or "colors."
The "colors" play an important role in the outlaw motorcycle gang world.
When an undercover federal officer infiltrated the Salem, Mass., Hell's
Angels chapter last year, he found a set of Devil's Disciples colors hanging
upside down on the wall, a major insult.
The battles between the Hell's Angels and their affiliates, including the
Derry-based Iron Eagles and the Weare-based Milford and Co., have spread over
the years, officials said.
Several years ago, a group called the New Bloods formed in Manchester.
When the Hell's Angels told them they should disband, they instead
associated with a new Outlaws chapter forming in Massachusetts and
changed their own name to the Devil's Disciples. They've been a target ever
since.
Once in 1995, a group of Iron Eagles apparently overtook two Devil's
Disciples and beat them with ball-peen hammers -- a gang member's weapon
of choice -- in Merrimack. The Disciples refused to press charges.
Other incidents of violence involving or against the Devil's Disciples
in recent years include:
•May 1997, Salem: Members of the Devil's Disciples are lured into an
ambush by members of the Talons, one of whom taunted a group at a
Dunkin' Donuts.
Several Disciples followed the Talon on their motorcycles to the Salem
Elks Club on Route 28, where they came face-to-face with four other
Talons bearing guns.
More than 20 rounds were fired at fleeing Disciples. The only injury
was to an innocent passerby who was struck in the hand.
No one has been charged.
•July 1995, Weymouth, Mass.: William "Cat" Michaels, 45, of
Londonderry, leader of the Devil's Disciples, was deliberately rammed by
a car driven by Hell's Angel John "Johnny Bart" Bartolomeo.
Michaels and his Harley Davidson were dragged some distance. Michaels
died about a half hour later.
Bartolomeo, 28, pleaded guilty to federal drug charges in May of this
year and was sentenced to 35 years at a maximum-security facility.
•July 1995, Weymouth, Mass.: about 15 minutes after Michaels was
killed, another Devil's Disciple, Shad D. Badeau, was injured in a
shootout.
Officials believe he may have been targeted because he had recently
cut the "colors" or club emblem from the coat of a member of Milford and
Co., the Weare-based gang affiliated with the Hell's Angels.
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fact.
Ergo:ethos, logos, pathos.
NanLeeCro
Franklin Shooting Suspect Nabbed
By Michael Cousineau
Union Leader Staff, Manchester, NH
A Franklin man sought in connection with a drive-by shooting that injured
three people Friday was arrested in central New York yesterday after police
surrounded a trailer for more than seven hours, police said.
Robert E. McCaulley, 36, of 71 Gilman St., was being held without bail in
Cayuga County Jail in Auburn, N.Y. He faces six counts of attempted murder for
firing upon seven people on five motorcycles in Franklin,
wounding two men and a woman, police said.
At 9 p.m. Saturday, police checked a residence in a trailer park in Locke,
N.Y., about 40 miles southwest of Syracuse. Police said they surrounded the
trailer -- the home of relatives of McCaulley -- for more than seven hours as
they tried to negotiate a peaceful resolution.
Police found McCaulley hiding in a crawl space under the trailer at Cayuga
Lake Estates. Authorities evacuated 20 to 25 nearby residents as a
precaution. Four ambulances also were sent to the scene, but there were no
injuries.
New York authorities charged McCaulley with felony criminal possession of a
weapon, third degree, police said. A town justice arraigned McCaulley
yesterday.
McCaulley had shaved his head and face since Friday. The Franklin shooting
took place on Route 3 near the Fife Farm.
Injured were Scott Longeway, 34, of Allenstown; Shad Badeau, 22, of
Manchester; and Cindy Jefferson, 33, also of Manchester. Badeau was released
yesterday from Lakes Region General Hospital in Laconia. Jefferson remained in
stable condition at Concord Hospital. Longeway was
released from the hospital Saturday.
The two injured men were members of the Devils' Disciples motorcycle club,
police said.
McCaulley's brother-in-law, Louis St. Onge, 24, of Franklin, was taken into
custody Friday night. He was arraigned Saturday on a charge of hindering
apprehension and is being held on $20,000 cash bail at the Merrimack County
Jail.
Police have said neither McCaulley nor St. Onge was a current member of any
organized motorcycle club. Authorities believe the shooting resulted from
some personal
animosity. "It is not a matter of a gang-related exchange between two rival
organizations," Merrimack County Attorney Michael Johnson said. Johnson said
McCaulley could be back in New Hampshire as early as today if he waives
extradition. If he contests extradition, the process could leave McCaulley in
New York for three months or more.
Once McCaulley returns to New Hampshire, he will be arraigned on the
attempted-murder charges. "My sense is what we got is a lot of evidence to
sift through," said Johnson, who declined to be more specific.
Johnson praised authorities for the swift arrest. "I'm very pleased with
the fact the investigation has proceeded as quickly as it has and (authorities)
have all the individuals involved in custody until the appropriate
determination on bail can be made in New
Hampshire," Johnson said.
St. Onge's mother and McCaulley's mother-in-law, Cathy Seaward of Belmont,
said McCaulley had a run-in with some Devil's Disciples three years ago, when
he belonged to the Crossroads Motorcycle Club.
The Devil's Disciples took his "colors," or club insignia, away from him, and
seeing the group again may have made him snap, she said. "He never said too
much about it, but it was always on his mind," Seaward said. "They may have
done something to send him off the edge or something else happened. No one
knows." When her son showed up at her house after the shooting Friday, she
called police because she didn't want anyone to get hurt, she said. He
understood, and has been cooperating with authorities, she said. St.
Onge had nothing to do with the shooting, his mother believes.
St. Onge had moved in with McCaulley and his wife recently, and was working
in McCaulley's construction business, Seaward said. Police were concerned the
Devil's Disciples might harm her daughter, who is in
hiding, she said. One of the victims, Badeau, has been involved in motorcycle
gang
violence in the past. Three years ago, Badeau and another member of the Devil's
Disciples allegedly roughed up a Hell's Angel and cut off his club "colors," or
insignia, in Milford. Badeau was charged in that incident.
A short time later, Badeau was shot in retaliation as he traveled along Route
3 in Weymouth, Mass., by several men in a van with New Hampshire license
plates.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report.) ###
kathleen
NanLeeCro wrote:
> Devil's Disciples-Hell's Angels Feud Has Long, Deadly Roots
> By Cissy Taylor
> Union Leader Staff, Manchester New Hampshire
> Yesterday's shooting in Franklin is not the first time that people
> affiliated with the Devil's Disciples have been victims of violence -- and if
> the Hell's Angels have their way, it won't be the last. State police have
> reported that the Hell's Angels issued a blanket assassination order in the
> mid-'90s on the Manchester-based motorcycle gang in retaliation for the group's
> affiliation with the Angels' arch-rivals, the Outlaws.
> Nationally and even internationally, the Angels and the Outlaws have
> battled over the years for dominance in their neighborhoods, which sometimes
> cover vast regions, encompassing several states.
> The local feud goes back to June 12, 1972, when Angels member Kevin
> Gilroy of Lynn, Mass., was shot in the heart and killed by Disciples member
> Dean J. Dayutis.
[interesting article snipped]
Wow!! I only think of outlaw bikers in southern California, not the Northeast.
The HA's are some real bad folks.
Kathleen
NanLeeCro
>From: kathleen <kath...@netscape.net>
>Date: Mon, Jul 27, 1998 22:34 EDT
>NanLeeCro wrote:
>
>> Devil's Disciples-Hell's Angels Feud Has Long, Deadly Roots
>> By Cissy Taylor
>> Union Leader Staff, Manchester New Hampshire
>> =A0=A0 Yesterday's shooting in Franklin is not the first time that peop=
>le
>> affiliated with the Devil's Disciples have been victims of violence -- =
>and if
>> the Hell's Angels have their way, it won't be the last.=A0=A0 State pol=
>ice have
>> reported that the Hell's Angels issued a blanket assassination order in=
> the
>> mid-'90s on the Manchester-based motorcycle gang in retaliation for the=
> group's
>> affiliation with the Angels' arch-rivals, the Outlaws.
>> =A0 Nationally and even internationally, the Angels and the Outlaws hav=
>e
>> battled over the years for dominance in their neighborhoods, which some=
>times
>> cover vast regions, encompassing several states.
>> =A0 The local feud goes back to June 12, 1972, when Angels member Kevin=
>
>> Gilroy of Lynn, Mass., was shot in the heart and killed by Disciples me=
>mber
>> Dean J. Dayutis.
>
>[interesting article snipped]
>
>Wow!!=A0 I only think of outlaw bikers in southern California, not the No=
>rtheast.=A0
>The HA's are some real bad folks.
>
>Kathleen
>
Dear Kathleen,
I have heard Hell's Angels (originating in Venice, CA) have spread worldwide.
No kidding, I heard there a HAs in Sweden!
The Hell's Angels' founders were not outlaw type dudes. I have seen a photo of
the original members. Just one guy who NEVER wore a shirt was a little
"different", but nevertheless benign. I knew one of the founding members.
from Nan
NanLeeCro
>From: kathleen <kath...@netscape.net>
>Date: Mon, Jul 27, 1998 22:34 EDT
Dear Kathleen, Guess what?
______________________________
Daily News 9/12/96
By Motorcycle Online Staff
Warring Euro Bikers Rock Danish Town
A car bomb exploded outside a Hell's Angels clubhouse in a seaside Danish town
today, causing extensive damage but no injuries, police reported. It was the
second car bomb in eight days, and the latest blow in a Nordic war between the
Hell's Angels motorcycle gang and the rival Bandidos which has killed six
people in two years.
The bomb, in the town of Roskilde, was planted in the engine compartment
of a stolen Opel Kadett parked at the back of the clubhouse in a densely
populated residential district. Witnesses said the early morning blast hurled
the car's engine 10 yards through the air and shunted the blazing vehicle along
the ground. The bomb shattered windows in a 450-foot radius, blew out the front
of a post office building and hurled the car's gear box into the wall of an
apartment building. Police did not say how much explosive the bomb contained.
A territorial dispute between the Hell's Angels and the Bandidos -- both Nordic
offshoots of U.S. motorcycle gangs -- flared in 1994 when a lone Hell's Angel
member was murdered in Helsingborg in Sweden. Residents of
Roskilde, who had opposed the Hell's Angels recent move into the town 19 miles
southeast of Copenhagen, complained bitterly to police. "Ever since the (Hell's
Angels) sign went up, we have been afraid that this would happen," a resident
told reporters. Police in southern Sweden arrested 12 Hell's Angels members in
a series of raids on Tuesday and questioned them on suspicion of conspiracy to
murder.
-30-
kathleen
> Dear Kathleen,
> I have heard Hell's Angels (originating in Venice, CA) have spread worldwide.
> No kidding, I heard there a HAs in Sweden!
> The Hell's Angels' founders were not outlaw type dudes. I have seen a photo of
> the original members. Just one guy who NEVER wore a shirt was a little
> "different", but nevertheless benign. I knew one of the founding members.
> from Nan
I wonder what happened to make them outlaw types. Bikers are interesting, to me -
somehow it doesn't seem to be quite the same as a gang. Don't know why.
There was a group of hearing-impaired bikers in San Diego, and also another big
city I lived in. Also interesting.
But SWEDEN! YOW!
Kathleen
kathleen
NanLeeCro wrote:
> Dear Kathleen, Guess what?
> ______________________________
> Daily News 9/12/96
> By Motorcycle Online Staff
> Warring Euro Bikers Rock Danish Town
>
> A car bomb exploded outside a Hell's Angels clubhouse in a seaside Danish town
> today, causing extensive damage but no injuries, police reported. It was the
> second car bomb in eight days, and the latest blow in a Nordic war between the
> Hell's Angels motorcycle gang and the rival Bandidos which has killed six
> people in two years. <article snipped>
No, no, no. DENMARK!?!?!? That has to be the most violence those folks have seen
in an age. There is no place safe.
Kathleen
Michael Newton
>
>
> There was a group of hearing-impaired bikers in San Diego, and also another big
> city I lived in. Also interesting.
>
> But SWEDEN! YOW!
>
> Kathleen
The best book on the history of the Angels, overall, is Canadian Yves
Lavigny's HELL'S ANGELS: TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS (not to be confused
with the good, but more narrowly focused sequel, HELL'S ANGELS: INTO
THE ABYSS). They are indeed an international criminal phenomenon, but
not the only US biker gang that has gone global.
mn