3rd Bay Location Hells Angels member indicted on firearms fees

A federal grand jury in Sacramento returned a two-rely indictment Thursday towards a 29-12 months-outdated Fairfield male and Hells Angels Bike Club member, charging him with possessing a firearm with an obliterated or altered serial range and possessing an unregistered shorter-barreled shotgun, a federal official claimed.

Michael Mahoney is the third person to be indicted in the Jap District of California centered on an investigation into a brutal beating in the clubhouse for the Vallejo chapter.

The other two defendants — Jaime Alvarez of Vallejo and Dennis Killough Jr. of Vacaville, both of those 51— ended up indicted by a grand jury on Might 27.

In accordance to courtroom paperwork, in Oct 2021, two different victims — both equally of whom were users of a different motorcycle club that is deemed a “puppet,” or subordinate, club of the Hells Angels — have been crushed by Mahoney, Alvarez, Killough, and other club members centered on perceived infractions of the Hells Angels’ procedures, U.S. Lawyer Phillip A. Talbert claimed in a press assertion.

Court docket documents display that on Dec. 8, 2021, law enforcement officers executed a lookup warrant at Mahoney’s Fairfield house and identified several firearms, including a Smith & Wesson .38-caliber revolver with a serial selection that had been scratched off, as effectively as a Sears & Roebuck 12‑gauge shotgun with a barrel that experienced been sawed off to close to 12.75 inches in size, he mentioned.

Mahoney had not registered his possession of the shotgun with the Nationwide Firearms Registration and Transfer File, as essential by federal regulation, Talbert added.

Assistant U.S. Lawyers Aaron D. Pennekamp and Jason Hitt direct the prosecution.

The circumstance stems from an investigation by the Solano County District Attorney’s Office, the Solano County Sheriff’s Office environment, the Vacaville, Vallejo and Fairfield police departments, the FBI, and the Bureau of Liquor, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

If convicted of possessing a firearm with an obliterated or altered serial quantity, Mahoney faces a greatest expression of 5 years in prison and a $250,000 wonderful. And if convicted of possessing an unregistered short-barreled shotgun, Mahoney faces a greatest penalty of 10 decades in prison and a $10,000 wonderful.

The case is getting prosecuted as section of the joint federal, state, and local Job Risk-free Neighborhoods Software, the centerpiece of the U.S. Department of Justice’s violent criminal offense-reduction attempts.

Established in 1948, the Hells Angels is a throughout the world outlaw motorcycle club. The Vallejo chapter, at one time viewed as the enforcer for the Oakland chapter, was notorious for two members’ involvement in an Oct. 5, 1986, mass murder of a loved ones of four, such as two small children, ages 5 and 17, in Fort Bragg. It was a criminal offense that manufactured countrywide headlines on Oct. 7, one day soon after two users of the Sonoma County chapter traveled to Fort Bragg and, at evening, burned down a household with the four bodies inside.