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Article: Biker war may be flaring again out West
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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Biker war may be flaring again out West
Tensions between 2 big gangs believed to be up after fatal Nevada
fight
By RENE SANCHEZ Washington Post
Sunday, December 1, 2002
Hollister, Calif. -- In shabby roadhouses and along lonesome
highways across the West, outlaw motorcycle gangs are embroiled in
violent new feuds, battling over turf and control of criminal rackets
-- or just for kicks, to escape the doldrums of middle age.
Here in the farming towns of central California that have long
been biker haunts, and at similar hangouts in Arizona and Nevada,
police say tensions are escalating between two fabled, fearsome
motorcycle gangs: the Hells Angels and the Mongols. Other, lesser-
known biker ...