For the 2003 World Run, Shaughnessy asked for and received approval from the city's Licensing Board for a fireworks display as well as an assembly permit from the fire department for a large tent at the Fillmore property. ", After the event, the chapter issued a statement through Bratton thanking the residents of the city and the Lakes Region for their "respectful hospitality" during the World Run. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File). Each year, according to authorities, the World Run brings together two representatives from every Hells Angels chapter for what is described as a business meeting.

"Some of them won't look at you or talk to you," Adams said.

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Now includes Court & Cops on Mondays! The relationship between police and criminal biker gangs -- dubbed Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs or 1 percenters because they are said to represent the fraction of motorcycle enthusiasts who operate outside the law -- came into focus following the May 17 shootout involving rival gang members, including a retired San Antonio police officer, that left nine people dead in Waco, Texas. Last year, however, the local chapter, which has done rides to collect toys for needy children, further burnished its reputation with a food drive to benefit local charities, including the Laconia Salvation Army.

Ward 4 City Councilor Brenda Baer said the Hells Angels have as much right to hold a motorcycle event in Laconia as anyone else, "particularly since there was no problem with the last event they ran eight years ago.

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When Dobyns was undercover, he said, cops from motorcycle clubs would try to cozy up to the outlaw bikers.

LACONIA Captain Steve Clarke told the Police Commission yesterday that Hells Angels World Run, hosted by the city last month, passed "without any significant public safety issues.". It's obviously a concern for us," said Wiggin, but there was no need to get panicked.

Moyer and other law enforcement officials are not reacting with alarm, but said that police will be prepared to deal with any trouble should it occur.

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In 2003, Attorney P. Scott Bratton, who periodically has represented the Hells Angels' NH Nomads chapter, characterized the World Run eight years ago as something that "should be beneficial to the local economy and there should be no need for alarm in the community.

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While the club, which has a clubhouse for one its chapters on Fillmore Avenue in The Weirs, has issued no comment, city officials on Wednesday said they are operating on the premise that the 2011 gathering, called the World Run, will be held in the city.

"I will hope that this is a calm, peaceful event and that we won't have any altercations," said Wiggin.

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"We knew it was a possibility," said Moyer, adding that law enforcement agencies, which consider the Hells Angels to be an outlaw motorcycle gang (OMG), have been aware for several months that Laconia was one of several sites being eyed for the World Run, which is expected to draw upward of 1,000 attendees.

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Clarke reported that "little or no funds" were available, noting that funding from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and a Safe Neighborhood Grant represented a quarter of the grant funds provided to police the same event in 2003. Wait what? The report details a California Highway Patrol dispatcher listening to the scanner and tipping off her husband, a Hells Angel prospect, that the police were headed to a fight he was involved in. "They're supposed to be putting them in jail, not schmoozing with them, not socializing with them," said Charlie Fuller, a retired special agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

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Moyer said he anticipated a quiet World Run, just like in 2003 when the event took place over a period of four days. Ultimately the event was policed by local officers, state troopers and 17 agents of the United States Customs and Border Protection working closely with officers on the street under the command of Patrol Agent Paul Kuhn at no cost to the city.

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2022 www.fosters.com. The city is examining its response to dealing with people experiencing homelessness. We certainly don't want to make a big deal out of it, but we'll be ready next July like we were in 2003.". Police on hand at the meeting fired at least some of the shots once violence erupted, but a photo showing some of the dozens the arrested bikers sitting calmly on curbs using cellphones under seemingly nonchalant police guard earned the ire of critics. "We will plan for it accordingly and hopefully it will be a non-event. Shaughnessy and the club had earlier received an outdoor loudspeaker permit in 2003 and might need another one in 2011.

"It agitates the real 1-percenters that cops want to come and imitate them at all.". But the very existence of law enforcement clubs can stoke violence, Fuller said.

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After officers of the Police Department and New Hampshire State Police attended the annual International Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Association Conference, planning began, continuing until the eve of the event. A good deal of sunshine. Granite Solutions is a reporting project focusing on mental health in New Hampshire from The Granite State News Collaborative.

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Clarke estimated that close to 500 Hells Angels reached Laconia, well below the numbers expected, as the State Department invoked its authority to define the club as "a criminal organization" and withhold visas or deny entry to members from abroad as "aliens engaging in organized crime.". The bond doesn't mean a free pass for criminal motorcycle gangs, but even some within law enforcement worry that too many officers believe bikers are just misunderstood Robin Hoods.

Ed Shaughnessy, a senior member of the Hells Angels' NH Nomads chapter, was unavailable for comment Wednesday, but City Manager Eileen Cabanel said she had recently spoken with him about the World Run and the possibility of the Hells Angels using some municipal property for motorcycle parking. Be Nice. Smith belonged to the Iron Pigs motorcycle club, made up of police and firefighters.

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", "I can't really voice an objection to it," Baer said of the tentative World Run 2011.

Wiggin said Shaughnessy has reportedly been keeping Laconia Police apprised about World Run and hoped that the communication would continue and that when the Hells Angels came here sometime next summer "they'll behave.".

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The city might not be able to prevent the World Run from being held here, but it can regulate some of the activities through the municipal permitting process.

'Bad boy' behavior while Hells Angels were in town amounted to several tickets, Get an email notification whenever someone contributes to the discussion. In a written report to the commission Clarke recalled that planning for the event began in September 2010, after Edward Shaughnessy, then president of the local Nomad Chapter of the Hells Angels, confirmed rumors that the club had chosen Laconia as the site of the 2011 World Run, a sort of reunion/convention where representatives of chapters based around the world gather.

"That's what we hear," Laconia Police Chief Mike Moyer said when asked about the reports.

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Jay Dobyns, a former undercover agent who infiltrated the Hells Angels for the ATF, worries that chumminess between biker gangs and the more benign law enforcement motorcycle clubs can lead to a perception that cops will go easy on the outlaws. Your guide to local shopping, eating and living in and around North Andover. And in 2012, two officers who belonged to a law enforcement motorcycle club were involved in a bar fight with bikers in Prescott, Arizona. OH Come on!!! Apart from issuing several motor vehicle summonses to members of the club, there was no occasion for police to take any other law enforcement action against a member of the motorcycle club attending the event.

That plan included a visible police presence and what Oetinger described as a "professional and non-confrontational tone.".

"I'm talking about the clean-cut law enforcement officers who wear a uniform and ride around in marked cruisers every day; then Saturday comes around and they put on a black bandanna and black T-shirt and scowl at everybody," he said.

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Look around during Laconia's Bike Week -- or at any of the other big rallies like in Sturgis, South Dakota, or Daytona, Florida -- and you will see the colors of law-abiding motorcycle clubs made up of police, firefighters and veterans. By inquiring of hotels and motels police were able to make what Clarke called "an educated guess" of the numbers to expect.

"They're going to a 1-percent gang and asking permission to start their club up," he said.

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Still, Laconia police Chief Chris Adams, whose New Hampshire town will attract hundreds of thousands of bikers to its annual Motorcycle Week starting on June 13, said he has seen some officers instantly transform when they're wearing club colors instead of their uniform. Likewise, by learning which bars were planning special events during the World Run police determined where personnel should be deployed.

"I think it can be helpful," Adams said. Here's a cop that's hanging with them socially. Mainly clear. Steve Cook, who leads the Midwest Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Investigators Association, says some of the legit clubs go to "totally embarrassing" lengths to ingratiate themselves to criminal gangs. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. !Man gets probation for deadly pickup truck/motorcycle crash.

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Clarke stressed that from the outset various local, state, county and federal agencies agreed that as the city was hosting the World Run, the Laconia Police Department would be in charge of law enforcement operations. person will not be tolerated. In this June 17, 2011, file photo, members of the Hells Angels walk along the strip at Weirs Beach during Bike Week in Laconia, N.H. New Hampshire's annual Bike Week is in June 2015, just weeks after the fatal Waco, Texas, biker gangs shootout. Police estimated that the even would draw between 700 and 900 members during the last week of July.

A 2014 ATF report said biker gangs count working police officers, firefighters and 911 workers as members. Adams said his department maintains a "working relationship" with the region's dominant motorcycle gang, the Hells Angels, to address problems big and small.

In a prepared statement, Bratton said "Most would agree that the event was a success, including the Hells Angels, local merchants, the law enforcement community and importantly, the citizens of the Lakes Region.

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"They want to be like them, but not them," Fuller said of the law enforcement clubs. Clarke wrote that police met with representatives of the Hells Angels, including their attorney P. Scott Bratton to identify issues likely to arise and set ground rules for the event "so that there would be as few surprises as possible." Depending on the plan to accommodate attendees, the Laconia-based NH Nomads chapter may also have to request a temporary campground permit from the city although The Citizen has learnedthat reservations are already being made at local lodging establishments in anticipation of the World Run. In 2008, Seattle police Officer Ronald Smith was charged with felonies after shooting a Hells Angels member during a bar fight. CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Police officers and outlaw biker gangs often stand on common ground. Undercover officers may be getting drunk on the job, Target 11discovers, Man who survived being shot more than a dozen times jailed for murdering HellsAngels, Driver charged in killing 7 bikers Zhukovskyy has several license suspensions listed on his record for drunken driving,accidents, Inside the lair of one of most infamous outlaw biker clubs.

For the past several years, despite being fixtures at the annual Bike Week rally in June, the Hells Angels have remained low key in the Lakes Region.

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Rather than towing 50 bikes, 'Hey, can you get these bikes out of here?". That said, Wiggin, like Moyer, is thinking the 2011 World Run will be like its predecessor.

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The New Hampshire State Police took responsibility for gathering intelligence and the Belknap County Sheriff's Office searched for grants to fund the policing of the event.

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The gulf between outlaw biker gang and motorcycle club is vast, and the great majority of the law enforcement or veterans clubs perform community services year round, like delivering toys at Christmas or the Patriot Guard Riders, who provide a rumbling motorcade -- and a buffer against protesters -- at the funerals of fallen soldiers.

You have permission to edit this article. During the 2003 World Run, there was one reported instance of violence involving the Hells Angels when three men were reportedly beaten by several members of the club outside of Oriental Gardens Restaurant in Gilford. "We're never going to be friends," was how "true believers" in the bike gang reacted to such interlopers, Dobyns said. Contact the Webmaster to submit comments. "It can be as trivial as a parking problem.

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