06/16/2017
23 alleged Vagos outlaw motorcycle gang members, associates indicted on federal racketeering charges
Indictment alleges numerous violent acts, including murder, kidnapping, assault, firearms crimes
WASHINGTON – Federal, state, and local law enforcement officers fanned out across three states early Friday morning to arrest 19 alleged members and associates of the Vagos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang charged in a 12-count federal indictment with conspiracy involving racketeering, murder, robbery, kidnapping and aggravated assault, among other charges.
The federal indictment, which names 23 defendants including some of the gang’s most senior leaders, is the culmination of a more than six-year probe spearheaded by Los Angeles-based special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), in close coordination with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), and the Washoe County District Attorney’s Office in Nevada.
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/23-alleged-vagos-outlaw-motorcycle-gang-members-associates-indicted-federal
