Hangmen Outlaw Motorcycle Club

[EST. 1960]

Edited August 21, 2023 by timothy smalls

[EST. 1960]

EVERYONE WANTS TO BE ACCEPTED AND LIKED · EXCEPT FOR US. WE COULDN'T GIVE A FLYING FUCK!

 

In the FBI’s 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment, law enforcement professionals estimated that there were 44,000 members of outlaw motorcycle gangs in the U.S., affiliated with any of approximately 3,000 active gangs. In total, such gangs amount to just 2.5 percent of all gang members in the U.S., according to the 2013 National Gang Report from the FBI’s National Gang Intelligence Center.

 

Although outlaw motorcycle gangs are only a sliver of all gangs, law enforcement professionals view them as more dangerous than their size would suggest, at least according to the center’s 2013 survey. In that survey, 14 percent of law enforcement professionals said an outlaw biker gang was the most problematic gang in their jurisdiction. Eleven percent of respondents said outlaw biker gangs were the most violent type of gang in their jurisdiction.

 

The Hangmen MC is a one-percenter outlaw motorcycle club founded in Flint County, San Andreas in 1960. Hangmen MC Germany was founded independently to Hangmen USA in 1983 in Alemania, Germany. At one point in time a club by the name of Hangmen Motorcycle Club also existed in the suburb of Blakehurst in Sydney, Australia. However, these two clubs are completely unrelated.

 

In 1990, the Denmark Hangmen were founded. Like Hangmen Germany, they were founded independently of Hangmen USA. In 1999, the German Hangmen joined the Hangmen Denmark Lalandia chapter. At this time, they adopted the Denmark black-and-white patch design, which is still used today. The Lalandia chapter was then closed in 2000.

 

The story goes that a group of friends who owned Harley Davidsons started to notice other motorcycle clubs popping up around San Andreas. Rather than join, they decided it'd be in their best interests to just start their own. There was a total of 12 founding members of the Flint County chapter including Ray Aho, who is commonly listed as the Hangmen Motorcycle Club Founder. The motorcycle club later expanded throughout western areas of the United States, opening up several chapters across the nation.

 

In a famous Clint Eastwood movie called “Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” there were heroes and anti-heroes. The same goes for West Coast Motorcycle Clubs like the Hangmen. The Hangmen spread their philosophy of riding with no fear, serving those who serve them, and always taking care of their own. These ideals have become a unifying force amongst members.

 

ASHES TO ASHES, DUST TO DUST, IF IT WASN'T FOR HANGMEN, THE FAST LANE WOULD RUST!

 

It is possible that outlaw biker gangs wind up as the No. 1 threat in many jurisdictions because of their geographical distribution, rather than as a result of their patterns of violence. A highly mobile gang that operates outside of cities has the chance to affect more jurisdictions than an urban gang concentrated within one city. When law enforcement professionals evaluate types of gangs individually, outlaw biker gangs are ranked as a little less threatening.

 

In the National Gang Threat Assessment, when law enforcement professionals evaluated each type of gang in their jurisdiction, outlaw biker gangs were the least likely to be graded as a significant threat. Survey respondents ranked each type of gang (national-level street gangs, prison gangs, outlaw motorcycle gangs and neighborhood-based gangs) as a “significant threat,” “moderate threat,” “low threat,” “not present,” or “unknown.”

 

It was a dark day in the United States when federal authorities announced a nationwide crackdown on motorcycle gangs. This included the Hangmen Outlaw Motorcycle Club, which was one of the most notorious gangs operating in the United States. The Hangmen had been in operation for decades and their membership had grown significantly in recent years. The decision to crack down on the Hangmen and other gangs caused a great deal of unrest within their membership. In response to the crackdown, many members decided to migrate to different counties throughout San Andreas. Some moved to other states.

 

Their members come from all walks of life across the United States: Arizona, Texas and Oregon, to name a few. A club that was battered by federal indictments, are now said to be making a resurgence. The latest news comes from the Paleto Bay chapter—an existing chapter that became fundamentally defunct. They lost their clubhouse to a fire in 2019 but were slowly becoming inactive prior. An investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms concluded that the fire was accidental and was started by a malfunctioning electric cord.

 

Some patched members of the Hangmen are still spreading their spirit in San Andreas. Motorcycles, adorned with their iconic HOMG patches, have been spotted on the streets of Paleto Bay and even further in Los Santos. Cities like Los Santos gave migrating members an opportunity to explore what was beyond the familiar places they called home. Just like any other MC, a lot of members had to make tough decisions and migrate to other counties/cities such as Blaine County and Los Santos because of family issues, financial problems, trouble with law enforcement and other hardships.

 

The Hangmen Outlaw Motorcycle Club were suspects in dozens of murder cases throughout the West Coast in the late ’90s and ’00s. But members of the club were skilled in quieting witnesses, and for decades law enforcement struggled to pin charges on them.

•  In 2008, federal prosecutors concocted a plan to wipe out the gang for good. Instead of trying to nail down individuals for specific crimes, prosecutors said the Hangmen's crimes, such as murder and extortion, were “part of an ongoing criminal conspiracy.” This led to several successful convictions. But the goal to exterminate the Hangmen failed over and over again—the gangs’ presence on the West Coast still widespread.
•  In 1999, law enforcement stopped by the club’s Flint County headquarters in San Andreas, located about two miles east of Angel Pine, with a narcotics search warrant. The visit ended with a shootout. Three sheriff deputies and one biker were shot. One of the deputies left paralyzed.
•  In 2003 and 2004, dozens of club leaders were convicted in Western San Andreas. One was indicted in 2002 for “threatening to skin the tattoo off the arm of a rival biker," while another allegedly disemboweled a person who cooperated with police and threw the corpse into a lake. Though these busts gutted the mother chapter's leadership, the Hangmen maintained active chapters around the nation.
• From 2008 to 2012, several cases made Tuscon, Arizona the “epicenter of Hangmen prosecution,” the Arizona Daily Star reported. Federal prosecutors won convictions or guilty pleas from 30 Hangmen from Tuscon Arizona and north Arizona. At least 20 were convicted on charges of racketeering, drugs and weapons charges from 2008 to 2011. During the trial at the end of 2013, prosecutors took aim at the regional leaders of the club to try to eliminate it.
•  In 2015, Arizona had six Hangmen chapters... The second most out of any state with San Andreas being first. Sixteen Hangmen MC members from the Tuscon, Scottsdale and Phoenix chapters were arrested on charges including racketeering, kidnapping, possessing illegal weapons, running drugs and firebombing a rival gang’s clubhouse.

According to the Arizona Daily Star archives, the 2013 federal trial in Arizona was one of the most important prosecutions of a biker gang in the country. By the end, a federal jury convicted 15 of 16 members.

 

Despite the group’s long history, there is much about the Hangmen OMC that remains shrouded in mystery. The history of the gang and its current membership are murky topics, and what goes on inside its secretive clubhouses tends to stay there—just as bikers want it. Still, the Hangmen insist the club's reputation as a criminal organization is undeserved, pointing to its frequent charity work on behalf of children and veterans.

 

HANGMEN FOREVER, FOREVER HANGMEN (HFFH)

 

The Hangmen Motorcycle Club's Flint County chapter was inundated with arrests and warrants. This greatly diminished their membership and devastated their ranks. Experts believe that this has led to a southwardly migration deeper into San Andreas and there is some speculation that they have settled in Blaine County.

 

Aside from being labeled as an ‘outlaw gang’, not all of HOMG and their members are equally involved in crime. While those enmeshed in the outlaw biker subculture appear, on average, more crime-prone than non-outlaw biker males, there is still ample variation among groups characterized as outlaw biker gangs; Hangmen OMG cover a full spectrum from a club to organizations of criminals and criminal gangs. These differences in HOMGs’ level of criminal involvement suggests that, even within those that are part of the outlaw biker subculture, the effects of Hangmen Outlaw Motorcycle Club membership on crime may be conditional of the type of HOMG one becomes a member of.

 

Los Santos' Gang Intelligence Unit (GIU) members told law enforcement and other officials that even though outlaw biker gangs have been stymied, they continue to evolve. Nate Gregg and Richard Saunders, both of the Gang Intelligence Unit, spoke about outlaw biker gangs in Los Santos County at the fifth annual Los Santos Gang Symposium. Biker gangs consider themselves to be the “one-percenters,” Gregg said. The term refers to a magazine article in the 1940s which stated that 99 percent of bikers were peaceful, law-abiding citizens. When the Hells Angels formed, their motto was clear: “We are the one percent.” The gang unit members said the Hangmen motorcycle gang has been transitioning around San Andreas, to neighboring counties. Saunders also said the Hangmen, considered the outlaw motorcycle gang to watch by the Department of Public Safety, has a fluctuating membership rate.

 

Saunders said the Hangmen began popping up at Blaine County bars and tried to force them to pay a 5% tax and kick out certain patrons. This behavior, along with other factors, resulted in a rumor of the Hangmen getting “booted out of Blaine County,” Saunders said. When it comes biker gangs, it's all about power, on both a group-to-group level and on a personal level. A confederation of “motorcycle clubs” exists for each area and is dominated by the strongest biker gang. Support clubs, affiliated with their stronger counterparts, act as the henchmen for the club. “Any kind of detail you can think of, that’s the stuff you can expect,” from cleaning up vomit to running to the store to buy beer, Gregg said. The next phase is the prospecting phase. A prospect becomes more heavily involved with the gang and more heavily involved with the illegal activities. If a full member tells a prospect to do something, the prospect must do it, from running drugs to committing assaults, Gregg said. “They’re expected to up their game” from the hang-arounds phase, he said. The prospects are expected to carry both the guns and the drugs for other club members. The prospecting phase can last from as little as a few months to a matter of years. Once a prospect turns into a member, he is “patched in,” meaning he can wear the full gang regalia and is a full member of the gang.

 

One of the most important things to an outlaw motorcycle gang or its members is respect. “Everything that they stand for is respect,” Gregg said. Treating them like human beings can make all the difference, he said. Most of the inter-gang conflicts can be strategic, he says, whether in relation to retaining influence in a certain area or over a certain trade, like narcotics:

 

“They don't want competition, so you need to get rid of competition at the very beginning when it's weakest and when they control an area, they do everything in their power to stop the rise of new biker clubs or threatening ones. We see in states like San Andreas, Nevada, Arizona, and so on... Where the major gangs didn't manage to suppress the new clubs, now you have a lot of clubs there. If you have competition, you need to share the market, whether it's the drug trade, whether it's a legal market, whether it's about recruiting new members,” Saunders stated.

 

The CCTV footage that displayed a May 2023 bloody biker gang shootout in Sandy Shores, leaving two dead and three wounded, was captured by a local gas station’s security camera, court documents say. It showed members of the Vagos motorcycle gang along with members of the Bastards gang—an alliance that raised the ire of other rival biker gangs, according to prosecutors from the San Andreas Attorney’s Office. Hours after the two’s arriving at the rally, shots rang when an argument ensued.

 

San Andreas State Police had not yet filed charging documents on May 29th, 2023, against the sole suspect facing a count tied to the violence that unfolded on Sandy Shores’ crowded Armadillo Avenue during the 41st annual Memorial Day Motorcycle Rally. Daxton Brooks, 30, of Flint County who faces an open count of murder, remains hospitalized for treatment of his gunshot wounds and is guarded by state police, a spokesman for the agency said, adding charging documents for the man, identified by state police as member of the Hangmen Outlaw Motorcycle Club, are pending.

 

A criminal complaint detailing Brooks’ alleged involvement in the shooting likely would provide a narrative of how state police believe the incident played out between the Hangmen OMC and other outlaw motorcycle gangs in the remote mountain resort town amid what is normally a five-day event that draws tens of thousands of bikers to the area each year. Documents filed in the cases of two men charged with unrelated crimes in the aftermath of the shooting reveal little about the deadly violence but offer new details about an argument state police said had stirred conflict between members of the gangs, a confrontation between Hangmen MC & Vagos MC members prior to all parties arriving that happened over the phone. They also indicate authorities fear violence will erupt between in the groups in retaliation. 

Edited August 21, 2023 by timothy smalls

[EST. 1960]

 

This faction aspires to be a representation of a disorganized West Coast OMG. We're based on the real Hangmen MC that was founded in Richmond, California in 1960. Recruitment is strictly IC, and we demand the utmost in terms of realistic character development and portrayal. Players are encouraged to reflect the real-life West Coast 1% motorcycle club that we take inspiration from.

 

Any member can be Character Killed. Screenshot permission is required.

 

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Edited August 24, 2023 by EST. 1960

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