Six members of a California chapter of the Hells Angels have been taken into custody during an investigation into kidnapping, robbery and assault after more than 150 law enforcement officers responded.
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During their raid, officers seized “approximately 25 firearms, ammunition, multiple high-capacity magazines and gang-related paraphernalia,” the Kern County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post Tuesday.
Five of the suspects arrested are members of the Bakersfield chapter that authorities consider an “outlaw motorcycle gang.” The latest individual to be incarcerated is a member of the Sons of Hell, a club that answers to that chapter, as is another biker who was previously arrested.
All suspects were charged with kidnapping, first degree robbery, criminal threats, forcible confinement, assault with a firearm, participation in criminal activity, participation in a gang of criminal street, criminal conspiracy, intimidation of a witness and elder abuse.
The charges have been forwarded to the Kern County Prosecutor’s Office as the investigation continues.
The Hells Angels club was founded in 1948 in California and has 467 chapters in 59 countries, including Quebec.
