JAY DOBYNS DOCUMENTARY PATCH

The two gangs were involved in a big-time gunfight at the Harrah Casino Hotel in Laughlin, Nevada. In 2002, the rift between the Hells Angels and their legendary rivals, the Mongols, hit a boiling point. 'It's one of the elements of tradecraft.'įor the Hells Angels, it was hardly enough. 'My reaction was to fight my way to the victim and take control of the victim, throw my punches, both maintain my cover and protect my persona, and protect the victim from any life-threatening battle damage,' Dobyns said. The Hells Angels don't take off their patches for anyone.'īecoming a patched member of the gang is no easy task - and Dobyns had already done a lot more than simply run errands for them in his attempt to be welcomed into the gang.Īt times, he even had to participate in assaults, getting a taste of the vicious world in which the Hells Angels reside. 'As far as the Hells Angels and their patches, we didn't find a single one. After a shootout between the Hells Angels and the Mongols, a rival biker gang, 'We found Mongols cuts in vents, stuffed in trash cans, and some were floating down the Colorado River,' Dobyns said.

JAY DOBYNS DOCUMENTARY PATCH

The patch is sacrosanct to the Hells Angels. Two years in, and the Hells Angels had no idea that Dobyns, who was close to getting his patch, was an undercover agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). He would peddle T-shirts for the one-percenter motorcycle club, run errands at ungodly hours, and eventually break bread with individuals who wouldn't think twice about taking a baseball bat to someone's head. With heavily tattooed arms, a motorcycle vest, red bandana, and long goatee, Jay Dobyns fit the stereotype for the kind of person who would hang around the street-hardened bikers of the Hells Angels Skull Valley Charter.

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