Posted on 03/20/2010 6:07:43 PM PDT by metmom
Police in Hemet, Calif., are on a heightened alert amid assassination attempts against officers possibly orchestrated by a motorcycle gang.
HEMET, Calif. -- The tense atmosphere surrounding a California police department plagued by booby trap attacks has been stepped up a notch following the latest threat against officers.
Someone called 911 at about 5:45 p.m. Friday saying a police car would be blown up in the Hemet-San Jacinto area in the next 24 to 48 hours, Hemet Police Chief Richard Dana said.
"We're heightening the alert," Dana told The Press-Enterprise. The caller said the attack would be in retaliation for the law enforcement sweep against the Vagos Motorcycle Club earlier this week.
The Riverside County Sheriff's Department has not been able to confirm the threat, Deputy Herlinda Valenzuela said.
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More about this gang:
The Vagos Motorcycle Club (Vagos) has hundreds of members in the U.S. and Mexico and poses a serious criminal threat to those areas in which its chapters are located. U.S. law enforcement authorities report that the Vagos have approximately 300 members among 24 chapters located in the states of California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon and three chapters located in Mexico. The Vagos produce, transport and distribute methamphetamine and are also involved in the distribution of marijuana. The Vagos have also been implicated in other criminal activities including assault, extortion, insurance fraud, money laundering, murder, vehicle theft, witness intimidation and weapons violations. In the U.S., the Vagos are mainly active in the Southwest and Pacific regions.
http://www.justice.gov/criminal/gangunit/gangs/motorcycle.html
Egging a house is a prank. Toilet papering a car is a prank.
Putting a natural gas line into a building to blow it up with people inside is not a prank.
You sure have a twisted sense of what a prank is.
So if someone deliberately created a gas leak in your house, you’d just laugh it off as a prank?
The Vagos are a motorcycle gang here in Southern California. Mostly in the Inland Empire.
Don’t know!
I DO know that I agree with the owner of this site ....
So gangs are targeting law enforcemtn and the Feds are going after a group in Mich. that calls itself a milita because the islamists dont like them.
Like the islamist own michigan, perhaps they do?
They seem to own Ozero.
They seem to own Fox.
We need many new news outlets.
Yeah. Go figure......
I can tell who's got their priorities right.....
And who's got their heads buried somewhere deep in their anatomy.
Don’t you just feel so safe, knowing that our government is out there protecting us from all those crazy radicals running around?
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