Great Success
Finally a moment to wrap up the shit year that’s past. While we hit bottom, barely scraped by with paying the bills, LegmanLA killed it in our first year up with world around news picked up by Huffington, LAOBserved and with an inquiry of ours that launched a column on Truthdig.com. We’re starting the year with another exclusive LA crime drama that originated on this blog and got picked up by Main Stream Media, the hipsters vs. Mongols outlaw biker shooting at The Echo.
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Mongols Walk Among Us
An arrest in connection to the June 21 shooting outside The Echo nightclub that left three people injured portends the outbreak of a new gang war in the streets of LA.
“The suspect is Jose Luis Sanchez, 25, of Los Angeles. He is a suspected Mongols gang member, and the motive is believed to be his intent to shoot the Hell’s Angel at the club” Lt. Wes Buhrmester, LAPD Rampart Patrol Division wrote today on East LA blog The Eastsider.
Despite the shooter’s intent, no Angel was hit. But three concert goers leaving the Echo were, and word of the arrest brought a sense of relief to at least one of the victims. “I hope they got the right guy. I’ve been shaky about going back to the Echo” shooting survivor Adam D’Zurilla tells Legman exclusively.
Self-evidently, the blood feud between the Mongols Motorcycle Club and the Hells Angels MC only skipped a beat since 2008 when the longest undercover operation in law enforcement history ended in mass arrests of Mongols. Over a thousand cops, feds and deputized ATF agents swarmed down on members of the gang, nabbed 60 members across five states but coming as it did amid the presidential election fury the story went largely unoticed.
“Outlaw bikers are the most dangerous criminal organization operating in the United States} is how the Mongols are described in the 177 page federal indictment which
