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The Hessians Motorcycle Club or Hessians MC is an American "one-percenter" or outlaw motorcycle club.[4]
Founded | 1968 |
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Founders | Thomas F. Maniscalco[1] |
Founding location | Costa Mesa, California |
Years active | 1968–present |
Territory | California, Colorado, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Idaho and Utah[2] |
Membership | Approximately 160 members (as of 1994)[3] |
Activities | Drug trafficking, murder,robbery and intimidation |
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The Hessians Motorcycle Club was founded on March 7, 1968, in Southern California by Thomas F. Maniscalco, a motorcycle enthusiast who would later become a Westminster attorney.[1][5][6] The club would soon expand across the nation's western seaboard and in 1972, they claimed to have around 500 members across the United States.[7]
The club's logo features a sabre-pierced skull over an Iron Cross.[8]
In 1994, eight members of the Hessians MC were arrested on drug and weapons charges following a series of raids in California that were conducted by federal, state, county and local law enforcement agencies. The crackdown stemmed from an 8-month investigation into the club, in which ATF agents infiltrated the group's 20-member mother chapter.[9]
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