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| Abbreviation | RDMC |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2001 |
| Founded at | Karlstad, Sweden |
| Type | Outlaw motorcycle club |
| Purpose | Support club to the Hells Angels |
Region | Worldwide (chapters in 14 countries) [1] |
The Red Devils Motorcycle Club (RDMC) is an international outlaw motorcycle club and the principal support club of the Hells Angels. [2] The club is not to be confused with the now-defunct Original Red Devils Motorcycle Club that was founded in Canada in the late 1940s.
With chapters in nearly 20 countries, the Red Devils MC have been involved in numerous disputes with law enforcement and rival one-percenter motorcycle groups. [3] [4]
Formation
The Red Devils MC were initially founded in Karlstad, Sweden in 2001. [5] [6] A chapter emerged the following year in the United States in Massachusetts. A Red Devils chapter would then go on to be established in Belgium in 2003, and later, expand into other countries.
Criminal allegations and incidents
Australia
A shooting attack on Red Devils MC member Daniel Pegoraro occurred in 2013. Pegoraro sustained injuries but survived the attack. It is speculated that the ambush had to do with an ongoing dispute between the Hells Angels and the Bandidos Motorcycle Club. [7]
The Melbourne chapter Red Devils clubhouse was raided by police in 2015 after a number of bullets were fired at their Clayton South clubhouse. Members of the gang ended up being charged with liquor licensing breaches and firearms offenses. [8] [9]
Canada
The Red Devils Motorcycle Club currently has 10 chapters in Canada. As part of an investigation into outlaw motorcycle club activities in New Brunswick, Canada, two members of the Red Devils MC - along with two Hells Angels members - were arrested in April 2020 by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in relation to organized crime, drugs and money laundering. [10] [11]
Matthew Quattrociocchi, a member of the Red Devils MC was charged with assault and possession of a weapon in June 2020 after he had beat a member of the rival Outlaws Motorcycle Club with a baseball bat in broad daylight near a St. Catharines convenience store in the Niagara region. The incident was caught on video via security camera footage. [12] [13]
United States
Larry 'Ronnie' Capps Jr. - the Cape Fear Chapter President of the Red Devils Motorcycle Club in North Carolina was arrested on drug and weapons charges in 2010 following a raid of the chapter clubhouse where authorities seized 50 firearms, more than $3,000, and an ounce of cocaine worth about $1,200. [14] [15] Capps was charged with six counts of trafficking cocaine, five counts of manufacturing cocaine, and one count of possession of a weapon of mass destruction for a sawed-off double-barrel shotgun. [16]
In June 2012, nineteen members and Hells Angels associates, some of which were members of the Red Devils Motorcycle Club, were arrested in a law enforcement sting operation for drug and prostitution charges. [17]
Multiple Massachusetts Hells Angels and Red Devils bikers were arrested in March 2013 during raids at their hangouts in Lynn and Byfield on charges of kidnapping, mayhem, and extortion. [18]
On March 19, 2022, Red Devils and Hells Angels bikers were involved in a gun battle with members of the Infamous Ryders and La Familia motorcycle clubs outside the Baymont Ramada hotel in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Three people – William Franklin Davis Sr., Keith Allan Dickey, and Donald Dillenbeck – were shot dead, and other three were wounded by gunfire. [19]
References
- ^ "Brothers :: Red Devils MC Aalter :: RDMC all over the world". Red Devils MC Aalter.
- ^ "Australian feeder gangs 'flying under radar', expert warns". NewsComAu. 9 May 2014. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
- ^ "The Emergence of Canada's Red Devils Motorcycle Gang Signals a Hells Angels Resurgence in Quebec". www.vice.com. 13 May 2015.
- ^ Throttle, Insane (10 April 2020). "Police have arrested four men from Red Devils MC and Hells Angels MC in connection with an ongoing investigation into outlaw motorcycle club activities".
- ^ Renaud, Daniel (31 July 2014). "Une nouvelle garde rapprochée pour les Hells Angels de Montréal". La Presse.
- ^ Barker, Thomas (24 April 2018). The Outlaw Biker Legacy of Violence. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-05363-1.
- ^ "Vic bikie fought with gunman, shot twice". SBS News. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
- ^ Calligeros, Marissa (6 March 2015). "Man arrested in Red Devils clubhouse raid". The Age.
- ^ "Bikie club raided in shooting probe". www.heraldsun.com.au. 6 March 2015. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
- ^ "4 bikers from Red Devils MC and Hells Angels MC arrested in New Brunswick". 10 April 2020.
- ^ "4 men with connections to biker gangs arrested in New Brunswick". Global News.
- ^ "Alleged Hells Angels affiliate charged with beating rival with bat in broad daylight near St. Catharines convenience store". thestar.com. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
- ^ Throttle, Insane (19 June 2020). "A young member of the Red Devils Motorcycle Club allegedly swinging a baseball bat into an older member of the rival Outlaws Motorcycle Club". Insane Throttle Biker News. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
- ^ "President of the Red Devils Motorcycle Gang Arrested". carolinashootersclub. 7 September 2010.
- ^ Dolan, Debra (14 October 2010). "Authorities say video shows Red Devils' president selling drugs". wect.com.
- ^ Freskos, Brian. "Sheriff's Office charges president of Red Devils Motorcycle gang". Wilmington Star News.
- ^ "Hells Angels members charged with drugs, prostitution in FBI raid". wbtv.com. 7 June 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
- ^ "R.I. Hells Angels boss charged with firing gun at passing car in Providence - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com.
- ^ Investigation continues in fatal Fayetteville gunbattle between rival biker gangs Lexi Solomon, The Fayetteville Observer (March 21, 2022)