No Angel- My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Dark Heart of the Hells Angels

313 Pages·2010·1.48 MB·English

by  Dobyns Jay

NO ANGEL
My Undercover Journey
to the Dark Heart of
the Hells Angles
JAY DOBYNS
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First published in the United States by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing
Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, 2009
First published in Great Britain by Canongate Books Ltd, 2009
First published in Australia by The Text Publishing Company, 2009

Printed and bound by Griffin Press
Original cover design by Julian Pavia

National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry
Dobyns, Jay.
No angel : an undercover journey to the heart of the Hells Angels / Jay Dobyns ; Nils
Johnson-Shelton.

ISBN: 9781921520266 (pbk.)

Dobyns, Jay. Hells Angels. Undercover operations--United States. Organized crime-United States.
Motorcycle gangs--United States.

Johnson-Shelton, Nils.

364.10660973
For Mom, Dad, Gwen, Dale, and Jack—you are my heroes.
And for Jaime, without whom this book would not have been possible.
Contents

Bikers, Cops, and Motorcycle Clubs Involved in Operations
Riverside and Black Biscuit
Note to the Reader
PART I. THE END

1. Birdcalls
PART II. THE BEGINNING

2. My sucking chest wound
3. “You’re looking at the loves of my life is what you’re looking at.”
4. Hoedown at Harrah’s
5. Black Biscuit BBQ
6. Rudy wanted to know where I did my time
PART III. THE MIDDLE

7. Too broke for Sturgis, where Timmy learned the fine art of
fetching sauerkraut
8. Jesus Hates a Pussy
9. First night in Mesa
10. I wanna what?
11. Why’d Jack give me that rock?
12. Teaching Teacher
13. Feeding Smitty his cake
14. “Fuck your guns!”
15. Good-bye, Carlos
16. We want you
17. Gimme a B! Gimme an I! Gimme an R! Gimme a D!
18. Five years in the desert
19. Arresting Rudy Kramer
20. Hello, JJ
21. Pep talk
22. “Motherfucker, if I ever see you in this town again I will fucking
bury you in the desert where no one will ever fucking find you.”
23. Inhale . . . Exhale . . . Inhale . . . Exhale . . .
24. Jingle bells, Batman smells, etc.
25. The Solo temporaries
26. Will you be mine?
27. “9-1-1! 9-1-1! Get out of the house!”
28. The Iron Skillet
29. “Look, lady, it’s not like I don’t give a fuck what you’re saying,
but I don’t give a fuck what you’re saying.”
30. Hoover’s hit
31. No more Solos
32. Big Lou and Gayland Hammack run some game
33. “Get me that brown mustard, not that yellow shit.”
PART IV. THE END, AGAIN

34. Hydroxycut highway
35. Bottom rockers are us
36. Call to arms
37. . . .
38. Hate and money
39. The bust
Epilogue
Where Are They Now?
Author’s Note
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Bikers, Cops, and Motorcycle Clubs Involved in
Operations Riverside and Black Biscuit

Black Biscuit Task Force Members and Associates by Agency
(alphabetical by last name)
Note: The men and women listed below are the principal players found in the
text. The Acknowledgments section at the end of the book contains a
comprehensive list of officers involved with Black Biscuit.
ATF
Chris Bayless, special agent, aka “Chrisser”
Carlos Canino, special agent, aka “Los”
Vince Cefalu, special agent, aka “Vinnie”
John Ciccone, special agent
Greg Cowan, special agent, aka “Sugarbear”
Jay Dobyns, special agent, aka “Bird”
Alan Futvoye, special agent, aka “Footy”
Steve Gunderson, special agent, aka “Gundo”
Daniel Machonis, group supervisor, aka “Mach One”
Jenna Maguire, special agent, aka “JJ”
Tom Mangan, special agent, aka “Teabag”
Joe Slatalla, special agent, aka “Slats”
Jesse Summers, special agent, aka “Summer Breeze”