Jul 2, 2008 3:11 pm US/Pacific
Police Raid Hells Angels Locales In SF, North Bay
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) ―
Two Hells Angels clubhouses and the home of one member were raided in three Bay Area cities Wednesday.
Search warrants were executed around 5 a.m. in San Francisco, Healdsburg and Santa Rosa in connection with felony assaults in Petaluma in February and March, Petaluma police Capt. David Sears said.
The raids at the Hells Angel clubhouses occurred in San Francisco at Tennessee and 23rd streets and in Santa Rosa at 516 Frazier Ave., Sears said. The third warrant was served at 1426 Oakleaf Ave. in Healdsburg, the home of one of the assault suspects.
One man was arrested in San Francisco on an unrelated outstanding warrant for possession of a controlled substance, Sears said. No one was injured in the raids.
Petaluma police asked the FBI for assistance in executing the search warrants but the FBI is not involved in the investigation, an FBI spokesman said.
After hours of searching the locations, evidence was recovered that supported the investigation, Sears said. He added that investigators are now beginning the lengthy process of sorting through the property that was taken.
The search warrants were required, Sears said, because people with information about the assaults were not cooperating, either because they were associates of the Hells Angels or because they were scared of retaliation.
"We'll see how it pans out," he said.
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