Two males, reportedly members of the Mongols bike membership, have been arrested in reference to a lethal bar brawl earlier this yr in San Bernardino County, federal officers introduced.
The violence, in response to a information launch from the U.S. Division of Justice, unfolded within the early morning hours of March 4 at a bar in Ontario.
Prosecutors say the Mongols members, 51-year-old Montclair resident Clifford “Buckshot” Lavoy and 31-year-old Upland resident Julian “Juls” Pulido, violently attacked a member of Vagos, a rival biker gang, recognized solely as “V.S.” in courtroom paperwork.
V.S. was reportedly contained in the bar sporting Vagos membership member gear when he was approached by Pulido and Lavoy, who allegedly demanded the sufferer present respect to them as members of the Mongols.
An ensuing argument escalated when the Mongols members overpowered V.S., assaulting him by punching him within the face, kicking him within the face, head and neck and choking the rival gang members, prosecutors stated.
Members of the Mongols bike membership seen in Southern California on April 26, 2019. (Picture by Invoice Alkofer/ by way of Getty Pictures)
“When the sufferer tried to expire of the bar, Pulido allegedly pulled out a gun and shot the sufferer a number of instances within the again, inflicting the sufferer to fall by means of the door of the bar and bleed out on the sidewalk,” the discharge detailed. “The defendants then fled the scene.”
V.S. was declared lifeless at 2:45 a.m.
Not lengthy after, Pulido was noticed by regulation enforcement, main them on a nine-hour chase by means of 5 California counties.
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“He was arrested after crashing a black Dodge car right into a ditch throughout a high-speed chase alongside Freeway 46 close to Misplaced Hills in Kern County,” prosecutors stated. “On the time of his arrest, Pulido possessed the identical Mongols-branded clothes he had worn on the night time of V.S.’s homicide.”
Greater than a month later, on April 15, Lavoy was arrested in Whittier the place he was booked and later launched, in response to the discharge.
He has been charged with assault leading to critical bodily harm in help of racketeering, with Pulido being charged with homicide in help of racketeering.
The Mongols, an outlaw bike membership, reportedly fashioned in California within the Sixties and was included in Montebello. Vagos was additionally reportedly based within the early Sixties in San Bernardino.
If convicted as charged, Pulido faces a compulsory minimal sentence of life in federal jail, with Lavoy dealing with the potential for a most sentence of 20 years.
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