
Entire Hells Angels’ Bakersfield Chapter Arrested on Kidnapping, Assault Charges
Published on June 26, 2024
All seven members of the Bakersfield, California, chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club are being detained and charged with numerous felonies, including kidnapping and illegal imprisonment, robbery, assault with a firearm, making criminal threats, intimidation, and elder abuse, officials said. Six club members were arrested in an early morning sweep on June 25, officials said, including the chapter’s president and vice president. A seventh gang member, 37-year–old Joshua Vaughn, was already in custody on 13 similarly violent charges, with the addition of cruelty to a dependent adult with potentially great bodily injury or death as a result, according to police documents....
