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Vagos MC Motto We Give What We Get Founded 1965 Type Region, northern, and Australia and Membership 4000 full-patch members Activities N/A Website Abbreviation 22, Green Nation The Vagos Motorcycle Club, also known as the Green Nation, is a formed in 1965 in the unincorporated community of. The club's insignia is, the god of mischief, riding a motorcycle. Members typically wear green. The Vagos have approximately 4,000 members among 200 chapters [ ] located in the states of Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Missouri, Several Canadian chapters,Chapters throughout Europe and ten chapters located in Mexico (Baja California, Jalisco and Mexico City). Two hundred members are in, where the club was started in the late 1960s. In 2013, the Vagos expanded to Sweden and Australia. Contents • • • • • • • • • • History [ ] During, many military service men rode motorcycles and grew attached to them, and could not leave them after the war.

Path of an Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Member. Full Patch members in front of pack- in order of their. The Vagos are the most rapidly expanding. Pes 2012 Patch Ps3 Us Version. • Approximately 400 Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs are. Hell’s Angels, Mongols, Vagos, Hessians. Takeovers of other OMG’s (patch over).

The motorcycle enthusiasts formed clubs around the time were in style. In 1948, the formed a motorcycle club; their first chapter was in. They shared the streets with another motorcycle club named the Psychos (Redlands). In 1965, a feud occurred among a few of the Psychos members; they left the group and created their own club, which is now known as Vagos MC. Their colors pay homage to their founders' Mexican heritage. The club expanded to the and the areas, and later to Mexico and Europe.

Insignia [ ] A member from the Berdoo chapter (slang for ) created a while he was in prison featuring. Vago is Spanish for vagabond or wanderer. Their sport their top rockers with their club name integrated into the middle patch, and bottom rockers with their chapter's region or state, such as 'SO. CAL', 'California', or 'Arizona'.

The middle patch 'depicts a muscle-bound caricature of the Norse god of mischief, Loki, set against a green field'. Loki is colored red on top of a bike with his hands holding up their club name. Other patches the club wears are the number 22 (the 22nd letter of the alphabet, V, for Vagos), and a Loki head. An MF patch (meaning motorcycle family), is received by a member after a probationary period is over and the member is validated as a member of the Vagos family on the front. Some members have been seen with a green swastika and an 'SS' symbol on their jackets. Membership [ ] Vagos Membership primarily consists of Caucasian and Hispanic males.

Official chapters [ ] The Vagos have Chapters all throughout Southern California. They have Chapters in the, which includes both and in the city of San Bernadino where they started, Azusa California San Gabriel Valley chapter, Los Angeles and. They also have chapters in the states of Hawaii,,, and Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, New York also the country of. Europe, Canada and Australia. Vagos MC criminal allegations and incidents [ ] Hemet traps [ ] On March 17, 2010, amid allegations that Vagos members had fabricated home-made booby traps to maim and kill police detectives in, police arrested at least 30 Vagos members in a multi-state raid of,,, and California, involving 400 police officers from 60 law enforcement agencies. The police raided 73 locations in Southern California, seizing weapons and drugs, and discovered a. The raids were the result of several incidents involving booby traps where the club was implicated: • On December 31, 2009, the unmarked headquarters of the Hemet Gang Task Force was filled with natural gas, which had been routed into the building through a hole drilled in the roof.

Two task force members had detected the gas and backed away without triggering the explosion. The day before that attack, a Vagos funeral was held at a church next to the office. • On February 23, 2010, a task force member opened a security gate outside the building, causing a homemade attached to the gate to fire, nearly hitting his head. • On March 5, a task force member who had parked an unmarked police car in front of a convenience store in Hemet found a homemade pipe bomb hidden underneath the vehicle. California and federal authorities announced a $200,000 reward for information on these cases. California Attorney General called the attempts 'urban terrorism.' Riverside County said that Vagos members posed an 'extreme threat' to law enforcement officers and were notorious for trying to 'infiltrate' public safety agencies, by obtaining sworn or non-sworn positions and working undercover to obstruct and dismantle police investigations.