Some of the Sons of Silence members arrested were involved in an alleged conspiracy to kill police and kidnap the children of police officers earlier that year. The brawl involved a total of twenty-two participants and was the result of a power struggle between the Sons of Silence and two other motorcycle clubs, the Dead Men and a group known as Philtown. Six members – Scott Bennigsdorf, John Barnard, Bobby Mann, Art Miller, Mark Wagar, and national president Bruce Richardson – were charged with assault with a deadly weapon and jailed for their involvement in a bar brawl in Colorado Springs on March 5, 1972. The Sons of Silence are allied with the Hells Angels and Iron Horsemen, and are rivals of the Outlaws. Members have been implicated in numerous criminal activities, including murder, assault, drug trafficking, intimidation, extortion, prostitution operations, money laundering, weapons trafficking, and motorcycle and motorcycle parts theft. Department of Justice (DOJ), and at one point were considered one of the "big five" motorcycle gangs along with the Bandidos, Hells Angels, Outlaws and Pagans. The Sons of Silence are designated an outlaw motorcycle gang by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and U.S. states, and 5 chapters in Germany ĭrug trafficking, witness intimidation, extortion, prostitution, money laundering, weapons trafficking, motor vehicle theft, murder, assault Criminal allegations and incidents Sons of Silence MCģ0 chapters in 12 U.S. Membership of the club has been estimated at between 250 and 500. Members pledge oaths of loyalty and secrecy. Sons of Silence members must be at least twenty-one years old and own a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
SONS OF SILENCE IOWA MEMBERS PATCH
The logo is a patch that is sewn on the back of each full member's vests (known as colors), along with assorted other badges. The club's motto is " donec mors non separat ", Latin for "until death separates us".
The Sons of Silence's logo – an American eagle superimposed over the letter "A" – is similar to, and taken from, the Anheuser-Busch logo. Branches in Viernheim, Erding and Pfarrkirchen were established in 2007, 20, respectively. In 2001, more German chapters were founded in Freising, Gangkofen and Nurnberg. The first international chapter was founded in Munich, Germany in 1998. There are now American chapters in Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. The first chapter outside Colorado was the Iowa chapter which was founded in 1968, and an alliance with the Hells Angels enabled the Sons of Silence to further expand. In the 1990s, Reed and Richard Lester, an attorney and motorcyclist, formed the Colorado Confederation of Clubs, which improved communication between motorcycle clubs and provided a means to avoid conflict. Also a navy veteran who served from 1965 until 1969, Reed succeeded Richardson as the Sons of Silence's national president in 1977 and held the position for twenty-two years. Another influential figure in the club's history is Leonard Lloyd "JR" Reed, Jr. The Sons of Silence's national headquarters were later moved to Colorado Springs.
Last week, he was sentenced to 10 months in prison.Ĭarlson was released on the bond previously set and is to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on a date yet to be set. He pleaded guilty on Maguilty plea to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Why should they be? After the confrontation, police searched Carlson’s home in Sheffield, Iowa, and recovered Carlson’s Sons of Silence motorcycle vest, which had a brass knuckles in the pocket, numerous items of Sons of Silence paraphernalia, and two firearms.Īs a convicted felon, Carlson isn’t allowed to own a firearm, let alone two. Of course, the “gang in blue” isn’t easily intimidated. READ: Pagans bikers charged with beating of Hells AngelĪmong the intimidating bunch was 38-year-old Justin Carlson (photo above), the enforcer for the Northern Iowa Chapter of the Sons of Silence Motorcycle Club.On April 5, 2020, several members of the Sons of Silence Motorcycle Club and another affiliated group confronted a motorcyclist, who was an off-duty police officer, claiming the officer needed permission from the Sons of Silence to wear one of the patches on the back of the motorcyclist’s jacket. But this time the guy they confronted was an off-duty police officer. So when they see other motorcycle riders wearing a patch they feel he shouldn’t, they confront him.
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