27 charged in Motorcycle Club shootout
Yavapai County Sheriff's deputies and police officers swarmed the area after 911 calls about gunfire on Yuma Drive west of Chino Valley alerted them to the trouble. Helicopters circled overhead as heavily armed SWAT team members descended on the rural area.
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| The shots rang out as gang members confronted each other along Yuma Drive between Road 3 and 4 North shortly after 12 p.m. The homes involved included 2640 Yuma Drive used by members of the Hell's Angels and 2920 Yuma Drive, a few blocks away that was used by members of the rival Vagos gang, officials said. Deputies arrested 27 suspects and booked them into the Yavapai County jail in Camp Verde. Officers charged the suspects with attempted homicide, aggravated assault, endangerment, participation in a criminal street gang and unlawful assembly, according to Dwight D'Evelyn, a spokesman for the Sheriff's Office. A least five people sustained injuries described as not life threatening and a medical helicopter took one wounded person to a hospital in Phoenix. No civilians were injured in the gunfight. Detectives confirmed that members of the Hells Angels and Vagos gangs took part in the shootout. Previously, a state Department of Public Safety spokesman said a power struggle between those two gangs has been ongoing in northwestern Arizona, leading to a series of violent assaults. D'Evelyn said Sunday that gangs have been rivals for years, referencing a motorcycle gang fight between the Angels and the Mongols in 2002 in Laughlin, Nev., that left three people dead at a casino during the annual River Run gathering. That incident also left 16 people injured. About an hour later a motorist found another motorcycle rider with gang ties shot to death on Interstate 40 in California, about 60 miles from the Arizona border. [q/] Source: 27 charged in Motorcycle Club shootout 
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