The Diablos Motorcycle Club, or Diablos MC for short, is a " one-percenter" outlaw motorcycle club that has chapters in cities across the United States. John E. Irvin, president of the Diablos'

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chapter, and Thomas E. Pastor, a former Connecticut chapter member, were convicted of possession with intent to distribute

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, and of using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime after they were found to be in possession of two loaded weapons and eight packages of methamphetamine when searched by

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officers near Collinsville, Illinois on January 5, 1995. On September 24, 1998, Diablos club member Raymond "Stoney" Stone and seven other members were charged with various crimes (including Stone's confession in his involvement in the 1992 murder of rival gang member Mike D'Amato of

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's James Gang MC for which he would be sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment). Keith Gallagher, the vice president of the Diablos' national chapter, was indicted in Massachusetts on charges of

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trafficking on January 24, 2006. Diablos member Jerry Louis Fantauzzi was arrested on December 7, 2005, following a long-term investigation into the Diablos in Waterbury and

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at a bar in Plainville, Connecticut in May 2019, leaving two outlaws injured.CT bar shut down after fight between rival motorcycle gangs
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