The Red Devils Motorcycle Club (RDMC) is an international

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and the principal brother club with the

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. The club is not to be confused with the now-defunct

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that was founded in

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in the late 1940s. With chapters in nearly 20 countries, the Red Devils MC have been involved in numerous disputes with law enforcement and rival one-percenter motorcycle groups.

Formation

The Red Devils MC were initially founded in

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, Sweden in 2001. A chapter emerged the following year in the United States in

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. A Red Devils chapter would then go on to be established in Belgium in 2003, and later, expand into other countries.

Criminal allegations and incidents

Australia

A shooting attack on Red Devils MC member Daniel Pegoraro occurred in 2013. Pegoraro sustained injuries but survived the attack. It is speculated that the ambush had to do with an ongoing dispute between the Hells Angels and the

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. The

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chapter Red Devils clubhouse was raided by police in 2015 after a number of bullets were fired at their Clayton South clubhouse. Members of the gang ended up being charged with liquor licensing breaches and firearms offenses.

Canada

The Red Devils Motorcycle Club currently has 10 chapters in Canada. As part of an investigation into outlaw motorcycle club activities in

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, two members of the Red Devils MC - along with two Hells Angels members - were arrested in April 2020 by the

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in relation to organized crime, drugs and money laundering. Matthew Quattrociocchi, a member of the Red Devils MC was charged with assault and possession of a weapon in June 2020 after he had beat a member of the rival

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with a

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in broad daylight near a St. Catharines convenience store in the Niagara region. The incident was caught on video via security camera footage.

United States

Larry 'Ronnie' Capps Jr. - the Cape Fear Chapter President of the Red Devils Motorcycle Club in

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was arrested on drug and weapons charges in 2010 following a raid of the chapter clubhouse where authorities seized 50

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s, more than $3,000, and an ounce of

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worth about $1,200. Capps was charged with six counts of trafficking cocaine, five counts of manufacturing cocaine, and one count of possession of a

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for a sawed-off double-barrel shotgun. In June 2012, nineteen members and Hells Angels associates, some of which were members of the Red Devils Motorcycle Club, were arrested in a law enforcement

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for drug and prostitution charges. Multiple Massachusetts Hells Angels and Red Devils bikers were arrested in March 2013 during raids at their hangouts in Lynn and Byfield on charges of kidnapping, mayhem, and extortion. On March 19, 2022, Red Devils and Hells Angels bikers were involved in a gun battle with members of the Infamous Ryders and La Familia motorcycle clubs outside the Baymont Ramada hotel in

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. Three people – William Franklin Davis Sr., Keith Allan Dickey, and Donald Dillenbeck – were shot dead, and other three were wounded by gunfire.Investigation continues in fatal Fayetteville gunbattle between rival biker gangs
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References

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