BY: GLENDA ANDERSON
pressdemocrat.com
SWAT teams swept through the Santa Rosa Hells Angels motorcycle clubhouse and several homes Thursday, arresting two of four men wanted in the brutal beating of a rival motorcycle gang member at the Konocti Vista Casino in June.
A second man sustained minor injuries during the melee.
Prior to the arrests, the Lake County District Attorney’s Office filed charges against four suspects: John Leo Johnson, 39, of Santa Rosa; David Daniel Dabbs, 41, of Santa Rosa; Nicolas Felipe Carillo, 32, of Geyserville; and Timothy Robert Bianchi, 33, of Petaluma.
The charges include felony unlawful participation in a criminal street gang, felony assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury, fighting in public and battery.
Carillo and Bianchi were arrested during Thursday’s law enforcement sweep, which included the FBI, Santa Rosa Police Department, Petaluma Police Department and Lake County Sheriff’s Office, Lake County Sheriff’s officials said.
The charges and arrests stem from a June 4 incident during which a 39-year-old Lakeport man was severely beaten during a tattoo conference at the Lake County casino.
Michael Anthony Burns suffered broken bones and his companion suffered minor injuries. Burns denied he was in a fight but the incident was captured on the casino’s video surveillance camera, according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.
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The tape shows men wearing clothing with Hells Angels logos following Burns and Kristopher Perkin into the casino foyer, Sheriff’s officials said. One hit Burns and they began to fight, officials said. At least four other men wearing Hells Angels’ garb entered the camera’s view and some of them blocked casino security guards from stopping the assault, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Law enforcement officials are asking for help from anyone who knows where Dabbs and Johnson can be found. They should be considered armed and dangerous and should not be approached, Sheriff’s officials said.
Dabbs also is wanted in connection with a kidnapping and torture case in San Diego, officials said.
Now they're conducting raids over a fistfight?
They raided a clubhouse and numerous private residences over a fistfight in which the alleged victim refused to press charges or co-operate with law enforcement? So those search warrants were based primarily upon suspicion and speculation with no evidence other than a minute's worth of surveillance tape? What judge signed these warrants, the senile one who wears Depends and doesn't know what day it is? It is obvious that he does not belong on the bench. What bullshit.
Now they're conducting raids over a fistfight?
They raided a clubhouse and numerous private residences over a fistfight in which the alleged victim refused to press charges or co-operate with law enforcement? So those search warrants were based primarily upon suspicion and speculation with no evidence other than a minute's worth of surveillance tape? What judge signed these warrants, the senile one who wears Depends and doesn't know what day it is? It is obvious that he does not belong on the bench. What bullshit.
