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Brawl or no brawl? Only bike gangs know the truth
startribune.com
Minnesota - Everyone was mum after reports of melee in Minneiska. If dozens of bikers from rival gangs scuffle in a parking lot in a small Mississippi River town and don't admit to it afterward, did it really happen?
Probably, Ron Ganrude of the Winona County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday. The bloody face of one of the bikers is the sure giveaway.
But Chief Deputy Ganrude said police didn't make a single arrest after responding to a call of a biker free-for-all in Minneiska, Minn., on Saturday because once the cops showed up, everybody shut up.
"He claimed he had fallen down," Ganrude said of the biker whose face was cut and bloodied. "He said he didn't know anything about a fight."
Ganrude said police from Winona and Wabasha counties raced to Minneiska, a town 110 miles southeast of the Twin Cities, about 1:15 p.m. after they got a call of a "brawl" between members of two rival biker gangs -- the Outlaws and the Hells Angels -- near a parking lot between the Eagle View Bar and Grill and Buck's Bar and Grill.
Ganrude said the motorcyclists were cruising Hwy. 61 as part of the annual spring "Flood Run" that began in 1965 when bikers drove the Mississippi to help communities overwhelmed by spring flooding. "Typically, there is no trouble," Ganrude said.
But before deputies reached Minneiska, they got word that about 100 members of the Outlaws were headed south on Hwy. 61 toward Winona. Deputies intercepted them near Minnesota City and closed a lane of the highway for about two hours to question them, Ganrude said.
Meanwhile, deputies in Minneiska spoke with about 40 Hells Angels members still at the scene. "We never found anybody up in Minneiska who admitted being involved in a fight," he said.
With no complaints and no confessions, there was little the deputies could do.
But two bikers were cited -- for carrying brass knuckles.
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