Wisconsin DHS: 4,062 new COVID-19 cases confirmed, deaths up 25. "In June of 1994, Cochran and other Outlaws traveled to the Illiana Motor Speedway in Schererville, Ind. -- Orville Cochran, a former leader of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club has pleaded guilty to one count in a four-count federal indictment -- racketeering conspiracy. Outlaws members believed the Hell's Henchmen were responsible -- with the Hell's Angels courting them. Outlaws MC Jack Rosga Milwaukee Jack Jack Rosga is a former Outlaws MC National President, making him a worthy addition to this list of famous Outlaws MC Members. The “Outlaw Nation” was formed with Chicago as the Mother Chapter. Crash Quinn was the sergeant-at-arms of the club’s State Line chapter located in Janesville, Wisconsin, near the Wisconsin-Illinois border. The then-Outlaws VP told investigators the "assaults" could include beating the rival bikers, running them over with a car or motorcycle or shooting them "to discourage Hell's Angels affiliate club members from continuing to associate with the Hell's Angels -- and send a message to the Hell's Angels that their presence would not be tolerated in Outlaws territory.The indictment notes Outlaws members from Milwaukee and Wisconsin planned to attend this event -- with CCW permit holders "directed to arm themselves" and two vans, one armored from Milwaukee, containing firearms and other weapons, were brought to Indiana as part of the "Outlaws caravan" to the speedway.The night before the event, the indictment says Outlaws members learned their regional boss had been shot and seriously injured while riding on the Dan Ryan expressway in Chicago after leaving an event at the Gary clubhouse in Indiana. The procession was followed, and the second armored van ended up stopped by police. Returning to the farmhouse, Miller lied to Morris and told him his wife was unharmed and tied up in the trailer and the only way he’d see her alive again was if he emptied his safe for them. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Notorious Midwest biker badass Scott (Rhino) Hammond of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club’s Milwaukee chapter died back in the winter, bringing an end to a career on the streets known for his fearlessness as an enforcer. His arrest record dated back to the early 1980s. Al Profit & Scott M. Burnstein. Organized one-percenters first emerged in Milwaukee in the mid-1960s, with these gangs eventually taking up the patch of the Outlaws MC of Chicago. In the weeks leading up to the murders, Miller stole $1,000 in cash from a hiding place in the back of Gauger’s shop. Outlaws MC was founded in 1935 in McCook, Illinois by a group who loved to ride Harley Davidson motorcycles. ©2020 FOX Television Stations, MPD: Double shooting near 60th and Marion, suspect sought, One year later: Family, friends remember girls killed in hit-and-run, Milwaukee group raises money, awareness for homelessness, President Trump holds Waukesha campaign rally, Drug Take Back Day aims to fight the opioid epidemic, There's a new place in Pewaukee to grab coffee and breakfast, Surgeon general issues guidance amid Wisconsin's COVID-19 surge, High school sports adjust to COVID-19 reality in Wisconsin. Copyright. The Outlaws' animosity for the Hell's Angels grew after this incident.On June 26, 1994, the boss of the Gary Outlaws assembled the group in Gary for the ride to the speedway. Outlaws Homecoming: Florida Outlaws MC Sees One Member... Philly MC Member, Fmr. Milwaukee Outlaws president Kevin (Spike) O’Neill, Northwest Indiana capo and overall Midwest regional club boss Randy (Mad Dog) Yager and Southside Chicago club chief Carl (Jamming Jay) Warneke were all ensnared in the first bust, a 34-count indictment charging multiple gangland murders, attempted murders, robberies and arsons. Bowman and O’Neill are currently behind bars for life. SCHERERVILLE, Ind. According to court records, in 1998, Anastas sent Rhino Hammond, accompanied by the infamous Wisconsin biker world hit team of Randall (Madman) Miller and William (Billy the Preacher) Schneider, to Minneapolis, Minnesota to assassinate then-Hells Angels Twin Cities chapter president Patrick Matter, an execution which never occurred due to logistical issues. "to assault rival bikers" at an event known as "Summer Madness." An Outlaws member said the Indianapolis chapter boss said if rival bikers were present, Outlaws "were to shoot to kill. After staking out the property for two days, Miller and Schneider arrived at the farmhouse’s backdoor at around 6:00 a.m. on the morning of April 8, 1993 and encountered Morris Gauger tending to a chicken coup and his wife Ruth Gauger, 70, preparing coffee and breakfast. Warneke went into the Witness Protection Program. While Miller held Morris at gunpoint, Schneider took Ruth into an adjacent trailer on the property which doubled as a traveling trinket sales depot and bludgeoned her with the butt of his .357 Magnum and then slashed her throat. Per federal court filings, the Milwaukee Outlaws chapter “got the power” nationally in the late 1990s upon the incarceration of iconic Detroit-based Outlaws Godfather Harry (Taco) Bowman, the club’s beloved international president for the previous 15 years. Copyright. The Outlaws were founded out of Chicago. In addition to providing a treasure trove of other intelligence on club affairs, Quinn clued the FBI into the real story behind the murder of the Gaugers. Milwaukee has since ceded control of the whole club back over to chapters in Michigan and Illinois, modern-day experts contend. Al Profit & Scott M. Burnstein. In January 1982, he went down on weapons and criminal property damage charges and in 1985 he was collared for burglary in a scheme where he was stealing cartons of cigarettes from gas stations. Find an Outlaw and ask him! "As it turned out, no rival bikers showed up, and the Outlaws packed up and left. Both Shock Anastas and Preacher Schneider eventually flipped and entered the Witness Protection Program. Schneider, 54, flipped following his arrest and appeared alongside Crash Quinn as a star witness for the government at Miller’s 2000 trial (where Miller was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison) prior to entering the Witness Protection Program. According to court records and trial transcripts, Madman Miller and Preacher Schneider targeted the Gaugers under the belief that 74-year old Morris Gauger, the owner of a popular motorcycle parts and repair business in McHenry County, a cluster of suburbs northwest of Chicago, kept a safe with tens of thousands of dollars inside at his farmhouse residence in Richmond. Hammond had been the Milwaukee Outlaws’ sergeant-at-arms. The Outlaws Motorcycle Club have an official support club, known as Black Pistons MC, who act as a feeder club for recruitment as well as resources. Though they had had no former contacts with the Milwaukee Club, the “Gypsy Outlaws” from Louisville followed, joining in August at the Springfield Motor races. In late 1993 or early 1994, leaders of the Outlaws believed the Hell's Angels might be trying to gain a presence in the Outlaw's "White Region" territory by "patching over" one of their affiliates that was present in Chicago, Rockford, Calumet City, Ill. and South Bend, Ind.Outlaws members agreed "they would engage in a series of assaults" against the "Hell's Henchmen" and other affiliates to discourage them from becoming Hell's Angels chapters, and to prevent the Hell's Angels from infiltrating their territory. Madman Miller is 58 years old today and resides in a federal correctional facility in southern Indiana. DO NOT write us asking how to join! The disturbingly-senseless double-murder of Morris and Ruth Gauger, an elderly married couple in Illinois, was finally officially solved 20 years ago this week with the arrests of Wisconsin Outlaws Motorcycle Club members Randall (The Madman) Miller and James (Preacher) Schneider as part of a gargantuan legal assault unleashed against the infamous biker gang by the feds in the late 1990s. The then-Outlaws’ Detroit-headquartered international president Harry (Taco) Bowman, the club’s dynamic, violence-obsessed leader for a majority of the 1980s and 1990s, would go on to be indicted in August. Two old surplus-type police vehicles were used for security by the Outlaws at the event -- with firearms concealed inside.Ultimately, rain resulted in the cancellation of the event -- and most people left, but the Outlaws remained for three days. Throughout the 1990s, the Outlaws and Hells Angels were in fierce combat across several Midwest states as the west coast-based Hells Angels tried pushing into the Chicagoland area, a longtime Outlaws’ administrative nerve center. Fast forward to 1995 and Hammond was arrested in Merrillville, Wisconsin after a van he and two other prominent leaders of the Milwaukee Outlaws, Edward (Shock) Anastas and Richard (007) O’ Connor, were traveling in was pulled over and police found drugs and guns. Shock Anastas and 007 O’ Connor were president and vice president, respectively, of the Outlaws’ Milwaukee chapter in the 1990s, at the peak of the so-called Midwest biker wars, a series of explosive conflicts that cut a swath through multiple rustbelt metropolises, pitting the Outlaws versus their invaders from the west coast, the Hells Angels.