Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws Quotes

“With all the talk of war and hunting, death by bike was the biggest threat to the Outlaws, to any motorcycle club. The highway stretched before me, dark and inviting. And I let her go one more time.”
― Charles Falco, Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker Gangs

“with his paperwork in order, he could now turn to more pressing issues: killing Hells Angels.”
― Charles Falco, Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker Gangs

“They looked like us, smelled like us, were armed and drugged and dirty like us. But they were the “enemy combatant” and they had to be eradicated.”
― Charles Falco, Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker Gangs

“we were briefed on the Outlaws’ mission: hunting Hells Angels.”
― Charles Falco, Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker Gangs

“demanded a birth certificate, relatives’ names and addresses, employment and criminal history for the last ten years, even tax returns. Preparing an undercover identity involved an elaborate operation. Gringo and JD had to create fake records—including school, credit, and work history—that corroborated their fictitious lives.”
― Charles Falco, Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker Gangs

“participants lasted two years before they voluntarily reentered the world and lived exposed. As an informant and a Vago, I had an identity: I was either a good guy or a badass. My costumes generated respect and fear, sometimes a mixture of both. I slipped effortlessly between my two personas, and in “off” hours I dissolved into myself. But in the WSP I was no one.”
― Charles Falco, Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker Gangs

“most who entered the Witness Security Program could not survive the isolation, could not perpetuate the lies.”
― Charles Falco, Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker Gangs

“We traveled like a black swarm, our bikes so close we grazed each other’s knees, clipped side mirrors, and inhaled exhaust. The experience, reminiscent of stock car racing, left me breathless and anxious as I split traffic and roared ninety-five miles an hour down the freeway. My hands shook”
― Charles Falco, Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker Gangs

“The Vagos never hid their brutality; they flaunted it. And whether their bravado derived from sheer machismo, raw animal instinct, or jockeying for position in the drug economy, their acts left a staggering body count.”
― Charles Falco, Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker Gangs

“Members had purportedly infiltrated public safety agencies, operating as moles, securing sworn and nonsworn positions, and working undercover to obstruct and dismantle police investigations. “Can you get inside?” Detective Samantha Kiles1 of the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department (SBSD) challenged me one chilly morning before Thanksgiving 2003. She sat across from me in a room in the department’s Criminal Intelligence Division and warmed her hands on her coffee mug.”
― Charles Falco, Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker Gangs

“the Vagos Motorcycle Club, an outlaw biker gang composed mostly of ex-military personnel, known as “violent predators” and dubbed the “largest urban terrorist” organization in the United States by San Bernardino County DA Michael A. Ramos. Intelligence sources warned that the Vagos, known as “the Green Nation,” posed an “extreme threat” to law enforcement.”
― Charles Falco, Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker Gangs

“I succumbed, white spots punching my eyelids.”
― Charles Falco, Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker Gangs

“With nothing to occupy my time, I enrolled in online classes through Liberty University and decided in my new life I would be well educated and well employed. I worked toward my bachelor’s in biblical studies.”
― Charles Falco, Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker Gangs