The Porter County
Sheriff’s Police has released the numbers on the multi-agency saturation
patrol in Burns Harbor on Thursday, May 19, when the Hells Angels Motorcycle
Club was in town for a charity fundraiser at the Mill Bar & Grill at 295
Melton Road.
The Hells Angels,
for the record, is classified as an “outlaw motorcycle gang” (OMG) by a 2011
National Gang Threat Assessment prepared by the FBI.
Sixty-five traffic
stops were performed on motorcycles and passenger vehicles during the course
of the six-hour patrol, in which approximately 60 officers participated from
11 different law-enforcement agencies.
Those 65 stops
produced 21 citations; 53 written warnings; six arrests; and four impounds.
The purpose of the
patrol, Sheriff Dave Reynolds said at the time: “to maintain a police
presence to deter any criminal activity in order to maintain the safety and
security for the citizens of Porter County.”