 Welcome into the original gangsters podcast, another quick credit edition. I am your host Scott Bernstein. Today we're going to talk about Hell's Angels in California. Russell J. R. Lyles, one of the enforcers for the Sonoma chapter out in California was sentenced this month. He's going to do five years on a racketeering case that came down in 2017 and was a big headline grabber in California. That bust included Ray Ray folks who right now is considered the most powerful, notorious and feared Hell's Angels in the world kind of took that spot from Sonny Barger. Ray Ray was involved in this case. He was the president or is the president of the Sonoma chapter in Napa Valley, which seems to have the power right now in that group or did. Lyles, 43 years old, he was part of a group within this chapter known as the Young Guns because they were, I guess the Sonoma chapter was very or is very well known for patching guys in that are teenagers or in the early 20s. J. R. was patched in when he was 19 years old. They're also within that Sonoma Hell's Angels crew. There was a very elite enforcement unit known as the Fuck Around and Find Out crew, which was led by Ray Ray folks, as well as Doughboy Silva, who ended up being killed. But Lyles was allegedly a part of that Fuck Around and Find Out crew as well as being a Young Gun. He's going to do five years in prison. He'll come out and still be in his 40s. And it looks that he could be a possible future leader of the Sonoma Hell's Angels. Ray Ray folks, I think, still has a little bit of time to do. And then he'll be coming out. So just, you know, keeping tabs on what's going out in California with the Hell's Angels. Lyles was very adamant in his court filings and during his sentencing that he had nothing to do with some of the activity that Ray Ray folks has been convicted of. A pretty gruesome altercation where Ray Ray folks found out another member of the Hell's Angels, I believe in his Sonoma chapter, was sleeping with his wife. And folks ordered this guy to report to him. And then folks and some other people beat him mercilessly and tattooed his face. And then folks went and in retaliation sexually assaulted this guy's wife. Lyles wanted to be very clear that he had nothing to do with that and had sent, according to his attorneys, had sent word to the leadership of that chapter that he didn't agree with that decision to do that. Whether or not that's true or not. I don't know. It seems pretty ballsy that you would tell Ray Ray folks that he shouldn't be doing what he's doing, especially when it was connected to somebody stepping out with his wife. But Jair Lyles is gonna go do five years in prison. You know, a lot of interest around that case, the Hell's Angels, the power in that group right now is in Sonoma, had been in Oakland, Ventura County, and with Ray Ray folks at the helm, it's now in Napa Valley, wine country. So just checking in with them. We'll keep on giving you the latest breaking biker news around the country when it comes to the big boys, the Hell's Angels, the Pagans, the outlaws, the Mongols, the Banditos. For OGPod, I'm Scott Bernstein, out.