Galloping Goose Motorcycle Club
Galloping Goose Motorcycle Club (GGMC) is a one-percenter motorcycle club that began around a motorcycle racing team and friends based out of Los Angeles, California in the United States in 1942. The group was informal and not chartered until 1946. Soon after, the organization spread out from southern California, establishing chapters in Illinois, Missouri, Wyoming, Kansas and Louisiana.[1]
An expert on outlaw motorcycle gangs from Missouri State Highway Patrol said the Galloping Goose were expanding into territory formerly controlled by the Pharaohs motorcycle club during the 1980s and 1990s. He described them as a "one percenter club", which took over another club, the Midwest Drifters, and uses them to run errands and provide cash.[2] He said Galloping Goose's rules of behavior sometimes include violent crimes.[2]
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- "Warrant Out In Oxnard Girl's Death", Oxnard Press-Courier (Oxnard, California) 58 (51): 2, 21 August 1974, http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=63ZKAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8CINAAAAIBAJ&pg=3548,3997710, retrieved 2011-06-14
- "Suspect Nabbed in Missouri", The Daily Union Democrat (Sonoma, California): 3, -11 July 1980, http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZhJZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RUYNAAAAIBAJ&dq=&pg=2621%2C792233, retrieved 2011-06-11
- "Hit by van", The Southeast Missourian: 3, 11 February 1985, http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hrEfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=StcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1018%2C4157008, retrieved 2011-06-11
- Perlstein, Michael (20 June 1999), "Lengthy Probe Unraveled Drug Network N.O.-Area Bikers' Ties To Meth Operation Found" (ProQuest), The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana): A.1
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