Mongols Motorcycle Club

Determined to prevent the Mongols motorcycle club from using a Lancaster motel to host its annual meeting this weekend, the city's mayor has taken steps to shut down the establishment. Mayor R. Rex Parris said the members of the Mongols, which law enforcement agencies consider a violent biker gang, are not welcome in Lancaster because they "are engaged in domestic terrorism . . . and they kill our children."

Former Mongols motorcycle gang leader Ruben "Doc" Cavazos faces up to life in prison after pleading guilty to a single racketeering charge among 86 counts accusing gang members of murder, assault, robbery and drug-trafficking, court documents show. The plea deal between Cavazos and the U.S.

Police say the man suspected of killing the leader of the San Francisco Hells Angels chapter has turned himself in. San Francisco police say Christopher Ablett, 37, of Modesto, who was wanted in the slaying of Hells Angels leader Mark Guardado, 46, surrendered in Oklahoma on Saturday. Police say Guardado was shot outside a San Francisco bar Sept. 2. Police have not said what the motive for the killing may have been. They say Ablett was a member of the rival Mongols Motorcycle Club.