A renowned member of Mongols Motorcycle Club was charged Tuesday to have murdered a member of the rival vagos in what federal prosecutors say they are an increasing conflict between the two outfits.
Julian Pulido, 35, shot Vicente Sandoval on March 4 at the Firewater bar in Ontario, according to a complaint not sealed on Tuesday and the coroner files of the county of San Bernardino. A second member of the alleged Mongols, Clifford Lavoy, is accused of having smothered Sandoval before being killed.
Lavoy pleaded not guilty on Tuesday for accusations of assault for the benefit of the racketeering and is imprisoned without deposit, according to a spokesperson for the American prosecutor’s office in Los Angeles. Pulido stayed in a prison in San Bernardino on Tuesday on Tuesday and has not yet pleaded before a federal court.
The murder of Sandoval was the last escape in a three-year conflict between the Mongols and the vagos which, according to the judicial archives, included a shooting in a Hooters restaurant, a fight in a Harley-Davidson store in Marina Del Rey and a homicide which claims to be allegedly by a paraplegic vago which exceeds a cycle of motorcycle with three wheels.
In the complaint, a California road patrol officer said Mongols had 2,500 members worldwide, with chapters in the United States, Mexico, Canada, Europe and Asia. The club is governed by a “mother section” which collects the contributions of regional affiliates. The officer, whose name has been expternal in the complaint, said that the money had been in part of thefts, fraud by credit card and sales of methamphetamine and cocaine.
In 2022, the dirty Mongolian linen was broadcast before the Federal Court when the club’s long-standing lawyer accused its president, David “Little Dave” Santillan, of being a secret informant for the American alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives, who launched two short-hairing cases against the club.
Santillan denied the accusation, despite his registration secretly recorded by his wife saying that an ATF agent could no longer “protect” him once he retired. Santillan, a 25 -year -old member of the Mongols, said in 2022 that he was “in the limbo” with the club, stripped of his title of president.
The officer wrote in the complaint that the leaders of the Mongols maintain an “arsenal” of assault rifles, handguns, hunting rifles, knives and vests swept in their headquarters in downtown Los Angeles. The Mongols would have kept the cache of weapons to be used against the rivals, in particular the Hells Angels, the Hors-la-Loi, the sons of silence and the vagos.
Prosecutors retrace the Mongolian conflict with the vagos until December 19, 2021, when this last club organized a memorial for a member who died in a hooks in Riverside. Some Mongols showed up and a fight broke out, wrote the officer. The shot broke out on both sides. As the riverside police arrived, everyone had fled – but blood on the ground said that someone had been injured, according to the complaint.
After the filming of the hooters, the “upper levels” of the two motorcycle clubs tried to “make a brokerage” a meeting, but it is never materialized, wrote the officer.
The night of May 8, 2024, the Asylum Motorcycle Club organized a party at the bar escondite in downtown Los Angeles, according to a statement of search mandate examined by The Times. The Asylum Motorcycle Club is a “support club” for Mongols, which means that its members are allowed to support Mongolian events, according to the complaint.
To celebrate the 15th anniversary of its founding members, the members of the Asylum Motorcycle Motorcycle has broken the escondite with mechanical equipment of bull and DJ, wrote a detective from the Los Angeles police department in Affidavit.
At 11:24 p.m., a fight broke out between certain Mongols and two members of the vagos who crushed the party. One of the vagos, later identified as Joseph Laumua, was in a wheelchair.
After the end of the fight, Laumua and the second Vago met someone who arrived in a money SUV, according to the Affidavit. Laumua and the other Vago returned to the party with firearms and opened fire, wrote the detective.
They missed the Mongols, hitting two passers -by in place that were not affiliated with motorcycle gangs, the complaint said. Jose Lira, 47, was killed. The second victim survived.
Laumua fled on a three-wheeled Harley-Davidson, the detective wrote. Arrested three months later, the 38 -year -old Mirada resident pleaded not guilty for the murder of Lira. The second shooter was not identified.
Two months after the death of Lira, some vagos and Mongols fought in a Harley-Davidson store in Marina Del Rey, which ended with vagos shots, according to the complaint. The regional officers of the two clubs warned members of “preparing for new violence”, according to the complaint.
The night when Sandoval was killed in Ontario, Pulido presented himself to the Firewater bar bearing a black hat that said “Mongols MC” and a black sweatshirt with letters “MFFM”, which represents “Mongols Forever, Forever Mongols”, wrote the officer in the complaint.
Firewater did not allow customers to wear their “cuts” – leather vests with patches indicating belonging to a group of Outlaw motorcycles. Sandoval showed up a sweatshirt that said “MC SGV vagos” and a vagos pendant on a gold channel.
Pulido and Lavoy told Sandoval that he had not shown their respect when he did not show up at the bar, the officer wrote. Sandoval accused men of having acted as a “little B -“, but bought them part of drinks as an apologies, according to the complaint.
Pulido asked the bartender to put a second cycle of drinks on the Sandoval tab. The bartender refused.
Pulido then struck Sandoval in the face, ripening blood on the finger engraved with the letters “LMDM” or “Mongolian living, Die Mongol”, wrote the officer. Lavoy began to stifle Sandoval, said the complaint.
Sandoval freed himself and ran for the door. Pulido drew a pistol and shot Sandoval four times in the back, depending on the complaint.
Pulido and Lavoy passed the body of Sandoval, which was on the sidewalk outside the bar. According to the complaint, Pulido returned briefly to the body, shouting: “F—! F—!” Before fleeing.
After doing it for hours, Ontario police tried to stop Pulido later in the day in Kern. Pulido withdrew his Dodge Dart from Highway 5 and blew through a red light, hitting almost two cars, wrote the officer. He tried to turn around at 60 mph and crashed into a ditch.
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