doj | Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (OMGs) are organizations whose members use their
motorcycle clubs as conduits for criminal enterprises. OMGs are highly
structured criminal organizations whose members engage in criminal
activities such as violent crime, weapons trafficking, and drug
trafficking. There are more than 300 active OMGs within the United
States, ranging in size from single chapters with five or six members to
hundreds of chapters with thousands of members worldwide. The Hells
Angels, Mongols, Bandidos, Outlaws, and Sons of Silence pose a serious
national domestic threat and conduct the majority of criminal activity
linked to OMGs, especially activity relating to drug-trafficking and,
more specifically, to cross-border drug smuggling. Because of their
transnational scope, these OMGs are able to coordinate drug smuggling
operations in partnership with major international drug-trafficking
organizations (DTOs).
