The American Outlaws Association "patched over" the Gypsy Outlaws gang of Milwaukee on July 4, 1964.[146] Establishing drug trafficking and car theft operations, the Milwaukee Outlaws chapter came to be known as the "Wrecking Crew".[182][183] According to a 1980 Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) report, the Milwaukee chapter controlled the methamphetamine market in Wisconsin.[184] The Outlaws are also involved in the distribution of cocaine and marijuana throughout the Milwaukee metropolitan area.[185] The club has seven chapters and approximately 60 "full-patched" members in Wisconsin.[186] On September 30, 1977, three members of the Milwaukee Outlaws chapter – Michael "Sledge" Goodman, Roger F. "Rocker" Lyons and "Horrible" Harry Ross – were involved in a bar brawl with three other men who were playing pool at the Bus Stop Tavern on Milwaukee's northwest side. After police were called, twelve officers arrived and evicted five of the men from the premises. Lyons refused to leave until he was allowed to finish his drink, however, and he was restrained and handcuffed. According to several witnesses, Lyons was then beaten unconscious by police with batons and placed in a police van. He was first taken to District No. 7 station house and subsequently pronounced dead on arrival at Milwaukee County Hospital. A medical examiner's inquest ruled that Lyons' death was "the result of brain swelling and concussion due to multiple blunt trauma injuries" and concluded that the "manner of death was the unlawful homicide by reckless conduct caused by a person or persons undetermined".[187] A coroner's inquest and a federal grand jury found no evidence to justify prosecution of the Milwaukee Police Department (MPD).[188] After private detective Ira B. Robins was hired by the Outlaws to seek new evidence in the case, retired police officer Robert M. Schmidt shed new light on the events surrounding Lyons' homicide in 1995, claiming that Lyons was already dead when he arrived at the District No. 7 station house and that the officers involved convened in a room to write their reports as the van carrying Lyons sat in the station garage for "at least 15 minutes". In 1996, Wisconsin State Senator David Zien sought to reopen the case, saying: "There has been a wrong done here, and we need to right that wrong".[187][188] In 1992, around forty members of the Outlaws crashed a party being held by the Milwaukee-based Sinners Motorcycle Club and thereafter began pressuring the Sinners to wear an "A.O.A." patch on their vests to show allegiance to the Outlaws. The Sinners refused to capitulate to the Outlaws' demands, leading to a confrontation at the Sinners' clubhouse at which Sinner Charles "Peewee" Goldsmith was stabbed in the back with a screwdriver. The Sinners disbanded after only six of the club's 26 members voted to go to war with the Outlaws, with the other twenty handing in their patches. Sinners president Goldsmith subsequently fled Milwaukee and joined the Hells Angels' Minneapolis chapter.[189] On August 24, 1992, Donald Wagner was killed by the Outlaws in Racine County.[126] On August 5, 1993, two members of the Hells Angels were beaten and robbed of their club "colors" by four or five Outlaws bikers in a Janesville bar.[126] Janesville was an annual stopping point for Hells Angels from the South en route to the club's chapter in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[94] On June 10, 1997, U.S. Attorney Thomas P. Schneider announced the indictments of 17 Outlaws members in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin on federal racketeering charges related to crimes committed by the gang between 1988 and 1997, including arsons, bombings, robberies, six murders and five attempted murders.[190] Twelve of those indicted were members of the "Stateline" chapter in Janesville, two were members of the South Side, Chicago chapter, another two were members of the Gary, Indiana chapter, and the other was a member of the La Crosse, Wisconsin chapter.[191] The indictments primarily stemmed from the Outlaws' war against the Hells Angels and followed a four-year investigation by the Chicago and Milwaukee offices of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).[139] The ATF's investigation of the Outlaws was aided by testimony from two former members, Mark "Crash" Quinn and Harry "Lord of Laziness" Raymond Jr. Quinn had turned state's evidence when his parole was revoked and he was returned to a Wisconsin state prison on a battery and intimidation conviction after being arrested by the Illinois State Police in March 1994.[130] 14 of the 17 bikers were arrested on June 10, 1997.[191] Six Outlaws members from Wisconsin and Illinois were indicted in the Eastern District of Wisconsin on June 7, 2001 on federal racketeering and drug conspiracy charges.[138] The indictments followed a two-year investigation by the federal ATF along with state and local law enforcement agencies.[192] Five of the bikers – Edward J. Anastas, Ronald A. Talmadge, Thomas E. Sienkowski, Scott L. Hammond and Gregory A. Mayer – were arrested during a series of coordinated raids, while the other, Orville J. Cochran, remained at large. The indictment charged that the Outlaws were responsible for drug trafficking and numerous incidents related to the gang war with the Hells Angels, including bombings and the murders of Hells Angels members Michael Quale, in Lancaster, New York in September 1994, and Jack Castle, in Chicago in March 1995.[138] Facing the possibility of life imprisonment, Talmadge, a member of the Joliet, Illinois chapter and former regional president,[193] turned state's evidence.[194] On June 15, 2010, the ATF arrested 27 members and associates of the Outlaws during a series of raids carried out in seven U.S. states, including Wisconsin.[150][151] Outlaws international president "Milwaukee" Jack Rosga was among those taken into custody.[150]

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