He served 13 years in various prisons, according to news reports. There's more cops committing crimes than Hells Angels."īarger's own arrest record included charges ranging from drunken driving to attempted murder. "They say we're organized crime, but if you took every Hells Angel on the face of the Earth and got rid of them you wouldn't drop the crime rate in the world one-tenth of one percent," he said in a 2000 interview for Heads magazine. Sonny Barger, founder of the Oakland, California chapter of the Hell's Angels, the infamous motorcycle club. He often tried to downplay the club's outlaw reputation.
Barger was also present at the club's most infamous moment – the 1969 free concert at the Altamont Speedway during which bikers hired as security staff fatally stabbed a concertgoer who pulled a gun on one of their members.īorn in Modesto, Barger became a sort of unofficial spokesperson for the Hells Angels. He was a founding member of the Oakland chapter of the Hells Angels. Sonny Barger, David Labrava, Robert Patrick, and season 5 new comers Chuck Zito and Rusty Coones are the only cast members who have actually been a part of a real life MC.īarger passed away on June 29th 2022 after battling liver cancer.Barger died back in June after a short battle with cancer. He is the founding member and former President of that charter. He was once the President of the Oakland charter of the actual outlaw MC Hells Angels. He appears on the episode " To Be, Act 1" in the series' fourth season, and was last seen on the episode " Crucifixed" in the series' fifth season. He has connections to the Russian Mafia, is one of the First 9, and as the third member, was formerly Sergeant-at-Arms under SAMCRO founder John Teller. Convicted for murdering three ATF agents, he is currently incarcerated in the Stockton State Prison.
Making his debut on the episode " NS" in the series' third season, Sonny plays the role of a SAMCRO member. Livermore, California Ralph Hubert Barger, better known as Sonny Barger, born Octoin Modesto, California, is an American actor and former Hells Angels member who played the role of Lenny 'The Pimp' Janowitz on the FX original series Sons of Anarchy.
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