The Vagos Motorcycle Club, also known as the Green Nation, is a one percenter motorcycle club that formed in 1965 in the unincorporated community of San Bernardino, California. The club originally was called "the Psychos". The club's insignia is Loki, the Norse god of mischief, riding a motorcycle. Members typically wear green.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation as well as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the California Attorney General have named the Vagos as an outlaw motorcycle club, claiming that they are involved in criminal activities such as producing, transporting and distributing methamphetamine and marijuana, as well as assault, extortion, insurance fraud, money laundering, murder, vehicle theft, witness intimidation and weapons violations. The Vagos have approximately 600 members among 24 chapters located in the states of Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, 1 Canadian chapter in Peterborough, Ontario, and ten chapters located in Mexico (Baja California, Jalisco and Mexico City). Two hundred members are in Inland Empire (California), where the club was started in the late 1960s.
In 2002, members of the Vagos turned in the estranged wife of a Pomona, California police detective after she attempted to hire a hit man from the Vagos to kill her husband.
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