http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE49K8U120081021?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0California-based Mongols biker gang members rounded up
Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:02pm EDT
By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Federal agents and police in seven states arrested more than 60 members of the Mongols motorcycle gang on Tuesday in a sweep that also targeted for the first time an outlaw group's "intellectual property," prosecutors said.
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"In addition to pursuing the criminal charges set forth in the indictment, for the first time ever, we are seeking to forfeit the intellectual property of the gang," U.S. Attorney Thomas O'Brien said in a statement.
He said the name "Mongols," which appears on the gang's arm patch insignia, was trademarked by the group. The indictment seeks a court order outlawing further use of the name, which would allow any police officer "who sees a Mongol wearing this patch ... to stop that gang member and literally take the jacket right off his back," O'Brien added.