Michael McCollum and the Hells Angels
Gangland Wire
Gary Jenkins
4.6 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
McCollum started early in a life of crime after his father, a motorcycle gang member, was the victim of a murder attempt where a dynamite bomb was detonated at their family home. Former law enforcement officer Gary Jenkins interviews former Hells Angel and Chicago Outfit Associate Michael McCollum. After having a dramatic enlightening, Michael turned his life around and is working on a book about his life on the wrong side of the law. That is when he is not working out in the gym. Michael's life started with a rival motorcycle gang planting a dynamite bomb in his home in an effort to send a message to his father.
The Wisconsin Hells Angels order McCollum to murder another member
Michael recounts his young adulthood where he lived a life of crime and how he became the main enforcer for the Hells Angels. He was ordered to kill the club president, Mel Chancey, when it became known he was an informant. Michael refused to commit this murder and ended up joining another motorcycle club.
Reformed outlaw motorcycle club member turns author
He has teamed up with well-known true crime author Denny Griffin to publish this engrossing and exciting story of his life. Michael hopes this book will be published by the end of 2020.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Gangland Wire, hosted by former Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit Detective, Gary Jenkins. |
| 0:13.4 | Welcome all you wiretappers out there. I'm here in the Gangland Wire Studio, |
| 0:17.7 | and another day of COVID-19 virus quarantine. |
| 0:23.5 | Maybe I'm not really quarantined. |
| 0:25.3 | I know a lot of people are quarantined, and, you know, I want to give a shout out to Basil Tarabiche. |
| 0:32.6 | He is a guy that helps me a lot with social media marketing, and we did a podcast together. He likes to do |
| 0:39.7 | movie reviews of mob movies and he is, he couldn't, we were going to do another one and he's |
| 0:45.0 | had to work all night long, had to work two shifts, almost 20 hours in a Dallas hospital. He |
| 0:49.7 | works in a Dallas area hospital. So he's, he's in the breach. So Basil, I salute your service to the rest |
| 0:57.7 | of us. I would not want, I'm glad I'm not a policeman anymore. I'd have to go out there and |
| 1:02.0 | deal with people that more than likely have it and are communicable. So, but anyhow, we have |
| 1:07.7 | Michael McCollum on the line here and on Skype. |
| 1:12.3 | I'll be putting this up on Facebook. |
| 1:14.4 | As you guys know, I worked intelligence and organized crime, but we also worked motorcycle gangs here in Kansas City. |
| 1:20.8 | We had the L-4 steros and the galloping geuses, and I believe the galloping goosees kind of ate up the L.4 Sterros because they were a |
| 1:27.9 | small minor club out way out in the far out suburbs. So I used to have a guy that worked for me. |
| 1:34.7 | And he kind of tried to go undercover of the galloping goose. At least he dressed like a |
| 1:38.8 | biker and hang out in the bars where they were. But you can't, you can't get in with those dudes, |
| 1:43.1 | man. And Michael McCollum is a former |
| 1:46.3 | Hells Angels and his real deal biker, and he was connected to the Chicago outfit. So you guys |
| 1:52.8 | in Chicago will be really interested to hear his responses on that. And he's working on a book, |
| 1:59.6 | and that's how we first got together. |
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