![]() ![]() District Judge Francis Allegra partially sided with Dobyns on Tuesday, awarding him $173,000 in damages for mental distress, and pain and suffering. The ATF countered that Dobyns breached his employment contract, and federal regulations and bureau orders, by publishing a book based on his experiences as an agent, and by contracting his story and consulting services to create a movie. The agency agreed to pay Dobyns $373,000 in 2007 for the withdrawal of those claims, but Dobyns brought the ATF to court the next year for bad-faith claim, claiming the agency continued to retaliate against him in breach of the settlement.ĭobyns said ATF officials took away his secret credentials and exposed him to threats and attacks from the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, and tried to frame him for an arson attack on his home. To impress the Hells Angels leadership and earn Dobyns a full "patched" membership in the gang, he and other ATF agents staged the fake murder of a member of rival Mongols Motorcycle Club.ĭobyns' identity was allegedly disclosed in court, however, after 16 Hells Angels members were indicted on racketeering and murder charges in Arizona.įacing death and violence threats against him and his family, Dobyns filed an official complaint in 2006, alleging that the agency improperly investigated several of the threats and improperly instituted and managed the relocation of his family. From 2001 to 2003, he engaged in Operation Black Biscuit, targeting Hells Angels members as an undercover member of the Tijuana-based Solo Angeles. Jay Dobyns started as an agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in 1987. (CN) - Rebuking a law-enforcement agency for its "sorry failure" in a "Kafkaesque" tale, a federal judge awarded $173,000 to a celebrated undercover agent threatened with death by the Hells Angels. ![]()
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