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Raymond Foakes was arrested for raping a fellow member's wife after a 10-year investigation found the biker gang dolled out their own sick punishments.

Merl Hefferman was well-known for organizing childrens charity events but prosecutors fear he may have routinely turned victims to ash in a funeral home dubbed the pizza oven.

US prosecutors allege Merl Hefferman, 54, illegally cremated up to four members killed by the group at a California funeral home

US prosecutors allege Merl Hefferman, 54, illegally cremated up to four members killed by the group at a California funeral home

US prosecutors believe gang members used a funeral home in Fresno, California, to cremate four men

John Walker / Getty ImagesFormer Hells Angels boss, Merl Hefferman, allegedly disposed of four group members’ bodies by cremating them at a Fresno funeral home that the gang called “the pizza oven.” Federal prosecutors laid the case out during Hefferman’s sentencing, who had pleaded guilty in December for disposing of Joel Silva’s body. Levi Phipps, the crematory manager, said during the trial that he was threatened at gunpoint by two men while they put a body ...

FRESNO, Calif. – Merl Hefferman told the crematory manager of the funeral home that he wanted to make things disappear, prosecutors said.

A Hells Angels member is being accused of using his connections at a funeral home to incinerate the body of someone in the biker gang

Hells Angels member Merl Hefferman faces sentencing after prosecutors revealed he orchestrated the illegal cremation of four bodies, including that of fellow gang member Joel Silva, at a Fresno funeral home, known as the 'pizza oven'

FRESNO, Calif. - Merl Hefferman told the crematory manager of the funeral home that he wanted to make things disappear, prosecutors said.