9 convicted after 2020 Arvada shootout between rival motorcycle gangs

Lanie Lee Cook
·2 min read

DENVER (KDVR) — A 2020 shootout between rival motorcycle gangs in Arvada has resulted in nine felony convictions, including two guilty pleas to organized crime.

The blocks-long shootout between the Mongols and Hells Angels gangs killed a ranking Hells Angel member, left three people wounded by gunshots and resulted in serious injuries for others, according to the Arvada Police Department, which investigated the case and announced its outcome on Thursday.

“Each of the nine charged defendants pled guilty to some felony crime, which also
caused significant disruption to the Mongols’ organization,” police said in a press release.

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The four-year investigation spanned four states and involved local, state and federal law enforcement agencies, police said. Investigators raided gang members’ homes in Colorado and seized guns and phones, with search warrants also executed at the Mongols clubhouse in Arvada and in California, Utah and Tampa, Florida.

Nine people were arrested “simultaneously” in four states in January 2021 and extradited to Jefferson County, police said, with the final guilty plea among their cases coming earlier this month.

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Two people pleaded guilty to the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act and were sentenced to more than two decades in prison.

“It is important also to note that each defendant who pleaded guilty to the COCCA
counts had to admit to a factual basis that the Mongols OMG is a Criminal Enterprise
and engages in a Pattern of Organized Criminal Racketeering Activity that they were,
in fact, a part of,” police said in the release.

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Here is the list of those defendants, as laid out by the police department:

  • Gregory Lawrence

    • Guilty plea to Colorado Organized Crime Control Act, sentenced to 27 years in the Department of Corrections

  • Leon Matthew Dennis

    • Guilty plea to Colorado Organized Crime Control Act, sentenced to 24 years in the Department of Corrections

  • Jared Chadwick

    • Guilty plea to tampering with physical evidence. Also charged federally for being a felon in possession of a firearm and sentenced in Utah federal court to 28 months in federal prison. The Colorado sentence is running concurrently

  • Saint George Michael Gonzales

    • Guilty plea to tampering with physical evidence, sentenced to 2 years probation

  • Kenneth Wayne Tischler

    • Guilty plea to tampering with physical evidence, sentenced to 2 years probation

  • Vincent James Dominguez

    • Guilty plea to second-degree assault, sentenced to 5 years in the Department of Corrections

  • Phillip Raymond Garcia

    • Guilty plea to tampering with physical evidence, sentenced to 3.5 years probation

  • Daniel Ruben Goint

    • Guilty plea to second-degree assault causing serious bodily injury and crime of violence, sentenced to 8 years in the Department of Corrections

  • Rafael Vargas Lozano

    • Guilty plea to tampering with physical evidence, sentenced to 3 years probation

The Mongols have since relocated their Arvada clubhouse to Denver, police said.

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