Warlocks Motorcycle Club (Pennsylvania)
| Founded | 1967 |
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| Founding location | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Years active | 1967-present |
| Territory | Mainly Philadelphia and Delaware County, PA; chapters and members throughout the Delaware Valley, South Jersey, Delaware, and eastern Pennsylvania |
| Ethnicity | White |
| Allies | Philadelphia Crime Family,Wheels of Soul Motorcycle Club, occasionally Pagan's Motorcycle Club |
| Rivals | Pagan's Motorcycle Club,Florida Warlocks Motorcycle Club,The Breed Motorcycle Club, various gangs and outlaw motorcycle clubs |
The Warlocks Motorcycle Club is a "one-percenter" Outlaw motorcycle club that was formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1967. It was the first official 1% outlaw motorcycle club founded in Pennsylvania. The club is most prominent in the Philadelphia and Delaware County area, but they have territory all throughout the Delaware Valley, including South Jersey and Wilmington. There are now chapters all throughout Pennsylvania, South Jersey, and Delaware. The club's insignia is a Harpy, which in Greek and Roman mythology, was a female monster in the form of a bird with a human face. Their colors are Red and White. The club rapidly expanded at the end of the Vietnam War when thousands of soldiers returned home to the United States, many to Pennsylvania.
In December 1988, individuals associated with the Warlocks kidnapped the then Breed chapter president Craig "Coyote" Gudkneckt in retaliation for several Warlock members being jumped by Breed members in a Bensalem bar. Gudkneckt was taken to the home of a Warlock where he was tied up, beaten and pistol-whipped. Gudkneckt escaped.
On May 6, 1995 Police Sgt. Ippolito "Lee" Gonzalez of Franklin Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey pulled over Warlocks members Robert "Mudman" Simon and Charles Staples on a traffic stop moments after the two had committed a commercial burglary. Simon shot Gonzalez twice, in the head and neck, and Gonzalez died instantly. Simon later said he shot Sergeant Gonzalez because he did not want to return to prison. Simon was quickly apprehended, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to death. At the time of Gonzalez's murder Simon was barely three months out of jail and on parole after a 1981 conviction for killing a woman in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. In 1999, Simon was stomped to death by Ambrose Harris, another death-row inmate, in New Jersey's Trenton State Prison. Harris argued self-defense, and charges were dropped.
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