Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club
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The Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original (SAMCRO) or SOA, is a fictional outlaw motorcycle club
and organized crime
syndicate from the FX television series Sons of Anarchy
. The club was formed by John Teller and Piermont "Piney" Winston
, two Vietnam War
veterans
, in 1967 in Charming, California
. Six of the original nine members were war veterans. Their logo is a Grim Reaper wielding an M-16 rifle with scythe
blade and holding a crystal ball
. The Sons' motto
s are "Fear the Reaper" and "Ride Free or Die", and their colors
are blue and white. The club has 28 chapters worldwide. In North America, these are located in Alaska
, Arizona
, California
, Florida
, Indiana
, New England
, Nevada
, New Jersey
, New Mexico
, New York
, Oregon
, Pennsylvania
, Texas
, Utah
, Washington and Wyoming
in the United States, and Alberta
and Manitoba
in Canada. There are also a number of chapters in England, Germany, Northern Ireland
, the Netherlands and Scandinavia. The club has a signature weapon. All members are known to carry knives on their waistbands.
The series follows the club's Mother Chapter, the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original, or SAMCRO. The chapter's President is Clay Morrow
and his Vice President is Jax Teller
. Their primary business is importing illegal weapons and selling them to drug gangs in the East Bay
, along with protection runs for local businesses by protecting valuable truck shipments from hijacking. They also protect Charming from outside gangs who try to manufacture and sell drugs, mainly methamphetamine
, there. Naturally, their main enemy is the White supremacist Nordics gang who specialize in the meth trade. The fact that the Sons of Anarchy are racially diverse also puts them at odds. They also have to deal with a rival Oakland
-based motorcycle club, the Mayans, who control the neighboring territory of Nevada, and the League of American Nationalists, another criminal racist organization. The Sons of Anarchy also have a number of allies, in the form of the True IRA, which supplies them with illegal Russian-made guns, and the One-Niners, an African American
street gang to which SAMCRO sells weapons, and various affiliates in the state prison system.
, following their return from service as paratroopers during the Vietnam War
. The first chapter was founded in Charming, California
and originally had only nine members, the other seven being Wally Grazer, Thomas
"Uncle Tom" Whitney, Chico Villenueva, Lenny "The Pimp" Janowitz, Clay Morrow
,
Keith McGee and Otto "L'il Killer" Moran. Six of these were war veteran
s. Teller was the President up until his death in 1993, when Clay Morrow took over. The club was originally formed as a form of social rebellion for men who simply wanted freedom and no longer wished to live by society's rules. They also tried to protect the people of Charming from outside gangs and drug dealers, rather than exploit them.
In 1991, the Mayans attempted to expand their drug-dealing operations into the San Joaquin Valley
, leading to a war with SAMCRO, who retaliated by defending the territory under their control. This war ran until 1993, when the Mayans finally backed down after taking heavy casualties. In 2008, employees for the Water and Power Board working near the highway dug up three skeletons, two of which were Mayans killed by Tig Trager
in 1992, when they had tried to invade Lodi
. The third skeleton was that of Lowell Harland, Sr., a mechanic at Teller-Morrow Automotive Repair, who was killed by Clay Morrow for being a "junkie rat
". To stop the bodies from being identified, Trager, Morrow and Jax Teller
snuck into the Hospital morgue to remove the teeth from the bodies, however, Lowell Sr. had already been identified. No-one was ever convicted of the killings.
with an iron fist, and, to a certain extent, have even more power than the police. For the most part, they try to protect the town from outside criminal influences, but also use violence to keep things the way they like it; sabotaging large companies' attempts to branch into the town for example.
When Wayne Unser
, the Chief of the Charming Police Department, announced his quickly approaching retirement due to suffering from cancer, the Sons of Anarchy plotted to make him stay on. He had always got on well with SAMCRO during his time in charge, and even employed them as muscle at times. However, his successor would be David Hale
who is overtly suspicious of the SOA and, given the power, would almost definitely begin an investigation into the club. To warn Unser to keep Hale off their case, the SOA hijacked one of Unser's trucks that they were supposed to protect, and threatened to hijack more. As a good will gesture, they gave the contents of the truck to the local Italian American Mafia as their guns were late to be delivered. Also, to distract the police from their activities, the SOA acquire two dead bodies from the local morgue and set them up in a fake shoot-out. The set-up shooting was made to look like a racist murder involving the Nordics.
When the 13-year-old daughter of local businessman Elliot Oswald was raped at a carnival, he went to Clay Morrow
and asked if the club could hunt the rapist down and kill him, in exchange for money. Clay refused the money but insisted that if the rapist was caught, Oswald must carry out the punishment himself. When they discovered that the rapist was one of the carnies
, and not a member of the Nords as first thought, they captured him (following a large brawl with the other carnies) and brought him to Oswald. He brought his own knife to castrate the carny, but could not bring himself to do so. Clay Morrow then carried out the punishment himself, but wearing gloves whilst doing it and keeping the knife with Oswald's finger print
s. He later used this to blackmail Oswald; he threatened to frame him for the crime as he was about to sell off much of the land around Charming to big business and housing development, which would challenge the reign of SAMCRO.
Kyle Hobart, a disgraced former SAMCRO member who left Opie Winston to be caught by the police after a bombing, returned to Charming in 2008 after being exiled years earlier. He was in town to watch his son playing with his band at a local festival, but also approached Jax Teller
and asked him if the Sons wanted in on his deal selling stolen car parts. Jax accepted and invited him to the clubhouse that night. This was a set-up, however, to punish him for not having his SOA tattoo removed after being disowned by the club. At the clubhouse, they tied him up and offered him a choice of means to remove the tattoo. Tig used a blowtorch to burn off the tattoo. The Sons then dropped him off at the St. Thomas hospital ER.
. The Sons then retaliated by riding out to the industrial storage warehouse San Leandro
where the Mayans took the guns, and doing like-wise. The raid did not go as smoothly as anticipated, however, as three Mayans and a member of the Nordics turned up while they were inside the building, and a shoot-out ensued with the Sons coming out the victors with no casualties. Almost simultaneously, the Nordics began selling methamphetamine
in Charming, prompting a swift and violent response from the Sons of Anarchy; Jax Teller
and Bobby Munson
found some drug dealers at a local bar and beat them with pool cues.
When the Sons of Anarchy decided to patch-over their brother club, the Devil's Tribe, Teller and Munson were sent to Indian Hills, Nevada
to inform them. On the way there, the pair came across a group of Mayans on the road and were involved in a chase and then a shoot-out. When they eventually arrived at the Devil's Tribe clubhouse and informed them of the news, their President, Jury, was not pleased but eventually accepted that it was the best decision for both clubs. Clay then traveled to Indian Hills to perform the patch-over ceremony, and brought a number of Sons of Anarchy Washington members as protection in case the Mayans retaliated for the earlier incident. They did, and attacked the clubhouse with machine gun
s and shotgun
s. The Sons of Anarchy members, also heavily armed, fought back until the Mayans fled. During the fire fight, Jury and a few Mayans were wounded, but there were no deaths seemingly.
The Nords leader, Ernest Darby
, was soon informed of SAMCRO's weapons deal with the True IRA by rogue ATF
agent Josh Kohn
. At a meeting with the Mayans President Marcus Álvarez
, Darby proposed killing Clay Morrow
and afterwords, the Nords could take Charming and the Mayans could take over the gun business. Marcus then told his son, Esai, to kill both Morrow and Darby. Later, when Clay and Tig Trager
were making a deal with the IRA's Cameron Hayes at a bar, the Mayans attacked but were killed before they could get to Clay. They did wound Hayes, however. They simultaneously assaulted Darby's home, but also failed to kill him, shooting only some henchmen and women. SAMCRO then called in the Sons of Anarchy State Presidents and Vice-Presidents from Washington, Utah
and Nevada
, in a bid to wipe out the Mayans. This operation was never put into action, however, as a peace agreement was eventually made when local police chief Wayne Unser
arrested Clay Morrow and Ernest Darby for questioning in response to the shootings. Clay told Unser to bring Álvarez in also, so that the three gang leaders could hold a meeting and stop any more bloodshed. Clay met with Darby first, and told him not to retaliate because it would start a war on the streets of Charming. He then met with Álvarez and the pair made a deal; the Sons of Anarchy would begin selling guns to the Mayans, and all Mayan-SOA disputes nation-wide (over turf, businesses, etc.) would end in the SOA's favour. Álvarez kills Esai for not properly carrying out the ordered hits on Clay and Darby forcing the agreement with the Sons. This agreement, and the dissolution of the Mayan-Nordic partnership, marked the end of the war.
, the Niners tried to take out the Mayans and the SOA. The SOA group escaped, but a number of Mayans and Niners were killed in the shoot-out.
In an unrelated matter, SAMCRO's leaders (Clay Morrow and Tig Trager, specifically) suspected Opie Winston of being an ATF informant
and decided to have him killed. However, they mistakenly killed his wife, Donna instead. Opie's father, Piney
, was led to believe that it was the Niners who killed his daughter-in-law (rather than SAMCRO admitting that it was them), and he decided to take revenge. He travelled to a Niner bar in Oakland, took a gang member hostage and demanded to know who killed Donna. SAMCRO's leaders had him followed by Prospect Half-Sack Epps
, however, and he called Jax Teller and Chibs Telford
for help. They managed to get Piney out alive, and had a talk with Laroy. He told them that it was not him or his gang who killed Donna. This came as a surprise to Jax and Chibs as they, too, had been told that it was the Niners who killed her.
, as he was their accountant but stole money from them, then informed on a number of their members when he was arrested. SAMCRO also agreed to protect him on the outside when he was released, in return for information on where the Triads keep their money.
They picked him up from the prison gate in a van and took him to their clubhouse. He told them that the Triads keep some money in a restaurant, and they intended to wait until the restaurant was closed until they raided it, but Chuck's frequent delays made them uneasy and they decided to raid the restaurant sooner. However, just after they stole the money (and some counterfeiting plates), they discovered it was setup. A group of Triads (including the boss, Henry Lin) then turned up in cars before the Sons could flee, and a shoot-out briefly ensued, with no casualties. Instead of starting a war, both gangs decided to make a deal then and there; SAMCRO handed over Chuck and the counterfeiting plates and the Triads paid them in real money.
for crimes such as inter-state
arms trafficking, racketeering and murder. June Stahl
came to Charming to investigate the club. Before her Josh Kohn
started the investigation, although this was only a cover for his true motives for being in Charming (he was actually stalking Tara Knowles
). June Stahl discovered that Josh Kohn was actually there stalking Tara Knowles and sent him back to Chicago where authorities were awaiting his arrival. He escaped from custody, returned to Charming, and was eventually murdered by Jax Teller
, Tara's boyfriend.
When Josh Kohn arrived in Charming and began his investigation, the club was forced to move their weapons cache to Indian Hills, Nevada
, where their brother club the Devil's Tribe are based. To transport the guns, the Sons of Anarchy would need a truck, and Tig Trager
and Juice Ortiz
were tasked with stealing one from a local truck yard. This was not as simple as first assumed, however; Juice drugged the guard dog with crank (meth) before breaking in, thinking the drug would incapacitate the dogs. However, the crank only made the dogs more fierce, and Tig was pursued aggressively as he made his way to the truck. The weapons were eventually moved back to Charming after a new warehouse was acquired.
When things quieted down with the ATF, SAMCRO began selling weapons again. Piney Winston
sold some AK-47
s to Nate Meineke and his right-wing militia
. This was sanctioned by the club because Meineke was an old war buddy of Piney and was "just playing soldier". It backfired, however, when the militia used these guns to ambush a prison convoy and free one of their members, Frank Cison. A police officer and two bystanders were killed during the assault, yet again bringing a heavy law enforcement presence to town. Meineke dropped his cell phone at the scene, and his last received call came from Piney at Teller-Morrow garage. When the ATF found the phone, they raided the clubhouse and arrested Clay. He was later released from custody because no incriminating evidence was found in the raid, and therefore no evidence linking SAMCRO to the guns used in the attack. As revenge for the militia bringing the ATF down on their heads and to make sure Meineke and his gang didn't "snitch" if they were apprehended by the authorities, SAMCRO decided to kill all of the militia. Piney and Opie Winston and Jax Teller pretended to sell them more weapons and ammunition. The boxes of guns were actually filled with explosives, however, and the militia carried the boxes off to their hideout. When the SOA were told by Meinke that only he and his men would be at their hideout (no civilians: family, etc.), they detonated the bombs, killing them all.
Shortly before the death of Kohn, and to his frustration, June Stahl took over his investigation and was more determined to bring the club down. One of her first acts was to arrest Luann Delaney, wife of respected club member Otto, and Cherry, the girlfriend of Prospect Half-Sack Epps
. She threatened them with prison if they did not give up information on SAMCRO, and held them at the local police station. SAMCRO knew of Stahl's tactics, and plotted to sneak into the jail and talk to the girls. Bobby Munson
, Piney Winston and Tig Trager started a brawl at a local bar so that most of the town's small police force had to go to the scene to break it up. This gave Jax Teller and Opie Winston an opportunity to break into the police station, with the help of the corrupt Chief Wayne Unser
, and freed Cherry due to the fact she was facing serious jailtime in another state; admitting to Jax she would rat. Luann stayed behind because the ATF had offered Otto a deal which would let her have a visit and approve his upcoming parole. This gave her the chance to pass the information Jax told her about Stahl trying to use RICO on the club. Cherry was then smuggled into Canada, along with Cameron Hayes (now wanted as a member of the True IRA), by Happy
in one of Unser's trucks. On the pretence that Luann and Otto would give up information on a 1999 heist, they were allowed to meet at the prison. After this, they said goodbye and when Stahl entered the room, Otto assaulted her, only extending his prison term.
The club entered Half-Sack Epps into bare-knuckle boxing
competition to raise money for weapons. He was supposed to take a dive in the final, but won by knocking his opponent out. This lost the club $35,000. However, Cameron Hayes offered SAMCRO a free shipment of guns in exchange for killing Brenan Hefner, an Oakland
Port Commissioner who murdered his cousin Michael McKeavy. They accepted the offer and Bobby, Jax and Opie went to Hefner's motel room where he was having sex with his mistress Eviqua Michaels. It was planned out that Bobby and Jax would keep watch while Opie made the hit, however, he froze and Bobby instead shot Hefner. Michaels went to the police and successfully identified Bobby and Opie, who were both arrested. Agent Stahl tried to leverage Opie to turn on the club by playing on his family ties as well as his debts. The ATF paid off a number of his debts so that SAMCRO would think he had turned into an informant
, and he would be forced to turn on them. He was offered witness protection for himself and his family if he would inform on SAMCRO's illegal activities; otherwise, he could be imprisoned or released to be killed by the Sons as a snitch. He was released after two days and returned to Charming where Clay, after finding out about the debts being paid off, became suspicious. At the clubhouse he was given a warm welcome, but, but Clay had Tig search Opie's truck and cell phone, where he found both to be tapped with listening devices (which were planted without Opie's knowledge). Fearing that Opie had indeed turned rat, Clay secretly ordered Tig to take Opie out. During a shoot-out with the One-Niners in Oakland, Tig attempted to kill Opie during the havoc, but found himself unable to do so. Later, at a party celebrating the homecoming of Jax's son, Abel, from the hospital, Tig stole a black SUV and followed Opie's truck and shot the driver dead. However it was Opie's wife, Donna, who was driving the truck. Just after Tig had left to kill Opie, Clay was approached by Wayne Unser and told that Opie was in fact not an informant, and that the ATF had set him up. Clay tried to phone Tig to tell him, but he had left his phone (along with his colours) with his motorcycle.
The charges against Bobby and Opie fell apart when SAMCRO stopped Eviqua Michaels from testifying. Clay blackmailed Elliot Oswald, a local businessman, into getting his friends in the US Attorney to tell him the location of Eviqua. She was being held at a safe house
in San Joaquin
and Chibs Telford
, Happy
and Tig were sent there to kill her. After knocking out the Sheriffs and ATF agent protecting her, they tied her up and were preparing to shoot her when Jax arrived and stopped Tig at gunpoint from killing her. Jax, who had recently learned of the situation with Donna's murder, told Chibs and Happy to leave, then beat Tig up for killing Donna.
Although none of SAMCRO's members were ever convicted during the ATF's investigation into the club, significant unrest was caused by it. Most notably, the decision by Clay and Tig to kill Opie and not tell any other members. Tig stole a black SUV to use during the drive-by shooting
of Donna, and also used a MAC-10
, which made it look like a murder by the One-Niners. When the Niners leader, Laroy, told Jax that it was not his gang who killed Donna, it became apparent that it was Clay.
, Ireland through their connection to the True IRA. These weapons arrive on ships in Oakland
in oil containers. They then sell these guns to other gangs in Northern California
such as the One-Niners and, eventually, the Mayans. They have also sold to terrorist groups and militias. It is mentioned that the Russian Mafia
also sell weapons in the area, meaning that they are a potential business opponent.
Unser Shipping, a local trucking company, routinely hires the Sons to protect their shipments on the way to Mexico and other places. However, SOA have been known to occasionally hijack these trucks. Also, it has been mentioned that the Sons have participated in heists and hijackings of other businesses, with the help of a number of chapters.
The Sons of Anarchy also own, or partially own, a number of legal enterprises. Teller-Morrow Automotive Repair is owned by the club and is also where most of the Charming chapter work during the day. After helping out the CaraCara pornographic
film studio, SOA inherited part of the company and now receive part of its profits. Loan sharking is another of the Sons' businesses, as they lend money to businesses in the area.
In Season 4, The Sons of Anarchy begin selling guns to the Galindo Drug Cartel, and also begin muling Cocaine for them.
• Lowell Harland, Sr.- Killed by Clay Morrow for being a drug addict and a rat, mentioned in Episode 1.7
• 3 Mayan Bikers- Killed by Clay Morrow and Tig Trager at the Mayan Warehouse, Episode 1.1
• Whistler- Darby's man, killed by Jax Teller in self-defense at the Mayan Warehouse, Episode 1.1
• Tristen's Rapist- Castrated by Clay Morrow, Episode 1.3
• Nate and Russell Meineke- Blown up along with their men by Piney and Opie Winston and Jax Teller, Episode 1.6
• Mayan Biker- Killed by Tig Trager at the Irish Bar, Episode 1.8
• Josh Kohn- Killed by Jax Teller at Tara's house, Episode 1.8
• Brenan Hefner- Killed by Bobby Munson for killing Michael McKeavy, Episode 1.9
• Esai Alvarez- Killed by Happy in retaliation for Clay's attempted assassination, Episode 1.9
• Niner- Killed by Opie at the money exchange, Episode 1.12
• Niner- Killed by Jax at the gun exchange, Episode 1.12
• Donna Winston- Mistakenly shot by Tig in Opie's Truck, Episode 1.12
• Elian Perez- Killed by Opie after being set up to look like Donna's killer, Episode 2.1
• 2 Mayan Bikers- Killed by Opie during the theft of the Niner's guns, Episode 2.2
• Squirrel- Aryan Brotherhood member killed by Otto Delany in Stockton in revenge for stabbing out Otto's eye, Episode 2.13
• AJ Weston- Killed by Jax Teller in a tattoo artist's bathroom for raping Gemma, Episode 2.13
• Polly Zobelle- Killed by Gemma Teller in revenge for taking her to the rape site, Episode 2.13
• 3 Mayan Bikers- Killed by SAMCRO members during Zobelle's getaway, Episode 2.13
• Amelia Dominguez- Killed by Gemma Teller in self-defense at Nate's house, Episode 3.3
• Pozo Fuentes- Calaveras member killed by Tig in the hospital to prevent him from ratting, Episode 3.6
• 4 SAMBEL Members- Blown up by Liam O'Neill from the SAMBEL charter in attempt to kill SAMCRO, Episode 3.9
• Padraic Telford- Chibs' nephew who was also killed in the explosion, Episode 3.9
• Liam O'Neill- Killed by Jax Teller in revenge for betraying the club, Episode 3.10
• 3 O'Phelan Henchmen- Killed by Clay Morrow when trying to get to Jimmy, Episode 3.10
• O'Phelan Henchman- Killed by Bobby Munson when trying to get to Jimmy, Episode 3.10
• Keith McGee- Killed by Clay Morrow in revenge for betraying the club, Episode 3.10
• Hector Salazar- Killed by Jax Teller to stop him from ratting on the Mayans, Episode 3.12
• Jimmy O'Phelan- Killed by Chibs Telford in revenge for taking his family, Episode 3.13
• June Stahl- Killed by Opie Winston in revenge for setting up Donna's death, Episode 3.13
• Ivo- Killed by Otto Delaney in Stockton for trying to kill Jax months earlier, Episode 4.1
• Ronald Worski- Undercover FBI agent killed by SAMCRO when taking out the Russians, Episode 4.1
• 3 Putlova Henchmen- Killed by Chibs, Bobby, Juice, and Happy at the Russian warehouse, Episode 4.1
• Putlova Henchman- Killed by Clay Morrow in the Wahewa Land Woods, Episode 4.1
• Putlova Henchman- Killed by Tig Trager in the Wahewa Land Woods, Episode 4.1
• Viktor Putlova- Killed by Jax Teller for trying to have him killed in Stockton, Episode 4.1
• Russian Gang Leader- Killed by Clay Morrow to stop him from talking to the Wahewa Leaders, Episode 4.3
• Little Paul- Killed by Huff and Benny from SAMTAZ to set up meth distribution behind club's back, mentioned in Episode 4.4
• Eric Miles- Killed by Juice after he stumbled upon his involvment in stealing the cocaine for the cartel, Episode 4.6
• Lobo Sonora Shooter- Killed by Chibs after he shot his accomplice's sister, Episode 4.7
• Piermont "Piney" Winston- Killed by Clay to stop him from releasing the letters, Episode 4.8
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. Six of the original nine members were war veterans. Their logo is a Grim Reaper wielding an M-16 rifle with scythe
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. The Sons' motto
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s are "Fear the Reaper" and "Ride Free or Die", and their colors
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are blue and white. The club has 28 chapters worldwide. In North America, these are located in Alaska
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, California
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, Florida
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, Indiana
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, New England
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, Nevada
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, New Jersey
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, New Mexico
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, New York
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, Oregon
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, Pennsylvania
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, Texas
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, Utah
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, Washington and Wyoming
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in the United States, and Alberta
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and Manitoba
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in Canada. There are also a number of chapters in England, Germany, Northern Ireland
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, the Netherlands and Scandinavia. The club has a signature weapon. All members are known to carry knives on their waistbands.
The series follows the club's Mother Chapter, the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original, or SAMCRO. The chapter's President is Clay Morrow
Clay Morrow
Clarence "Clay" Morrow is a fictional character in the FX television series Sons of Anarchy. He is played by Ron Perlman. He is the President of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, but is also something of a vigilante as he does everything in his power to ensure that drug dealers and rapists stay...
and his Vice President is Jax Teller
Jax Teller
Jackson "Jax" Teller is a fictional character and the central character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Charlie Hunnam. He is the Vice President of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club's Redwood Original chapter based in Charming, California, despite only being in his early 30s...
. Their primary business is importing illegal weapons and selling them to drug gangs in the East Bay
East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)
The East Bay is a commonly used, informal term for the lands on the eastern side of the San Francisco Bay, in the San Francisco Bay Area, in California, United States...
, along with protection runs for local businesses by protecting valuable truck shipments from hijacking. They also protect Charming from outside gangs who try to manufacture and sell drugs, mainly methamphetamine
Methamphetamine
Methamphetamine is a psychostimulant of the phenethylamine and amphetamine class of psychoactive drugs...
, there. Naturally, their main enemy is the White supremacist Nordics gang who specialize in the meth trade. The fact that the Sons of Anarchy are racially diverse also puts them at odds. They also have to deal with a rival Oakland
Oakland, California
Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...
-based motorcycle club, the Mayans, who control the neighboring territory of Nevada, and the League of American Nationalists, another criminal racist organization. The Sons of Anarchy also have a number of allies, in the form of the True IRA, which supplies them with illegal Russian-made guns, and the One-Niners, an African American
African American
African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...
street gang to which SAMCRO sells weapons, and various affiliates in the state prison system.
Early years
The club was formed in 1967 by John Teller and Piermont "Piney" WinstonPiney Winston
Piermont "Piney" Winston was a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by William Lucking. He was a member of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, and was one of the Club's founders .-Character biography:...
, following their return from service as paratroopers during the Vietnam War
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...
. The first chapter was founded in Charming, California
Charming, California
Charming is a fictional town in the television series Sons of Anarchy. It is located in the San Joaquin Valley of California. According to a sign on the edge of town, its population is 14,679 and its motto is "Our Name Says It All"....
and originally had only nine members, the other seven being Wally Grazer, Thomas
"Uncle Tom" Whitney, Chico Villenueva, Lenny "The Pimp" Janowitz, Clay Morrow
Clay Morrow
Clarence "Clay" Morrow is a fictional character in the FX television series Sons of Anarchy. He is played by Ron Perlman. He is the President of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, but is also something of a vigilante as he does everything in his power to ensure that drug dealers and rapists stay...
,
Keith McGee and Otto "L'il Killer" Moran. Six of these were war veteran
War Veteran
War Veteran is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. It was first published in If magazine in March 1955.-Plot summary:The plot concerns an old man who claims to have travelled back in time from a future in which Earth has lost a devastating war to its own Martian and Venusian colonies...
s. Teller was the President up until his death in 1993, when Clay Morrow took over. The club was originally formed as a form of social rebellion for men who simply wanted freedom and no longer wished to live by society's rules. They also tried to protect the people of Charming from outside gangs and drug dealers, rather than exploit them.
In 1991, the Mayans attempted to expand their drug-dealing operations into the San Joaquin Valley
San Joaquin Valley
The San Joaquin Valley is the area of the Central Valley of California that lies south of the Sacramento – San Joaquin River Delta in Stockton...
, leading to a war with SAMCRO, who retaliated by defending the territory under their control. This war ran until 1993, when the Mayans finally backed down after taking heavy casualties. In 2008, employees for the Water and Power Board working near the highway dug up three skeletons, two of which were Mayans killed by Tig Trager
Tig Trager
Alexander "Tig" Trager is a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Kim Coates. He was the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club's Charming, California chapter and is the gang's second most violent member. Trager is extremely fond of women, and...
in 1992, when they had tried to invade Lodi
Lodi, California
Lodi is a city located in , in the northern portion of California's Central Valley. The population was 62,134 at the 2010 census. The California Department of Finance's population estimate as of January 1, 2011 is 62,473....
. The third skeleton was that of Lowell Harland, Sr., a mechanic at Teller-Morrow Automotive Repair, who was killed by Clay Morrow for being a "junkie rat
Informant
An informant is a person who provides privileged information about a person or organization to an agency. The term is usually used within the law enforcement world, where they are officially known as confidential or criminal informants , and can often refer pejoratively to the supply of information...
". To stop the bodies from being identified, Trager, Morrow and Jax Teller
Jax Teller
Jackson "Jax" Teller is a fictional character and the central character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Charlie Hunnam. He is the Vice President of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club's Redwood Original chapter based in Charming, California, despite only being in his early 30s...
snuck into the Hospital morgue to remove the teeth from the bodies, however, Lowell Sr. had already been identified. No-one was ever convicted of the killings.
Keeping control of Charming
SAMCRO rules the town of CharmingCharming, California
Charming is a fictional town in the television series Sons of Anarchy. It is located in the San Joaquin Valley of California. According to a sign on the edge of town, its population is 14,679 and its motto is "Our Name Says It All"....
with an iron fist, and, to a certain extent, have even more power than the police. For the most part, they try to protect the town from outside criminal influences, but also use violence to keep things the way they like it; sabotaging large companies' attempts to branch into the town for example.
When Wayne Unser
Wayne Unser
Chief Wayne Unser is a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Dayton Callie. He was the Chief of the Charming Police Department, but is also corrupt in that he deals with the Sons of Anarchy whom he sees as a benefit to the town, because the Sons successfully...
, the Chief of the Charming Police Department, announced his quickly approaching retirement due to suffering from cancer, the Sons of Anarchy plotted to make him stay on. He had always got on well with SAMCRO during his time in charge, and even employed them as muscle at times. However, his successor would be David Hale
David Hale (Sons of Anarchy)
Deputy Chief David Hale was a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Taylor Sheridan. He was a police officer, and the Deputy Chief in the small Northern Californian town of Charming...
who is overtly suspicious of the SOA and, given the power, would almost definitely begin an investigation into the club. To warn Unser to keep Hale off their case, the SOA hijacked one of Unser's trucks that they were supposed to protect, and threatened to hijack more. As a good will gesture, they gave the contents of the truck to the local Italian American Mafia as their guns were late to be delivered. Also, to distract the police from their activities, the SOA acquire two dead bodies from the local morgue and set them up in a fake shoot-out. The set-up shooting was made to look like a racist murder involving the Nordics.
When the 13-year-old daughter of local businessman Elliot Oswald was raped at a carnival, he went to Clay Morrow
Clay Morrow
Clarence "Clay" Morrow is a fictional character in the FX television series Sons of Anarchy. He is played by Ron Perlman. He is the President of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, but is also something of a vigilante as he does everything in his power to ensure that drug dealers and rapists stay...
and asked if the club could hunt the rapist down and kill him, in exchange for money. Clay refused the money but insisted that if the rapist was caught, Oswald must carry out the punishment himself. When they discovered that the rapist was one of the carnies
Carny
Carny or carnie is a slang term used in North America and, along with showie, in Australia for a carnival employee, as well as the language they employ...
, and not a member of the Nords as first thought, they captured him (following a large brawl with the other carnies) and brought him to Oswald. He brought his own knife to castrate the carny, but could not bring himself to do so. Clay Morrow then carried out the punishment himself, but wearing gloves whilst doing it and keeping the knife with Oswald's finger print
Finger Print
Finger Print is a Malayalam language film. It was released in 2005....
s. He later used this to blackmail Oswald; he threatened to frame him for the crime as he was about to sell off much of the land around Charming to big business and housing development, which would challenge the reign of SAMCRO.
Kyle Hobart, a disgraced former SAMCRO member who left Opie Winston to be caught by the police after a bombing, returned to Charming in 2008 after being exiled years earlier. He was in town to watch his son playing with his band at a local festival, but also approached Jax Teller
Jax Teller
Jackson "Jax" Teller is a fictional character and the central character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Charlie Hunnam. He is the Vice President of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club's Redwood Original chapter based in Charming, California, despite only being in his early 30s...
and asked him if the Sons wanted in on his deal selling stolen car parts. Jax accepted and invited him to the clubhouse that night. This was a set-up, however, to punish him for not having his SOA tattoo removed after being disowned by the club. At the clubhouse, they tied him up and offered him a choice of means to remove the tattoo. Tig used a blowtorch to burn off the tattoo. The Sons then dropped him off at the St. Thomas hospital ER.
War with the Mayan-Nordic alliance
In 2008, the Mayans and Nordics began an alliance in a bid to remove the Sons of Anarchy from Charming, as SAMCRO supply the Mayans' enemies with weapons and stop the Nordics from dealing drugs. The Mayans also began providing muscle for the Nords' drug pushing in exchange for 20% of their profits. The Mayans started the war off by looting and burning down the warehouse SAMCRO used to store weapons in CharmingCharming, California
Charming is a fictional town in the television series Sons of Anarchy. It is located in the San Joaquin Valley of California. According to a sign on the edge of town, its population is 14,679 and its motto is "Our Name Says It All"....
. The Sons then retaliated by riding out to the industrial storage warehouse San Leandro
San Leandro, California
San Leandro is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. It is considered a suburb of Oakland and San Francisco. The population was 84,950 as of 2010 census. The climate of the city is mild throughout the year.-Geography and water resources:...
where the Mayans took the guns, and doing like-wise. The raid did not go as smoothly as anticipated, however, as three Mayans and a member of the Nordics turned up while they were inside the building, and a shoot-out ensued with the Sons coming out the victors with no casualties. Almost simultaneously, the Nordics began selling methamphetamine
Methamphetamine
Methamphetamine is a psychostimulant of the phenethylamine and amphetamine class of psychoactive drugs...
in Charming, prompting a swift and violent response from the Sons of Anarchy; Jax Teller
Jax Teller
Jackson "Jax" Teller is a fictional character and the central character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Charlie Hunnam. He is the Vice President of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club's Redwood Original chapter based in Charming, California, despite only being in his early 30s...
and Bobby Munson
Bobby Munson
Robert "Bobby Elvis" Munson, is a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Mark Boone Junior. He is the Secretary of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club's Charming, California chapter...
found some drug dealers at a local bar and beat them with pool cues.
When the Sons of Anarchy decided to patch-over their brother club, the Devil's Tribe, Teller and Munson were sent to Indian Hills, Nevada
Indian Hills, Nevada
Indian Hills is a census-designated place in Douglas County, Nevada, United States. It lies in the south side of the Carson City metropolitan area...
to inform them. On the way there, the pair came across a group of Mayans on the road and were involved in a chase and then a shoot-out. When they eventually arrived at the Devil's Tribe clubhouse and informed them of the news, their President, Jury, was not pleased but eventually accepted that it was the best decision for both clubs. Clay then traveled to Indian Hills to perform the patch-over ceremony, and brought a number of Sons of Anarchy Washington members as protection in case the Mayans retaliated for the earlier incident. They did, and attacked the clubhouse with machine gun
Machine gun
A machine gun is a fully automatic mounted or portable firearm, usually designed to fire rounds in quick succession from an ammunition belt or large-capacity magazine, typically at a rate of several hundred rounds per minute....
s and shotgun
Shotgun
A shotgun is a firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder, which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number of small spherical pellets called shot, or a solid projectile called a slug...
s. The Sons of Anarchy members, also heavily armed, fought back until the Mayans fled. During the fire fight, Jury and a few Mayans were wounded, but there were no deaths seemingly.
The Nords leader, Ernest Darby
Ernest Darby
Ernest Darby is a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Mitch Pileggi. He is one of the show's early antagonists and is the leader of the Nordics, a White supremacist drug dealing street gang.-Biography:...
, was soon informed of SAMCRO's weapons deal with the True IRA by rogue ATF
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is a federal law enforcement organization within the United States Department of Justice...
agent Josh Kohn
Josh Kohn
Agent Joshua "Josh" Kohn was a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Jay Karnes. He served as one of the main antagonists on the show's first season and is an agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives...
. At a meeting with the Mayans President Marcus Álvarez
Marcus Álvarez
Marcus Álvarez is a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Emilio Rivera. He serves as one of the main antagonists on the show and is the leader of the Mayans, a Mexican-American biker gang.-Biography:...
, Darby proposed killing Clay Morrow
Clay Morrow
Clarence "Clay" Morrow is a fictional character in the FX television series Sons of Anarchy. He is played by Ron Perlman. He is the President of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, but is also something of a vigilante as he does everything in his power to ensure that drug dealers and rapists stay...
and afterwords, the Nords could take Charming and the Mayans could take over the gun business. Marcus then told his son, Esai, to kill both Morrow and Darby. Later, when Clay and Tig Trager
Tig Trager
Alexander "Tig" Trager is a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Kim Coates. He was the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club's Charming, California chapter and is the gang's second most violent member. Trager is extremely fond of women, and...
were making a deal with the IRA's Cameron Hayes at a bar, the Mayans attacked but were killed before they could get to Clay. They did wound Hayes, however. They simultaneously assaulted Darby's home, but also failed to kill him, shooting only some henchmen and women. SAMCRO then called in the Sons of Anarchy State Presidents and Vice-Presidents from Washington, Utah
Utah
Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...
and Nevada
Nevada
Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...
, in a bid to wipe out the Mayans. This operation was never put into action, however, as a peace agreement was eventually made when local police chief Wayne Unser
Wayne Unser
Chief Wayne Unser is a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Dayton Callie. He was the Chief of the Charming Police Department, but is also corrupt in that he deals with the Sons of Anarchy whom he sees as a benefit to the town, because the Sons successfully...
arrested Clay Morrow and Ernest Darby for questioning in response to the shootings. Clay told Unser to bring Álvarez in also, so that the three gang leaders could hold a meeting and stop any more bloodshed. Clay met with Darby first, and told him not to retaliate because it would start a war on the streets of Charming. He then met with Álvarez and the pair made a deal; the Sons of Anarchy would begin selling guns to the Mayans, and all Mayan-SOA disputes nation-wide (over turf, businesses, etc.) would end in the SOA's favour. Álvarez kills Esai for not properly carrying out the ordered hits on Clay and Darby forcing the agreement with the Sons. This agreement, and the dissolution of the Mayan-Nordic partnership, marked the end of the war.
War with the One-Niners
After the Mayans raided SAMCRO's storage warehouse, the Sons of Anarchy were left with no guns to sell to the One-Niners, much to the annoyance of their leader Laroy. He convinced Clay Morrow and Tig Trager to set up a meeting the Mayans for an arms deal and when they left, the Niners would eliminate the Mayans and take the guns as payment. This would satisfy both gangs, as SAMCRO's enemies would be wiped out and the Niners would receive their arms shipment. However, when Clay, Tig, Jax Teller and Opie Winston met Marcus Álvarez and his crew at a warehouse in OaklandOakland, California
Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...
, the Niners tried to take out the Mayans and the SOA. The SOA group escaped, but a number of Mayans and Niners were killed in the shoot-out.
In an unrelated matter, SAMCRO's leaders (Clay Morrow and Tig Trager, specifically) suspected Opie Winston of being an ATF informant
Informant
An informant is a person who provides privileged information about a person or organization to an agency. The term is usually used within the law enforcement world, where they are officially known as confidential or criminal informants , and can often refer pejoratively to the supply of information...
and decided to have him killed. However, they mistakenly killed his wife, Donna instead. Opie's father, Piney
Piney Winston
Piermont "Piney" Winston was a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by William Lucking. He was a member of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, and was one of the Club's founders .-Character biography:...
, was led to believe that it was the Niners who killed his daughter-in-law (rather than SAMCRO admitting that it was them), and he decided to take revenge. He travelled to a Niner bar in Oakland, took a gang member hostage and demanded to know who killed Donna. SAMCRO's leaders had him followed by Prospect Half-Sack Epps
Half-Sack Epps
Kip "Half-Sack" Epps is a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Johnny Lewis. He was a prospective member of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, which often results in hazing and him being given undesirable tasks...
, however, and he called Jax Teller and Chibs Telford
Chibs Telford
Filip "Chibs" Telford is a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Tommy Flanagan. He is a Medic & member of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club and, unlike most of the gang's members who are American, he is Scottish...
for help. They managed to get Piney out alive, and had a talk with Laroy. He told them that it was not him or his gang who killed Donna. This came as a surprise to Jax and Chibs as they, too, had been told that it was the Niners who killed her.
War with the Triads
In addition to their conflicts with the Mayans, Nordics and One-Niners, SAMCRO also had a brief battle with the San Francisco-based Triads in 2008. Otto Delaney and a number of other imprisoned SAMCRO members were protecting Chuck Marstein from the Triads in the state prison at StocktonStockton, California
Stockton, California, the seat of San Joaquin County, is the fourth-largest city in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. With a population of 291,707 at the 2010 census, Stockton ranks as this state's 13th largest city...
, as he was their accountant but stole money from them, then informed on a number of their members when he was arrested. SAMCRO also agreed to protect him on the outside when he was released, in return for information on where the Triads keep their money.
They picked him up from the prison gate in a van and took him to their clubhouse. He told them that the Triads keep some money in a restaurant, and they intended to wait until the restaurant was closed until they raided it, but Chuck's frequent delays made them uneasy and they decided to raid the restaurant sooner. However, just after they stole the money (and some counterfeiting plates), they discovered it was setup. A group of Triads (including the boss, Henry Lin) then turned up in cars before the Sons could flee, and a shoot-out briefly ensued, with no casualties. Instead of starting a war, both gangs decided to make a deal then and there; SAMCRO handed over Chuck and the counterfeiting plates and the Triads paid them in real money.
Pressure from the ATF
2008 also saw the Sons of Anarchy coming under investigation from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and ExplosivesBureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is a federal law enforcement organization within the United States Department of Justice...
for crimes such as inter-state
U.S. state
A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...
arms trafficking, racketeering and murder. June Stahl
June Stahl
Agent June Stahl was a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy and a major antagonist of the series, played by Ally Walker. She was a Stockton, California-based Agent of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigating the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club...
came to Charming to investigate the club. Before her Josh Kohn
Josh Kohn
Agent Joshua "Josh" Kohn was a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Jay Karnes. He served as one of the main antagonists on the show's first season and is an agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives...
started the investigation, although this was only a cover for his true motives for being in Charming (he was actually stalking Tara Knowles
Tara Knowles
Dr. Tara Knowles is a character on the FX drama Sons of Anarchy played by Maggie Siff. She is the love interest of the main character, Jax Teller, and the mother of his second child Thomas Teller.-Early life:...
). June Stahl discovered that Josh Kohn was actually there stalking Tara Knowles and sent him back to Chicago where authorities were awaiting his arrival. He escaped from custody, returned to Charming, and was eventually murdered by Jax Teller
Jax Teller
Jackson "Jax" Teller is a fictional character and the central character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Charlie Hunnam. He is the Vice President of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club's Redwood Original chapter based in Charming, California, despite only being in his early 30s...
, Tara's boyfriend.
When Josh Kohn arrived in Charming and began his investigation, the club was forced to move their weapons cache to Indian Hills, Nevada
Indian Hills, Nevada
Indian Hills is a census-designated place in Douglas County, Nevada, United States. It lies in the south side of the Carson City metropolitan area...
, where their brother club the Devil's Tribe are based. To transport the guns, the Sons of Anarchy would need a truck, and Tig Trager
Tig Trager
Alexander "Tig" Trager is a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Kim Coates. He was the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club's Charming, California chapter and is the gang's second most violent member. Trager is extremely fond of women, and...
and Juice Ortiz
Juice Ortiz
Juan Carlos "Juice" Ortiz is a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Theo Rossi. He is the Intelligence Officer for Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club...
were tasked with stealing one from a local truck yard. This was not as simple as first assumed, however; Juice drugged the guard dog with crank (meth) before breaking in, thinking the drug would incapacitate the dogs. However, the crank only made the dogs more fierce, and Tig was pursued aggressively as he made his way to the truck. The weapons were eventually moved back to Charming after a new warehouse was acquired.
When things quieted down with the ATF, SAMCRO began selling weapons again. Piney Winston
Piney Winston
Piermont "Piney" Winston was a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by William Lucking. He was a member of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, and was one of the Club's founders .-Character biography:...
sold some AK-47
AK-47
The AK-47 is a selective-fire, gas-operated 7.62×39mm assault rifle, first developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov. It is officially known as Avtomat Kalashnikova . It is also known as a Kalashnikov, an "AK", or in Russian slang, Kalash.Design work on the AK-47 began in the last year...
s to Nate Meineke and his right-wing militia
Militia
The term militia is commonly used today to refer to a military force composed of ordinary citizens to provide defense, emergency law enforcement, or paramilitary service, in times of emergency without being paid a regular salary or committed to a fixed term of service. It is a polyseme with...
. This was sanctioned by the club because Meineke was an old war buddy of Piney and was "just playing soldier". It backfired, however, when the militia used these guns to ambush a prison convoy and free one of their members, Frank Cison. A police officer and two bystanders were killed during the assault, yet again bringing a heavy law enforcement presence to town. Meineke dropped his cell phone at the scene, and his last received call came from Piney at Teller-Morrow garage. When the ATF found the phone, they raided the clubhouse and arrested Clay. He was later released from custody because no incriminating evidence was found in the raid, and therefore no evidence linking SAMCRO to the guns used in the attack. As revenge for the militia bringing the ATF down on their heads and to make sure Meineke and his gang didn't "snitch" if they were apprehended by the authorities, SAMCRO decided to kill all of the militia. Piney and Opie Winston and Jax Teller pretended to sell them more weapons and ammunition. The boxes of guns were actually filled with explosives, however, and the militia carried the boxes off to their hideout. When the SOA were told by Meinke that only he and his men would be at their hideout (no civilians: family, etc.), they detonated the bombs, killing them all.
Shortly before the death of Kohn, and to his frustration, June Stahl took over his investigation and was more determined to bring the club down. One of her first acts was to arrest Luann Delaney, wife of respected club member Otto, and Cherry, the girlfriend of Prospect Half-Sack Epps
Half-Sack Epps
Kip "Half-Sack" Epps is a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Johnny Lewis. He was a prospective member of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, which often results in hazing and him being given undesirable tasks...
. She threatened them with prison if they did not give up information on SAMCRO, and held them at the local police station. SAMCRO knew of Stahl's tactics, and plotted to sneak into the jail and talk to the girls. Bobby Munson
Bobby Munson
Robert "Bobby Elvis" Munson, is a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Mark Boone Junior. He is the Secretary of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club's Charming, California chapter...
, Piney Winston and Tig Trager started a brawl at a local bar so that most of the town's small police force had to go to the scene to break it up. This gave Jax Teller and Opie Winston an opportunity to break into the police station, with the help of the corrupt Chief Wayne Unser
Wayne Unser
Chief Wayne Unser is a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Dayton Callie. He was the Chief of the Charming Police Department, but is also corrupt in that he deals with the Sons of Anarchy whom he sees as a benefit to the town, because the Sons successfully...
, and freed Cherry due to the fact she was facing serious jailtime in another state; admitting to Jax she would rat. Luann stayed behind because the ATF had offered Otto a deal which would let her have a visit and approve his upcoming parole. This gave her the chance to pass the information Jax told her about Stahl trying to use RICO on the club. Cherry was then smuggled into Canada, along with Cameron Hayes (now wanted as a member of the True IRA), by Happy
Happy (Sons of Anarchy)
Happy Lohman is a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by real-life Hells Angel David LaBrava. He is Enforcer for Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, and is affiliated with the Tacoma, Washington chapter at the beginning of the series, but later becomes a Nomad,...
in one of Unser's trucks. On the pretence that Luann and Otto would give up information on a 1999 heist, they were allowed to meet at the prison. After this, they said goodbye and when Stahl entered the room, Otto assaulted her, only extending his prison term.
The club entered Half-Sack Epps into bare-knuckle boxing
Bare-knuckle boxing
Bare-knuckle boxing is the original form of boxing, closely related to ancient combat sports...
competition to raise money for weapons. He was supposed to take a dive in the final, but won by knocking his opponent out. This lost the club $35,000. However, Cameron Hayes offered SAMCRO a free shipment of guns in exchange for killing Brenan Hefner, an Oakland
Oakland, California
Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...
Port Commissioner who murdered his cousin Michael McKeavy. They accepted the offer and Bobby, Jax and Opie went to Hefner's motel room where he was having sex with his mistress Eviqua Michaels. It was planned out that Bobby and Jax would keep watch while Opie made the hit, however, he froze and Bobby instead shot Hefner. Michaels went to the police and successfully identified Bobby and Opie, who were both arrested. Agent Stahl tried to leverage Opie to turn on the club by playing on his family ties as well as his debts. The ATF paid off a number of his debts so that SAMCRO would think he had turned into an informant
Informant
An informant is a person who provides privileged information about a person or organization to an agency. The term is usually used within the law enforcement world, where they are officially known as confidential or criminal informants , and can often refer pejoratively to the supply of information...
, and he would be forced to turn on them. He was offered witness protection for himself and his family if he would inform on SAMCRO's illegal activities; otherwise, he could be imprisoned or released to be killed by the Sons as a snitch. He was released after two days and returned to Charming where Clay, after finding out about the debts being paid off, became suspicious. At the clubhouse he was given a warm welcome, but, but Clay had Tig search Opie's truck and cell phone, where he found both to be tapped with listening devices (which were planted without Opie's knowledge). Fearing that Opie had indeed turned rat, Clay secretly ordered Tig to take Opie out. During a shoot-out with the One-Niners in Oakland, Tig attempted to kill Opie during the havoc, but found himself unable to do so. Later, at a party celebrating the homecoming of Jax's son, Abel, from the hospital, Tig stole a black SUV and followed Opie's truck and shot the driver dead. However it was Opie's wife, Donna, who was driving the truck. Just after Tig had left to kill Opie, Clay was approached by Wayne Unser and told that Opie was in fact not an informant, and that the ATF had set him up. Clay tried to phone Tig to tell him, but he had left his phone (along with his colours) with his motorcycle.
The charges against Bobby and Opie fell apart when SAMCRO stopped Eviqua Michaels from testifying. Clay blackmailed Elliot Oswald, a local businessman, into getting his friends in the US Attorney to tell him the location of Eviqua. She was being held at a safe house
Safe house
In the jargon of law enforcement and intelligence agencies, a safe house is a secure location, suitable for hiding witnesses, agents or other persons perceived as being in danger...
in San Joaquin
San Joaquin, California
San Joaquin is a city in Fresno County, California, United States. The population was 4,001 at the 2010 census, up from 3,270 at the 2000 census. The nearest high school in the area is Tranquillity High School in Tranquillity...
and Chibs Telford
Chibs Telford
Filip "Chibs" Telford is a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Tommy Flanagan. He is a Medic & member of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club and, unlike most of the gang's members who are American, he is Scottish...
, Happy
Happy (Sons of Anarchy)
Happy Lohman is a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by real-life Hells Angel David LaBrava. He is Enforcer for Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, and is affiliated with the Tacoma, Washington chapter at the beginning of the series, but later becomes a Nomad,...
and Tig were sent there to kill her. After knocking out the Sheriffs and ATF agent protecting her, they tied her up and were preparing to shoot her when Jax arrived and stopped Tig at gunpoint from killing her. Jax, who had recently learned of the situation with Donna's murder, told Chibs and Happy to leave, then beat Tig up for killing Donna.
Although none of SAMCRO's members were ever convicted during the ATF's investigation into the club, significant unrest was caused by it. Most notably, the decision by Clay and Tig to kill Opie and not tell any other members. Tig stole a black SUV to use during the drive-by shooting
Drive-by shooting
A drive-by shooting is a form of hit-and-run tactic, a personal attack carried out by an individual or individuals from a moving or momentarily stopped vehicle without use of headlights to avoid being noticed. It often results in bystanders being shot instead of, or as well as, the intended target...
of Donna, and also used a MAC-10
MAC-10
The MAC-10 is a highly compact, blowback operated machine pistol developed by Gordon B. Ingram in 1964.-Design:The M-10 was built predominantly from steel stampings...
, which made it look like a murder by the One-Niners. When the Niners leader, Laroy, told Jax that it was not his gang who killed Donna, it became apparent that it was Clay.
Activities
The Sons of Anarchy participate in a number of legal and illegal activities and businesses in order to make money, such as gun-running and hijacking. They import illegal, Russian-made guns, such as AK47s, M4A1s, SIG 551s, Glocks, MP-5s, AR-15s, RPGs, KG-9s, and FN-57s from DungloeDungloe
Dungloe is a Gaeltacht town in County Donegal, Ireland. It is the main town in the Rosses and the largest in the Donegal Gaeltacht...
, Ireland through their connection to the True IRA. These weapons arrive on ships in Oakland
Oakland, California
Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...
in oil containers. They then sell these guns to other gangs in Northern California
Northern California
Northern California is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The San Francisco Bay Area , and Sacramento as well as its metropolitan area are the main population centers...
such as the One-Niners and, eventually, the Mayans. They have also sold to terrorist groups and militias. It is mentioned that the Russian Mafia
Russian Mafia
The Russian Mafia is a name applied to organized crime syndicates in Russia and Ukraine. The mafia in various countries take the name of the country, as for example the Ukrainian mafia....
also sell weapons in the area, meaning that they are a potential business opponent.
Unser Shipping, a local trucking company, routinely hires the Sons to protect their shipments on the way to Mexico and other places. However, SOA have been known to occasionally hijack these trucks. Also, it has been mentioned that the Sons have participated in heists and hijackings of other businesses, with the help of a number of chapters.
The Sons of Anarchy also own, or partially own, a number of legal enterprises. Teller-Morrow Automotive Repair is owned by the club and is also where most of the Charming chapter work during the day. After helping out the CaraCara pornographic
Pornography
Pornography or porn is the explicit portrayal of sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual arousal and erotic satisfaction.Pornography may use any of a variety of media, ranging from books, magazines, postcards, photos, sculpture, drawing, painting, animation, sound recording, film, video,...
film studio, SOA inherited part of the company and now receive part of its profits. Loan sharking is another of the Sons' businesses, as they lend money to businesses in the area.
In Season 4, The Sons of Anarchy begin selling guns to the Galindo Drug Cartel, and also begin muling Cocaine for them.
Members
Known members of the club include:| Name | Rank | Chapter | Years active | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Teller | Founder/President | Charming, CA Charming, California Charming is a fictional town in the television series Sons of Anarchy. It is located in the San Joaquin Valley of California. According to a sign on the edge of town, its population is 14,679 and its motto is "Our Name Says It All".... |
1967–1993 | SAMCRO founder. Member of the First 9 and first ever President. Murdered by Clay Morrow in 93 for attempting to end gun running operations with the IRA. |
| Piermont "Piney" Winston Piney Winston Piermont "Piney" Winston was a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by William Lucking. He was a member of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, and was one of the Club's founders .-Character biography:... |
Founder | Charming, CA | 1967–2011 | Co-founded SAMCRO with John Teller. Member of the First 9. Murdered by Clay Morrow for threatening to expose letters from John Teller to Maureen Ashby which shows the motive for Clay killing John. |
| Quinn | President | Nomad | ?–present | President of the club's Nomads. |
| Keith McGee | President (former) | Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... , Northern Ireland |
1967–2010 | Former President of SAMBEL and member of the First 9. Executed for betraying the club. |
| Clarence "Clay" Morrow Clay Morrow Clarence "Clay" Morrow is a fictional character in the FX television series Sons of Anarchy. He is played by Ron Perlman. He is the President of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, but is also something of a vigilante as he does everything in his power to ensure that drug dealers and rapists stay... |
President | Charming, CA | 1967–present | Member of the First 9. Current National President, and President of SAMCRO. Shot by Harry "Opie" Winston in retaliation for Clay having murdered "Piney" Winston, Opie's father and for the death of Donna Winston, Opie's wife. |
| Jury | President | Indian Hills, NV Indian Hills, Nevada Indian Hills is a census-designated place in Douglas County, Nevada, United States. It lies in the south side of the Carson City metropolitan area... |
2008–present | Former President of the Devil's Tribe, which was patched-over and became the SAMC Indian Hills Indian Hills, Nevada Indian Hills is a census-designated place in Douglas County, Nevada, United States. It lies in the south side of the Carson City metropolitan area... chapter. |
| Seamus Ryan | President | Belfast, Northern Ireland | 1987–present | Former Vice President. Tapped as new President for SAMBEL after McGee's execution. |
| Armando | President | Tucson, AZ Tucson, Arizona Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200... |
?–2011 | President of SAMTAZ. Murdered by the Sonora Cartel. |
| Lee | President | Tacoma, WA | ?–present | President of the Tacoma Chapter. First seen in 'Call of Duty' with Kozik when they brought the higher-grade Irish weapons stock to Charming. |
| Jackson Teller Jax Teller Jackson "Jax" Teller is a fictional character and the central character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Charlie Hunnam. He is the Vice President of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club's Redwood Original chapter based in Charming, California, despite only being in his early 30s... |
Vice President | Charming, CA | 1995–present | Current Vice President of the Mother Chapter. Son of John Teller and stepson of Clay Morrow. |
| Needles | Vice President | Indian Hills, NV | 2008–present | Former Vice President of the Devil's Tribe, which was patched-over and became the SAMC Indian Hills Indian Hills, Nevada Indian Hills is a census-designated place in Douglas County, Nevada, United States. It lies in the south side of the Carson City metropolitan area... chapter. |
| Huff | Vice President (former) | Tuscon, AZ | ?–2011 | Former Vice President of SAMTAZ. Excommunicated for murdering a member and blackmailing another. |
| Liam O'Neill | Sergeant-at-Arms (former) | Belfast, Northern Ireland | 2000–2010 | Former Sgt. at Arms and enforcer for SAMBEL. Enforcer for the IRA as well. Executed for betraying the club. |
| Benny | Sergeant-at-Arms (former) | Tuscon, AZ | ?–2011 | Former Sgt. at Arms for SAMTAZ. Excommunicated for murdering a member and blackmailing another. |
| Robert "Bobby Elvis" Munson Bobby Munson Robert "Bobby Elvis" Munson, is a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Mark Boone Junior. He is the Secretary of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club's Charming, California chapter... |
Secretary | Charming, CA | ?–present | Treasurer for the Mother Chapter. |
| Scrum | Secretary | Dungloe Dungloe Dungloe is a Gaeltacht town in County Donegal, Ireland. It is the main town in the Rosses and the largest in the Donegal Gaeltacht... , Ireland Ireland Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth... |
?–2010 | Killed in same explosion as Padraic Telford. |
| Alexander "Tig" Trager Tig Trager Alexander "Tig" Trager is a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Kim Coates. He was the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club's Charming, California chapter and is the gang's second most violent member. Trager is extremely fond of women, and... |
Soldier | Charming, CA | ?–present | Former Sgt. at Arms and enforcer for the Mother Chapter. Gives up title after discovering Clay had beaten up Gemma. |
| Juan Carlos "Juice" Ortiz Juice Ortiz Juan Carlos "Juice" Ortiz is a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Theo Rossi. He is the Intelligence Officer for Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club... |
Soldier | Charming, CA | 2003–present | Intelligence officer. |
| Filip "Chibs" Telford Chibs Telford Filip "Chibs" Telford is a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Tommy Flanagan. He is a Medic & member of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club and, unlike most of the gang's members who are American, he is Scottish... |
Soldier | Belfast, Northern Ireland Charming, CA |
1989–present | Medical specialist. Former IRA member. |
| Harry "Opie" Winston | Soldier | Charming, CA | 1995–present | Son of Piermont Winston. Explosives expert. |
| Happy | Soldier | Tacoma, WA Tacoma, Washington Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. The population was 198,397, according to... Nomad Charming, CA |
?–present | Enforcer for the club and torture specialist. |
| Kozik | Soldier | Tacoma, WA Charming, CA |
?–2011 | Former Sgt. at Arms for the Tacoma chapter and enforcer for the club. Is now a member of the Charming chapter. Killed by an exploding landmine while attacking the Sonora Cartels Northern Cali base of operations. |
| "Big" Otto Delaney | Soldier | Big House Crew, Stockton, CA Stockton, California Stockton, California, the seat of San Joaquin County, is the fourth-largest city in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. With a population of 291,707 at the 2010 census, Stockton ranks as this state's 13th largest city... |
?–present | Currently imprisoned for second degree murder and grand theft auto. More charges pending. |
| Walter "Wally" Grazer | Soldier | Charming, CA | 1968–1986 | Member of the First 9. |
| Thomas "Uncle Tom" Whitney | Soldier | Charming, CA | 1968–1995 | Member of the First 9. |
| Chico Vellenueva | Soldier | Charming, CA | 1968–1998 | Member of the First 9. |
| Lenny "The Pimp" Janowitz | Soldier | Big House Crew, Stockton, CA | 1967–present | Member of the First 9. Currently imprisoned for allegedly killing three ATF agents. Former Sgt. At Arms under John Teller. Coined the name crow eater. |
| Otto "L'il Killer" Moran | Soldier | Charming, CA | 1968–1985 | Member of the First 9. |
| Kyle Hobart | Soldier (former) | Charming, CA | 1997–2003 | Excommunicated from the club. |
| Luther Barkwill | Road Captain | Newcastle, England Belfast, Northern Ireland |
?–present | Former member of the SAMC Newcastle, England chapter. |
| Padraic Telford | Soldier | Belfast, Northern Ireland | ?–2010 | Nephew of SAMCRO member Filip Telford. Killed in explosion triggered by former SAMBEL Sgt. at Arms Liam O'Neill ment for SAMCRO before gunrun, on behalf of the IRA. |
| Eric Miles | Soldier (former) | Charming, CA | 2010–2011 | Patched in during SAMCRO's incarceration. Killed by Juice after discovering his involvment stealing cocaine from the Gallindo Cartel. Framed as the thief, the club stripped him of his patch. |
| Reggie | Soldier (former) | Tuscon, AZ | 1993–2011 | Blackmailed and forced out of club after discovering a meth lab created by SAMTAZ's Vice President Huff and Sgt. at Arms Benny. |
| Little Paul | Soldier | Tuscon, AZ | ?–2011 | Killed by SAMTAZ's Vice President Huff and Sgt. at Arms Benny, for his unwillingness to take part in their unsanctioned meth lab. |
| Donut | Soldier | Tacoma, WA | ?–present | |
| Lorca | Soldier | Tacoma, WA | ?–present | |
| Bowie | Soldier | Tacoma, WA | ?–present | |
| Geezer | Soldier | Belfast, Northern Ireland | ?–present | |
| Kip Epps Half-Sack Epps Kip "Half-Sack" Epps is a fictional character on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, played by Johnny Lewis. He was a prospective member of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, which often results in hazing and him being given undesirable tasks... |
Prospect/Full-Patch postmortem | Charming, CA | 2008–2009 | Stabbed to death in 2009. Received full-patch posthumously. |
| Philip "Filthy Phil" Russell | Prospect | Charming, CA | 2010–present | |
| Shepard | Prospect | Charming, CA | 2010 | Quit prospect position |
| Ratboy | Prospect | Charming, CA | ?–present | |
| V-Lin | Prospect | Charming, CA | ?–present |
Chapters
- United States:
- Anchorage, AlaskaAnchorage, AlaskaAnchorage is a unified home rule municipality in the southcentral part of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the northernmost major city in the United States...
—Sticker seen in the background on the club house wall in many episodes - Tucson, ArizonaTucson, ArizonaTucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...
(SAMTAZ)—members seen in episode 4.4 - California:
- CharmingCharming, CaliforniaCharming is a fictional town in the television series Sons of Anarchy. It is located in the San Joaquin Valley of California. According to a sign on the edge of town, its population is 14,679 and its motto is "Our Name Says It All"....
(SAMCRO)—Redwood Chapter/Mother Chapter - FresnoFresno, CaliforniaFresno is a city in central California, United States, the county seat of Fresno County. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 510,365, making it the fifth largest city in California, the largest inland city in California, and the 34th largest in the nation...
—mentioned in episode 1.4 - StocktonStockton, CaliforniaStockton, California, the seat of San Joaquin County, is the fourth-largest city in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. With a population of 291,707 at the 2010 census, Stockton ranks as this state's 13th largest city...
(Big House Crew)—mentioned and seen throughout series
- Charming
- Nevada:
- Indian HillsIndian Hills, NevadaIndian Hills is a census-designated place in Douglas County, Nevada, United States. It lies in the south side of the Carson City metropolitan area...
(Devil's Tribe)—patched over in episode 1.4 - Las VegasLas Vegas, NevadaLas Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...
—mentioned in episode 1.4
- Indian Hills
- Nomads—mentioned and seen throughout series
- Oregon:
- Joliette—mentioned and seen in episode 2.4 relaying bed rolls with guns hidden inside
- Rogue RiverRogue River, OregonRogue River is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 2,131.-History:The settlement was known as Woodville for many years, but was changed to Rogue River about 1912...
—mentioned and seen in episode 3.4
- Salt Lake City, UtahSalt Lake City, UtahSalt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC. With a population of 186,440 as of the 2010 Census, the city lies in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a total population of 1,124,197...
—mentioned in episode 1.9 - Tacoma, WashingtonTacoma, WashingtonTacoma is a mid-sized urban port city and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. The population was 198,397, according to...
—mentioned and seen throughout series
- Anchorage, Alaska
- DungloeDungloeDungloe is a Gaeltacht town in County Donegal, Ireland. It is the main town in the Rosses and the largest in the Donegal Gaeltacht...
, IrelandIrelandIreland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
(An Clochán Liath)—mentioned in episode 3.8, members seen in episode 3.7 - United Kingdom:
- BelfastBelfastBelfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly...
, Northern Ireland (SAMBEL)—mentioned in season 2, seen first in episode 3.3 - NewcastleNewcastleNewcastle commonly refers to:*Newcastle upon Tyne, a city in Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom*Newcastle, New South Wales, a city in AustraliaNewcastle or New Castle may also refer to:-Australia:...
, England—mentioned in SOA iPhone app.
- Belfast
- Sweden:
- StockholmStockholmStockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
, Sweden, seen on the wall in season 4
- Stockholm
Murders Committed by the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club
• 2 Mayan Bikers- Killed by Clay Morrow and Tig Trager back in 1991, mentioned in Episode 1.7• Lowell Harland, Sr.- Killed by Clay Morrow for being a drug addict and a rat, mentioned in Episode 1.7
• 3 Mayan Bikers- Killed by Clay Morrow and Tig Trager at the Mayan Warehouse, Episode 1.1
• Whistler- Darby's man, killed by Jax Teller in self-defense at the Mayan Warehouse, Episode 1.1
• Tristen's Rapist- Castrated by Clay Morrow, Episode 1.3
• Nate and Russell Meineke- Blown up along with their men by Piney and Opie Winston and Jax Teller, Episode 1.6
• Mayan Biker- Killed by Tig Trager at the Irish Bar, Episode 1.8
• Josh Kohn- Killed by Jax Teller at Tara's house, Episode 1.8
• Brenan Hefner- Killed by Bobby Munson for killing Michael McKeavy, Episode 1.9
• Esai Alvarez- Killed by Happy in retaliation for Clay's attempted assassination, Episode 1.9
• Niner- Killed by Opie at the money exchange, Episode 1.12
• Niner- Killed by Jax at the gun exchange, Episode 1.12
• Donna Winston- Mistakenly shot by Tig in Opie's Truck, Episode 1.12
• Elian Perez- Killed by Opie after being set up to look like Donna's killer, Episode 2.1
• 2 Mayan Bikers- Killed by Opie during the theft of the Niner's guns, Episode 2.2
• Squirrel- Aryan Brotherhood member killed by Otto Delany in Stockton in revenge for stabbing out Otto's eye, Episode 2.13
• AJ Weston- Killed by Jax Teller in a tattoo artist's bathroom for raping Gemma, Episode 2.13
• Polly Zobelle- Killed by Gemma Teller in revenge for taking her to the rape site, Episode 2.13
• 3 Mayan Bikers- Killed by SAMCRO members during Zobelle's getaway, Episode 2.13
• Amelia Dominguez- Killed by Gemma Teller in self-defense at Nate's house, Episode 3.3
• Pozo Fuentes- Calaveras member killed by Tig in the hospital to prevent him from ratting, Episode 3.6
• 4 SAMBEL Members- Blown up by Liam O'Neill from the SAMBEL charter in attempt to kill SAMCRO, Episode 3.9
• Padraic Telford- Chibs' nephew who was also killed in the explosion, Episode 3.9
• Liam O'Neill- Killed by Jax Teller in revenge for betraying the club, Episode 3.10
• 3 O'Phelan Henchmen- Killed by Clay Morrow when trying to get to Jimmy, Episode 3.10
• O'Phelan Henchman- Killed by Bobby Munson when trying to get to Jimmy, Episode 3.10
• Keith McGee- Killed by Clay Morrow in revenge for betraying the club, Episode 3.10
• Hector Salazar- Killed by Jax Teller to stop him from ratting on the Mayans, Episode 3.12
• Jimmy O'Phelan- Killed by Chibs Telford in revenge for taking his family, Episode 3.13
• June Stahl- Killed by Opie Winston in revenge for setting up Donna's death, Episode 3.13
• Ivo- Killed by Otto Delaney in Stockton for trying to kill Jax months earlier, Episode 4.1
• Ronald Worski- Undercover FBI agent killed by SAMCRO when taking out the Russians, Episode 4.1
• 3 Putlova Henchmen- Killed by Chibs, Bobby, Juice, and Happy at the Russian warehouse, Episode 4.1
• Putlova Henchman- Killed by Clay Morrow in the Wahewa Land Woods, Episode 4.1
• Putlova Henchman- Killed by Tig Trager in the Wahewa Land Woods, Episode 4.1
• Viktor Putlova- Killed by Jax Teller for trying to have him killed in Stockton, Episode 4.1
• Russian Gang Leader- Killed by Clay Morrow to stop him from talking to the Wahewa Leaders, Episode 4.3
• Little Paul- Killed by Huff and Benny from SAMTAZ to set up meth distribution behind club's back, mentioned in Episode 4.4
• Eric Miles- Killed by Juice after he stumbled upon his involvment in stealing the cocaine for the cartel, Episode 4.6
• Lobo Sonora Shooter- Killed by Chibs after he shot his accomplice's sister, Episode 4.7
• Piermont "Piney" Winston- Killed by Clay to stop him from releasing the letters, Episode 4.8