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   A Bay Area dentist-office embezzlement case is somehow tied to massive probe   
   of Hells Angels, murder investigation   
   Woman charged with stealing from her employer   
   By NATE GARTRELL | ngartrell@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group   
   PUBLISHED: July 21, 2021 at 3:10 p.m. | UPDATED: July 22, 2021 at 4:19 a.m.   
   SONOMA — A relatively minor federal fraud case came about after federal   
   agents raided a Santa Rosa home as part of their massive probe into the Hells   
   Angels Motorcycle Club, including an alleged murder and two unsolved   
   disappearances, court records    
   recently revealed.   
      
   Katrina Maras is charged in federal court with fraudulent use of an   
   unauthorized access device; in layman’s terms, she allegedly used the   
   company credit card for a dentist’s office where she worked to purchase   
   roughly $12,800 in personal expenses.    
   Maras has pleaded not guilty, was freed within days of her July 2020 arrest,   
   and faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted, court records show.   
      
   However, recently filed court records revealed that a 2017 FBI raid that led   
   to the seizure of evidence in Maras’ case wasn’t connected to her, but to   
   her romantic partner at the time and his alleged ties to the Hells Angels.   
   Neither Maras nor her    
   partner were charged, but authorities confirmed in court records the raid was   
   related to the 2017 indictment of a dozen Hells Angels, on charges of murder   
   and mayhem.   
      
   During the raid, agents seized ammunition, suspected steroids, a ball peen   
   hammer, and several electronic devices and SIM cards, according to an FBI   
   receipt for property that was attached to a defense motion.   
      
   Maras’ partner’s link to the case was revealed in a failed defense motion   
   seeking to get Maras’ statements to the FBI thrown out of court. The motion   
   says Maras was pregnant with her second child on July 29, 2020, when a CHP   
   officer and federal    
   agents — some of them armed with AR-15 rifles — took her into custody and   
   transported her young son to her partner.   
      
   Maras was then interviewed for two hours about the Hells Angels. The lead   
   prosecutor in the Hells Angels case asked her questions about items seized in   
   the 2017 raid, according to the defense memo, which argued any statements she   
   made were involuntary.   
      
   “Although Ms. Maras did not expressly ask for a lawyer, she expressed   
   concern that she should probably talk to an attorney because she was confused   
   by the situation and she did not want to give the wrong answers,” her   
   attorney, Dena Marie Young,    
   wrote in court records. “The implication throughout the interviews was that   
   if she answered their questions, she would be able to go home, but if she did   
   not, she would be placed in custody and thus deprived of her job and her   
   son.”   
      
   U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria barely entertained the motion, denying it   
   in a four-sentence June 21 order that said the defense “has done nothing in   
   her motion to create even an inference that that any of her statements during   
   the interrogation at    
   the courthouse were coerced or not properly mirandized,” of that law   
   enforcement had been improper.   
   The Hells Angels indictment, filed in 2017, charges the defendants with   
   murdering a sergeant-at-arms of the notorious biker gang at the Fresno   
   clubhouse, over an internal conflict. Along the way, the FBI investigated two   
   unsolved disappearances of other    
   Hells Angels who were also last seen in the Fresno area. Prosecutors allege   
   the victim, a Sonoma Hells Angel, was cremated after being shot in the head.   
   Other charges include a brutal assault by a former Sonoma chapter member that   
   authorities call a form    
   of witness intimidation.   
      
   https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/07/21/a-bay-area-dentist-office   
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