Jay Dobyns lived a double life for two years, and it nearly cost him his life. Now retired, Dobyns worked for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), which enforces the ...

Former All-American Supercop Jay Dobyns, the federal agent who went undercover to infiltrate the Hells Angels, leaves his Georgetown hotel on a recent hot afternoon. Shoves his pistol into his ...

Between 2001 and 2003, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agent Jay Dobyns, now 61, posed as a gunrunner and debt collector named Jay Davis, or “Jaybird,” joining the ...

The accusations are spelled out in newly unsealed court documents in the case involving former federal agent Jay Dobyns, a onetime University of Arizona football star who sued the ATF for ...

The danger. The death threats. The time away from family. Retired federal agent Jay Dobyns spoke about infiltrating the Hells Angels and the personal challenges of undercover work at a police ...

The federal agent needed a lawyer and quick, one who would believe his story — though he knew there was little reason for anyone to believe his story. There had been a fire at the agent’s ...

Jay Dobyns says: “The game changed for us after the Laughlin Riot because it made our investigation very easy to sell to the higher ups. The Hells Angels were operating violently with impunity ...

A federal judge gave what former ATF agent Jay Dobyns seemed to want most: Vindication. The Arizona Republic writes that U.S. Federal Claims Judge Francis M. Allegra of D.C. ruled in a lawsuit filed ...

This week on Amazing Arizonans, Mike Broomhead sits down with Jay Dobyns over video chat to discuss his undercover law enforcement career and return to civilian life. We want to hear from you.

“Exterminate all the brutes!” With these words, borrowed from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Hunter S. Thompson concluded his violent, macabre 1967 book Hell’s Angels: A Strange and ...

Jay Dobyns lived a double life for two years, and it nearly cost him his life. Now retired, Dobyns worked for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), which enforces the ...