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California - A 20-year-old Marin County woman was arrested Thursday in connection with the slaying of a Hells Angels associate last weekend near Corte Madera, authorities said. The woman was detained at the Marin County Jail amid tight secrecy pending an initial court appearance. Authorities did not immediately release her name because of security concerns in the potentially volatile case.

Prosecutors held the woman over until Friday before deciding whether to file charges.

The sheriff's department released no details about her arrest as the investigation remained active Thursday night.

William Crompton Maclean, 25, of San Leandro was shot to death Saturday night while riding in a pickup truck driven by his brother-in-law, Raymond Foakes, the top-ranking Hells Angel in Sonoma County and one of the most prominent bikers in the region.

The shooting occurred when Foakes and Maclean were leading a procession of Hells Angels to Sonoma County after a Hells Angels funeral in Colma. Shortly after they passed Tiburon Boulevard on northbound Highway 101, someone fired at their pickup truck from a red sport utility vehicle described as a Dodge Durango.

Foakes, 44, drove the pickup to the Paradise Drive exit and called 911 from the California Highway Patrol's office on San Clemente Drive. Maclean was taken to Marin General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The sheriff's department is still investigating whether the shooting was an intentional attack on Maclean or Foakes, or whether some other motive was involved. Investigators are also exploring the possibility the shooting was a random act of violence or a road rage incident. The murder occurred just one week before the long-planned annual Hells Angels "Poker Run and BBQ" ride through Marin County. Coincidentally, the ride is scheduled to begin this year at the Golden Gate Harley Davidson dealership in Corte Madera - about half a mile from where Maclean was shot.

The annual ride, organized by the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club's chapter in Sonoma County, usually draws several hundred bikers and a large contingent of police. This year, police are planning an even larger presence in case the ride becomes a massive memorial event in Maclean's honor.

Services for Maclean are pending. His survivors include his sister, Desiree, who is Raymond Foakes' wife; and his father, William Maclean Sr., a Hells Angels member who is serving a sentence at San Quentin State Prison.

Foakes, the president of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club chapter Sonoma County, is a well-known figure in the Hells Angels and law enforcement communities.

In 2003, he and about 40 other Hells Angels were charged in connection with a brawl at a casino in Laughlin, Nev., that killed two Hells Angels and a member of the Mongols, a rival motorcycle organization.

The case largely fell apart on federal prosecutors and resulted in a series of plea bargains, and Foakes received a one-year sentence.

In 2006, amid federal drug raids throughout the region, Foakes and associate Michael Vargas, 58, were charged with methamphetamine distribution. Also indicted in the case was Joseph Wilson, president of the San Francisco chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club.

The drug case is still pending in the federal courts.

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