AP file photo George Wegers, left, international president of the Bandidos biker gang, embraces club member Bobby Lund of Bremerton, Wash., at the service for Michael "Tennessee Mike'' Vogt on. On 25 March 1999, Bandidos Metz chapter vice-president Dominique "Jsus" Colas was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to eighteen years in prison for the shooting. Christale Careaga and two teen boys -- 6-year-old Jonathon Higgins and 16-year-old Hunt Schaap -- were found dead in their burned house on Tenino Road West. A motorcycle shop in Alnabru, Oslo, where two Bandidos members worked, was bombed on 13 March 1997. >>Reward being offered for information on slaying of Seabeck family. The raids were conducted in relation to the murder of a prospective member of the Bandidos. He served as President of the North Houston Bandidos Worldwide. [94], A Bandidos member, a club hangaround and a member of the X-Team were convicted in October 2016 of violently collecting a debt from a man on two occasions in Tampere in 2014. [52], Bandidos member George "Crash" Kriarakis was assaulted by a dozen members of the Hells Angels outside a restaurant in Woodbridge in June 2003. The ex-cop and five others were convicted of the crime. On Fathers Day, 1984, a violent confrontation between two motorcycle clubs - the Comancheros and the Bandidos - shocked the nation. Stephanie Jane McGrath, the woman who planned the attack, was also sentenced to six years in prison. The Bandidos Motorcycle Club made local news when four members were arrested on felony drug charges. The club motto is "We are the people our parents warned us about." Who is Jeff Pike? SEATTLE - Police and federal agents began rounding up members of the Bandidos biker gang across the Northwest on Thursday, after a grand jury returned a 19-count indictment accusing them of. Some of his customers were Bandido members. [206] Bandidos Sweden president Mikael "Mike" Svensson was shot in the leg while driving near the Hells Angels' Hasslarp headquarters on 23 July 1996. . [217], Bandidos member Aghvan Baghdasaryan, and his friends Nima Morravej and Sammy Hyvoja, were involved in a shooting of rival drug dealers in Borlnge on 11 January 2019 that left one man dead and another wounded. The initiation ceremony was attended by influential Bandidos members from across Europe, and was observed by Gardai and Belgian police. The waitress answered, "That's DC and his American Bandidos" - hence the name. Topics Selection,Research, Editing, Correction Policy andEthics, A Hells Angels prospect is dead after acollision, Ep 936 Pagans Motorcycle Club Causing Panic in Missouri **FULL AUDIOEPISODE**, Pagans Motorcycle Club Causing Panic in Missouri**Video**, IS THE HARLEY SPORTSTER CONSIDERED A GIRLS MOTORCYCLE**VIDEO**, Miklo 1% from the Los Perros MC and Curator of MC Life. The other two Bandidos members were jailed for 4 years each, with the requirement to serve 2 years. [148], A third Dutch Bandidos chapter was formed in Nijmegen in January 2017. [234] 59-year-old David Crawford, from Ivybridge in Devon, died at the scene. [199], The Bandidos were established in Sweden after patching over the Morbids Motorcycle Club in Helsingborg as a probationary chapter in January 1994. Crawford was riding a black Kawasaki motorcycle when he was driven over by Benjamin Parry, an "active member" of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club, who was driving a Ford Transit van owned by his employer. In March of 1966 THE BANDIDOS MOTORCYCLE CLUB was born. This is a carousel. He was sentenced to a ten-year prison sentence. In April 2001, three Rogues Gallery members who were former Cannonball bikers Pertti Hmlinen, Sami Koivula, and Eikka Lehtosaari were convicted of the restaurant triple murder and sentenced to life in prison. The 63-year-old leader of the Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Organization for more than a decade was convicted in May, along with Vice President John Xavier Portillo of San Antonio, after a lengthy trial. 11/05/2000 - Jan 'The Man' Christensen, VP of the NW Houston Chapter, Bandidos Motorcycle Club, and others head home along I-10 west after a weekend party at Bryant's Ice House near Katy. The rich got richer, and the poor. DA Gerald Mackney at the Harris County District Attorney's office to press charges against fellow Bandidos Motorcycle Club members he says beat and robbed him in a three-day beating carried out in Houston and New Orleans in mid-September. 06/08/1977 - Ronnie Hodge, national Bandidos motorcycle club president, at the funeral for former Bandidos member Ronnie E. Floyd. Texas in the sixties was a formidable landscape. [155], Bandidos member Adrian Le'Ca was sentenced to fifteen years and nine months' imprisonment in February 2018 after pleading guilty to charges relating to the importation and possession for supply of methamphetamine and cocaine. It was discussed at the annual chapter Presidents meeting in February 2006, there is was decided by 100 vote to set Europe, Asia, free to follow their own path. A second attack on the clubhouse was launched a week later, on 26 January 1994, when Hells Angels member Thomas Mller fired a high-caliber submachine gun from the roof of a van, resulting in a Bandidos member losing a finger.[201]. During the interviews, authorities said they believed some of the people provided false or misleading information in the case. Sgt. According to court records, Puente went from being president of the Northeast San Antonio chapter of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club to something that put him in danger he flipped. [152], New Zealand's first Bandidos chapter was founded in South Auckland in 2012 by club members deported from Australia. Evidence during trial revealed that in 2006, Pike and Portillo ordered other Bandidos members to murder Anthony Benesh. [121] On 8 October 2009, Bandidos member Rudi Heinz "Eschli" Elten was shot to death by Hells Angels prospect Timur Akbulut in Duisburg. He was, however, convicted on drug trafficking charges and of injuring two Hells Angels members with pepper spray at a disco in Forst in February 2007. GONE BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN! Kin Man Hui / The San Antonio Express-News via AP file, First trial in massive Texas biker gang shootout ends in mistrial. [131][24], Five members of the Hagen Bandidos chapter as well as the president of the Iron Bloods 58, a Bandidos support club, were charged in August 2019 with committing violent crimes during a conflict with the rival Freeway Riders Motorcycle Club. 15 Founded 54 Years Ago. Two faces of the Bandidos: Weekend road warriors or criminal gang? Othersand not only those involved in violent activityshould take note, stated United States Attorney John F. Bash. It was discussed at the annual Chapter Presidents Meeting in February 2006, there it was decided by 100 vote to set Europe, Asia, free to follow their own path. Five club members left the scene in a car which was later found at the Bandidos' clubhouse in Borge, where seven people were arrested. In Jan. 2020, KCSO detectives linked the homicides to a notorious motorcycle club and said members of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club were directly involved in the killings. Evidence during trial revealed that Portillo and Pike ordered members to murder Benesh, who was killed outside an Austin restaurant in March 2006. Another attack on the same location a week later, 18 May 1996, also failed when two drunken men neither of whom were Bandidos members blew themselves up while attempting to throw hand grenades into the clubhouse. He was the first Bandido killed and that was the last time the Bandidos went to Mexico. 10/1969 - Bandidos Motorcycle Club president Don Chambers with family and friends. 11/05/2000 - Members of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club during a weekend party at Bryant's Ice House off Interstate-10, near Katy. Investigators want to work with you. KIRO 7 News Seattle facebook feed(Opens a new window), KIRO 7 News Seattle twitter feed(Opens a new window), KIRO 7 News Seattle youtube feed(Opens a new window), BREAKING: Suspect arrested, 2 still on run in Seattle shooting that killed 1, injured 7, Sasquatch spotted in Washington? A year later, riding back from that annual trip as full patch Bandidos, a problem occurred with the Federales in Mexico and a Bandido "Sunshine" was killed. Rejecting the offer, they instead aligned with the Danish Bandidos chapter. They face 16 charges, including first-degree aggravated murder, first-degree murder, first-degree arson and first-degree burglary. The Undertakers established relations with the Bandidos in Denmark and became a probationary chapter in August 1995 before being patched over on 5 October 1996. [196] The club has eight chapters in Sweden[197] and has prominently recruited members of non-Swedish ethnicity. [213], In July 2007, Bandidos Sffle chapter president Anders Gustafsson was charged with the attempted extortion of kr500,000 from a construction company. Four Swedish bikers with criminal records were arrested and deported, three Norwegian members were arrested for drug possession, and six others five German and one Polish were refused entry to the country upon arrival at the airport. Jeffrey Faye Pike of Conroe, Texas, was sentenced in federal court in San Antonio. [164] The war started in southern Sweden in January 1994 when the Morbids Motorcycle Club, a small club with only six members, refused to capitulate to the Hells Angels and instead aligned themselves with the Bandidos. Two Bandidos (former Undertakers) members were later convicted for the attack; Kai Tapio Blom was sentenced to six years' imprisonment and Antti Tauno Tapani was given four years'. A Bandidos member was arrested and imprisoned in Rennes in connection with the haul. [170] A Hells Angels member was acquitted of murdering Krogh Jensen on 11 June 1998[171] and the investigation into the killing was closed in 2000. DEA will continue to work with our law enforcement partners and pursue those criminal organizations who threaten our communities with violence and engage in the distribution of illegal and dangerous drugs, stated Will Glaspy, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration Houston Division. [5] The club is involved in drug trafficking, weapons trafficking, prostitution, money laundering, explosives violations, motorcycle and motorcycle-parts theft, intimidation, insurance fraud, kidnapping, robbery, theft, stolen property, counterfeiting, contraband smuggling, murder, bombings, extortion, arson and assault. [77] On 12 February 1996, two grenade attacks were carried out against the Hells Angels; two people were badly injured when a restaurant in Tapanila belonging to a Hells Angels members was bombed, and in a second attack a motorcycle garage in Hernesaari owned by a Hells Angels member was also targeted. Updated: 10:09 AM PDT June 8, 2022. In a news briefing in 2018, law officials named Danie Jay Kelly Junior, now 41 and who was seen in a Target surveillance video and believed to be connected to the case, as a person of interest. Today the Bandidos Motorcycle Club is the largest 1% club in the Western Hemisphere, with 1100 members in Northers, Central and South American Countries. A grand jury later indicted two men on . A dozen Bandidos were celebrating a member's birthday when they were attacked by the Hells Angels, who summoned support from the Broncos, allegedly for wearing their colors at a motorcycle rally in nearby Murten earlier that day. [60][61] Not all members approved of the "patch over". [158] According to figures found in the Norwegian National Police Directorate for 2014, 62% of Bandidos members in Norway had previous criminal convictions. Nothing could be further from the truth. 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It is not known whether his sons, also Bandidos bikies, remain in the club. Assistant United States Attorneys Eric Fuchs and John Gibson are prosecuting this case on behalf of the Government. [51], Project Amigo, a fifteen-month joint investigation into the Bandidos in Ontario and Quebec by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), and the Sret du Qubec (SQ) culminated in a series of raids on 5 June 2002 and led to the arrests of most club members in Ontario, including national president Alain Brunette. [135], On 20 June 2015, Road Tramps member Andrew "Odd" O'Donoghue was shot dead by Alan "Cookie" McNamara, a member of the Caballeros a Bandidos prospect club. The sentencing of Bandidos National President Jeffery Pike highlights the success law enforcement agencies can achieve and the impact we can have when we combine our resources and investigative talents. [140] The Dutch Bandidos are closely allied with Satudarah, as both clubs have the Hells Angels as common enemy. [89], In January 2008, two Bandidos and five X-Team members in Espoo were among twenty-one people charged with importing and distributing amphetamine. They had come to pay their respects to one of their early members, Luis Bonilla, a.k.a.. Four other Bandidos members received shorter sentences for their involvement in the attacks. [238], The Bandidos have been designated an outlaw motorcycle gang by the U.S. Department of Justice. Click: https://t.co/iEzlXeWLmD- #125 / #9 pic.twitter.com/qBmCeRNOFt. Jeffrey Pike, the national president of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club, is escorted from the Bob Casey Federal Courthouse on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016, in Houston. 36-year-old dockworker Donald Eugene Chambers founded the Bandidos in 1966. By Richard Macey and David Monaghan September 2, 2019 12.00am It has been speculated that Lerche Olsen, a former member of the Hells Angels' Copenhagen chapter who was expelled from the club and later went on to become president of the Bandidos' chapter in Kattarp, near Helsingborg, was the intended target. 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A police officer removes a jacket bearing the name of the Bandidos motorcycle gang from a vehicle at the Twin Peaks restaurant, where nine members of a motorcycle gang were shot and killed, in Waco, Texas on May 19, 2015. William "Big G" Ojemann, a Bandidos member from 2008 until 2013, said George Wegers, who was the Bandidos' president from 1998 until his arrest in 2005, had his Bandidos patches revoked by. Several Bandidos members then murdered Benesh on March 18, 2006 outside an Austin restaurant to protect the power, reputation and territory of the Bandidos enterprise. Horlock is national regional secretary for the Bandidos. This is not . 00:00 BANDIDOS MC PRESIDENT FURIOUS AT HOMICIDE The grenade failed to explode, and police later detonated the device in a controlled explosion. In March of 1966 THE BANDIDOS MOTORCYCLE CLUB was born. By Associated Press SAN ANTONIO The national president of the Bandidos biker gang was sentenced Wednesday to life plus 10 years in prison for directing a violent racketeering and drug. In January 2017, investigators found the bodies of Christale Careaga, 37; her son Jonathon Higgins, 16; and stepson Hunter Schapp, 16; in a burned-out home near Seabeck. He was the first Bandido killed and that was the last time the Bandidos went to Mexico. [77] Since the end of the biker war, the once-rival clubs have operated in parallel rather than competing with each other. [205], On 3 October 1996, a large explosion outside the Hells Angels clubhouse in Malm injured four people and caused widespread damage to buildings within several hundred yards. They all face sentences of up to life in prison. [112] In February 2010, around seventy ethnic Turkish Bandidos members and supporters in Berlin in an unprecedented move defected and joined the Hells Angels, forming a sub-chapter known as "Hells Angels Nomads Trkiye". [185], In October 2009, five Bandidos members were among eight men convicted of the extortion of an auto shop in Fredrikstad which took place in January 2009. [88] On 11 March 2002, Blom and Jesko were convicted of murdering Hirsma, attempting to murder Hirsma's wife and endangering several bystanders including Hirsma's child; they were sentenced to life in prison and ordered to pay Hirsma's widow and child a total of more than $50,000 in compensation for non-material damage. I apologize to my family and everybody in general., Guillermo Contreras covers federal court and immigration news in the San Antonio and Bexar County area. [205], The Bandidos and Hells Angels remained the dominant gangs in Sweden until the mid-2000s when street gangs began to appear, challenging the bikers' monopoly over the country's criminal rackets. Most biker clubs promise a lifetime of brotherhood and a place to be, no matter who you are and what you may have doneif you follow their rules! The Bandidos' predecessor in Finland was the Undertakers Motorcycle Club, founded by Marko Hirsma in August 1994. [222] On 9 April 2020, two No Surrender members were shot in a car outside a Norrkping fast food restaurant; one was killed and the other wounded. John Xavier Portillo, former national vice president of the Bandidos, leaving John Wood Federal Courthouse in San Antonio, Texas on May 17, 2018. [174][175] After a four-and-a-half year investigation, seven men associated with the Hells Angels, including the Angels' national president Torkjell Alsaker, were convicted for their roles in the bombing. [45], An attempt by the Bandidos to establish themselves in Calgary in 2007 ended after a violent assault at a bar by the Hells Angels. Last year, two members of the Bandidos, including the president of the Abilene chapter, were indicted on charges of stabbing two men, in what the police said was a conflict with the Cossacks. Membership of the club dwindled to just seven of whom, four were imprisoned at the time and reinforcements were required from Norway and Denmark. [240][3] Club membership is predominantly white and Hispanic. [55] These murders closed the chapter on the Bandidos Canada "No Surrender Crew" and ended any hopes of Bandido dominance in the country. The Pagans and the Bandidos are considered outlaw motorcycle gangs by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The conflict reportedly began as the Bandidos acted to prevent the newly arrived No Surrender from establishing a presence in the drug market. [223], On 11 May 2019, Bandidos members clashed with members of the Zrich Hells Angels chapter and the Broncos a Hells Angels support club from Bern in Belp. The Morbids were later offered a path to Hells Angels membership on the condition that they merge with the Rebels, a rival club with whom they had previously clashed. [96] In June 1991, the clubhouse of the Wanted Bikers, a club in Haute-Savoie affiliated to the Bandidos but wishing to instead begin an association with the Hells Angels, was shot at and the motorcycles parked outside were destroyed. 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Washington, DC 20500 To search this site, enter a search term . [137] Road Tramps members Seamus Duggan, James McCormack and Raymond Neilon pleaded guilty to the robbery of McNamara and were given probation in October 2017. McNamara killed O'Donoghue in a revenge attack after he was knocked to the ground and stripped of his colours by three Road Tramps members outside a pub in Doon. Bandidos MC President Takes Stand Against Former Brother The President of the Plymouth chapter of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club told a court he 'hated' a former colleague after he drove his Transit van into - and then over - a 59-year-old grandfather, killing him. 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[43] The murders have gone unsolved, although sources close to the investigation speculated at the time that Campbell and Morin were killed by a group opposed to the Bandidos' presence in the city. [80] An unexploded bomb was found at Hells Angels' clubhouse on 12 May 1996. Floyd accidentally shot himself in the head Monday during a party in his home. Membership is estimated at 2,400 bikers, all of whom must ride Harleys. [147], On 27 May 2015, a large police operation and raids on thirty locations across Limburg, Brabant and neighboring regions in Belgium and Germany, including several homes of club members, led to the discovery of five rocket launchers, many automatic weapons, explosives and illegal fireworks. Addison, a stonemason from the Victorian town of Echuca, was suddenly deposed in favour of a Sydney boss known as ''Big Tony''. 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