after undercover officers from the Harris County Organized Crime and Narcotics Task Force infiltrated the group. [33] The club has around 400 members and 45 chapters in the country, and has recruited members of various ethnic backgrounds. With hundreds of chapters across THE USA, Central and South America, and thousands of members with a worldwide following the Bandido Nation is strong and thriving. 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. [127], Bandidos and Chicanos members engaged in a large brawl with an Arab criminal family in Reinickendorf on 6 August 2007 which resulted in a biker and two Arabs being injured, one seriously. The case arose from the 2006 killing of Anthony Benesh, who was attempting to start a Texas Chapter of the Hells Angels and had ignored the Bandidos' warnings to cease recruitment. [188], Twelve Bandidos were arrested as approximately one-hundred-and-twenty club members gathered in Oslo for an international meeting in August 2013. [218], Gothenburg Bandidos president Johnson Bogere and his brother, former boxer Patrick Bogere, fled the country when they became sought by authorities for the kidnapping and torture of two men in western Sweden. Bandidos is a motorcycle gang in different countries. 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. [90], The Southwest Finland District Court convicted and sentenced several Bandidos members and associates to prison terms on 4 October 2013 for their part in a drug ring. [141] The explosion not only left Ramakers' house badly damaged, but also surrounding houses and parked cars. [172] On 19 July 1996, four days after Krogh Jensen's death, a car occupied by a Hells Angels member and a companion was targeted in a drive-by shooting in Oslo; no one was injured. The club was formed on March 4, 1966 in San Leon, Texas by Donald Eugene Chambers. [132], On 26 April 2012, the authorities of North Rhine-Westphalia banned and disbanded the Aachen chapter of the Bandidos, and three support clubs. 03/09/1970 - Members of the Bandidos motorcycle club were called to testify before a Harris County grand jury investigating the Jan. 23, 1970 death of former Bandido Patrick Anthony Manili (aka Animal). Although investigators were unable to prove who fired the weapon, the trio were convicted of assisting in murder and assisting in attempted murder and were each sentenced to fourteen years in prison in October 2019. Puente pleaded guilty three years ago to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamines. Dan Lynge, a Danish police officer who infiltrated the club, carried out surveillance on the compound with a Swedish Bandidos prospect in the days before the attack. [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 Bandidos Motorcycle Club made local news when four members were arrested on felony drug charges. GONE BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN! In January 2008, Brown received a life sentence for second-degree murder, Acorn and Quinn were sentenced to nine years' imprisonment for manslaughter, and Aragon was sentenced to seven years' for aggravated assault.[54]. [35], At the request of Dutch authorities, Belgian police searched a property in Borgloon in May 2015 as part of an operation against the Bandidos that also included raids carried out in the Netherlands and Germany. [70] The Bandidos have ten chapters and approximately one-hundred-and-fifty members in Denmark,[71] and have traditionally recruited members of Danish ethnicity, although this has changed somewhat in recent years. He was sentenced to one year and six months in prison. [208] A member of the Bandidos' Helsingborg chapter was involved in a shootout outside his home on 13 January 1997 with two people who fled by car. GEORGE WEGERS, 52, National President, Bandidos, Bellingham GLENN W. MERRITT, 64, Bellingham Chapter President, Bandidos CHRISTOPHER HORLOCK, 44, National Regional Secretary, Bandidos JIMMIE GARMAN, National Sergeant-at-Arms, Bandidos HUGH GALE HENSCHEL, National Sergeant-at-Arms, Bandidos [196] The club has eight chapters in Sweden[197] and has prominently recruited members of non-Swedish ethnicity. He did, however, grant an interview to CNN following the shootout in Texas. At least a dozen people throughout the Northwest had been arrested by Thursday afternoon, including the organization's international president. Bandido George has copped a plea. If a chapter leader sends out instructions for violence, the members must follow. Evidence during trial revealed that Portillo and Pike ordered members to murder Benesh, who was killed outside an Austin restaurant in March 2006. The war formally concluded on 25 September 1997, as Danish representatives from both clubs called a truce and agreed to divide territory of criminal activity into geographical areas, and to cease expansion in the Nordic countries. In recent years he has had several court matters including contesting a NSW police imposed firearms ban. KITSAP COUNTY, Wash. Kitsap County Sheriff's Office detectives, along with the FBI said Thursday evening that members and associates of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club were directly involved in. Membership of the club dwindled to just seven of whom, four were imprisoned at the time and reinforcements were required from Norway and Denmark. [78] This signaled the beginning of the Nordic Biker War, a turf war involving the Bandidos, Hells Angels and numerous support clubs which escalated into Finland, Norway then Denmark and lasted for over three years. A wave of violence and threats was carried out against a substantial number of drug dealers in the area. The grenade failed to explode, and police later detonated the device in a controlled explosion. But if they are true to their past, they will retaliate at some point, the detective said.The motorcycle gang culture is a culture of violence. Two members of the Bandidos' "Downtown" Helsinki chapter, chapter president Bjrn Isaksson and Sakke Pirra, and Black Rhinos member Juha Jalonen were killed, while three others were wounded. 09/15/1969 - (L-R) Bandidos Motorcycle Club president Donald Eugene Chambers at Houston Central Police Station with club member David McGraw, who surrendered to police Monday in connection with a murder and an assault outside the Actor's Bayou Lounge Sept. 6. 10/1969 - Bandidos Motorcycle Club president Don Chambers with family and friends. Testimony also revealed that Portillo and other members of the Bandidos were engaged in trafficking methamphetamine and cocaine and maintained an agreement with the Texas Mexican Mafia wherein Bandidosmembers were not required to pay the 10-percent dime to the Texas Mexican Mafia in exchange for permission to traffic narcotics. However, Kelly was promoted to "prospect" after the killings, according to investigators. One of the most high-profile cases involving Washington Bandidos came in 2005 with the arrest of the club's national president, George Wegers. [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. 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. 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Sea-Tac Airport receives $16 million to shorten security lines, Western Washington could see snow showers through Tuesday, Trial set for suspects in 2017 killing of Seabeck family, 3 arrested in connection to 2017 quadruple murder of Seabeck family. 0:41. Thirteen people were arrested in Belgium, and the president of the Bandidos in Spain a Belgian national was apprehended in Marbella on charges of drug trafficking, money laundering and belonging to a criminal organization after he was identified by police as the organizer of the shipment. 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 trafficking enterprise. Jurors also found that Portillo and others killed Robert Lara in January 2002 in Atascosa County as payback for killing Bandidos member Javier Negrete. Officials said in 2018, they questioned Kelly and others, some who are known associates of Kelly. By the early '70s, the Bandidos had over 100 members, many of them were Vietnam War veterans. These are complex cases, but thanks to the hard work and collaboration between law enforcement authorities and prosecutors, these criminals are no longer free to prey on our communities.. Puentes cooperation helped the government flip other high-ranking members of the Bandidos and to convict its top two leaders, former national president Jeffrey Fay Pike of Conroe and then-national vice president John Xavier Portillo of San Antonio. [179], Police carried out a raid at the Bandidos' clubhouse in Randesund, Fredrikstad on 11 April 2014 and arrested two men and a woman. 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. Nineteen police vehicles were in use and shots were fired. 3 of 36 4 of 36 Jeffrey Fay Pike, 60, of Conroe, the national president of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club, is escorted from the Bob Casey Federal Courthouse, 515 Rusk, after an appearance in federal . While police have said the group exists to commit crime and sell drugs. Stephanie Jane McGrath, the woman who planned the attack, was also sentenced to six years in prison. [108] The Bandidos expanded into Germany in June 2000 when the club "patched over" seventeen chapters of the Ghostrider's, Road Eagles and Destroyers that had been serving as probationary chapters since the previous year. 188 ], Twelve Bandidos were arrested on felony drug charges device in a controlled explosion damaged, also... Formed on March 4, 1966 in San Leon, Texas by Donald Eugene Chambers Atascosa. And parked cars some who are known associates of Kelly in Oslo for an international in. 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