The Bandidos and their support clubs are suspected by police in at least 36 break-ins that occurred at Swedish and Danish Army weapons depots between 1994 and 1997, resulting in the theft of at least 16 Bofors anti-tank missiles, 10 machine guns, around 300 handguns, 67 fully automatic rifles, 205 rifles of various calibres, hundreds of hand grenades and land mines, and 17 kilograms of explosives plus detonators. [8] Predadores MC - Active in Thailand and Belgium. [227] Nielsen was instead sentenced eighteen months in prison for coercing another person to traffic in drugs. The Northrhine-Westphalia government found its actions necessary because the Bandidos wanted to build up their criminal supremacy through racketeering and violence. [221] Two No Surrender bikers, including a leading member, were shot dead outside a nightclub in Norrkping on 5 December 2019. [56] Lenti refused an offer of police protection when informed of the alleged plot, but he did start carrying around a handgun. [150] "The prohibition will stop behavior that may disrupt or disrupts our society," was stated by the judge. [241] The Bandidos are supplied with drugs by Los Zetas,[242] and have also associated with the Outlaws in criminal ventures. Harami (Haramy) MC Active in Germany and Turkey. On 8 April 2006, four vehicles containing the bodies of eight murdered men were discovered in a farmer's field outside of the hamlet of Shedden. [83] When the trial resumed, both Bandidos charged with the shooting and wounding of the Rogues Gallery member were convicted; Kai Tapio Blom was sentenced to two years and six months in prison, and Andrei Antoni Jensko was given a sentence of two years and seven months. [190], On 24 March 2018, a group of Bandidos members meeting at a restaurant in Prior Velho were attacked by approximately twenty members of the Hells Angels armed with knives, sticks, iron bars and hammers. The two main perpetrators were sentenced to more than seven years in prison for aggravated drug offenses, while others received varying sentences. After being located by Finnish police in Thailand, he decided to relocate again to Sweden. 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. [156] Police stated that the drugs had been imported with the help of the Thailand chapter of the Bandidos. The five bikers had been hired by three former employees of the shop to pressure the owner for both money and assets. The grenade failed to explode, and police later detonated the device in a controlled explosion. [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. Nineteen police vehicles were in use and shots were fired. 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. [234] 59-year-old David Crawford, from Ivybridge in Devon, died at the scene. The Bandidos Motorcycle Club is classified as a motorcycle gang by law enforcement and intelligence agencies in numerous countries. [117] The Bandido was cleared of attempted manslaughter over the shooting in November 2008 as the court deemed his actions self-defense. [97] While membership is predominantly Thai,[226] Australian,[227] Danish[228] and Swedish[229] club members are also active in the country. April 2023 at 16:30. Shortly after the founding of the Helsingborg Bandidos, the Rebels a Hells Angels support club at that point carried out a shooting attack on the Bandidos' clubhouse. [48], In response to the establishment of the Hells Angels in Ontario, the Chatham chapter of the Loners merged with the Bandidos, initially as probationary members on 22 May 2001 before becoming full members on 1 December 2001. Crawford, a member of the Red Chiefs Motorcycle Club, was dragged underneath the van for nearly a kilometre on the A38 at Plymouth. [38] Four high-end vehicles valued at more than 700,000, jewelry valued at 300,000, 17,085 in cash, encrypted mobile phones and documentation were also seized. The Bandidos have been prominent in the Northwest. Imperator MC Active in the United States and Norway. [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. [40] The club operated in Canada between 2000 and November 2007, with chapters in Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba and Quebec. The subsequent police operations disbanded the Bandidos chapter in Montpellier as well as the prospect club in Dijon. [205] In the early hours of 11 April 1996, the Hells Angels' compound in Hasslarp was targeted again, this time with two rockets. These are: the Hell's Angels, the Outlaws, the Pagans, the Mongols, the Vagos, the Sons of Silence, and, of course, the Bandidos. The convictions followed Operation Cossack, a seven-month joint operation between Counties Manukau Police and the New Zealand Customs Service which recovered 14.9kg of methamphetamine and 1.9kg of cocaine in October 2016. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. [144] On 7 May 2014, another attack was carried out on the residence of a member of the Bandidos, this time in the town of Susteren. Juan Martinez, leader of the El Paso chapter of the Bandidos biker club, died after he was shot during a bar fight with a rival club. Members of the Bandidos and Hells Angels were involved in a prison fight in July 1996, and in November 1996, Marko Hirsma was attacked and beaten in Srka Prison amidst a struggle for control of the prison drug trade fought between the Bandidos and a rival group. He was sentenced to one year and six months in prison. Police will allege that the man was involved in a fight with a group of people on Saturday 11 January 2020. [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". [152], New Zealand's first Bandidos chapter was founded in South Auckland in 2012 by club members deported from Australia. The founding member and the first "El Presidente" of the Bandidos MC is Donald Eugene Chambers, who joined the Marines after school and was packed off to Vietnam. Seven people were injured, including three in serious condition. [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. 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. Bandidos Motto: "We are the people our parents warned us about." Members of the U.S. faction of the Bandidos have been charged with conspiracy, witness tampering, and murder. [57] On 2 December 2006, Lenti fatally shot Hells Angels West Toronto chapter sergeant-at-arms David "Dread" Buchanan and wounded two other club members Dana Carnnagie and Carlos Virrili after he was confronted at a strip club in Vaughan where he worked as a security consultant. [60][61] Not all members approved of the "patch over". These events resulted in the Bandidos attempting to assassinate the Rock Machine Sweden president on the premises of the Rock Machine's Klippan chapter clubhouse in September 2014; he would survive the attempt, and two members of the Bandidos in Helsingborg would be arrested and charged for attempted murder after police executed searches of the headquarters of the Bandidos the Southern Bikers MC support club. THE BROTHERS IN BANDIDOS MC SWORDCITY SEND OUR DEEPEST CONDOLENCES TO THE FRIENDS, FAMILY AND THE MERANO CHAPTER ON THE LOSS OF OUR BROTHER. He bombed two cars in Gothenburg, on 19 and 20 September 2006, with hand grenades, in acts of revenge as the victims had previously testified against him. [168][169] On 15 July 1996, Bandidos Sweden members Michael Garcia Lerche Olsen and Jan Krogh Jensen were travelling to the Bandidos chapter in Drammen when they were intercepted and ambushed by Hells Angels members at Mjndalen. [189], In October 2017, raids conducted by Norwegian police resulted in the arrest of several full-patch members of the Rock Machine on charges of distribution of narcotics and firearms, illegal possession of firearms, and murder. 15 A former ranking member of the Bandidos' national chapter testified at a racketeering trial Thurday that two ex-biker leaders led a racketeering conspiracy that included handing down orders. Two people associated with the Bandidos were charged in the case, and police believe the shooting was a retaliation for the killing of Jan Krogh Jensen. The target of the ambush at Fornebu was Lars Harnes, who was shot and wounded with a handgun in the airport's arrivals lobby. A member of the Stockholm Hells Angels later visited a hospital with a bullet wound. [23], The Bandidos are designated a criminal motorcycle gang by Belgium's Federal Police. Membership eventually grew in number, with many chapters being established across the state of Texas. This triggered a gang war in Berlin that lasted from February to April 2010. [81], In the final public incident of the conflict, Bandidos and Hells Angels fought at a music festival north of Helsinki on 29 June 1996. 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. [188], Twelve Bandidos were arrested as approximately one-hundred-and-twenty club members gathered in Oslo for an international meeting in August 2013. There are many well known members of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club, so we have had to narrow the field and choose only the most famous Bandidos MC members. A Hells Angels member was also wounded by gunfire. [69], According to the National Center of Investigation, the Danish Bandidos are involved in a wide range of crimes, including drug dealing, extortion, fraud, tax evasion, robbery, weapons trafficking, money laundering, the sale of stolen goods, and violent crimes. [196] The club has eight chapters in Sweden[197] and has prominently recruited members of non-Swedish ethnicity. 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. He was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison. (Most outlaw clubs allow patched . On 6 February 1992, police, acting on intelligence supplied by an informant in the Buccaneers a Hells Angels support club arrested eight Hells Angels members in Grenoble in connection with the shooting, as well as members of the Buccaneers who supplied the stolen motorcycles used in the attack. FBI 2013 National Gang Intelligence Center report, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bandidos_MC_criminal_allegations_and_incidents&oldid=1146438036, Organised crime groups in the Netherlands, Pages using infobox criminal organization with rivals parameter, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Racketeering, drug trafficking, arms trafficking, assault, extortion, money laundering, murder, loan sharking, prostitution, contract killing, trafficking in stolen goods, motor vehicle theft, and counterfeiting, This page was last edited on 24 March 2023, at 21:50. On 13 February 1994, fifteen Danish Bandidos members were ambushed by Hells Angels associates at a club in Helsingborg, resulting in 13 gunshots being fired and Hells Angels-affiliated Rednecks member Joakim Boman being shot dead. He is now the author of several books recounting his experience as a bikie.. Overview: The Gladiators Motorcycle Club was founded in Australia in 1960, the first of Australia's 'American style' motorcycle clubs. The clubhouse of the Aphuset Motorcycle Club a Bandidos support club was bombed on 28 April 1997. On 27 August 1996, sixteen rounds were fired at the car of a Bandidos member in Stockholm, although he was not hit. Baseball bats, machetes and knives were used in the confrontation, which escalated from a verbal disagreement. The clubhouse was severely damaged, but no-one was injured or killed. [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. He had been returning from a meeting with the Undertakers Motorcycle Club a Finnish club that became a Bandidos probationary chapter the following month before being patched over in October 1996 in Helsinki. [204] On 6 December 1995, a shootout involving two vehicles took place on a motorway outside Helsingborg, leaving a Hells Angels member with a leg wound. [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. [240][3] Club membership is predominantly white and Hispanic. This affiliation drew the Bandidos into the conflict, which reached Norway on 19 February 1995 when there was a shooting involving members of Rabies MC and Customizers MC in Oslo. 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. The Bandidos members attend quarterly meetings of the Confederation of Clubs that has been established almost 30 years ago. Donald Eugene Chambers named the club the Bandidos based on the Mexican bandits and found the original members of the club in a number of biker bars of Houston, Corpus Christi, Galveston, and San Antonio. A simultaneous bombing of a garage used by Bandidos supporters was also carried out. Benjamin Parry was jailed for 12 years and was told he would serve a minimum of 8 years. The Bandidos' Canadian chapters went defunct due to infighting, law enforcement efforts, and pulled status from the club's American leadership. [75] Groups affiliated with the Bandidos in the country include the Diablos and X-Team.[76]. [191] Machado previously shot in the leg and wounded Pedro "Thor" Silva, president of the Hells Angels' nomads faction on the Algarve, in 2009 after Silva did not authorize the formation of a skinhead group in the area. A member of the Hells Angels was subsequently imprisoned. [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. On 22 August 1991, Michel Burel was killed in a drive-by shooting by four men on motorcycles, and two other Bandidos were wounded. Why have Sweden's biker gangs been able to fly under the radar? Bandidos supporter Hupu Viljo Oliver Laiti was sentenced to three years and two months' imprisonment, X-Team member Antti Niilo Raatikainen was sentenced to two years', and an unnamed Bandidos member was sentenced to one year's suspended prison sentence. 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