[183], Bandidos members were involved in a bar brawl that left a pub proprietor and two patrons injured in Fredrikstad on 17 April 2008. 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. [237], All three appeared in Exeter Crown Court for sentencing on 13 January 2023. A member of the Stockholm Hells Angels later visited a hospital with a bullet wound. [56] Lenti refused an offer of police protection when informed of the alleged plot, but he did start carrying around a handgun. His car was hit by several bullets. BANDIDO GUNTHER 1%ER MERAN CHAPTER, ITALY. Leones MC - Active in Finland and Thailand. [53], Four Bandidos members and prospects Cameron Acorn, Pierre "Carlitto" Aragon, Randy Brown and Robert "Bobby" Quinn pleaded guilty to partaking in the killing of drug dealer Shawn Douse, who was beaten to death at the apartment of Bandidos prospect Jamie "Goldberg" Flanz in Keswick on 6 December 2005. [3] [67] The law enforcement operation Project Amigo, which began in 2001 originally as an investigation of the Rock Machine, led to the arrest of every Bandidos member in Quebec in June 2002, effectively ending the club's presence in the province. Both men survived but were badly wounded. Some defected to other clubs while others remained with the club but hoped to restore their sovereignty. [120] Delegates from the Bandidos and Hells Angels met at a Magdeburg hotel on 10 December 2008 to discuss a peace treaty between the clubs, although no agreement could be concluded. The Bandidos have several support clubs, including the Amigos, Pistoleros, LA Riders, Hombres, and Hermanos. Waco shootout: who are the Bandidos motorcycle gang? 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. He was convicted of O'Donoghue's murder on 31 September 2017 and was given a mandatory life sentence. The Bandidos have been prominent in the Northwest. Four Bandidos members and prospects - Cameron Acorn, Pierre "Carlitto" Aragon, Randy Brown and Robert "Bobby" Quinn - pleaded guilty to partaking in the killing of drug dealer Shawn Douse, who was beaten to death at the apartment of Bandidos prospect Jamie "Goldberg" Flanz in Keswick on 6 December 2005. Benjamin Parry was jailed for 12 years and was told he would serve a minimum of 8 years. The Northrhine-Westphalia government found its actions necessary because the Bandidos wanted to build up their criminal supremacy through racketeering and violence. [77] The Nordic Biker War, which began in January 1994 between Morbids MC and the Hells Angels in southern Sweden and later escalated into a war over control of the drug trade in the Nordic countries between the Hells Angels and Bandidos after the Morbids aligned with the latter, saw several violent incidents around Helsinki in 1995 and 1996. 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. [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. [124] The warring clubs formally arranged to a truce when Bandidos Europe vice-president Peter Maczollek and Hells Angels Hanover chapter president Frank Hanebuth met at a lawyer's office in Hanover on 26 May 2010. X-Team - Active in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Brunei. An explosion at a residential building in Linkping on 7 June 2019 is believed by police to be an attack by the Bandidos on a No Surrender member. Une fusillade entre bandes de motards rivaux devant les assises de la Cte-d'Or. The gallery ahead features photographs from the Express-News coverage of the Bandidos, including the 1979 courthouse appearance of several members of the motorcycle gang who came to . 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. 1 Support Clubs via tony-white.com The Bandidos have many support clubs scattered all over the world. April 2023 at 21:13. The Bandidos operate seven chapters in Thailand. [130] The struggle for territorial supremacy between the clubs erupted again in March 2012 when a pub frequented by the Rock Machine was targeted in an arson attack and a Bandidos pub was burned down in retaliation two weeks later. [103][104], Four members of No Surrender's Metz chapter were beaten and had their colors stolen by members and associates of the Bandidos' Strasbourg chapter at a motorcycle rally in Pont--Mousson on 11 March 2018. Customizers fired at Rabies members riding in a car, leaving one man wounded. [148], A third Dutch Bandidos chapter was formed in Nijmegen in January 2017. Bandidos-johtajan syytteist posa nurin kranaattijutussa, Bandidoksen Suomen johtajan ampunut mies psee vankilasta vapaaksi, Bandidos-pyssymiehille lankesi linnatuomio Srnisten kahakasta, Bandidos-jengin ex-johtajan ampumisesta elinkautiset, Nokian Bandidosin amfetamiinisyytteet kaatuivat Turun hovioikeudessa, Bandidosin tukijsen tankkasi 35 000 eurolla kuussa eik maksanut syyte 325 000 euron petoksista, Bandidos peri vkivaltaisesti velkaa Tampereella: Rystn yrityksi ja vapaudenriistoja, A. Hells Angels contre Bandidos / Outlaws. [158] According to figures found in the Norwegian National Police Directorate for 2014, 62% of Bandidos members in Norway had previous criminal convictions. Three men were injured, including one who needed emergency surgery after being shot in the chest. A group of Bandidos attacked the home of Rock Machine faction president Erkse in May 2011, destroying his car and firing shots into his house. [138], The first Bandidos chapter in Ireland was formed in Limerick in October 2016. Four bikers were arrested, and Spezialeinsatzkommando (SEK) was deployed during the subsequent investigation, which included a search of a clubhouse. Two Moroccan dealers whom the Bandidos president sourced the drugs from were also convicted. [160] On 17 December 1995, two leading members of the Bronx '95 a club founded in 1995 that was given hangaround status by the Bandidos and was intended to be the precursor to a Bandidos chapter in Trondheim were shot and wounded while riding in a car. [167] On 10 March 1996, the Hells Angels carried out twin attacks on Bandidos members returning from a weekend meeting in Helsinki, Finland; one attack took place at Kastrup Airport outside Copenhagen, Denmark, and the other at Oslo's Fornebu airport. [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. [58] Lenti pleaded guilty to manslaughter and two counts of aggravated assault, and was sentenced to six years in prison in June 2008. Seven people were injured, including three in serious condition. 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. [73], The Finnish National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) defines the Bandidos as an organized criminal group. [220], A gang war involving the Bandidos and No Surrender in stergtland County has resulted in several bombings and shootings. [121] On 8 October 2009, Bandidos member Rudi Heinz "Eschli" Elten was shot to death by Hells Angels prospect Timur Akbulut in Duisburg. [219] In December 2019, Patrick Bogere was sentenced to five years' imprisonment and Johnson Bogere was sentenced to two years', while several others were also convicted in the case. 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. [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". [133][134], A nationwide ban on wearing the emblems of the Bandidos and eight other motorcycle clubs including the Chicanos, Diablos and X-Team in public came into effect on 16 March 2017. Become a Bandido "Known Associate" and get access to hundreds of historical club photos and exclusive gear only available here. These support clubs, mostly regional, are subservient to the will of the Bandidios and, in general, are typically used for protection, promotion or financing, but can also be used to facilitate criminal activities such as drug trafficking, extortion, assault and murder. The Bandidos Motorcycle Club is classified as a motorcycle gang by law enforcement and intelligence agencies in numerous countries. Authorities believe a potential target of the attack was Mrio Machado, a member of the Bandidos-affiliated Red & Gold gang and former leader of the Portuguese Hammerskins, who escaped harm as he was late to the meeting. 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