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The Bandidos Motorcycle Club, also known as the Bandido Nation, [1] is an outlaw motorcycle club with a worldwide membership. [6] [7] [8] Formed in San Leon, Texas, in 1966, the Bandidos MC is estimated to have between 2,000 and 2,500 members [5] and 303 chapters located in 22 countries, [4] making it the second-largest motorcycle club in the world behind the Hells Angels.
The Bandidos are the most significant motorcycle gang involved in drug trafficking in New Mexico. The club maintains chapters in Albuquerque, Alamogordo, Las Cruces, Silver City and Roswell, and is also responsible for contract killing, extortion, welfare and bank fraud, and arson. [36]
The Bandidos Motorcycle Club is classified as a motorcycle gang by law enforcement and intelligence agencies in numerous countries. While the club has denied being a criminal organization, Bandidos members have been convicted of partaking in criminal enterprises including theft, extortion, prostitution, drug trafficking and murder in various host nations.
A photo of a Bandidos Motorcycle Club vest and 13 guns with ammunition. Jonathan Bivins is charged with being a felon in possession of firearms. Bivins was indicted on Dec. 6, 2023 in front of a ...
The Pagans and the Bandidos are considered outlaw motorcycle gangs by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The Pagans were formed in 1957 in Maryland, and the Bandidos ...
A new biker war in Oklahoma? On the night of April 1, 2023, a shoot-out between the Homietos and the Bandidos Motorcycle Club at the Whiskey Barrel Saloon, 4120 Newcastle Road, left three dead ...
[45] [46] A former Bandidos leader and several experts on outlaw motorcycle clubs questioned whether the reported threats against police were genuine. [47] On May 22, fifty-year-old factory worker and Bandido Jeff Battey posted bail. [48] The cash amount wasn't disclosed, but is typically 10% in Texas, or $100,000.
Amidst growing membership and increasingly sophisticated criminal activity, federal law enforcement agencies within the United States Department of Justice began classifying outlaw motorcycle gangs as "non-traditional organized crime" beginning in 1981, identifying four of the gangs—the Hells Angels, the Outlaws, the Pagan's and the Bandidos—as the largest and most powerful.