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Bandidos is a motorcycle club with a worldwide membership. The club was formed in 1966 by Don Chambers in Texas. Its slogan is We are the people our parents warned us about. It is estimated to have 2,400 members in 195 chapters, located in 14 countries.[1]
Contents
- 1 History
- 2 Organization
- 3 Current Events
- 4 See Also
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History
The club was formed in 1966 in Houston by Donald Eugene Chambers. Many people think after seeing a TV commercial with the Frito Bandido raising hell to sell potato chips, Chambers named his club the Bandidos. This is not true, as the cartoon came out in 1968. Although he did adopt a fat, machete and pistol wielding Mexican Bandido as the center patch for the club's colors. After Chambers was president Ronnie Hodge took over. He expanded the club internationally.
Organization
The Bandidos, also called the Bandido Nation, is the fastest growing outlaw
motorcycle club in the world with over 90 chapters in the
United States, 90 chapters in
Europe, and another 15 in
Australia and Southeast
Asia. In the
United States, the club is concentrated in
Texas, but extends into
Louisiana,
Mississippi,
Alabama,
Arkansas,
New Mexico,
Colorado,
Nevada,
Montana,
Wyoming,
South Dakota,
Utah,
Idaho,
Nevada,
Washington State,
Oklahoma,
Nebraska, and several other states. The
Rock Machine Motorcycle Club in
Canada patched over to Bandidos in 2000. It even has several Australian chapters in
Adelaide,
Ballarat,
Brisbane City,
Cairns, Sydney Downtown,
Geelong,
Gold Coast,
Hunter Valley, Ipswich City, Mid North Coast, Mid State,
Nomads,
Northside,
Noosa, North Victoria,
Sunshine Coast,
Sydney,
Toowoomba, acquired with much bloodletting. In recent years the club has also expanded heavily into
Germany,
Denmark,
Norway,
Sweden,
Finland,
Belgium,
Italy,
Luxembourg,
France and the
Channel Isles of
Great Britain; and are looking into setting up shop in
Russia and
Eastern Europe and also in the tiny island of
Singapore, as well as
Malaysia, and
Thailand [1]. The Bandidos are organized by local chapters, with state and regional officers, as well as a national chapter made up of four regional vice presidents and a national president.
Current Events
A member of the Bandidos in San Antonio, Texas, was convicted of the murder of former boxing world champion Robert Quiroga, who died in 2004.
The Bandidos may be involved in the assassination of Anthony Benesh, who was attempting to start a Hells Angel chapter in Austin, Texas, and was murdered in March of 2006. [2].
The Bandidos are known in Australia for their involvement in the Milperra Bikie Massacre.
On
April 8,
2006, four vehicles containing the bodies of eight men, all of whom had been
shot, were discovered in a farmer's field outside of the
hamlet of
Shedden,
Ontario,
Canada. Six of the men killed in what became known as the
Shedden Massacre were believed to have been full members of the Bandidos, including the alleged president of the organization in Canada. Three of the suspects in the case are also believed to have been full members, and one a prospective member.
A Bandidos member was arrested by York Regional Police on December 3, 2006 in connection with the shooting death and wounding of two other Hells Angel members at an adult entertainment club in Vaughan, Ontario near Toronto.
See Also
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