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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.
Bandidos members were implicated in the San Antonio shootings of Assistant U.S. Attorney James W. Kerr Jr., who survived an assassination attempt when nineteen shots were fired into his car on November 21, 1978, and U.S. district court judge John H. Wood Jr., who was killed with a shot from a high-powered rifle on May 29, 1979. [66]
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.
The Pagans were formed in 1957 in Maryland, and the Bandidos formed in 1966 in San Leon, Texas. Both groups have ties to drug and gun trafficking, said police officials.
Donald Eugene Chambers (November 23, 1930 – July 18, 1999) was an American Marine, outlaw biker and founder of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club, in 1966 in San Leon, Texas. Chambers was convicted of murdering two drug dealers in 1972 and served a life sentence until his parole in 1983.
Diablos Motorcycle Club: 1999 Pattaya, Thailand: Populous support club for the Bandidos MC, mostly active in parts of Europe and Asia. Diablos: 1961 San Bernardino, California, US [41] Dirty Dozen Motorcycle Club: 1964 Arizona: Merged with the Hells Angels in 1997. Druids MC North 1978 Sheffield, England [42] [43] [44] El Forastero: 1962 Sioux ...
Motorcycle club members meet at a run in Australia in 2009. An outlaw motorcycle club is a motorcycle subculture.It is generally centered on the use of cruiser motorcycles, particularly Harley-Davidsons and choppers, and a set of ideals that purport to celebrate freedom, nonconformity to mainstream culture, and loyalty to the biker group.
He is currently an emeritus professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, and director of its Center for Criminality & Addiction Research, Training & Application. By the early ’70s, variations of the Game used on addicts and other crude behavior-modification techniques caught the attention of Congress.