They obviously had their own business to discuss. How Florence ButtNot Her SonLaunched the H-E-B Empire. Wed go flat out on our motorcycles all day long, eighty to ninety miles an hour, and then at night, wed hold our parties far out in the woods so the cops wouldnt find us. [67][68], The United States Department of Justice and Europol consider the Bandidos to be a criminal organization. But it was also a rare look inside the Bandidos and at the life of the man who has been . 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 his successor, Jeffrey Fay Pike, because Wegers appeared in a report about the club. A few nights at Mejas, then a few nights at Crystals, then back to Meja. Oh, hell, its not like its any secret where I live. Toward the end of the road was Pikes property. And then we looked at one another and said, Hell, we can do a lot better than these guys. . Upon joining the Bandidos, each member must sign their motorcycle over to the club. Nice Greek boy and former rugby player from a good family who thought he could clean up the club from the inside. And then, as if given a silent cue, several of them lifted their hands in unison and flashed their middle fingers toward the sky. He was surrounded by bouquets of flowers, along with photos of him in his younger days standing beside his motorcycle or next to topless biker chicks. SEATTLE - The president of the Bandidos motorcycle club was sentenced to 20 months in prison Friday in a deal that will allow him to retain his position in the The FBI went so far as to buy a biker bar in Dallas, bringing in as the owner a New York agent who tried to find out what the Bandidos were up to. There was a tall front gate with a Go Away sign attached to it, but it was wide open. I assumed I would be met by one of his sergeants at arms, eyeing me suspiciously, maybe with a handgun sticking out of the back of his pants. The order was established in 1625 as the . He hugged me so hard that all the air shot out of my lungs. You knew that Jeff was concerned that with the war on terrorism, the Bandidos might get a reputation that they have terrorists? DeGuerin asked. It circled the Double Deuceonce, twice, then three times. He suffered spinal injuries from a motorcycle crash when he exiting Interstate 5 in Skagit County, Washington State in 2010. And that, Pike and Portillos lawyers argued, could leave Ojemann facing a sentence closer to two years, maybe even probation. Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives. Conversely, if he was in a car, he had to take it off.) The renegade motorcycle gang? Jeff Pike replaced George Wegers as the Bandidos International President in 2005 after George was sent to prison on RICO charges. Ojemann said most Bandidos appeared to back Pike, who also called for a new patch to represent the club, but there was a faction who didnt, including John Galveston John Lammins, who was president of a chapter in Costa Rica, and Ernest Morgas, an El Paso chapter president. They kept coming and coming, their wind-burned faces grim and purposeful. They thundered into the funeral homes parking lot, gunning their engines again and again, sending thick clouds of exhaust into the air. Only a few went inside the church for the service to hear Chucos sister deliver a tearful eulogy, concluding with the line Oh, Chuco, I will miss your laughing and your fighting. Those who remained in the parking lot stood around their bikes. Chambers and other Bandidos made the dealers dig their own graves and then set their bodies on fire before burying them, Texas Monthly wrote. [12], The Bandidos Motorcycle Club is 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. Police and federal agents began rounding up members of the Bandidos biker gang across the Northwest today, after a grand jury returned a 19-count indictment accusing them of crimes ranging from . [29], The Bandidos' mottos include "Cut one, we all bleed",[9] "God forgives, Bandidos don't",[1] "Our colors don't run"[30] and "We are the people our parents warned us about". Receive the next edition of "The One Percenter Throwdown" to your inbox. You know, if the feds spent as much time investigating a police department as they do investigating us, theyd eventually catch someone breaking a law. Paul Mitchell, Rev. The Bandidos? Fing off the fing charts., I turned around and came face to face with F.O., who had stabbed me in the sternum the day before. Standing in the doorway to the chapel, the thin, dark-suited director of the funeral home smiled nervously, his lips as pale as milk. 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A few minutes later, another car appeared, and out popped a couple of female employees of a local nude dance club called XTC Cabaret. These are not your fathers Bandidos, said Kent Schaffer, a well-known Houston attorney who has been defending the club for 23 years. A former cohort, ex-Bandidos national officer Edward Winterhalder , has written the above book about the club, says Wegers thought the Bandidos needed more . A couple of undercover police officers who follow the club had told me that Bandidos officers never discuss anything with citizens. Theyre not going to be real receptive to a reporter showing up, one officer said. [16] Subsequent expansion into the Nordic countries in the 1990s led to a violent feud with the Hells Angels. Why dont they start chasing real criminals, like those kids in street gangs who scare the shit even out of me, instead of following us everywhere we go, tapping our phones, and trying to destroy us with a bunch of made-up charges?, For the first time, Pikes smile faded and his eyes narrowed slightly. George Wegers Bandidos MC George Wegers Early Life / Family Life. 5 talking about this. But when I spoke to him, he still smiled brightly at the memory of those early days when Chambers came into his life. And as soon as Wegers was gone, the feds quickly began circling his successor, Jeff Pike, who lives just north of Houston. Guillermo has also worked in Central America, Mexico, New Mexico, Arizona and California and his work has appeared in various publications, including the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, New York Post, Newsday, Denver Post and the Albuquerque Journal. Even a handful of European Bandidos had flown in for the occasion, borrowing motorcycles from members of the San Antonio chapter so they too could ride. But defense lawyers for Pike and Portillo attacked Ojemanns testimony as self-serving, or of being fabricated to wrongly accuse their clients in order to save himself from lengthy prison time in his own drug case. I have no idea what happened to any of them., Pike sighed and tossed his empty bottled water into a trash can. George (Bandido George) Wegers, once the most powerful Bandido in the world, lies today in a nursing home, broke and without any status in the club. Another raced down the parking lot, hit his brakes, leaned his entire body to the left, whipped his motorcycle around, and then raced the other way. 'George Wegers ' has Passed Away. Built like a professional wrestler, he had thick black hair and a black Fu Manchu mustache, and just below his chin was a tuft of beard tied up with string and held in place by a fourteen-karat gold skull with diamonds in the eyes. And in the middle of each card was the phrase Bandido by profession, Biker by trade, Lover by choice, You have just had the honor of meeting , which was followed by that particular members signature. Several of them headed into the chapel to see Chuco in his casket. Ojemann said he became close to Pike and saw some of his decisions firsthand. Ex-Bandido says national president kicked predecessor out over TV interview. The Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang has 2,000 to 2,500 members in the U.S. and 13 other countries. Im almost always in bed by ten p.m. Come on down, Ill talk to you.. They also like the phrase "Cut one, we all bleed.". Yet as they made abundantly clear at their gathering in San Antonio, the Bandidos are not remotely intimidated. They trade guns and stolen bike parts. With an estimated 800 to 1,000 members in sixteen states (about 400 in Texas alone) and another 1,400 members in Canada, Europe, and Australia, they are now as large as the fabled Hells Angels, from California, and according to law enforcement officials who investigate the club, the new Bandidosor at least some of themare just as ribald and rebellious as the originals, whom the cops used to chase day and night. January 2023 Reader Quiz: What Did You Learn? [47] The first European chapter opened in Marseille in France in 1989. [ 186 more . As part of the case he admitted that he, along with other members, conspired to tamper with witnesses, traffic stolen motorcycles as well as conspire to commitother crimes. [53] Chapters were then founded in Italy in 2001[54] and on the Channel Islands in 2003. They are not Boy Scouts, but they are not outlaws. For me and my friends, the Bandidos were like the bogeymen. . Are you starting to understand? he said. And the police certainly had their doubts about Pike. [5] Patches denoting a member's rank and chapter are worn, as are various other patches which have specific meanings. [6][64][65][66] These groups usually wear reverse colors (gold border with red background rather than the Bandidos' red-borderandgold background). There were more bear hugs and kisses as more Bandidos arrived. Family and friends are welcome to send flowers or leave their condolences on this memorial page and share them with the family. [59], The first chapter opened in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates in 2016 and it is considered the first international motorcycle club to open in the Middle East. George Wegers was the former National president of the Bandidos and lived just across the line in Bellingham where the Bandidos host that large annual Oyster run which was cancelled this year due to Covid. By the early seventies, Chambers had more than one hundred members, many of whom were restless young Vietnam veterans who, in the words of one Bandido I spoke to, had gotten bored sitting at home trying to be nice after the government had taught them how to be so bad. The original Bandidos had wild, unruly hair, scraggly beards, huge tattoos, and cigarettes sticking out of their mouths, and they went by such nicknames as Revolver, Pecker, Deadweight, Rawhide, Coonass, and Crankcase. If you needed violence done, you put in a call to San Antonio., Ojemann said Houston had to be more laid back., It was the big boss backyard, Ojemann said. Canadian authorities were curious to learn if Pike had ordered the shooting of the eight Bandidos to remind other members just what would happen to them if they too turned against the club. 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 . Bring on the Shiplap? Ojemann said he and another national member were tasked with trying to find Lammins. It was a patch-pull offense., RELATED: 'Hundreds of condoms' destroy pipe. George Weger was taken to Skagit Valley Hospital. Just a half dozen years ago,top CanadianBandidos grumbled about how they couldnt get a telephone audience with him. Wegers suffered severe spinal damage while cruising alone on his Harley Streeton the afternoon of Sunday, September 27. View Part 1, View Part 2 (links open in a new tab). (In the Newsweek article, a defiant Hodge snarled, Were the last free Americans.) And when members of an El Paso crime family, the Chagras, were eventually convicted of hiring hit men to shoot Kerr and WoodWoods killer was Charles Harrelson, the father of actor Woody Harrelsonthe Bandidos promptly celebrated by throwing huge parties and racing around on their motorcycles, shooting their middle fingers at just about everyone they came across, including cops. Everyone said to me, Lock it up. Loved to say "top left", meaning "from the heart.". And no one, absolutely fing no one, is going to take that brotherhood away.. Reed Anderstrom. The Bandidos have many Hispanic members, while blacks appear non-existent. Youre going to let me come to your housethe head of the Bandidos? I asked. While much of the testimony to date has come from Bandidos from San Antonio and focused largely on Portillo, Ojemann is the first ex-Bandido from the Houston area to testify. said. Not only had a member been killed, but the Bandidos were embarrassed that a much smaller club would dare to take them on . Bandidos have been accused of threatening people who were preparing to testify against them in court and of beating and even shooting any member of rival motorcycle clubs who has either not shown them the proper respect or attempted to invade one of their territories. Wed party till dawn, go to sleep right there on the ground, and then get up, get on our motorcycles, and hit the road again.. Hasnt the motorcycle world been taken over by lawyers, doctors, and advertising executives, all those self-proclaimed chromosexuals who pull back their hair in neat ponytails and don designer sunglasses and expensive black leather jackets so that they can take leisurely rides through the countryside on sunny weekend afternoons? Jesus, my fing cholesterol, one of them said. After the service, all the Bandidos headed to their bikes. But I know he loves it so much that I would never ask him to quit., When Lenny was out of earshot, I asked Nicole what she thought about the allegations that the Bandidos were a criminal enterprise. As part of the investigation law enforcement placed wire taps on his phone, where he was said to have told Christopher Horlock, the Bandidos National Secretary that he was not to talk with federal agents. J. C. Stevens and Rev. Pike told me that he had been an altar boy at a Catholic church in California, where he was born and raised. I headed down a dirt road, drove past a stand of trees, and saw an unfinished two-story frame home, about 3,500 square feet. Nineteen search warrants were executed. [5] The club is concentrated in Texas[39] but extends into Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Washington and Oklahoma. By Sherryl Connelly. You ask one wrong question, and you could be in for an ass-kicking., But a couple of weeks later, Pike called. But by his teenage years, he had discovered cigarettes and girls, and he also became fascinated with motorcycles when he saw a pack of Hells Angels flying down a road. Fmr. [12], Ronald Jerome "Ronnie" Hodge took over from Chambers as the Bandidos' president in 1972. He was 36 years old, the son of one of the first members, Steve Panhead Jonas, who had been shot to death at a San Antonio bar in 1983. [34], Each club chapter follows a structured hierarchy, with a president, vice-president, sergeant-at-arms, road captain and secretary/treasurer. Appointed in 1998 by club leaders as president of the 2,400-member Bandidos Motorcycle Club, George Wegers, now 53, did launch a mini-revolution, putting an end to such warm biker traditions as . After establishing further chapters in Ontario, Alberta and Manitoba, the club's operations in Canada ceased in November 2007 as a result of infighting, law enforcement efforts, and pulled status from the club's American leadership. Pike, whos divorced, told me that although he would be living in it alone, he wanted it to be big enough that his two kids would have a place to stay when they came to visit him from college. They also commonly wear a unique patch (known as the "Heart Patch") consisting of a round patch in Bandidos colors on the front upper left of the colors (vest), as worn by the member. True Crime Jeff Pike, Texas's Own Tony Soprano Earlier this spring, Jeff Pike, the head of the infamous Texas-based Bandidos motorcycle club, went on trial in federal court for racketeering. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. [36] Another requirement is that Bandidos must follow the philosophy "All members are your brothers and your family", and must "not fear authority and have a general disdain for the rules of society". Stevens asked him if he had told agents he left the club after losing interest in the club over matters he didnt agree with. [14] Ronnie Hodge was sentenced to five years in prison in December 1988 for conspiring to bomb homes and automobiles belonging to members of a rival club, and he died of heart disease in 1992. The Bandidos would appreciate it.. Wegers's attorney Jeffrey A . Every man whos ever been president of the Bandidos has been brought down, and its only a matter of time before Mr. Pike gets brought down too., On an impulse, I sent an e-mail to the Web site, asking if the 51-year-old Pike would agree to an interview. But the fact was that few of the new Bandidos were compiling spectacular rap sheets. [22], According to the club's website, the Bandidos' Western Hemisphere chapters became autonomous from the international chapters in Europe and Australia on July 17, 2007. Early on the morning of Wednesday, March 16, George tried and failed once more to reach his wife. We were so crazy back then its amazing we are alive, said Showalter. Those words never came out of my mouth, Ojemann answered. Edward Winterhalders status was changed to Out in Bad Standings by the Bandidos. My condolences to his entire extended family. But were not out there shooting people, for Gods sake. [70][10][71], While individual chapters had previously been banned in Germany, the Netherlands became the first country to prohibit the club as a whole in December 2017 when a court in Utrecht outlawed both the Dutch department of the Bandidos and the international organization on the grounds that the club forms a threat to public order.[72]. A minister read a poem about a dead biker (Can you feel the wind in Heaven, while the men hold back the tears?), and right after he said amen, a friend of the Bandidos pulled up in a pickup with a keg of beer strapped to the bed. Would they say, All police officers commit crimes, the way they tell reporters like you, All Bandidos commit crimes? [34] Club bylaws state that any member who commits suicide will not receive a Bandidos funeral. "Bandidos" redirects here. 'George Wegers ' has Passed Away. Chambers was sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison, leading some police officials to speculate that the Bandidos, without their founder, would disband. And what they do is not organized crime authorized by the club, he said. In 1998 George Wegers became the International President of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club,Jeff Pikewas the Vice President for much of this time. "[12] By the early 1970s, the club had over one hundred members, including many Vietnam War veterans. George Wegers was born in Whatcom County in Washington State around 1953. He was as lean as a plank, with light brown hair that fell to the bottom of his neck and sideburns that went down to his jaw line, and he stared at the camera with a cocky, youll-never-bring-me-down expression. IN 1998 THERE WAS TALK ONCE AGAIN that the Bandidos had suffered a fatal blow: Craig Jaws Johnston, who was then the Bandidos president, and other leaders pleaded guilty in federal court to charges that they had conspired to manufacture and sell as much as a thousand pounds of methamphetamine. The coffin was lowered into the ground, and a mariachi band sang Te vas, ngel mo (You Leave, Angel of Mine). My father, a straitlaced Presbyterian minister, took our family to Galveston for a vacation. Now, hes physically and financially busted and out of the club, and theyre either dead or in prison. Benesh, who had been trying to start an Austin chapter of the Hells Angels, had been shot in the head, apparently by an unseen sniper, as he was leaving a North Austin restaurant with his girlfriend and two children. The new recruit was then required to put the vest back on and dry it out by riding on his motorcycle. . Less than a month after the Benesh shooting, eight Bandidos were found stuffed inside abandoned vehicles in a field in Canada. The priests and brothers who staff Niagara University are known as Vincentians, a name derived from their founder, St. Vincent de Paul. Wegers displayed his arrogance, Woo said, by packing up his belongings in expectation that he would be . Police investigators have found racial paraphernalia in raids on the gang. But other members from San Antonio did beat up and kick Morgas out of the Bandidos, Ojemann said . 1 taler om dette. Two fo the search warrants were for properties owned by George Wegers which resulted in 4 handguns and 33 knives being found. Just like the Rotary Club, each chapter was required to have a weekly meeting where attendance was taken and dues paid. George (Crash) Kriarakis. Arent they long gone, artifacts of the Easy Rider era? Im just a clean-cut American guy who loves riding his motorcycle. No rules, no bullshit, just the open road.. San Antonio Express-News Show More Show Less 23 of 44 Bandidos motorcycle club members serve as pallbearers at the funeral of Robert "Grandpa Bob" Shields in Odem, Texas on April 6, 1964. He has also covered immigration, minority affairs and legal affairs as part of the projects team here and for other print, TV and radio outlets. Guillermo Contreras is a San Antonio Express-News staff writer. Still, the evidence was strong enough that 18 of the Bandidos, including Wegers, agreed to plea deals in return for short prison sentences. Pike said he wants to leave a different legacy: "The only . Investigators speculated that the victims had been killed by a team of hit men as part of an internal cleansing ordered by the Bandidos leaders. People who worked in the nearby stores and businesses rushed outside to get a better look. Federal agents and local police decapitated the Bandidos motorcycle gang yesterday with the arrest of its president and at least a dozen members in a series of pre-dawn raids in and around . Consider, for instance, the gold-colored courtesy card that Chambers printed up for his members to give to citizens (the word they used to describe nonmembers). Today the police seem more determined than ever to bring the Bandidos down. [21] In 2007, the Bandidos' Canadian chapters went defunct following the internal Shedden massacre. [56], In recent years the club has also expanded heavily into Spain, Belgium, Estonia, Greece, England and Ireland. A few years ago, Pike owned a large street-rod shop in Tomball. The cops drive by here just about every day just to see what Im up to. Former Hells Angels boss Sonny Barger was a fraud who beat his wife and 14-year-old stepdaughter, ex-gangster George Christie writes in 'Exile on Front Street' tell-all. [15][12], In 1989, the club was established in Europe when a chapter was formed in Marseille, France. [37], The Bandidos have an estimated membership of between 2,000 and 2,500 worldwide. [19], The Bandidos embarked on a failed endeavour to establish themselves in Canada after merging with the Montreal-based Rock Machine Motorcycle Club in 2000. Bandidos Book Out in Bad Standings: Inside The Bandidos Motorcycle Club The Making Of A Worldwide Dynastyby Edward Winterhalder. I tagged along in my rental car. He told his friends that he was naming his club the Bandidos, in honor of the Mexican bandits who refused to live by anyones rules but their own, and he began recruiting his first members not only out of Houston but also out of the biker bars in Corpus Christi, Galveston, and San Antonio. These patches consist of red lettering displayed on a gold background. There were no drugs or alcohol in his system, although his helmet wasnt Department of Transporation approved. Texas Monthly reported that the feds considered the gang an "organized criminal enterprise" that used "intimidation, extortion, violence and threats of violence against rival motorcycle clubs" to maintain "its power, territory and profits." On his Harley Streeton the afternoon of Sunday, September 27 ex-bandido says national President kicked predecessor over. Friends are welcome to send flowers or leave their condolences on this memorial page and share with. 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