As I got in my rental car, I heard the familiar whomp-whomp-whomp of the police helicopter. Early on the morning of Wednesday, March 16, George tried and failed once more to reach his wife. [28] For example, police have reported that the "Expect No Mercy" patch is awarded to those who have committed murder on behalf of the club, while the "TCB" ("Taking Care of Business") patch is worn by club officers and nomads. 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. 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. George Wegers was the International President (El Presidente) of Bandidos MC from 1998 until 2005. And no one, absolutely fing no one, is going to take that brotherhood away.. 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. Those words never came out of my mouth, Ojemann answered. Funeral Services for George S. Wagers will be conducted on Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at 2:00 P. M. at the Lower Hector Church. For me and my friends, the Bandidos were like the bogeymen. Ojemann said that on one occasion, Lammins was tipped off and didnt show up to where Ojemann and others would have pummeled him, or he was in places that were too public for an attack. Are you starting to understand? he said. They kept coming and coming, their wind-burned faces grim and purposeful. I started meeting Bandidos. But it was also a rare look inside the Bandidos and at the life of the man who has been . When a beloved brother died last summer, more than four hundred bikers thundered into San Antonio for his funeral. Yes, they love riding fast. Just like the Lions Club, its members had vests and were given rules about wearing them. Defense attorneys criticized federal prosecutors for stitching together a racketeering case based on minor felonies and misdemeanors. Weve got guys who own their own businesses, guys who work for oil companies, guys who are in the computer industry. Having once infiltrated the Bandidos for three years in a landmark police operation, Alex Caine is uniquely positioned to reveal the untold story of the Hells Angels' fiercest rivals. Family and friends are welcome to send flowers or leave their condolences on this memorial page and share them with the family. In 2005 the feds made their next assault on the Bandidos empire. The state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II will take place on Monday in London, in an occasion that will mark the world's farewell to Britain's longest-reigning monarch . As part of his role as the Bandidos International President, or El Preisdente, as it is often referred to within the Bandidos, he decided to move the clubs headquarters from Texas to Bellingham, Washington, although the Bandidos will always be considered as a Texas outlaw motorcycle club. 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. A few nights at Mejas, then a few nights at Crystals, then back to Meja. For instance, Ojemann said he attended a meeting in 2011 at the Mason Jar restaurant in Houston in which Pike and other national members talked about Pikes proposal to split the Bandidos from chapters in Europe and Australia. Police investigators have found racial paraphernalia in raids on the gang. 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 . Pike said he wants to leave a different legacy: "The only . They were dressed in steel-toed boots, jeans, and their colors: denim or black leather vests covered with a variety of red-and-gold patches that carried such slogans as Loyalty is our honor, Our colors dont run, and Expect no mercy. On the back of every vest was a large patch of a bellicose Mexican bandit brandishing a pistol and a machete. These are not your fathers Bandidos, said Kent Schaffer, a well-known Houston attorney who has been defending the club for 23 years. The police had no cell phones and no video cameras, which meant we all had a much better chance of getting away.. David J. Phillip/AFP via Getty Images Updated 7:28 p.m. Service 1 PM Wednesday at Evans-Nordby Funeral Home . George Christie unhappily confronts Sonny about breaking a cardinal rule of the Hells Angels organization in this scene from "Sonny vs. George."Subscribe for. [42] The club has since expanded substantially in Australia and there are forty-five Bandidos chapters throughout the country. The police said that before killing the dealers, Chambers had made them dig their own graves. Reed Anderstrom. And then, as if given a silent cue, several of them lifted their hands in unison and flashed their middle fingers toward the sky. Loved by many, loved by few. Please received our heartfelt condolences. George Wegers, 54, was one of 32 people in Washington, Montana and South Dakota indicted last year as federal officials raided the Bellingham-based gang. Pike did not approve of members dealing in drugs, which was one of his concerns with the chapters in Europe and Australia, DeGuerin said. The Bandidos were so brazen that they even started their own Web site. A former cohort, ex-Bandidos national officer Edward Winterhalder , has written the above book about the club, says Wegers thought the Bandidos needed more . Ojemann agreed with that, and with DeGuerins assertion that Pike was disappointed with Ojemann for his involvement in drugs. Before long, several of the Bandidos headed to the Double Deuce, one of south San Antonios better biker bars. And what they do is not organized crime authorized by the club, he said. [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. Loved to say "top left", meaning "from the heart.". Weve gotten to know each other so well that I once met him at a Dennys for a cup of coffee to answer his questions.. Jesus, my fing cholesterol, one of them said. Well, if they are committing crimes, I dont see them doing it, she said. 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. Or consider the Bandidos initiation rites. The cops drive by here just about every day just to see what Im up to. They are not Boy Scouts, but they are not outlaws. [35][38] The Bandidos' "mother chapter" is based in Houston, Texas. Was it smart expanding into different countries in the first place? He was pissed. BY SATURDAY MORNING, AT LEAST FOUR HUNDRED Bandidos were in San Antonio, gathered in the parking lot of an evangelical church for Chucos funeral. . Some of them downed beers, ignoring the handwritten signs on the church doors that read Please, no drinking on church property. One Bandido, pretending he had a rifle in his hands, aimed at the police helicopter and fired off a few imaginary rounds. People who worked in the nearby stores and businesses rushed outside to get a better look. Wegers has heart problems and high blood pressure and regularly saw three different doctors. Police say the letter has a different meaning standing for "murder" or "meth." I bought another round, and then anotherasking questions the entire time about Bandido life to anyone who would look my way. The Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang has 2,000 to 2,500 members in the U.S. and 13 other countries. [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. Though Wegers returned to the Bandidos after serving a 20-month prison sentence for racketeering charges, he is no longer in the club because of the documentary, Ojemann said, without specifying which one. The passing of George Wegers. The gang's founder died of cancer in 1999. [47] The first European chapter opened in Marseille in France in 1989. Everyone said to me, Lock it up. I hope you dont believe all that bullshit the feds are feeding you, he said in a surprisingly cheerful voice. Ojemann said he became close to Pike and saw some of his decisions firsthand. Let me tell you one thing, my friend, said a Bandido who had seen me standing quietly by the funeral homes front door taking notes. But thats it., On the other hand, said the highly placed Texas law enforcement official, Bandidos have a tendency to turn violent, especially during confrontations with other motorcycle clubs: What you have to remember is that these men dont become Bandidos because they are simply motorcycle enthusiasts. Please received our heartfelt condolences. He was predeceased by : his parents, Chester Wagers and . They promised us there would be no trouble, he said hesitantly as the Bandidos parked their bikes and began hugging and kissing one another on the mouththe traditional Bandido greeting. Fmr. Each situation is different. Youre going to let me come to your housethe head of the Bandidos? I asked. Bandidos Book Out in Bad Standings: Inside The Bandidos Motorcycle Club The Making Of A Worldwide Dynastyby Edward Winterhalder. They walked back outside, looked up, and saw a helicopter coming right at them. 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. In the past, he had been a member of other Houston-area motorcycle clubs, but they had bored him. But thats where the comparisons ended. Arent they long gone, artifacts of the Easy Rider era? [23] The American chapters began wearing a redesigned patch in 2011. [3], The club has 303 chapters worldwide, located in twenty-two countries in North America, Oceania, Europe and Asia. About the only thing they get these days are speeding tickets., Although federal investigators in the 2005 RICO indictment claimed that Bandidos were sometimes required to pay the club a road tax (a percentage of their proceeds derived from criminal activities), Ed Winterhalder, a former Bandido from Oklahoma who quit the club in 2003, told me that only 10 percent of todays Bandidos make a living through crime. George Wegers is now retired from the outlaw motorcycle club. 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. A few days later I drove into a well-kept neighborhood near the Woodlands residential community. Phone: (660) 584-2626. Bandido Chuco, who had died at the age of 65 from liver cancer. We even believed that, just for fun, they had sex with dead women. In surveillance photos, they saw the Expect no mercy patch on his vest, which is the Bandidos equivalent of the Purple Heart, given to any member who has drawn blood or spilled his own blood in defense of the club. 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. A hospital representative said she would not release Weger's medical status. Court room illustrations from Karlene Ryan. [18] George Wegers, who served as international president between 1998 and 2005, was convicted of racketeering charges in October 2006. 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. George Weger passed away. His preference was also to slow down expansion, particularly internationally. Prospect" because of the short amount of time in which he was awarded his club membership, and he later became known as "Step Mother" in deference to Chambers' moniker "Mother". So I decided to get a bike. 1701 N. Main St. Higginsville, MO, 64037. [5] In the United States, the majority of the club consists of white and Hispanic males. If you fill out the first name, last name, or agree to terms fields, you will NOT be added to the newsletter list. In March 1966 Chambers founded the first Motorcycle Club with the name BANDIDOS MC in San Leon, Texas. He is charged in several different conspiracy counts, including a conspiracy to traffic in motor vehicles and motor-vehicle parts. Don wasnt looking for people who fit into what he called polite society, said one of Chamberss first members, Royce Showalter. We talked about Bandidos carrying bombs with them on their motorcycles, which they used to blow up gas stations that refused to serve them. If he wishes to do something illegal, thats his choice. SEATTLE (AP) _ 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 organization. When the hearse stopped, members of Chucos own San Antonio chapter carried his casket to the grave site. 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. We are made to known about his death on September 23, 2020. Unrepentant, the Bandidos insisted that they had not shot the prosecutor or the judge and that the only reason they were being harassed was because of their anti-establishment posturing. [01] Still handsome and charismatic at near-eighty, Ralph Hubert "Sonny" Barger Jr. was the main mover in transforming the Hells Angels, who have always attracted a significant number of misfits and criminals, ['Hells Angel,' p. 03, 87 - 91; p. 124 "Most of us [in 1965] were card-carrying . 'George Wegers ' has Passed Away. You know, I feel sorry for guys who dont have a clue what this feels like.. [48] This was followed by expansion into the Nordic countries, with branches being established in Denmark in 1993,[49] Sweden in 1994,[50] and Finland and Norway in 1995. 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. The Bandidos have many Hispanic members, while blacks appear non-existent. He wanted bikers who lived only for the open road. Embossed in red at the top of each card was the Bandidos ominous motto: We are the people our parents warned us about. In the lower left corner were the initials FTW (for F the World). But when I spoke to him, he still smiled brightly at the memory of those early days when Chambers came into his life. Unlike the Hells Angels, who have tried to finesse their public image with toy runs and other charity stunts, wrote the Canadian journalist Julian Sher, who has spent years covering motorcycle gangs, the Texas-based Bandidos have never shied away from flaunting their brutal pedigree. Not bad, huh?, A few minutes later, I came across an agreeable, clean-cut young Bandido named Lenny Jonas. George (Crash) Kriarakis. Stevens asked him if he had told agents he left the club after losing interest in the club over matters he didnt agree with. 2006 October, 2006. Mimi Swartz is a staff writer based in Houston. I figured I wouldnt hear from him. Get down! he shouted again. on Monday, March 15th, 2010 at 11:55 am and is filed under Uncategorized. It was the Bandidos founder, Donald Chambersonly he rode a Harley instead of a horse. I have no idea what happened to any of them., Pike sighed and tossed his empty bottled water into a trash can. Not only had a member been killed, but the Bandidos were embarrassed that a much smaller club would dare to take them on . Nineteen search warrants were executed. 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Without saying a word, I bought a round for everyonea total of 96 beers. He wanted the badass bikers who cared about nothing except riding full time on their Harley-Davidsons. The coffin was lowered into the ground, and a mariachi band sang Te vas, ngel mo (You Leave, Angel of Mine). Wearing high heels and miniskirts, they passed out flyers and free drink tickets, telling the Bandidos that they ought to visit later that night to watch them perform. God, Daddy was famous for the way he could throw a punch. I headed down a street containing mostly sprawling ranch-style homes on large lots, at least a couple of acres in size. George Wegers was born in Whatcom County in Washington State around 1953. Briefly the Canadian president. I SAW MY FIRST BANDIDOS IN 1969, when I was eleven years old. This entry was posted TRUSTED AREA FUNERAL HOMES. (To round up the Bandidos in Lubbock, the police used an armored personnel carrier to bust into their fenced compound.) Apparently he was being tailed by federal agents at the time of the crash. Old Bandidos who had retired from the club years ago showed up, many of them with backs and hips so creaky they were barely able to throw their legs over their choppers, and the new generation of Bandidos also came, sitting astride $30,000 custom-made Harleys with perfect pinstriping. In 1985, after a long undercover investigation, hundreds of federal agents and local police officers in eight states arrested nearly one hundred Bandidos and their associates on charges of narcotics trafficking. (To protect their privacy, Pike asked me not to name the school.) [26] In addition to the "Fat Mexican" and diamond-shaped "1%er" emblems, club members also wear other patches on leather or denim vests known as colors. [26] The "Fat Mexican" bears a resemblance to the Frito Bandito a cartoon mascot of the Fritos corn chips brand and according to Bandidos lore, Chambers took the club's name and logo from the mascot. [12] Chambers named the club in honor of the Mexican bandits who lived by their own rules, and he recruited members from biker bars locally in Houston as well as in Corpus Christi, Galveston, and San Antonio. A flask or two was passed around. This is significantly less time than the 20 years that the federal sentencing guidelines could have seen him facing. The Bandidos' color scheme was inspired by that of the United States Marine Corps and chosen by Chambers, a Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam War. Members claim that only a small percentage of Bandidos make their living through crime. Boxing champs killer, as fed witness, testifies against the Bandidos property tells of the clubs violence, drugs and Jeff Pike took the reins of the Bandidos until he was arrested in January 2016, according to testimony. These patches consist of red lettering displayed on a gold background. And the police certainly had their doubts about Pike. On this September afternoon, the members of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club were indeed in San Antonio. A two year law enforcement investigation leads to the arrest of George Wegers and 25 other Bandidos members and associates. See the Crime / In The Media section below for further information. Get down! my father yelled, as if he thought the Bandidos might shoot us. "[12] By the early 1970s, the club had over one hundred members, including many Vietnam War veterans. Weger was driving a Harley Davidson Street Glide southbound on Interstate 5 at about 3 p.m. Sunday. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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. We are made to known about his death on September 23, 2020. 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." 5 talking about this. 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. A Bandido scout went over to check out the van and came back to report that it too was filled with police officers, one of whom was taking photos with a high-powered camera. Just like the Rotary Club, each chapter was required to have a weekly meeting where attendance was taken and dues paid. [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. 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. 20 talking about this. [12] Like other outlaw motorcycle clubs, they call themselves "one percenters", a phrase coined by the former president of the American Motorcyclist Association who once stated that 99 percent of motorcyclists were law-abiding citizens and 1 percent "outlaws. Toward the end of the road was Pikes property. Sonny Barger and the Hells Angels Creed. And as soon as Wegers was gone, the feds quickly began circling his successor, Jeff Pike, who lives just north of Houston. The priests and brothers who staff Niagara University are known as Vincentians, a name derived from their founder, St. Vincent de Paul. And in 1988 almost all the Bandidos national officers, including Ronnie Hodge and Stubs Schmick, who was then a national vice president, were arrested by federal agencies for conspiring to bomb homes and automobiles belonging to members of the Banshees, an upstart Dallas motorcycle club. Other Tier 2 gangs include the Bloods, the Crips and the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas. Suddenly, the club found itself in the national spotlight: In Newsweek, they were described as the single greatest organized crime problem in Texas, and on ABCs 20/20, a young Geraldo Rivera noted that seven of the clubs eight national officers had criminal records involving drugs, guns, or violence.. 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. Kaiser-Wiegers Funeral Home. January 2023 Reader Quiz: What Did You Learn? [21] In 2007, the Bandidos' Canadian chapters went defunct following the internal Shedden massacre. Photos from Julian Carsini, Crown exhibits, Peter Edwards. Bandidos member George Wegers tells Don Lemon that a police bulletin warning of new threats by bikers is "nonsense" and "made up by the police." Friends and families of the deceased are mourning the passing of their loved and cherished George Wegers . No rules, no bullshit, just the open road.. Up in Washington, one of our Bandidos is an engineer at Microsoft.. They become Bandidos because they love being known as the badasses. But soon, I realized, the Bandidos were ignoring me. Find out more on Amazon (link opens in a new tab). George Weger was taken to Skagit Valley Hospital. NU Nuggets. Chambers started the Bandidos in March 1966, when he was 36 years old and working on the ship docks in Houston. Wegers suffered severe spinal damage while cruising alone on his Harley Street on the afternoon of Sunday, September 27. It banked to the right and began to circle the funeral home. He had no visible tattoos and no facial hair except for a neatly groomed goatee, and his crew cut was flecked with gray. [53] Chapters were then founded in Italy in 2001[54] and on the Channel Islands in 2003. There was booze and drugs everywhere. He showed me his bicycle, which he rides eleven miles a day to stay in shape, and then he led me into the first floor of his house, which was basically a garage containing a couple of vintage automobiles and motorcycles that he was restoring. (A Bandido was required to wear his vest whenever he rode his motorcycle. THEY BEGAN ARRIVING AT THE MISSION PARK They began arriving at the Mission ParkFuneral Home in San Antonio early on a Friday afternoon. 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. police raid Texas massage parlor. Jeff Pike replaced George Wegers as the Bandidos International President in 2005 after George was sent to prison on RICO charges. But the Bandidos kept right on growing, opening new chapters throughout the country. (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. George Wegers pleads guilty to racketeering charges, in exchange for 14 other charges against him being dropped. He jumps up, says hell be back soon, and is gone for four days. [41], The first Australian chapter was formed in 1983, in Sydney, by former members of the Comanchero Motorcycle Club. 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