Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Feds Arrest 28 in Motorcycle Gang Crackdown

Really interesting story right here in Ft. Worth, Tx! :)

http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/09/28/3405060/feds-arrest-28-in-motorcycle-gang.html

9 comments:

  1. I am glad to hear that the Feds made a successful raid of these bike “clubs” and actually have proof to make the arrest and go forth with charges. Many times these “clubs” are so secretive and criminally intelligent that little evidence is ever found and many cases lack evidence to go to trial. I am astonished at the amount of drugs they found and the amount that these bikers are charged with. I am also relieved to know that these guns that have been altered so they can’t be traced are off the streets as well as the man responsible for these alterations. The Banditos gang is incredibly bad in San Antonio; they are everywhere and have caused numerous problems for the police. Hopefully with these arrests and charges, people will talk to the Feds and information about where the drugs came from and other people that are involved in drug-trafficking and gun trades can be captured.

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  2. One, I can't believe this was in the Fort Worth area. Finally some action. Just kidding. But its crazy cause I see bikers all the time around here and the people arrested and charged could be some one those bikers that I see. I am glad that we can catch these gangs still. You hear little about undercover Feds and hear less about them being successful so i am glad that they could do this successfully. Hopefully they can get some of them to talk, like Bailey said. And we can get even further on the drug and gun trade. Maybe we can find out where these things are coming from and bust these other people. The fact that they are altering the guns so that the bullets can't be traced will be tough for the feds because we want to know where they are coming from. The biker gang is possibly getting them from a bigger gang and if we can find them we could have another successful hit.

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  3. Even though these are gang members who got busted and arrested for gang related activities, the activities performed can be related to blue collar crime. Where were they getting their supplies and equipments from and how was it a continuing matter? How did they learn or teach themselves to be able to change rifling on weapons so bullets would be harder to trace or be able to transport guns and drugs? They have connections and other routes that they use which are not being monitored due to lack of interest or paying off a third party to look the other way. It’s cool that this type of action happened right in our backyards, but it’s also scary to know that this is happening right underneath our noses. The bike club that these gang members affiliated at was on the same street that I take to work every day and since I read this article it has been shut down. More power to those undercover FBI agents that help bring this down, but they need to continue the work and find out where these resources are coming from. The gangs will be more alert and withdraw from all communications with the outside world as they try to figure out who these undercover FBI agents are but the agents need to be coercive to gain all information and informants they can to take these types of people and activities off our streets. They have members in Hurst where I grew up as a teenager and Keller where I currently live with my family. Who wants neighbors like that?! We see these types of news on TV reported elsewhere else but it’s different when something out of place happens suddenly in your own back yard. They probably can’t stop all the activity these gangs as well as other gangs are causing but law enforcement can help to minimize the involvement of gangs and growing of numbers within gangs as well as the trafficking and trades by doing as much needed as possible.

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  4. im glad that the police is taking all this gangsters away from our streets, because all those drugs that they are or were selling will get to the youth people, and most of the time is cause of dropping school, which at the same time will bring us more criminals, because eventually they will do the same thing to satisfied their necessity for drugs.
    the bad part is that this kind of members are all over the country, how the article says, they are arresting people in other states from the same gang or "club", on my opinion the CRJ system is doing a good job, but still need some more effort to clean our streets and our country from this human trash that is making USA look bad.

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  5. It is good to see that the feds were able to make a successful bust, and arrest so many people in this bike gang. Not only is this bust successful because arrest were made, but the FBI has collected very good evidence and should be able to put these criminals behind bars for a very long time. It’s a little scary to know that this type of illegal activity was going on in our own backyard. Also to think about how many lives would have been destroyed it that mass amount of drugs would have fallen into the wrong hands. Not to mention how much harder it would have been to solve any homicides, those guns and ammunition would have hit the streets, because they were making sure that the bullets would have been hard to trace. So I’m glad that this investigation and undercover operation was a great success!

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  6. Again the intelligence of these criminals intrigues me...where do they come up with the different drug routes to bring these drugs into the US? Where do they begin with making a bullet harder to trace? I have absolutely zero clue where to begin with either. I am thankful our FBI and their agents implemented a successful undercover operation. They can be very dangerous, but sometimes necessary in order to take down such a complicated group. Hopefully we can get some of these bikers to confess as to where these guns and drugs are coming from....then the undercover opperation would be a complete success. As of now, it is great to know that we have some of these criminals off the streets, but dont kid yourself, there is more to be found within this case. I hope our FBI can find it.

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  7. This is unreal that it is in Fort Worth. This does not make me feel safe at all. I mean yes they arrested 28 of them but I am sure there are still more. Justin is right. How are these criminals getting all of these guns and drugs across the border? Also, where are they getting these guns from? What is crazy is how they had 500 grams of cocaine with them. Another thing that shocks me is that they arrested men from the biker gang all the way in Colorado. But I am glad that our FBI did go undercover and recover all of this information. This is like that "Gangland" we watched in our gangsters class, except they got nothing out of that undercover operation while in this one it was successful. This is a good sign from our government.

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  8. “Papa John” at 61 y.o. guns, drugs and motorcycles are the last thing that you should be doing. Even career criminals retire and turn it over to the next in line or a younger generation. Duh! Oops! I meant leave it alone, go take up pottery or play with your grandkids.

    This is sad, I am a person who is passionate about motorcycles and the feelings accompanied with them and to see these people take something like that and turn it into an instrument used for such evil is so disturbing. Every time we look around there are new techniques of smuggling drugs, purchasing of guns and getting away with it. As for the women where is your self-respect and esteem? This group had young adults involved with them in selling drugs and guns this is just despicable. Now their lives ruined behind such criminal activity. John Medellin should have guided these people into something more constructive then crime. With a mind to scheme and swindle, as he has for so many years he should have been on Wall Street or commercial sales.

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  9. I am not surprise with this report. Texas is known to be the home of one of the most notorious motorcycle gang, the Bandidos Motorcycle Club. What was surprising to me is that I had no knowledge that the Bandidos MC had a chapter in Fort Worth. The Bandidos have been classified as an Outlaw Motorcycle Gang by the FBI and have been known to traffic drugs and arms. I believe that since the DFW holds one of the largest Drug Corridors; I-30, Motorcycle gangs have moved into the area to take part of the business that has been very lucrative for the Mexican Cartels. I also believe that motorcycle gangs have chosen to move in into North Texas since arms trafficking have become very difficult in central and south Texas. ATF and other government agency have made it harder to purchase arms and ammunition in these areas since many of these arms are been transported to Mexican Cartels. However I am glad that the Federal Government and local agency have notice these organizations moving in to this area and has decide to disrupt these organizations, by conducting raids and cracking down on arms and drug trafficking in North Texas.

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