Florida - Outlaws find no place to party......

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First, some CHUCKSTER  commentary... code violations... again with the fuckin' code violations. Folks, this is one of the forms of economic warfare waged against clubs. When cops and/or feds cannot find any real crimes, as admitted to at the bottom of this article, they come at the clubs from the code violation angle. They will use, sometimes archane, city ordinances to shut down and/or place liens on buildings forcing clubs to walk away from property that is rightfully theirs. As I have said before, become steeped in the knowledge of your local city ordinances so when the time comes, and it will, you have a pocket full of loopholes that will allow you to keep your building viable. However, in some cases, absent of a big wallet and slick attorney, you have no choice but to walk away. Read this article with these thoughts in mind.

By LYDA LONGA,
Staff writer

DAYTONA BEACH -- The Outlaws Motorcycle Club has left town once again, and the Police Department's top cops aren't losing any sleep over it.
This time gang members got in a huff when police nixed their plans to hold a party and a barbecue at a warehouse they rented on South Segrave Street for Bike Week.
It's the first time since at least the '70s club members of the Outlaws don't have a place of their own, or an event in the city during Bike Week, said Deputy Police Chief Steve Beres.
A clubhouse purchased in 2009 on Tanglewood Street is up for sale and has several code enforcement liens on it, Beres and Police Chief Mike Chitwood said.
According to police, the 10 or 11 members who call Daytona Beach home roared off Friday and haven't been seen or heard from since. A neighbor on Tanglewood said he had not seen club members for a few days.
The clubhouse, at 605 Tanglewood, looked abandoned Wednesday. A "for sale" sign sits in the front yard; signs warning "beware of the dog" are still posted on the chain-link fence.
Beres said he drove by the Segrave warehouse -- zoned only for storage -- last Friday and noticed a new fence and the Outlaw's tell-tale black and white chairs outside. The chairs are usually set up wherever the Outlaws go. Now they've been packed up.
The deputy chief said he contacted gang members "Hillbilly" and "Broda" and told them they were in violation of zoning ordinances in the area.
"They wanted to have a barbecue and a party and I told them, 'You can't do that,' " Beres said. "They're not too happy with me right now."
Police have been spoiling the Outlaws' fun for years.
In May 2009, code enforcement officers and police turned off the power at an old green house the gang had rented at South and Seaman streets. The house had myriad code violations and the club was given 10 days to fix them.
Instead, gang members rode off into the sunset, saying police had harassed them from their clubhouse yet again.
Relieved, city officials and cops thought they had chased out the notorious gang. The Outlaws resurfaced later in the year, though, when one of their members purchased the Tanglewood property.
Once, the Daytona chapter's digs were at 615 N. Beach St., the black and white chairs positioned in a neat row outside. Gang members were often spotted smoking and talking or sitting on their motorcycles. Before that, the chapter met at a house at 9 N. Peninsula Drive just north of Main Street. It and a vacant business the club owned on Main Street were seized in July 1998 by federal law enforcement officers in a nationwide crackdown on the Outlaws.
The Beach Street clubhouse was busted up in August 2007 when Daytona Beach police and the FBI raided the place, looking for guns and drugs. The local operation was made in conjunction with raids on other Outlaw clubhouses in Jacksonville and other parts of the country. The authorities never found guns or drugs at the Beach Street site and none of the local gang members were arrested.
The Outlaws originated in Chicago in 1935 under the name McCook Outlaws Motorcycle Club, their website shows. The American Outlaws Association, however, was born in 1965. Two years later in 1967, the Outlaws became the first sanctioned motorcycle club in Florida. The club's motto, "God forgives, Oulaws don't," was adopted in 1969.
But it's the gang's criminal history that interests police.
"They are a certified criminal gang," Chitwood said Wednesday. "All they do is rape, rob and pillage American society."