OFF THE WIRE
agingrebel.com
Police busted up another Confederation of Clubs meeting in El Paso on
Tuesday night. A very large group of Texas state troopers and El Paso
police surrounded the regular monthly meeting at a VFW Post
Police interrupted the presentation of a $4,000 check to the
Alzheimer’s Association to arrest an unnamed member of the Bandidos
Motorcycle Club for assault and “engaging in organized criminal
activity.” The man’s bond was set at $10,000 and he bailed out Thursday.
Police in El Paso have exercised their right to remain secretive
about the arrest. A local “biker authority” named Rusty Fleming, who
works for the Hudspeth County Sheriff’s Office, told El Paso television
station KFOX that the unnamed Bandido committed the assault
against a member of another motorcycle club as part of a territorial
dispute. “They’re going to proclaim that Texas is theirs and that’s
their turf and then they’re going to have to do something to protect it
and that means violence. Obviously after Waco you can see they’re not
afraid of pulling a gun,” Fleming said.
The Aging Rebel believes the hypothesized dispute involves
the Los Traviesos and the Iron Order Motor Cycles Clubs. Those two clubs
have aligned and have invited confrontations with the Bandidos during
the last two years. The Iron Order, which has branded itself as the “law
abiding motorcycle club,” was involved in a gunfight with members of
the Pistoleros and Bandidos Motorcycle Clubs in Meridian, Mississippi on
February 28.
