Wednesday, May 20, 2015

put the three day weekend to good use and start with the tier 1 and 2's already locked up...,


NYTimes |  The difficulties facing the police and prosecutors were foreshadowed by the last mass arrest of bikers in the United States. In that case, in 2002, three motorcycle gang members were killed and about a dozen others were injured in a shooting and knifing brawl in Laughlin, Nev. The brawl broke out at Harrah’s Casino and Hotel between the Hells Angels and the Mongols, all of whom were attending an annual motorcycle rally. About 120 people were detained by law enforcement. A total of 44 Hells Angels were indicted in federal court, but only seven were convicted. Six Mongols members pleaded guilty to state charges.

“Oftentimes, these mass prosecutions fail because of the overreach,” said Robert Draskovich, a Las Vegas criminal defense lawyer who represented a member of the Hells Angels in the Laughlin case. The charges against his client were dropped. In the Waco case, Mr. Draskovich predicted, “the majority of these people will walk.”

Officials, however, have defended their handling of the arrests and the $1 million bonds. “I set that bond because there was nine people killed, and I felt that was appropriate for the incident that occurred,” said Walter H. Peterson, the justice of the peace in McLennan County who made the decision.

Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton, a spokesman for the Waco Police Department, said the three bikers who had been released — Juan Garcia, Drew King and Jim Harris, all of Austin — were back in custody. The three men were arrested Sunday after they rode up to the scene carrying weapons and wearing motorcyle-gang colors, Sergeant Swanton said. After their release, new arrest warrants were issued for them, and bond was set at $1 million for each, he said.

“They were not mistakenly released,” he added.

Law enforcement officials and gang experts said conflicts between two motorcycle groups, the Bandidos and the Cossacks, had led to the shooting outside a Twin Peaks restaurant in south Waco on Sunday. The shooting, which left nine bikers dead and 18 others wounded, stemmed from both petty disputes and broader tensions over the smaller group, the Cossacks, failing to pay respect, and money, to its larger rival, the Bandidos, officials said.


5 comments:

Uglyblackjohn said...

... And I'm sure the upcoming open-carry gun laws will help down here deep in the heart of Texas....

CNu said...

On tuesday morning the 26th, calls into every penitentiary formerly housing confirmed tier 2 gang members should be answered "he's not here, and dont call around here anymore either. Click!"

rohan said...

Why they have not convened a panel or white leaders, clergy, professors
of White American studies to discuss the role of tv, rock/alternative
music, gangs, drugs, absentee fathers/mothers (cos white women leave
their kids too), white supremacy in the lives of the THUGS who killed 9
people, wounded 18, fired on police, terrorized a community and were
seated by the side of the road after all this happened as if they were
waiting for a parade to pass???

rohan said...

Why are white gang members destroying their own community?The brutality terrorized the surrounding community, leading to large-scale evacuations, closed businesses and ongoing fears, though remarkably no physical harm to bystanders.

The incident has temporarily shoved biker gangs and their overwhelmingly white membership into the national spotlight. But these groups -- which the FBI labels outlaw motorcycle gangs, or OMGs -- typically receive far less media attention than urban street gangs, though the biker gangs' criminal networks reach across the country and have erupted violently before. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/18/biker-gangs-shootout-waco_n_7305706.html

Ed Dunn said...

Good question

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