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Page 6 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1981 -N 'Motorcycle gang deals in drugs and land » United Press International Editor’s note: Members of the DPS intelligence division consented to interviews — the first , they’ve given — by UPI about the Bandidos after DPS Director Col. Jim Adams gave his 1 permission. One of the rules was that the offi cers would not be identified. SAN ANTONIO — The Bandidos, Texas’ largest outlaw motorcycle gang, have entered the corpo rate world. Being a Bandido is no longer just a matter of Harleys, beer busts and brawls. With millions of dollars that law enforcement specialist say is earned in drug trafficking, the nouveau riche Bandidos are showing business savvy by buying up residential and commercial ! property and other investments. “Some of the clubs are making millions and millions of dollars in narcotics trafficking, ” said a member of a Department of Public Safety intelli gence division established to monitor the gang. “They’re getting into property, real estate and small businesses. This is what really worries us. They’re not just blowing it on parties anymore.’ DPS officials refused to discuss Bandido land purchases further, saying the information was too important to their intelligence work. Lt. Bobby Simpson of the Austin Police De partment’s organized crime division said Bandi dos have been busy in the Austin property mar ket, using a corporation to buy commercial prop erty and old homes. However, they were re jected recently in an attempt to purchase a 300- acre lakefront plot. Another Bandido, a 50-yearold Corpus Christi man, owns 15 to 20 small businesses in the Gulf resort community with assets of $12 million, law enforcement officers said. “The Bandidos consider him (the business man) on their highest level,’’ one officer said. “Because he’s got so much money to fund the Bandidos’ operations, his advice is listened to by the Bandido national president.” Nearly every major law enforcement agency in South Texas has at least one officer assigned to gather information on drug trafficking and outlaw motorcycle groups. They take note of every arrest made of a Bandi do. They try to keep track of where Bandidos are living, who was just released from jail and what they’re plans are. Simpson considers the Texas-based Bandidos, one of three major motorcycle gangs in the Un ited States, the single greatest organized crime problem for state law enforcement. “Just their presence puts fear in people,’ he said. Simpson said the bikers have engaged in coun ter-intelligence operations against police and have trained members in police combat tactics. Their stated goal, he said, is to form a Bandido “nation” where only outlaw motorcycle club members would be allowed. “That’s what they consider themselves now — a separate nation,” he said. The Bandidos’ chief moneymaker is the manu facture and sale of methamphetamines, but they also have served as distributors for large drug operations. The FBI delved into the gang’s El Paso opera tion in late 1978, looking for information about the attack earlier that year on James Kerr, then an assistant U.S. attorney in San Antonio.lit dos insiders told investigators about % dealings, a string of murders and a meets which the attack on Kerr, who was not»% i • although his car was riddled with bullets; ■ planned. An affidavit from that El Paso investW which police used to persuade U.S. De res jjrti Judge William Sessions to approve ateleje hecnj tap on Bandido headquarters, provides!; m glimpse of the Bandido world. One FBli; \l; mant said Rudolph James Shakey” Mai Qp er a tional vice president of the Bandidos, admitt ti on s, a murder and said he had been told that Ik m ade Edward Crochet was responsible for twoldlH Cl The source also said ( ai l I.ynn, whoeveii joJjn ‘ ly was arrested on cocaine charges, told hit perm; he used the Bandidos to distribute cocaint Hr Texas Briefs Artists protest United Press International. SAN ANTONIO — The Texas Art Band buzzed President Reagan with a dozen kazoos to de monstrate its displeasure with budget cuts for the arts. Glenda Park, spokesman for the Texas Art Band, marched for several hours Monday with 11 other band members in front of the San Antonio Museum of Art. Ms. Park, who is outraged at more than $85 million she said is spent every year to support U.S. milit ary bands, said budget cuts for the arts have made military bands a “national art form.” Wearing boards painted to look like toy sol diers, the artists’ marched with bare behinds to a countdown of “one, two, three and-a-four.” Canada oil lease United Press International HOUSTON — Husky Oil Ltd. will pay $360 million for the offshore oil and gas leases in Cana da belonging to Shell Oil Co.’s subsidiary, Shell Explorer Ltd. of Calgary. Husky will acquire interests in Shell Explorer’s mineable oil sands positions in the province of Alberta. The sale, announced Monday, is at a price equivalent to $430 million Canadian. It also in cludes future payments contin gent on the development of cer tain properties. Shell said. The Husky acquisition includes about 29 million acres of offshore leases and permits off the East and West Coasts of Canada. The main blocks of land are the Nova Scotia Shelf and Slope, the Gander block and the West Coast of British Col umbia. Astrologists meet United Press International DALLAS — The publisher of the nation’s foremost magazine on astrology, Edith Custer of Lyn chburg, Va., will address next month’s meeting of the Texas Astrological Association conven tion. Ms. Custer, who publishes The Mercury Hour, will speak to more than 100 teachers, professional practioners and beginners in the art science attending the Aug. 1-2 seminar in Grand Prairie, spon sors said Monday. The program includes 21 lecturers. The 10-year-old Texas Astrolo gical Association is headquartered in Dallas and has about 70 mem bers. Candygram thief United Press International FORT WORTH — An armed robber posing as a “candygram” delivery man stole jewelry valued at about $50,000 from the wife of a prominent businessman. 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