Page 6 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1981
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'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; â– 
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
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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
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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
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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.
Police said the robber — in one
hand carrying a long white box
wrapped with a pink ribbon, and
in the other an automatic pistol —
rang the doorbell at the home of
Jack Bean, president of Bean Box
and Bag Co. and an active figure in
Tarrant County politics.
While Bean’s daughter was
looking for a pen to sign a receipt
for the candy, the man stepped
inside the home and pointed the
pistol at Bean’s wife, Lorene.
Demanding Mrs. Bean’s jewel
ry, the man forced both women
upstairs, where the man took sev
eral pieces — including a diamond
cluster ring valued at $25,000 and
a 6.14 carat diamond ring valued
at $20,000.
He then ordered both women
to lie face down on the floor.
“He told us to stay there for five
minutes,” Mrs. Bean said. “We
did exactly what he told us to do.
Police said they had no suspects
in the case.
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