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    PHOTO: Members of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club are seen at the funeral service for Baididos leader Rodney Monk at St. Geralds Catholic Church in Carlingford, Australia, April 27, 2006.


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    PHOTO: Members of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club are seen in Berlin, May 30, 2009.
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    The most dangerous outlaw motorcycle gang in the U.S. is considered the Hells Angels from California.
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    Biker was detective, worked in the vice unit 32 years

    Much like his black-and-white goatee, Marty Lewis represents a dichotomy.

    Biker arrested in Waco is former San Antonio vice cop

    By Eliott C. McLaughlin and AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN
    Updated 4:06 PM ET, Wed May 20, 2015

    (CNN)An ex-vice detective who embraced the culture of a reputed outlaw biker gang.

    A 62-year-old who posts images of his ailing mother with her pooch in one Facebook post and raunchy sex jokes in the next.

    A man who poses alongside his son, middle finger to the air, then lauds his work with special needs children and extols the blessing of healthy grandchildren.


    Much like the black-and-white goatee he has been rocking since at least 2013, Marty Lewis represents a dichotomy.




    Bond set at $1 million for suspects in Waco shooting 02:04

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    Lewis is one of the 170 bikers arrested and charged with engaging in organized criminal activity after a brawl and shootout at a Waco, Texas, restaurant left nine bikers dead. He remained in the McLennan County Jail on Wednesday with many of his biker brethren, unable to post the $1 million bail set by a judge.

    The chaos in Waco began when motorcycle gangs converged on the Twin Peaks restaurant for a Sunday meeting and an uninvited gang showed up, police say. An altercation spilled from the bathroom to the bar to the patio to the parking lot as the bikers beat, stabbed and shot each other before turning their weapons on law enforcement, according to police.


    Just over a decade ago, Lewis could have been the one putting folks in cuffs.


    He was a detective and worked in the vice unit at the San Antonio Police Department for 32 years, retiring in February 2004, according to a police statement.


    "As far as my office is aware, he was a vice detective. Our vice unit primarily investigates prostitution, gambling, and liquor violations.

    At this point, we don't have info that he was ever assigned to infiltrate a gang," San Antonio police spokesman Sgt. Javier Salazar told CNN.


    Police have not announced the gangs involved in the deadly violence, but it's been widely reported that the Bandidos and Cossacks were the principal participants in the shootout. While the U.S. Justice Department casts the Bandidos as a criminal enterprise involved in drug production and trafficking, longtime member Jimmy Graves told CNN that isn't the case.




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    "We are not a gang. We do not do gang things. We are not affiliated with gangs," he said.

    Older photos on Lewis' Facebook page show him wearing the logos of Texas' Los Patrons Motorcycle Club with a few Bandidos patches, such as the acronym S.Y.L.B., short for "support your local Bandidos."


    At some point in 2014, he traded in that black leather vest with the braided trim for a suede, button-up vest bearing only the trademark red-and-yellow patches of the Bandidos.


    His most recent images show him in another black vest with red trim and red-and-yellow patches, including one that says "Valerosos," the Spanish plural for brave, and another that says, "FTW," which can mean "forever two wheels" or "f*** the world."


    His likes on Facebook include motorcycle outfitters and other clubs, and he boasts dozens of friends posing alongside their choppers or using Bandidos logos as their profile images. Many have blacked out their profile images in what appears to be a response to the deadly Waco shootout.


    Lewis talks on Facebook about being a 1%er. Some say it is a reference to a decades-old American Motorcycle Association assertion that 99% of bikers were law-abiding and family-oriented, but the AMA disputes ever making the statement. Other self-proclaimed 1%ers say it simply signifies a nonconformist attitude toward society.



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    The Bandidos website says, "We are a 1% motorcycle club. We live our lives without excuses and give respect where it is earned. You can say anything you want about us as long as it's the truth."

    Alongside the selfies at Bandidos shindigs -- many with Lewis shooting birds at the camera -- and the jokes about boozing, masturbation and sex toys are plenty of posts about family and Christmas, including one about how the Temptations' rendition of " 'Silent Night' takes a brother back." He also jokes about a 16-cent check he received from his Harley-Davidson stock holdings.


    "Drinks on me," he quipped.


    He also posted several photos of his mom, some in which she's cuddling her beloved dog and another in which she's decked out in Bandidos regalia, and days later added an image of an elderly white woman showing off her "f*** the police" chest tattoo.


    In February 2014, he thanked his friends who had texted or called with "words of comfort" after his mom's death a few days earlier.


    "Mom I Love You and I'll finish by say'n "Well Done," he wrote.


    In October, responding to a woman sharing the news that her daughter had just had a baby, he shared a warm congratulations.


    "That is a bless'n," he wrote. "I work with special need kids everyday and folk don't know how lucky they are to have healthy children...These kids just warm your heart and makes me realize that I'm so lucky to have had all my kids and grands born healthy."

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    The Latest on Waco Shooting: Video Shows Bikers Ducking

    May 20, 2015, 4:42 PM ET
    By The Associated Press

    3:45 p.m. (CDT)
    Security camera video reviewed by The Associated Press shows that as gunfire broke out in the parking lot of a Texas restaurant, dozens of bikers ran for cover inside and tried to guide others to safety.

    The video suggests the Sunday gunfight that left nine dead was contained almost entirely outside the restaurant, besides one gunshot fired by a biker on the patio who then runs inside.


    On the patio, bikers are seen ducking under the tables and trying to run inside. At least three people were seen holding handguns. One biker is seen running with blood on his face, hands and torso.


    The AP was shown the video by representatives of the Twin Peaks restaurant franchise. They have not released the video, citing the ongoing police investigation.


    3:15 p.m. (CDT)


    Police contend about 1,000 weapons were recovered from the scene of a Texas shootout in which nine members of motorcycle groups were killed and 18 others injured.


    Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said Wednesday the weapons included an AK-47 assault rifle taken from a vehicle, handguns, knives, brass knuckles, clubs and chains. A day earlier Swanton had said 100 weapons were expected to be recovered.


    He acknowledged the weapons included pocket knives and Swiss army knives confiscated by authorities.


    Johnny Snyder, vice president of the Boozefighters Motorcycle Club in Waco, said some people licensed to carry had firearms in their vehicles when they arrived but didn't bring them into the restaurant Sunday where the shootout occurred.


    Swanton says weapons were found in toilets, bags of chips and elsewhere.

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    2:30 p.m. (CDT)
    A motorcycle gang shootout in Texas that left nine people dead has elevated security concerns for the upcoming Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota.

    The annual rally draws hundreds of thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts to South Dakota's Black Hills. Organizers are expecting up to 1 million people for the 75th anniversary event in early August.


    South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley told the Argus Leader newspaper (http://argusne.ws/1AliGQ2 ) that his office has contacted authorities in Texas about the shootout in Waco on Sunday that involved rival motorcycle gangs.


    Jackley said the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation plans to keep a command center open longer during the rally.


    Sturgis City Manager Daniel Ainslie says officials will be "vigilant to ensure the safety" of rally-goers. But he says rally organizers aren't planning additional security beyond what the city already had planned.

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    10:25 a.m. (CDT)
    One of the men arrested in the aftermath of a motorcycle gang shootout in Central Texas that left nine dead is a retired San Antonio police detective.

    San Antonio police and the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement confirmed that 62-year-old Martin Lewis worked for the department for more than 30 years before retiring in 2004. Lewis was among about 170 people arrested in Waco and charged with engaging in organized crime. Each person is being held on a $1 million bond.

    Online records for the McLennan County jail do not indicate an attorney for Lewis who could comment on the charge.

    A confederation of motorcycle groups had gathered at a Twin Peaks restaurant Sunday when a dispute in the parking lot escalated into deadly violence.

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    Waco biker shooting: Police say they fired 12 times

    By Steve Almasy, CNN
    Updated 5:09 PM ET, Fri June 12, 2015

    Story highlights

    • Of the 44 shell casings recovered, 12 came from large-caliber rifles used by Waco SWAT officers
    • Some revolvers that are being processed as evidence still have casings in them
    • Some 62 bikers remain in jail while 115 have been released, sheriff's office says



    (CNN)Police officers fired 12 rounds during a deadly shootout last month at a restaurant in Waco, Texas, authorities said Friday in a news release.

    Waco police said 44 shell casings have been recovered from the scene where nine bikers were killed during a shootout at a Twin Peaks restaurant. Twelve of those casings came from the .223 caliber rifles of three SWAT officers, who were in adjacent parking lots.

    Police couldn't say whether any of those bullets killed or wounded any bikers. Other agencies are doing autopsies and ballistic analysis, Waco police said.


    The three officers, who had their weapons set to semiautomatic mode, are on administrative duty as the investigation into the incident continues.




    Police said they have not yet recovered casings that remained in revolvers used during the shootings.

    After the May 17 shooting, 177 people were arrested and held in jail on $1 million bail each. Capt. John Kolinek of the McLennan County Sheriff's Office said Friday that 62 remain in jail.


    Authorities also updated the number of weapons recovered at the scene. At least 475 were found, including 139 handguns and 12 long guns. Police also recovered an ax, bats, batons, brass knuckles, a chain, clubs, a hatchet, knives, a machete, pepper spray, a pipe, stun guns, tomahawks and weighted weapons.


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    Bandidos gang leader pleads guilty to racketeering in Texas

    Posted: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 10:55 am | Updated: 12:01 pm, Tue Oct 11, 2016.
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    SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Prosecutors say a Bandidos biker gang leader has pleaded guilty to racketeering, drug trafficking and extortion charges in Texas and faces up to life in federal prison.

    Sergeant-at-arms Justin Cole Forster remains in custody in San Antonio pending sentencing next year.

    A gunfight in May 2015 during a bikers' meeting in Waco left nine people dead and led to more than 170 arrests.

    Prosecutors in January announced Forster was among several Bandidos leaders indicted and accused of deadly violence against a rival gang since 2013.


    Forster pleaded guilty Friday to four counts of a superseding indictment. Prosecutors say the investigation involved conspiracy to participate in murder, attempted murder, robbery, extortion, racketeering and drug trafficking.


    Three other Bandidos leaders or members charged in the superseding indictment await trial.

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