The third witness was an FBI agent who explained some wiretaps played for jurors of Portillo’s phone calls with fellow Bandidos and with the president of the Vagos Motorcycle Club in 2015.

SAN ANTONIO — A federal jury will begin deliberating Tuesday whether the top two former national leaders of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club headed a racketeering conspiracy and authorized or sanctioned ...

The Bandidos were founded in 1966 in San Leon, the Galveston Bay-side community east of Texas City, by Donald “Mother” Chambers, a Marine who served in Vietnam and was working as a longshoreman ...

Brandon Hantz, who competed twice on 'Survivor,' was among 14 people named in a federal indictment accusing the Bandidos bike gang of racketeering and violent crimes.

Whether the Bandidos Motorcycle Club is the biggest in Texas is still up for debate. Texas Monthly claimed the group had at least 1,100 members in 2015, and half were based in Texas.

Bandidos members wearing their leather vests, or cuts, that identiy them as members of the motorcycle gang John Shapley By John Wayne Ferguson | Updated June 9, 2025 11:25 a.m.

"Baytown Rob" stands watch outside of a trailer where Jeff Pike, former Bandidos Motorcycle Club president, stays during the group's 50th anniversary party Saturday, March 12, 2016, in Kingwood.

Saying they had “hit at the heart” of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club, authorities here announced Friday they had arrested 10 of its members and closed a pipeline that had brought $600 million ...

Bandidos National President Jeffrey Pike, 62, and Vice President Xavier Portillo, 58, were convicted Thursday by a jury in San Antonio after a nearly three-month trial.