Assessment:: Largest Heroin Seizure Ever in NYC
Assessment:: Largest Heroin Seizure Ever in NYC
Assessment:: Largest Heroin Seizure Ever in NYC
A Sunday afternoon get together in Waco for central Texas bikers turned
lethally violent when fighting led to a shootout which left nine dead and 18 injured. Police arrested 170 following the chaotic scene, centered on the Bandidtos
Outlaw Motorcycle Gang (OMG) and Cossacks Motorcycle Club (MC). While it is still unclear exactly what precipitated the violence, a long-running dispute
between the rival gangs based on a turf war was known to local law enforcement, who were staged nearby during the gathering. As a result, law enforcements
response to the fighting was instantaneous. Police believe the bikers initially fired at each other, and then at police. The blood-soaked scene was littered with
nearly 100 weapons, including guns, knives, chains, brass knuckles, and bats.
Assessment: Banditos, with 900 members in 93 U.S. chapters, and an international membership of 2,500 in 13 countries, are known drug-runners in Texas
and apparently took exception with the Cossacks, an upstart, wearing Texas on the bottom rocker of vests without paying them tax on their territory.
According to the New York State Intelligence Centers (NYSIC) Gang Intelligence Unit, there is no information indicating presence of these clubs chapters in
New York, where Hells Angels, Pagans, Mongols, and Outlaws dominate. All those in public safety should have an awareness of OMGs in their regions and
dangers posed related to illegal activity, weapons possession, and proclivity to violence.
More ISIS Wannabes Arrested at Airport Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) arrested ten youths at Montreals Pierre Elliott Trudeau
International Airport over the weekend on suspicion of attempting to join jihadists in Syria. Some of those arrested have unspecified ties to six other young
Quebecers, who are believed to have left for Turkey in January en route to Syria. A lawyer for one of those detained called his client a victim who was lured
online to the promise of a better life. On Tuesday, a federal grand jury indicted six Minnesota men, ages 19-21, on terrorism charges for planning to join ISIS.
Assessment: Former teacher and youth expert Chloe Combi explains the allure of ISIS as money, guns, and girls. After interviewing hundreds of Gen Zers
(born 1994-2005), Combi found themes along these lines along with a longing for adventure, the call to duty and desire for honor among a generation that
otherwise feels unwanted and unfulfilled. Counterterrorism efforts toward this cohort should include elimination of recruiters who prey on youth in Western
cities (as well as online) as an effective point of focus.