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Daytona Bike Week Between competing gangs Mongols and witch champions shoot

Daytona Bike Week Between competing gangs Mongols and witch champions shoot

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Two people in a pack of Outlaws were arrested on Thursday during the bike week when they refused to follow MPs, according to an affidavit.

A brawl between two motorcycle gangs, which led to shots on Saturday in New Smyrna Beach, showed why “an overwhelming police presence” at events such as the Bike Week was needed, a motorcycle gang expert said on Monday.

Motorbwands have expanded their presence in Florida in recent years, said John Scaduto, the regional director of the southwest of Florida of Florida Gang Investigator Association, which offers training and advice for law enforcement authorities.

In recent years, at least two Outlaw motorcycle clubs have moved to Florida: the Mongols and the heaths. The Mongols are an international motorcycle gang.

“There is more of an expansion of the clubs that have moved to the state and, so to speak, set up new club houses, chapters, areas in the state, and that has come to each other,” he said.

The Mongols and the witch champions were the two clubs who were involved on Saturday, said Scaduto. They were also the two clubs that were identified in an affidavit against a Mongol named Clinton N. Walker from Bradenton. According to news accounts, Walker once supported the Outlaws, which is the most dominant motorcycle gang in Florida.

Walker was released from the Hillsborough Fire Service in 2018 after an investigation of internal affairs found that he was loyal to the Tampa Bay Times compared to Outlaw's Motorcycle Gang. Walker was recruited by the President of the Outlaw Chapter in St. Petersburg, James Costa, who, according to Tampa Bay Times, was also his fire brigade captain.

The DAYTONA Beach fire brigade also employed a member of the motorcycle club in 2012. The former Daytona Beach Fire Lt. Brad Dyess belonged to the Warlocks Club in Orlando, the Phoenix or the bird, the symbol, the symbol for bird, a symbol.

Dyess was involved in a shootout between several members of the Orlando Hexenzone and a group known as Harpy -Warlocks from Philadelphia. Three of the witch champions with dyes were killed at the shootout in winter springs. Dyess was not charged. He resigned from the department in 2013.

Scaduto: Fortunately, spectators were not injured while shooting motorcycle gang

Scaduto said people sometimes wonder why they see so many law enforcement officers at biker events. He said on Saturday at the Rennstrac in the 3000 State Road 44 in New Smyrna Beach was a reason.

“This is a perfect example of why additional monitoring resources are required for these events,” wrote Scaduto in an e -mail. “If the clubs/gangs are in close proximity to each other, the tension is certainly there, just a bad look, a word, a thrust, etc., and things get out of control very quickly.”

He said it was lucky that innocent viewers were not injured by a stray ball on Saturday.

“We are lucky as a community that during the volleye of the shots in a very public place with the citizens present and the traffic on the neighboring streets, nobody was shot in a very public place,” wrote Scaduto.

The police from Ormond Beach, along with other agencies, remains informed about biker activities in the city, Pauline Dulang wrote a public information officer for the department. She wrote to the patrol officers and especially the motorcycle officials “keep a strong and visible presence throughout the week, especially in our high traffic areas, to ensure security for everyone – not just to monitor gangs”.

“The presence of the police during the bicycle week is the key to maintaining security and deterrent to crimes. Simply put, people are less likely to be the law with civil servants,” Dulang wrote.

The police authority of Daytona Beach, the office of the Volusien-Sheriff and the new police authority of Smyrna Beach did not respond during special events to the questions of the news journal about law enforcement authorities, public security and bikers.

Origins of Mongols, Warlocks

In the affidavit about the new Smyrna Beach shooting, the Mongols also gave a clubhouse in the Cow Creek Road in Edgewater.

The Mongols, who wear a vest with an emblem of Dschingis Kan, came from California, said Scaduto. Your club colors are black and white, just like the outlaws.

As for the witch champions, there are two different types. Those who were involved in the Saturday brawl were the “Phoenix or Bird,” said Scaduto. They were founded in Orlando, where the mother chapter still exists, and at some point a “pretty big club” in Florida and fought against the outlaws, said Scaduto.

He said the Mongols had superior to the witch champions on Saturday.

“They are not stupid, they like their overwhelming numbers,” said Scaduto. “That was the case on Saturday. There was damn much more Mongols than Warlocks.”

Will the brawl lead to more fighting between the two clubs on Saturday?

“If there is no discussion to avoid a different conflict, I think that conflicts can be expected,” said Scaduto. “Well, whether we will be aware of the retaliation or the actions, which is another question because they are not the complainant to go to the police station.”

Some club members rejected on Saturday to take part in the investigation. Marvin Granick, a witch champion who suffered a grazing gunshot wound on the side of the head, refused to conclude an explanation, according to an affidavit.

Anthony Trimboli, a Mongol, was shot in the stomach and arrived in the Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach, according to the affidavit. Trimboli said he practiced cross -drawing his gun when she accidentally fired and injured him. Trimboli refused to conclude an explanation and did not want to file an indictment, according to the affidavit.

Outlaws, Mongols, Heiden and Witch champion in Florida most active

Outlaws, Mongols, Heiden, witch champions and their support clubs are the most active Outlaw motorcycle clubs in Florida, said Scaduto. He said he couldn't discuss it at that time, but another club also enters Florida and recruits members of motorcycle gangs who are already in the state.

“We have another club that comes in and takes over some of these national associations within the state,” said Scaduto. “This will definitely lead to a kind of confrontation.”

He said the incoming club would offer members of other clubs “a better offer” such as rank and status.

“It's like promotion. We will let them be the president, as they record it, or in the underground world they know who the stronger of the two wants to be, ”said Scaduto.

The person who is recruited is, like every person who is sought by another employer, he said.

“You know that the team that she offers to patches will most likely win the dominance of what it is about,” he said.

While the argument on Saturday was between Mongol and the witch champion, the outlaws are still the dominant motorcycle gang in the Daytona Beach region and most of Florida, said Scaduto. And the bicycle week attracts Outlaws, he said.

2 Outlaws arrested during the traffic stop

According to the affidavit, the deputies of the Sheriff office of Volusia came across the US 1 and the Melrose Avenue on a pack of Outlaws on March 6th.

When a deputy tried to carry one of the outlaws for the eye protection, other outlaw seemed to try to block the path of the deputy by not giving in, according to the affidavit. As soon as the deputy succeeded in stopping the biker, some of the others in the group of Outlaws kept behind the MPs, “which means that they divided their attention and placed them with a tactical disadvantage,” explained the affidavit. The Outlaws became argumentative when they are supposed to move, including the MPs: “I don't know what they say, what Dumbass says,” explained the affidavit.

The MPs arrested two of the bikers. The 34 -year -old Michael Johnson from Jacksonville was arrested for offenses that were not followed by the police or the fire brigade and without the support of motorcycles. They found that Johnson wore a Glock pistol in the waist and another bell in a handlebar bag. According to an affidavit, they also found an “AK 47 pistol” in the saddlebag of his motorcycle.

The MPs also arrested Merrick B. “Slowpoke” Johnson, 29, also from Jacksonville, and not accused him of the offense, the police or fire. The MPs found a bell in the handlebar bag of his motorcycle, it says in the affidavit.

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