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Brother Speed MC raises $20,000 for Christmas toys

Motorcycles kept showing up all day for the Toy Run

BURLEY, ID ( November 13, 2016) — Brother Speed South Central Chapter motorcycle club rattled the Magic Valley for a good cause last week as nearly 200 bikes turned out for the Black and Gold South Central Toy Run raising $20,000.

“I heard all the motorcycles on Saturday (Nov. 5) and they were coming from every direction,” said Linda Short, president of the Mini-Cassia Christmas Council. “It touches me. They are so good. I am just in awe with Brother Speed and the fact they care about this small community.”

The motorcycle club donation is the largest annual donation of toys the council receives.

Bikers gather for the annual Black and Gold South Central Toy Run

“It is our mainstay for Christmas presents,” she said.

There is no reason for any Mini-Cassia child to go without toys on Christmas, said Brother Speed chapter president Gary Pawson.

“We’ve been stocking the Christmas Council for years,” Pawson said.

This year “there will also be a big surprise,” Pawson said. “But, we don’t want to let the cat out of the bag yet.”

A shopping date is set in December for club members to go to Wal-Mart, where they get a 10 percent discount on the toys purchased. The toys are then donated to the Mini-Cassia Christmas Council.

Wal-Mart registers lock up when a 1,000 item limit is reached.

“We hit that limit three times last year,” Pawson said.

After the 10 percent discount is knocked off, the group buys more toys with the amount saved.

Over 300 bikers showed up and donated over $20,000 for toys

“We are giving bikes and nice toys,” Pawson said. “We make sure they are getting the good stuff.”

It takes the members two hours just to check out at two registers during the shopping spree.

Pawson said about 300 people from around Idaho, Washington, Utah and California showed up to participate in the charity event.

“It’s a lot of fun riding, that’s the fun part for us but it was nice to see a lot of people in the community come out to watch us,” Pawson said about the attention they drew. “Two-hundred motorcycles make some noise.”

This is the 20th year for the toy run, which was spearheaded by Pawson and some of his friends before he was a Brother Speed member.

“We were just sitting around having a beer and most of us had grown up n Heyburn in area where a lot of kids don’t get toys for Christmas,” Pawson said.

The first event took two weeks to plan and was held on Dec. 18 in 18 degree weather, he said. They raised $2,500 the first year after 25 motorcycles came out to participate.

During the first five or six years of the event, they distributed the toys to churches themselves before teaming up with the Christmas Council.

The Brother Speed chapter took the event over 17 years ago, Pawson said.

Now, the club starts planning for the event at the first of the year. The event raises money through donations, entrance fees and from shirt sales.

SOURCE: Magic Valley

Police swoop in on Hells Angel MC Member

Police confiscate a belt buckle, keys, knives & more

SOUTHPORT, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA (November 3, 2016) The elite Taskforce Maxima police arrested a patched member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club after a traffic intercept on the Gold Coast Highway at Surfers Paradise.

During the search of a black BMW, the officers found three knives including one a with Hells Angels insignia, a belt buckle with a Hells Angels insignia, a spiked knuckle buster and a meat cleaver.

Photo of Meat Clever, Knuckle Buster, Car Keys and 3 pills of a very dangerous drug

Police also said during the search, they found and confiscated a belt and belt buckle with a Hells Angels insignia on the buckle. 

Photo of the Hells Angel belt buckle confiscated by police

The 41-year-old was charged at the Southport Magistrates Court with one count each of possess knife in a public place, possession of a category M weapon and possession of a dangerous drug. 

SOURCE: Gold Coast Bulletin 

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Good times with family 

Biker allegedly had explosive devices

Brass Knuckle MC Member allegedly had explosive devices

HORIZON CITY, TEXAS (November 3, 2016) - More than 150 explosive devices and materials used to create them were allegedly found in the home of Horizon City biker arrested Tuesday on a federal charge of unlawful possession of a machine gun, court documents show. 

Loren Jay Bingaman, 48, was arrested by El Paso Police Department officers as part of a multi-agency investigation into an assault and robbery of two members of a motorcycle club on Aug. 3 outside Hot Chicks Wing House at 2281 N. Zaragoza Road.

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Bingaman was rebooked into El Paso County jail on Wednesday on a federal charge of unlawful possession of a machine gun after local, state and federal law enforcement agencies executed a search warrant on Tuesday at his home in the 400 block of Benton Street in Horizon City, according to a complaint affidavit.

The agencies investigating the case include the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, FBI, Texas Department of Public Safety, El Paso Police Department and the Horizon City Police Department.

State troopers allegedly found a box they suspected contained explosives in a garage at Bingaman’s home.

U.S. Army Explosives Ordnance Disposal officials were called to help identify the possible explosives, documents state.

Confiscated vest's

Ordnance disposal officials allegedly found 151 training grenade blasting caps and four military-type flares. They told ATF agents that the blasting caps and flares are “considered an explosive device that can cause bodily injury and are therefore not manufactured for the public,” the affidavit states.

Investigators also found multiple firearms in a storage room in the garage, documents state. One of the weapons was allegedly an “AK style closed bolt rifle.” Another rifle was allegedly found on a workbench in the garage.

Disposal officials also found potassium chlorate and potassium nitrate in 14 plastic containers; aluminum flakes in nine plastic containers; several bags containing potassium nitrate; and 10 grenade hulls which were welded shut at one end, the affidavit states.

Documents state that the chemical precursors, blasting caps and the grenade hulls gave Bingaman the “ability to manufacture a functional explosive device.”

ATF agents checked the National Firearms Registry Transaction Record and Federal Licensing System and found that Bingaman was not registered to possess destructive devices or machine guns, documents state.

Investigators also found another suspected machine gun in “various states of manufacture and assembly” in a storage shelf within a shed at the home, the affidavit states.

The search warrant executed on Bingaman’s home came after the El Paso Police Department arrested him and seven other bikers on Tuesday in connection with the assault-robbery case in East El Paso in August.

Believed to be a member of the Brass Knuckle motorcycle club, Bingaman was arrested on one count of engaging in organized criminal activity-aggravated robbery. He posted a $50,000 bond on the state charge on Wednesday, but was rebooked on the federal charge the same day.

According to jail records, no bond has been set on the federal charge as of Thursday afternoon. Bingaman remained in El Paso County jail at that time.

The other reputed Brass Knuckle motorcycle club member arrested in the case was Jose Luis Holguin, 41.

Also arrested were members of the One motorcycle club, including Arnulfo Ramirez, 42; Dean Rascon, 45; Alejandro Jimenez, 40; and Aaron Michael Palmer, 37.

Bandidos member Carlos Sepulveda, 48, was also arrested.

Several leaders of the Bandidos were previously arrested in August in connection with the assault-robbery case. The leaders arrested were Bandidos chapter president Juan Martinez, 60; sergeant-at-arms James Heredia, 45; and secretary Thomas Decarlo, 32.

SOURCE: ElPaso Times