The whole thing was an attempt to take down the Bandidos in Texas with the hope that all the other state chapters would fall after losing their mother chapters that started the club back in the 60s. The last gang on the DOJ's most dangerous list is the Vagos, with hundreds of members in Mexico and the United States involved in drug-trafficking, murder, assault, extortion and intimidation. The Feds infiltrated the Cossacks MC and took them from a small, low key club and turned them into a rival of the Bandidos. Mongols members are Hispanic males living in Los Angeles, many former members of criminal groups with a long history of violence. In the 1980s, the Mongols seized control of Southern California from the Hells Angels and has joined forces with the Bandidos, the Outlaws and two other gangs, the Sons of Silence and the Pagans against the Hells Angels. The Hells Angels, present in 27 countries, is the Outlaws' main rival and traffics methamphetamine, cocaine, hashish, heroin, LSD, ecstasy, PCP (phencyclidine) and diverted pharmaceuticals, says the DOJ. The Outlaws has 1,700 members in 12 countries outside the United States and dominates in the Great Lakes region where it engages in kidnapping, homicide and fraud and money laundering activities. It is backed by the Outlaws gang, which helped it gain a foothold in the United States in 2002 and now uses it to source members and for drug trafficking. In their black and gold strip, local media say members compare their motorcycles with the horses that Russian Cossacks rode 400 years ago.Īlso listed is the Black Pistons, with an expanding presence in Canada, the United States and Europe. The Cossacks, although smaller, has staked a claim in Texas. With approximately 900 members in 93 chapters in the United States, the Bandidos is trafficking cocaine, marijuana and meth, a drug it also produces, according to the DOJ. gang, boasts a membership of 2,000-2,500 across 14 countries and is considered one of the most dangerous gangs amongst the 300 listed by the DOJ. In the latest explosion of gang violence, nine people died and 18 were wounded in Waco, Texas on Sunday, while another 170 were arrested and charged with engaging in organized crime, after a firefight in a restaurant between members of five rival gangs which local media reported to include Cossacks and Bandidos. Department of Justice, the DOJ, describes them as "highly structured criminal organizations whose members engage in criminal activities such as violent crime, weapons trafficking, and drug trafficking." motorcycle gangs bear the unmistakable stamp of leather and gasoline and links to violence and drugs. Bandidos, Vagos, Outlaws, Mongols - these dangerous U.S.