FBI Action with Bandidos Motorcycle Club in Alamogordo and Cloudcroft

During the early morning hours around 5 am Thursday morning 8-31-23 multiple reports came in  KALHRadio.org and AlamogordoTownNews.com  broadcast studios of shots, fired and flash bangs at a private residence near the vicinity of the Alamogordo School District offices.

During the early morning hours of around 5 am to 8 am streets were closed off by a police presence in the area. Unconfirmed reports have come in of a heavy FBI presence and that the raid was tied to a statewide investigation into the Bandidos Motorcycle Club.

These reports and this action comes on the heels of a report that the FBI will be hosting a press conference concerning an effort to round up suspects that comes after intel from more than a dozen state and federal agencies helped the FBI focus on addresses in Albuquerque, Rio Rancho, Los Lunas, Belen, Tome, Grants, Gallup, Farmington, San Rafael, Hobbs, Capitan, Arabela, Ruidoso, and Alamogordo.

 This roundup action comes several months after a deadly shooting in Red River, New Mexico. 
As reported by KRQE at 2:39 today they gained access to a court document that reveals the feds are looking into alleged members and supporters of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club.

New Mexico State Police have previously connected the club to the shooting that killed two individuals and injured six. But the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) says there’s more to it than a single shooting – some motorcycle club members have called it a “war” between clubs.

In an affidavit filed in federal court, an FBI agent asked a judge for a warrant to search 25 different locations around New Mexico to include Alamogordo and Cloudcroft. The FBI was looking for people with Bandidos tattoos, the affidavit says.

Per KRQE, “the  FBI investigation dates back to 2020 when the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office warned the FBI about a “potential ‘war’ between two rival motorcycle clubs in Albuquerque,” the FBI agent wrote in the affidavit. The police intel claimed that the Mongols Motorcycle Club was stockpiling guns and surveilling members of the Bandidos, which had been the dominating club in New Mexico, according to the FBI agent.

The FBI says this rivalry goes back years and that some Mongols were former Bandidos who were thrown out of the club.”

KRQE reporting continues, “Law enforcement acted on that intel back in 2020, arresting a Mongols member and collecting several firearms. But over the years, several Mongols-Bandidos encounters ensued, leaving people injured and shot in both New Mexico and Texas, the FBI agent says in the affidavit. The buildup culminated in the May 2023 Red River shooting, where several Bandidos confronted a group called the Water Dogs Motorcycle Club over whether they had allegiance to the Bandidos or the Mongols, the FBI says.

Over the past three and a half years, the FBI counts 11 people dead in connection to the motorcycle clubs’ interactions. Now, the FBI is targeting the “most aggressive proponents” of the violence.”

Executing search warrants on properties around New Mexico, the FBI is hoping to mitigate violence by Bandidos, seize weapons, investigate unsolved crimes that may be tied to Bandidos, and put offenders behind bars, according to the FBI affidavit.

This is a developing news story and KALHRadio.org and AlamogordoTownNews.com has reached to sources with the Alamogordo Police Department and the FBI for confirmation of the local raid and was told details will be released soon in an press conference from Albuquerque since this is a coordinated multi-city multiagency operation. 

We will update information as it becomes available. 

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