April 16, 2024

Who Said That?

Florida's quote of the day

| 5/26/2015

"I think the biggest lesson they have learned is to be very discreet in how they do their business now."

-- Scott Etheridge, an intelligence supervisor in Tampa for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives

 In the 1980s and '90s, the Outlaws Motorcycle Club was the alpha biker gang in Florida, responsible for drug dealing and gun running, decapitations and torture. Then its leadership was decimated by a series of prosecutions, and the gang seemed to slip quietly out of sight.

But after the May 17 massacre in Waco, Texas, when a battle involving as many as six biker gangs resulted in nine deaths and 170 arrests, a disquieting truth emerged: Biker gangs remain dangerous and widespread, including here in the Sunshine State.

Read more at the Tampa Bay Times.

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