
Marshals released this statement at 1:05 p.m. Marshals taped an envelope on the front door declaring an order of seizure. You have to go back inside.' So I went back inside and they just, by force, man, like 30 of 'em, and they just went in and tore it up." Another neighbor said that police handcuffed a man and took him away. "Then I come outside to try to smoke a cigarette and they're like, 'Well, you cannot be out here. "I thought somebody got shot, but I guess it was them throwing a flash-bang inside," neighbor Andrew Hepworth said. It appears that the back door was broken down or blown off its hinges.Ī neighbor said that a loud boom woke him up. Highway 385 about three miles south of Chadron, Nebraska.Ī fence obscured the scene, but we do know that the city, county and state police backed up the federal agents and sent in the city's robot equipped with a camera to scope out the place. The Nebraska State Patrol reported that Anderson, an electrician, was riding with a group of bikers about 6 a.m. Anderson reportedly admitted to Smith that he was shot in the left arm but managed to leave Waco without being identified by police or arrested. The officer found him “recuperating” from his wound at a home near Longview. Jason Chambers believes that an analysis of the projectile in Anderson’s upper left arm will be beneficial in the investigation and may more accurately identify the weapon used against him during the incident.Īccording to the affidavit, Lanie Smith, a Longview police officer, received information that Anderson had been shot May 17 at Twin Peaks. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which is conducting the forensic analysis of weapons, bullets, bullet fragments and casings recovered at the scene. to provoke rivals into a public brawl that could be violently crushed and then used as a basis for sweeping RICO indictments.Īuthorities want the bullet in Anderson’s upper left arm to compare it to weapons seized after nine bikers were killed and 20 were wounded at a meeting of bikers at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco. Some bikers and now more of the general public believe there's an even more sinister explanation: that a firefight of some kind was supposed to happen-that it was all part of a plan by the Waco P.D. The bikers believe this provides a clue to the Waco Police Departments ongoing silence: The cops know their response was overzealous, unlawful, and now they're covering it up. “I look at the people I was riding with, and I said, ‘This don't look right.’ ” Afterward, said the Cossacks' John Wilson, “a Waco spokesman was touting the quick 40-second response time of the police, when that was obviously false. “They're circling like buzzards on a dead deer,” one said. The police were already there as the rest of the clubs arrived that morning. When he refused, they allegedly attacked him with a hammer. At a gas station in Mingus that same day, Bandidos confronted the Cossack son of a local politician and demanded that he remove the Texas bottom rocker from his cut. Earlier this year, on March 22, Cossacks allegedly forced a Bandido MC member off I-35 in Lorena and beat him that he nearly lost an eye. In November 2013, two Cossacks were stabbed in a roadhouse parking lot in Abilene the president of the local Bandidos chapter was arrested in connection with the assault. Over the past two years, the Bandidos MC and the Cossacks MC have been engaged in a power struggle over Territory. All of them, even guys who hid out in the bathroom while bullets flew could face up to 99 years in jail. Some of the 177 arrested (including four women) sat in jail for weeks, others for months, before they could afford to post bail. Months later, the Waco Police Department was still suppressing any video footage and ballistic analysis that could offer proof of what started the whole mess. The Texas Confederation of Clubs and Independents had never held its bimonthly meeting at Twin Peaks before, but the organization's state chairman was returning from a national convention, and he wanted to speak to as many Texas bikers as possible about various legislative initiatives.Īfter nine bikers were shot dead, 20 were wounded, and 177 people from at least five different clubs wound up being arrested-the Waco Police Department would claim that the bloodbath was triggered by the Bandidos MC and the Cossacks MC arguing over the things that MCs tend to argue over: Namely Territory and Respect. Roll Back In Time to May, 17th, 2015 at 11:00 am in Waco Texas -The Twin Peaks Restaurant in Waco, Texas has cold beer, hot wings, scantly clad waitress's and is an ideal spot for Bike Nights even though they have only been open for about a year.
