LAW MEN SHY AWAY FROM SEEKING SEARCH WARRANT
Bruceville, Texas – McLennan County law men are keeping their mouths shut about just exactly whom a known Aryan Brotherhood member named David Lee Woodruff, 32, kidnapped over the weekend of April 17 – 18 – and the reason for why he did it.
Deputy Jeffrey Aguirre wrote in an affidavit for a search warrant, “Woodruff has…reportedly kidnapped one person who has spoke with the affiant and has refused to pursue charges due to fear for personal safety.”
Though Aguirre interviewed that person by phone on three separate occasions, the conversations resulted only in a refusal to budge on pressing charges due to the fear of violent reprisal.
It’s not an unwarranted fear when it comes to the AB. Their bag of tricks often includes kidnapping backsliding members, those who falsely claim membership, or for the purpose of the murder of people who cross them.
In a 2015 case, court testimony included the grisly details of a top lieutenant in Ft. Worth, an individual whose specialty was the torture of those singled out for discipline before he went away to prison for an extended sentence. James “Byrdman” Byrd was known for stuffing a victim’s wound with bread, then eating the icky substance.
Authorities had issued a “blue warrant” on Woodruff for parole violation. They weren’t sure who or what they would find when they served it, but surveillance confirmed that he was there as late as 24 hours previously. They opted for a search warrant for “the body of David Lee Woodruff” only.
A Waco magistrate opted to honor Aguirre’s request for a no-knock warrant to search 2036 Theresa Lane for Woodruff because of his well-known gang affiliation and the fact that deputies responded to a report of a shooting at the location as recently as last January. He has a previous criminal record for flight by motor vehicle from officers seeking to arrest him, and is “known to surround himself with multiple armed persons,” according to entries on white supremacist social media sites, Aguirre wrote.
So when the SWAT team made their move on the hill-top modular home about 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 26, they left the road and charged across the prairie grass in an armored military surplus MRAP vehicle, breaking through the fence and pulling up to the house at the top of the hill to dismount the war wagon in full armor and battle dress, where they found Woodruff and two previously unknown companions sitting in surprise, loaded weapons at the ready, but unused.
In the aftermath of the swift assault by SWAT, they readily agreed to allow a full search of the premises, it is notOpeed in Aguirre’s affidavit of warrantless arrest. The officers filed charges for “theft by possession” of a late-model pickup stripped of its interior and .3 of a gram of methamphetamine.
Along with Woodruff, they charged Crystal Trotter, 41, of the same address, and Thomas Holt, 30, of the 4600 Block of Houghton, Ft. Worth, also known as “Kid Rock.”
They seized the pickup, two stolen motorcycles, two rifles, two 9 mm semiautomatic handguns, and an additional 5.6 grams of suspected methamphetamine found in a string bag owned by Holt.
According to Sheriff Parnell McNamara, additional charges may be filed on the trio.
Woodruff (L), Trotter (C), Holt (R)
Open Records Division officials at the Texas Attorney General’s Office overruled an objection by McLennan Sheriff’s Office Records Division Chief Tamma Willis that release of the material quoted in this article might presumptively affect the outcome of an open case following an appeal by Texas Liberty Watch.
In this previous series of articles, The Legendary recounts how 19th Criminal District Judge Ralph Strother dismissed indictments of a number persons connected to the Aryan Brotherhood in the case of an auto theft in which the stolen vehicle was taken to an undisclosed location in the Bruceville-Eddy area following its theft from a car lot on LaSalle Avenue. The Waco Police Department refused to allow prosecutors to know the names of confidential informants connected to the case; Prosecutor Michael Jarrett and Criminal District Attorney Abel Reyna declined further prosecution due to their trepidations over the provisions of the Michael Morton Act.
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