There is a great deal of circumspection in the testimony of the people who planned and carried out what was really a combination ambush and raid on what they knew would be a gang fight at Twin Peaks on May 17, 2015.
Detective Jeff Rogers of the Waco Police Gang Unit wrote in a May 1 memo, “I’m getting information from more than one source of a big meeting of Confederation of Clubs…All Red and Gold Support Clubs are expected to attend. The potential for violence is very, very high….I’m also being told that the Hells Angels are getting involved as a support club for the Cossacks.”
At a briefing on the Sunday morning of the operation, according to testimony from Sgt. Stephen Drews of the SWAT Team, Rogers had an unknown civilian with him. That plainclothesman also accompanied him to the operation at Twin Peaks. Drews said the duo was there to provide surveillance and operative information to the squad.
DPS Narcotics Agent Chris Frost testified that before they installed a pole camera and deployed their agents at the Twin Peaks operation, Lt. Schwartz first applied the concept of “deep infliction” by checking to see if there were other law enforcement agencies they were unaware of involved.
Asked if the “deep infliction” security check is done with “another law enforcement agency,” he replied to the defense counsel question by saying it is a “law enforcement based” organization. He did not further explain the remark.
There is no indication of what or who mans this “law enforcement-based entity.”
The fact that the primary DPS role was to provide security on the surrounding highways to make sure that bikers coming to the COC meeting were scrutinized and investigated turned out to be a dud when their experience was that there was in fact no particular threat to law enforcement as indicated in the operational plan.
He also denied knowledge of a squad of white Toyota 4-Runners present.
Steven Drews of the SWAT unit said he does not know Owen Reeves of the Cossacks. Nor did he see the so far unidentified “man in the blue shirt,” he said with a laugh. He also said the Waco pollice were all dressed in their blue standard uniforms. The Legendary snapped a photo of one officer dressed in camouflaged battle dress, wearing a Kevlar helmet.
The defense’s questions are turned such that it appears there is much that does not immediately meet the eye involved, something deep and not to be discussed, as if there is a limiting order by the court, as we have seen in other matters, that does not permit discussion or witness examination about the operation.