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The last biker still behind bars over the deadly clash at the the Twin Peaks in Waco is expected to be released from jail Wednesday, his lawyer said. Marcus Pilkington and 176 others arrested had been held on $1 million bail a piece following the May melee that left nine people dead and 18 wounded. Everyone else had been able to either meet the bail amount of have their bail greatly reduced. The McLennan County District Attorney’s Office agreed to his bail being dropped to $50,000, which means Pilkington has to post 10 percent of that to be conditionally freed...

“On the morning of 05-17-15 at approximately 7:00 A.M., Special Agent Frost deployed the DPS CID covert camera. The camera was placed in the public right-of-way and was positioned to capture the patio area of Twin Peaks.” "An hour later, “Frost received a phone call from Twin Peaks General Counsel. Special Agent Frost explained the Coalition of Clubs meeting that was expected to take place on 05-17-15 at Twin Peaks and Law Enforcement had concerns about some members of certain motorcycle gangs who may be attending. Special Agent Frosts’ question was if the entire establishment was to be rented out...

Add to this the fact that the outlaw biker narrative has been largely controlled over time, not by members of the culture, but outsiders and the misconceptions grow. Case in point: the Waco incident. Sgt. Swanton of the Waco Police Department effectively controlled the story of what happened on May 17, 2015, and it appears that story has already begun to unravel. Regardless of what ultimately is shown to be the truth about the events in Waco, if history tells us anything it's that that story will not likely be broadcast as widely as the law enforcement narrative was ......

It was ten stories tall, and wider at the base than the Empire State Building. And nearly a thousand years ago, it was the centerpiece of the continent's largest city north of Mexico. Today, the search to determine how native engineers built Monk's Mound -- North America's biggest prehistoric earthen structure -- has turned up some new and crucial, but very small, clues: the seeds and spores of ancient plants. An aerial view of Monks Mound, the largest prehistoric earthwork in North America. Researchers studying the giant platform mound at the heart of the settlement of Cahokia have studied its...

SWANTON – A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Border Patrol Agent assigned to the Swanton Sector fired his weapon at an unknown driver who Thursday morning struck him with his vehicle near Alburgh Springs. Another agent, hurrying to aid his colleague, was involved in an auto accident. The unidentified agent had stopped the vehicle, a gray SUV that had entered the country illegally from Canada, officials from the agency said. As the agent approached the vehicle, the driver put the SUV in gear and hit the agent twice. The agent, who was uninjured, fired one round from his weapon into...

Swanton Woman Killed in Fiery Crash on Indiana Toll RoadAug 3, 2006 06:46 AM PDT BRISTOL, INDIANA (AP) -- A semitrailer plowed into vehicles stopped in a construction zone on an interstate highway, killing the truck driver and four members of a family, including an Ohioan, police said Wednesday. The fiery crash occurred about 4 p.m. Tuesday about 20 miles east of South Bend, said state police spokesman Sgt. Trent Smith. The Indiana Toll Road, which runs on Interstates 80/90 through the area, was closed while crews cleaned up the wreckage. A preliminary investigation showed that three vehicles, including a...

November 1, 2005 -- The woman at the center of a Bronx firehouse sex scandal savagely bit a cop's hand during a call to her home over the weekend because she thought he was making a crude oral sex sign at her, prosecutors said yesterday. Jennifer Swanton, 35, of Staten Island, was arraigned on assault and obstruction-of-justice charges yesterday after allegedly attacking two cops on Sunday morning as they responded to a blaring burglar alarm at her Fletcher Street home.