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<p>WACO, Texas (AP) - Two people have pleaded not guilty in the first arraignment hearings in the case of the more than 180 bikers arrested after a deadly shootout outside a Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco.</p> <p>Eight people indicted on charges of engaging in organized criminal activity in connection with the May 17 shootings were arraigned in district court Monday. Six waived their arraignments.</p>

In their call for a Grand Jury investigation of the actions of police at the Twin Peaks Restaurant on May 17, bikers seek clarification of the reported circumstances. In this report, filed five days later, on May 22, Officer Jeremy S. Finch makes reference to the location of Matthew Mark Smith, who was "aspirating" and died because of a gunshot to his torso after he and Officer Fischer handcuffed him in an area behind the building. He says it was close to a fence, but there is no diagram. He also says he got a sight picture on a Bandido...

State and federal authorities made an arrest at a Louisiana casino Wednesday night of the ninth biker who was named in a sealed indictment related to the May 17 Twin Peaks shootout. A McLennan County grand jury indicted 106 bikers last month on first degree felony charges of engaging in organized criminal activity in relation to the shootout. Nine of the indictments were sealed, because the bikers named had not been arrested. After Wednesday night's arrest, all nine charged in sealed indictments have been taken into custody. The name of the biker arrested Wednesday has not been released, but authorities...

Another biker who was among nine named in sealed indictments in November stemming from the deadly May 17 shootings at the Waco Twin Peaks restaurant was in the McLennan County Jail on Tuesday morning. James Madison Caffey, 39, was ordered held in lieu of $250,000 bond charged with engaging in organized criminal activity, online jail records showed. It was not clear Tuesday morning if Caffey was the last of the nine named in sealed indictments to be arrested or whether one suspect remained at large. Jail records showed Caffey was taken to the jail by the McLennan County Sheriff’s transportation...

Eight of nine bikers named in sealed indictments two weeks ago for their alleged roles in the Twin Peaks shootout have been taken into custody, while the last one remains at large. The nine were among 106 bikers indicted Nov. 10 on first-degree felony engaging in organized criminal activity charges. The nine were indicted under seal because they had not been arrested before the grand jury session. On Wednesday, McLennan County District Clerk Jon Gimble unsealed the indictment charging Cory McAlister, 36, of Ore City. McAlister was taken into custody last week, but his indictment was not unsealed until Wednesday....

AUTOPSY REPORTS AN AMERICAN GOTHIC OF PAIN, SORROW "We don't want to distrust our law enforcement so much that we live in fear of getting shot on a lazy Sunday afternoon." - an investigator Waco - No one associated with the community of grieving bikers and their families touched by the tragedy of a police "shoot-out" at Twin Peaks on May 17 is surprised by the facts as they trickle out in dribs and drabs. Calling certain items "discovery" is as ridiculous as the ethnocentric notion that Columbus "discovered" a civilization that had an advanced architecture, celestial observatories, calendars and...

Six Shooter Junction - Video from DPS pole cameras and in-car video from Waco Police Officer Michael Bucher's unit will not be provided until "after analysis" if attorneys sign an extensive "agreement on discovery and nondisclosure of evidence," an examination of the proffered document shows. Officer Michael Bucher is an alleged shooter involved in the rifle fire of Waco Police Officers on May 17 at Twin Peaks Restaurant at a Confederation of Clubs meeting that left 9 dead, 20 wounded, and the arrest of 177 persons. A Grand Jury in November cleared he and two other officers of any wrongdoing...

Not even the Waco Tribune-Herald can tease McLennan County District Attorney Abelino Reyna (see video below) out of his safe space. "Safe space" became the official, trending buzzword this month after student protesters at the University of Missouri in Columbia declared that an encampment they had set up was a "safe space," and therefore a news media free zone. Protesters forbid a student photographer named Tim Tai, on assignment for ESPN, from photographing the encampment. Tai tried to explain that he was working for ESPN and futilely argued that "the First Amendment protects your right to be here and mine."...

On any given weekend, in a city, in any state of the union, groups of motorcyclists will be meeting in a restaurant or bar for a Confederation of Clubs meeting. The Goals of Confederation of Clubs are to bring patch holders together, communication between clubs, and a judicial coming together to protect our rights through the courts. They also work with local and state Motorcycle Rights Organizations and the National Coalition of Motorcyclists on legislative issues. Confederation of Clubs have autonomous leadership, but hold one thing in common; they all belong to the National Coalition of Motorcyclists or NCOM. NCOM...

Images of bikers sitting on curbs waiting to be processed might have captivated the nation after the shootout at a Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas this May, but evidence in the resulting criminal case is a closely-guarded secret. Of the 177 men arrested in May, 106 were indicted by a grand jury. Now, in a very unusual move that appears to violate Texas state law, McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna has tried to keep evidence from reaching the public by making defendants' attorneys sign an agreement not to share it with the media. Citing the Michael Morton Act,...

WACO - Defense attorneys representing bikers who were arrested after a shooting outside a Texas restaurant say they don't have access to key evidence because they refuse to sign the district attorney's unusual agreement to not share it with media.

BALCH SPRINGS (CBSDFW.COM) - A lawsuit filed by a Balch Springs man raises serious questions about the police investigation into the shootout that left nine bikers dead outside a Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco. That man claims that authorities are prosecuting him even though police admit that they have no evidence of his involvement. It has been six months since that motorcycle trip to Waco left George Bergman out of money, out of work and in jail. The 48-year-old parked his bike at Twin Peaks and was walking to a restroom at the neighboring restaurant when he heard shots.

About 30 defense attorneys representing bikers arrested in the May 17 Twin Peaks shootout called for McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna to provide them with solid evidence against their clients or to dismiss the cases in the interest of justice. Flanked with a backdrop of more than two dozen lawyers, attorneys Susan Criss, a former prosecutor and state district judge from Galveston, and Dallas attorney Susan Anderson presided over a press conference Thursday at the Waco Hilton that featured a lot of bluster but very little new information. Criss and Anderson continued to sound what has become a common...

Thirty defense attorneys representing most of the 106 people charged in connection with the deadly Waco Twin Peaks shootout are asking for charges to be dropped. The May 17 shootout between rival biker clubs left nine people dead and 18 more hospitalized with stab or gunshot wounds. Police arrested 177 bikers after the shooting, and all of them had bond set at $1 million. Charitable Group for Veterans Banned in Texas Last week, a grand jury indicted 106 of the 177 bikers on charges of organized criminal activity with the intent to commit or conspire to commit murder, capital murder...

Waco - A Houston attorney representing a Twin Peaks defendant estimated in a motion for the "earliest possible" trial setting that it will require $265 million and a minimum of two years to try the 106 cases of engaging in organized criminal activity indicted thus far. Paul Looney based his estimate on a figure of $1,500 per hour to try a felony case in Harris County District Courts, assuming a three-day duration of each trial, at $2.5 million, gavel to gavel. Based on his argument before the 19th District Court, it is becoming very easy for the relatively unsophisticated observer...

Five defendants in the Twin Peaks Massacre case filed suit for false arrest in the Austin Division of the federal Western District of Texas yesterday. The complaint names Waco Police Chief Brent Stroman, Waco Police Detective Manuel Chavez, McLennan County District Attorney Abelino Reyna and an as yet unnamed employee of the Texas Department of Public Safety as defendants. All five of the complainants have been indicted for Engaging in Organized Criminal Activity with the Intent to Commit or Conspire to Commit Murder, Capital Murder, or Aggravated Assault. Their names are Matthew Clendennen, George Bergman, Noe Adame, Rob Bucy and...

Four more bikers have filed civil rights lawsuits after their arrests following the Twin Peaks Biker Shootout in May of 2015. Robert Bucy, George Bergman, Noe Adame and Jorge Salinas have filed suit alongside Matthew Clendennen, claiming their constitutional rights were violated. 117 bikers were arrested and held on $1 million bond in the days after the shooting. The lawsuit names Waco Police Chief Brent Stroman, Waco Police Detective Manuel Chavez, McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna and a currently unnamed trooper with the Department of Public Safety as defendants. All five bikers are asking for a jury trial, damages...

WACO -- Tuesday was the sixth month anniversary of the Twin Peaks Shooting, one of the deadliest days Waco has ever seen. Around noon on May 17, 2015 nine bikers were killed and at least 18 more were wounded in the shootout at the Waco restaurant. Many believe not enough has been done in the past six months, while others say justice takes time. The time has been filled with lawsuits, conspiracy theories, threats, video leaks and rallies. A week prior, out of the 106 cases presented to a Waco grand jury, 106 bikers were indicted for engaging in organized...

Paul Looney, the Houston lawyer who is representing a Cossacks Motorcycle Club member named Cody Ledbetter against a charge of engaging in organized criminal activity, dared 19th State District Court Judge Ralph Strother to knock the chip off his shoulder yesterday. Simultaneously, Dane Schiller of the Houston Chronicle published an 830 word feature about the motion that claimed Looney was "making an offer that he says saves time and money and heads off the 'quagmire' of trying to prosecute at least 106 people charged in the case." Then Looney's office sent out a press release. Looney's thousand word motion argues...

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz admonished the Obama administration's interactions with law enforcement as creating a culture where police officers feel under attack. Cruz chaired a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Tuesday titled, "The war on police: How the federal government undermines state and local law enforcement." While Cruz was back in Washington, D.C., on official business, the senator wasted little time using the heated rhetoric he vents from the stump on the campaign trail. "Everyone here agrees that we should enforce the law and we should vigorously enforce America's civil rights laws. In any government organization, there can be bad...