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Bullet from biker’s arm sent for analysis
WacoTrib ^ | 9/17/2015 | TOMMY WITHERSPOON

Posted on 09/17/2015 5:24:01 PM PDT by Elderberry

A bullet removed from the arm of a biker wounded May 17 at Twin Peaks and killed four months later in a traffic wreck will be analyzed by federal investigators.

Jason Chambers, an investigator in the McLennan County District Attorney’s Office, obtained a search warrant last week to extract a bullet from the arm of James Kenneth “Spaz” Anderson, a member of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club from Henderson.

Texas Ranger Jake Burson executed the search warrant for the bullet at a funeral home in Henderson on Friday, the day before Anderson’s funeral.

Anderson, 53, was killed Sept. 3 when his motorcycle struck one or more deer on a highway in northwestern Nebraska.

The bullet was removed, but it could not be determined initially what caliber it is, a courthouse source said Thursday. As of Thursday, neither Chambers nor Burson had filed with the court a return on the search warrant listing what was found.

Burson and Chambers did not return phone messages Thursday.

Authorities 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.

The bullet will be forwarded to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which is conducting the forensic analysis of weapons, bullets, bullet fragments and casings recovered at the scene, according to an affidavit accompanying the request for the search warrant.

“(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,” according to the affidavit.

Burson served the warrant at Crawford-A. Crim Funeral Home in Henderson.

According to the affidavit, Lanie Smith, a Longview police officer, received information that Anderson had been shot May 17 at Twin Peaks.

The officer found him “recuperating” from his wound at a home on County Road 2121 near Longview. 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 affidavit does not say when Smith spoke to Anderson.

A spokeswoman for the Longview Police Department said officers there do not discuss investigations being conducted by other agencies.

Authorities rounded up about 235 bikers after the shootout, jailing 177 on identical engaging in organized criminal activity warrants. None of the bikers remain jailed in McLennan County, and none of the cases have been presented to a grand jury.

According to published reports, the Nebraska State Patrol reported that Anderson, an electrician, was riding with a group of bikers about 6 a.m. Sept. 3 when he hit at least one deer on U.S. Highway 385 about three miles south of Chadron, Nebraska.


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Another bullet of unknown caliber
1 posted on 09/17/2015 5:24:01 PM PDT by Elderberry
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To: Elderberry

Nature and conspiracy theories abhor a vacuum.


2 posted on 09/17/2015 5:29:35 PM PDT by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: Elderberry

Spaz, lol.

Great nickname.


3 posted on 09/17/2015 5:30:16 PM PDT by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi, Mister Prez.)
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To: Elderberry

I hope there’s witnesses (not Feds) who saw him hitting the “deer” because I wouldn’t put it past the Feds to do whatever possible they could to get one of THEIR bullets removed from his arm and possibly KILLING HIM TO GET IT (then cover it up).


4 posted on 09/17/2015 5:30:39 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: CivilWarBrewing

I believe that I read where he was riding with several other bikers when several deer were hit.


5 posted on 09/17/2015 5:35:49 PM PDT by Elderberry
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To: CivilWarBrewing

There were three other bikers with him when he hit the deer. There is no proof those three bikers weren’t all under cover federal agents, though.


6 posted on 09/17/2015 5:36:25 PM PDT by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Sad to say I feel the same way. They are no longer our employees but scammers to make us look bad and alter evidence to make them look good.


7 posted on 09/17/2015 5:45:37 PM PDT by mcshot (We have but our word and honor - 0 has 0.)
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To: TXBlair

Spaz, lol.

Great nickname.


When I was a kid we always called other kids “Spaz” and asked if they’d taken their Spaz pill today.

That wouldn’t go over in todays PC world.


8 posted on 09/17/2015 5:48:32 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Elderberry
admitted to Smith that he was shot in the left arm but managed to leave Waco without being identified by police or arrested.

I'm not a judge, but I think that would get thrown out as that is quite a dubious chain-of-custody.

9 posted on 09/17/2015 5:49:49 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: eddie willers

I’m not one either, but I would think unless you want to suggest the bullet was removed form the shootee and inserted into the late lamented Spaz, the only “broken” link in the chain of custody is the one between the gun from which it was fired and the aforementioned Spaz, and a good examination may fix that one.


10 posted on 09/17/2015 5:58:20 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (The enemy's gate is down....and to the left.)
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To: mcshot

“Authorities want the bullet in Anderson’s upper left arm to compare it to weapons seized”

Won’t need to compare it to the ones the officers had that day. If it is the same caliber, just replace the durn thing with some other slug.


11 posted on 09/17/2015 6:05:07 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Will Bernie Sanders run as an Independent if he does not get the nomination of the Democrat Party?)
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To: laplata

You are not kidding!! My friends and I used that term a lot, too, back in the day. And lots of other, even less politically correct, terms...

:)


12 posted on 09/17/2015 6:05:42 PM PDT by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi, Mister Prez.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Pure Conflict of Interest to let the BATFE have it.


13 posted on 09/17/2015 6:06:05 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current devices...one uses Brit spel now.)
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There were three other bikers with him when he hit the deer

Oh, deer. Did the outlaw bikers rumble with the elks club?

14 posted on 09/17/2015 6:06:43 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Will Bernie Sanders run as an Independent if he does not get the nomination of the Democrat Party?)
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To: USNBandit

Three other agents (errrr, I mean bikers) who were totally uninjured and their bikes not damaged in any way? Was the deceased asked if he’d like to go on a ride with 3 agents (I mean dudes) from a bar?


15 posted on 09/17/2015 6:09:07 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: a fool in paradise

The FBI and a bunch of other LEOs took down the Outlaws HQ here in Indy in a pre-dawn raid last year. Now the neighbors are complaining the ‘hood is out of control.

The cycle guys were a de facto force for order, LOL.


16 posted on 09/17/2015 6:09:29 PM PDT by nascarnation (C. Edmund Wright says I'm a moron)
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To: ExGeeEye

The bullet could have come from another incident, if the contention that he got out of TwinPeaks without law enforcement attention is true.


17 posted on 09/17/2015 6:09:43 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: TXBlair

You are not kidding!! My friends and I used that term a lot, too, back in the day. And lots of other, even less politically correct, terms...


LOL That’s right.

We had fun and did all the goofy stuff but common sense was the rule of the day.


18 posted on 09/17/2015 6:10:30 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: a fool in paradise

THE ELS CLUB and the Rotary Club


19 posted on 09/17/2015 6:10:44 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Elderberry

Unless all the cops weapons were seized the test is useless.


20 posted on 09/17/2015 6:16:23 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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