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GULF COAST EDITION
VOLUME V, NUMBER 1
January 2008
Lying In Wait, To Murder
The Cash Killing
He Shot Himself to Cover Up Murder He Killed His Parents Neighbor
By Marie Beth Jones
he side road in the Hastings
Oilfield between Alvin and
Pearland was well known as a spot for
“partying.”
When an oilfield worker passing near
the area at 7:30 on Sunday morning,
Aug. 22, 2004, noticed a man lying in
the road it was natural to assume that
partying had reached the sleep-it-off
stage, so the driver just went on about
his business.
But an hour later another driver passed
directly by the prone figure lying in the
road in front of a pickup truck. As this
driver got nearer, he saw blood beside
the body and called the Brazoria County
Sheriff’s Department.
Patrol deputies arriving at the scene
found the man dead. His side pockets
had been turned inside out, and he had
no identification, driver’s license, or
money.
Reporting back to headquarters
brought Criminal Investigator Eddie
Rogers to the scene. Since the first
order of business was to identify the
victim, Rogers ran the license plates
on the pickup truck parked just behind
the body, and was informed it was
registered to a woman named Rhodes,
whose address was listed as an Alvin
post office box. Rogers called the
Alvin Police Department for assistance
in finding a physical address for the
truck’s owner.
While the search was under way,
Rogers noted that the victim, body
lying face up and with both arms outstretched, was still clutching a water
bottle cap in one hand, and a crushed
bottle of Deja Blue water in the other.
A weed with flowers on it, apparently
pulled up by the roots was laying on the
victim’s chest.
“It wasn’t anything he could have
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By Breck Porter
n the morning of September
21st, 1994, Robert Alan
Shields, Jr. then 19, broke
into the Friendswood home of Tracy
and Paula Stiner. He waited for several hours until Paula, 27, came home
from work then he beat her with a
hammer, and stabbed her to death.
Shields then stole the Stiner’s credit
cards, checkbook, and car keys from
her purse, and fled in her car. When
he came home from work about an
hour later, Tracy Stiner discovered his
wife’s bloody body lying on the laundry
room floor.
There were 28 stab wounds on the
victim’s body. Police found a bloody
footprint and bloody fingerprint at the
scene. They also found a woodenhandled screwdriver outside a broken
window, and another screwdriver on
the carpet inside the window.
About an hour and a half after the
murder, Shields used one of Stiner’s
credit cards to buy a suit in a north
Houston mall. The manager, Mark
Lang, told police that he noticed a cut
on one of Shields’ fingers, and a bandage around another. He testified in
court that Shields told him he cut his
fingers splicing wires at work.
Robert Shields’ parents lived next
door to the Stiners, and were informed
of the murder by the police the day it
happened. The next day, his mother,
Christine Shields, noticed that some
cushions in her garage had been
arranged to form a makeshift bed,
and some drinks were nearby. She
also found her son’s pager and one
of his shirts near the cushions, even
though he had not lived with them for
several months. When Mrs. Shields
heard from neighbors that a woodenhandled screwdriver had been used
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grabbed as he fell and have it land on
him,” Rogers said.
He also saw that the victim had what
looked like a gunshot wound near his
left ear. The wound looked as though
the bullet had entered at an angle, probably fired by someone standing over
him as he was lying on the ground.
“This was the only wound visible at
this point,” Rogers said. “We could see
a small hole over the right shoulder of
his shirt, but no wound to correspond
with it.”
A box of ammunition lay on the
ground, but no weapons were found
at the scene. Tools and construction
materials were in the back of the
pickup, and the truck’s seat had been
pulled forward, as though someone had
checked behind it to see if he could find
anything, Rogers said.
When the funeral home moved the
body, Rogers discovered the man had
two bundles of cash in his left hip
pocket. The bills were folded in half and
wrapped with rubber bands.
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to break into the Stiner’s home, she
suspected the tool came from her
home and that her son was involved.
She contacted the police and gave
them the phone numbers of some of
Shields’ friends.
Three days after the murder, Shields
was arrested in The Woodlands after
police spotted him driving the victim’s
car. Evidence presented at Shields’
trial showed that, at the time of his
arrest, he had cuts on his fingers and
chin. His underwear was saturated
with blood, and he had blood on his
shoes. His fingerprints were matched
to the prints found at the scene, and
his shoes matched the bloody shoeprints found at the scene. He was
also wearing some of Tracy Stiner’s
clothing. A cigarette butt found at the
scene contained his DNA.
Five of Shields’ friends testified that
on the day of the murder, they either
saw him driving the victim’s car or
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“That’s typical of drug activity,” Rogers
said. “It’s not always the case, but it is
typical.”
Alvin Police called with more information about the Rhodes surname listed
on the truck’s registration, giving investigators a possible address outside
Alvin.
At about the same time the Sheriff’s
Office dispatcher reported that she had
just received a call from a woman concerning a missing person named Paul
William Rhodes Jr., whose description
roughly matched that of the victim.
Although officers had no positive identification, they were pretty sure at this
point that the victim was Paul Rhodes Jr.
Rogers, BCSO Investigator Ryan
Batson, and Judge Jerome Jozwiak,
who had performed the inquest at the
scene, went to the Rhodes home. It so
happened, that Jozwiak was a personal
friend of the Rhodes family.
Noticing a brown Dodge truck abandoned on the roadside at the edge
of the oilfield, they stopped to look it
over.
“Inside, in plain view were bottles of
Deja Blue water, the same as the victim
had in his hand,” Rogers said.
When the patrol deputies had run
plates on the pickup earlier, it came
back to an owner in Denton, Texas, but
it had not been reported stolen.
No one was around the pickup, and
officers were more concerned with the
body at this point.
When Rogers, Batson, and Jozwiak
reached the Rhodes house, Mrs. Rhodes
told them her husband had gone to try
to find their 22-year-old son, Paul.
In response to their questions, she
said that either her son or his girlfriend
might have been driving the pickup.
Paul, his girlfriend, and several other
people were living in a rent house in
Pearland, and the girl had called earlier
that morning to tell them Paul had not
come home the night before.
Rogers said Paul’s father “knew immediately why we were there,” even though
the victim had not been positively identified.
They learned that Paul had last
been seen between 9 and 10 o’clock
Saturday night. After Paul’s girlfriend
called early Sunday morning, Rhodes
went to a construction site where his
son had been working, but did not find
him there.
After getting information about Paul’s
housemates, the officers went to the
construction site then received a call
from dispatch that someone wanted to
give them information about the case.
They learned that 24-year-old Zona
Leggett had been working for Paul on
construction jobs, and a man named
Ramon Ruiz was currently being held
in the Brazoria County Jail for violating
parole in a past drug case.
Although Zona and Paul had a fallingout the previous week, they were to
meet in the Hastings oilfield Saturday
night, the caller said.
Paul was obviously concerned about
the situation, however, and had borrowed a pistol and told a friend who
to call “if anything happened,” Rogers
said.
“Zona, who had recently been shot in
the left arm, had told Paul and others
that someone robbed him in Alvin, and
had taken $3,000 belonging to Paul,”
Rogers said. “Zona said he did not
report the incident to police because he
was wanted for murder in Dallas.”
Paul’s girlfriend and one of his friends
confirmed that Paul had most likely
been dealing drugs in the area, and
Zona was working for him.
The officers also learned that Ramon
Ruiz’s sister, Guadalupe, who worked
as a nurse’s aide, had helped Zona
treat his injured arm.
Witnesses said Zona had apparently
felt Paul was setting him up, and shot
himself in the arm to bolster his story
of being robbed.
Initial suspicions of Zona’s part in
Paul’s death were heightened when
officers learned that he drove a brown
Dodge truck like the one parked near
the oilfield.
They again ran the registration on
that vehicle, which came back to Josh
Leggett of Denton, Zona’s father.
Because of this and the water bottles, the Brazoria County investigators
seized the vehicle as evidence.
Associates described Zona as someone who had made comments in the
past about shooting someone, and said
that he had offered to take care of a
situation in which a friend was having
trouble with a business partner.
One of them commented that Zona
was “good at what he knows how to do,
which is construction work and kicking
ass.”
Investigators found no outstanding
warrant when they checked on the
Dallas murder story, but they did find
that Zona, a former Liverpool resident,
had old warrants for bad checks in
Brazoria County.
They visited Ramon Ruiz in jail in
search of Zona’s address, and explained
that the man might pose a threat to
Ruiz’s sister and her family.
“We could tell Ramon was fond of
Zona,” Rogers said. “He told us about
the alleged robbery, and explained that
Zona actually shot himself in the arm
and took about $3,000. He said Zona
gave most of the money to Guadalupe
to pay bills she owed, and also gave
money to their mother, with whom he
had stayed for a time, and to another
of their relatives.
“Essentially, he gave the whole $3,000
away instead of delivering it as he was
supposed to do,” Rogers said.
Ramon told the officers that Paul distributed drugs, but had cut them down
so much trying to increase his profits
that the drugs had lost potency and
customers were complaining.
Obtaining photos of both Zona and
Guadalupe, the officers went to the
Pasadena apartments where Guadalupe
and her family lived, but the manager
there said he had not seen Zona.
The apartment maintenance man and
a couple of officers from the Pasadena
Police Department helped at that point,
going to Guadalupe’s apartment to
ascertain if she and her family were
safe, and to confirm that Zona was not
there, Rogers said.
Through interviews there, investigators learned that on the night of the
murder, Zona telephoned Guadalupe
and her sister-in-law, Alicia, to pick him
up at Woody’s Ice House on SH 35 and
Greenhouse Road, explaining that his
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They drove him to Texas City, where
Alicia rented a room for him in her
name at the La Quinta Inn.
Rogers contacted Texas City Police
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Editor
I guess I understand the reason for
keeping Mr. Zeigler segregated, now,
but I hope after he is convicted you
place him in the general population.
If he did in fact treat that poor child
(Baby Grace) like I am reading, the
jail population will treat him like he
deserves.
Once convicted, don’t give him
rights. The only thing he is entitled to
is three hots and a cot.
Just the point of view from a
concerned citizen in Denver, Co.
Dear Editor
Many years ago, I was on evening
patrol, in the downtown area…I and
my partner spotted a white male, possibly in his 30’s, look at us, and take
off running down the street, all the
time looking back over his shoulder
at us.
He got to the corner of the street,
and turned, still running. Finally he
stopped, we pulled up, got out to talk
to him, and he took off running again,
going back in the direction he had
come from.
We turned around and were now
more determined than every to capture this fleeing felon. Finally, after
several other stop and gos, we managed to capture and handcuff him. We
asked why he ran, and he said he was
scared of us.
He gave us the name of a detective
he knew, who was on duty that night,
so we took him to the station. When
we finally located the detective and he
told us that this guy is harmless and
always runs when he sees a police
car.
The detective had a mano on mano
with the guy and told him, “Don’t you
remember what I told you last time? If
you keep running everytime you see a
cop, one day one of them is going to
shoot you!” The suspect nodded.
We returned him to the area and let
him go with a warning.
I still sometimes remember that guy
and I wonder if he’s still alive, and running.
Dan Doetterl
Dan Doetterl retired from The
Houston Police Department in 1989
with almost 30-years of service. He
still resides in Houston with his wife
Margery.
Dear Editor
I do a lot of driving sometimes and
notice numerous drivers which appear
to be DUI/DWI. In the past month I
have called in on two. Both were
arrested and both occured before
midnight.
I think you should consider posting
some stats on DWI/DUI’s to let the
public know just how many there are
that are out there on the streets. Also
that if you spot one and call 911 they
repsond to it very quickly. So you don’t
actually have to be a police office to
stop one but you can sure call in on
one and have them stopped before
someone is injured or possibly killed.
J.G. Galveston
Thanks for the tip J.G. As soon as
the stats are available for 2007, we
will report them in The Police News.
Editor
To : The Editor
Regarding Police Pursuits
My name is E.D. Lucas, I am the
Chief of Police for the very small city
of Bayou Vista on the outskirts of
Galveston Texas.
I was a patrol lieutenant, patrol sergeant and patrol deputy for the Harris
County Sheriff’s Department for over
20 years.. I mention this to show that
I have actually been on the streets and
involved in many pursuits. In 1982, I
shot and killed a young boy that was
fleeing in a stolen vehicle. In 1991, I
was the lead vehicle in a pursuit that
reached speeds of 100mph+ and
the suspect went the wrong way on
Interstate 45 towards Dallas. I have
witnessed pursuits that ended with
deputies dying after a crash. I could
mention other pursuits that ended in
injury or death but it is not necessary
at this time.
The penalty in Texas for Fleeing,
evading arrest is a State Jail Felony.
The punishment is very minor considering the risk to police officers and the
general public.
I contend that until the Texas
Legislature enacts laws that truly punish the fleeing drivers, protect the
police officers from lawsuits and allow
deadly force then there should not be
another vehicle chase in Texas.
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that flee from the police.
1.
Life in prison
2.
Seize all of his assets.
3.
If he is released because we
all know (life does not mean life) he
shall never be able to purchase or own
any large items, home, vehicle, etc.
I know all the arguments about the
consequences for allowing criminals
to flee however ask the family of a
victim that was killed in a pursuit crash
if they think the pursuit was worth it.
How about the officer that was paralyzed or the child that lost her legs.
The list goes on and on of carnage
and damage caused during a vehicle
chase. Look at what happens to police
officers that use excessive force after
a chase.
I will not allow my officers to get
involved in a vehicle chase for any
reason.
There is not a crime that a criminal
can commit that is worth the life of an
officer or innocent civilian.
Thank you
Ed Lucas
Chief of Police
Bayou Vista, Texas
Good morning Mr. Porter
I just finished reading as much of
the article concerning Jim Stevenson
and the cat killing as I could due to
the extreme laughing fits causing my
eyes to water, thus I only read enough
to know for a fact that you have been
had.
He reeled you in, scooped you up
and ate you for dinner. Hopefully you
will not encounter another person in
your career with the ability Stevenson
has to make even the most educated
but not intuitive persons believe his
stories.
Trudy Belz
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My neighbor’s daughter was almost
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Sergeant Ross Clements, asking for help
in finding a murder suspect.
“I told him we didn’t know what to
expect, but thought the suspect knew
we were looking for him,” Rogers said. “I
also told him that both Zona’s father and
grandfather were in law enforcement, so
he would know how we were thinking,
and that he might be under influence of
narcotics.”
From the Texas City motel manager,
Rogers and Batson learned that Alicia
had rented Room 122 for two days, and
that Zona had been seen there.
“Both Brazoria County Sheriff’s deputies and Texas City Police undercover
narcotics officers kept the motel room
under surveillance until we could come
up with a plan,” Rogers said.
Obtaining an arrest warrant Monday
night for probable cause, based on
both the Deja Blue water bottles and
interviews with Guadalupe and her family, sheriff’s investigators took the warrant to Texas City, where they met with
Captain Pete Carroll, who assembled
that department’s SWAT team.
“They made a hard entry into the motel
room with flash-bangs, and a battering
ram for us,” Rogers said, adding that
entry was difficult, because it was a very
stout door.
“They had to ram the door several
times to gain entrance, and team members also tried to go through the window
before they finally got in,” Rogers said,
but added that the arrest was peaceable.
“Zona was alone in the room,” he said.
“Several firearms were in plain sight,
strategically placed on a nightstand by
the bed, by the front door, and in the
bathroom, but he didn’t fight. Eventually
we found another weapon in a drawer.”
Zona still had a bandage on his arm,
Rogers said. “He told us he had cauterized the wound the old way – with gunpowder – to prevent bleeding.”
Rogers and Captain Chris Kincheloe
brought Zona back to the Brazoria
County Sheriff’s Office, where he agreed
to make a statement, providing he could
start from the beginning and tell the
story his way.
In his written confession, Zona said
Paul had threatened him and he had shot
Paul in self-defense.
Rogers pointed out, however, that when
Paul’s body was found, he was clutching
the cap of a water bottle in one hand
and a crushed plastic bottle of Deja Blue
water in the other.
Zona also claimed that he believed
someone else was following him when
he went to the oilfield, but officers found
no evidence to substantiate that.
After obtaining Zona’s statement, the
sheriff’s investigators returned to the
motel in Texas City with a search warrant
and seized evidence. The weapons there
included the one used in the murder.
The medical examiner confirmed that
Paul was shot three times – in the back
and the shoulder, both of which would
have been fatal – and in the left side of
head.
Rogers said he believes the shots were
fired in that order, first in the back, then
as Paul turned, in the shoulder. He thinks
the head shot was fired last. Judging
from the angle, it was fired from above,
as Paul was lying on his back, Rogers
added.
Some 14 months after Paul’s death, a
jury of seven women and five men found
Zona guilty of the murder, and sentenced
him to 55 years in prison plus a $10,000
fine.
Assistant District Attorney Teri Holder
prosecuted the case, and Stan McGee
was Zona’s defense attorney.
“From what I picked up from the jury
after the trial, the third shot in the head
probably added several years to Zona’s
sentence,” Rogers said.
Zona Joshua Nathaniel Leggett is now
26-years old. He is serving his sentence
in the Stiles Prison Unit at Beaumont,
Texas. He will become eligible for a
parole hearing on February 21, 2032.
His projected release date is August 22,
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The Cat Case Cops
By Jim Stevenson
As everyone across the United
States knows (as well as several other
countries), I shot a cat a year ago that
was living wild at San Luis Pass. I did
so after examining local and state laws,
and acted to protect an endangered
species our nation spends millions of
dollars annually to protect. Citizens
have debated my case across America,
but let’s take a look at another player in
the fray – law enforcement.
First, I was stopped in my van near my
house by Galveston Police responding
to John Newland, who (we now know)
leaves food for the cats under the
bridge. Unfortunately, he has been
hiding the food up behind huge sand
bags, making it invisible from passersby. His fear of people poisoning the
food (which, to my knowledge, has not
happened) led to my inability to know
anybody cared for the cats in any way.
Upon my being stopped, I was asked
if my vehicle could be searched.
Exercising my constitutional rights,
I declined. Officers then cuffed me,
placed me in the back of a hot cruiser
for quite some time, didn’t allow me to
make a phone call, and searched my
van anyway.
They said they had a right to search it
because they were impounding it, and
were required to do an inventory. This,
they allegedly did because they would
have to tow the van from the roadside,
but my neighborhood (Indian Beach)
was adjacent the parked van. It was
clearly a rouse to get around a citizen’s
constitutional rights.
The police officer who transported me
was on his last day, with balloons in the
car. He never wore his seat belt, didn’t
use his blinker, and swerved right and
left on the road as he was typing into
his dashboard computer while driving.
I was taken to jail and held for two days,
without being able to make a phone
call. Nobody knew where I was until
the case was all over the news. Finally,
friends heard the reports and bailed
me out. No explanation was offered for
the delay, but Galveston Police and a
member of the District Attorney’s office
called that treatment by the Galveston
County Sheriff Office (who managed the
jail) “totally inexcusable.”
For a year, this felony charge for
animal cruelty hung over my head.
There was a grand jury in April 2007
and a trial date set for late September,
but the case was finally heard on the
week of November 13. It took four days
and cost the taxpayers an estimated
quarter of a million dollars. In the end,
the jury was hopelessly deadlocked,
with some believing I had broken no
laws, and others simply seeing the act
as cruel, regardless of burdens that
had to be met.
At the trial, though, one criterion that
had to be proven was that I knowingly
killed a person’s cat, which was
attempted to be shown by photographs
of bowls of food which existed at
the site at the time of the shooting.
However, the officers didn’t bother to
mention that the bowl was impossible
to see from the service road under
the bridge, thus offering testimony
designed to aid the prosecution.
Worse, another policemen identified
pictures of bowls of food by the road at
the toll bridge, in an attempt to show that
conspicuous bowls were in evidence.
However, cat man John Newland’s own
testimony stated that these bowls were
not made until four months after the
shooting, thus showing the policemen’s
testimony to be, well, false.
As the trial culminated, death threats
both in e-mail and snail mail had become
numerous, and the Galveston Police
Department was notified. A visit was
made, a case number was assigned,
and the information was passed onto
a detective. No further contact was
made to me about the threats, but
on Wednesday night, November 28,
someone nearly shot me in the head on
my front porch.
I immediately called 911 and
the Galveston Police Department
responded. I was obviously fearing
for my life, but also the police were
(apparently) already investigating these
death threats. I explained exactly what
happened and they walked outside to
search for clues. I called my attorney,
and he suggested the matter be
investigated by the FBI.
It was then that I overheard two
officers talking outside, saying that with
no evidence from the scene, they had
little to go on. Then, one said that it
would look better if I was suspected of
setting the thing up, shooting my glass
door, all for publicity. All I could think of
was how the police had tried to aid the
prosecution in my conviction, even to
the point of dishonesty, and I became
very fearful of what was to come.
Sure enough, officers came back
into the house stating that “some”
thought I had faked the shooting, and
they wanted to conduct forensics on
me. I told them I was distrustful of the
police after the trial, the officer said he
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understood, and they wound up their
investigation for the night.
I left with them, checked into the
Super 8 on 61st Street, and had a bad
feeling about what the police would say
to the press. Those suspicions proved
to be accurate, as they said I didn’t
“cooperate with their investigation,”
leaving the clear impression they
thought it was an inside job.
For my part, I returned early in
the morning, hurriedly packed some
clothes, and left the state. I visited my
mother in Florida and did some work
for my business back East. I was called
by the detective as I was almost to
Louisiana, and he wanted to interview
me. I told him I would be happy to
answer any questions, but he insisted
I return to Galveston. When I declined,
he said the investigation was over and
hung up. I am unaware of them ever
approaching those who sent letters and
e-mails with threats.
After newspapers milked the case
for all they could, things have died
down and life has returned to normal.
While the cat case itself had very little
effect on my business (in fact, it was
a godsend for marketing), the attempt
on my life at my house has created a
huge impediment to birders visiting my
bird-rich property. Frankly, it would have
been insane for me to manufacture that
incident.
While we talk about cops, though,
let’s examine the role of Texas Parks
and Wildlife. These cat colonies have
existed for years, and game wardens
have driven past the colony for some
time, knowing what cats do to protected
birds, but have done nothing.
Both the Migratory Bird Treaty Act,
as well as the Endangered Species
Act, provide severe penalties for those
whose actions deleteriously impact wild
birds. If a person were to go out to San
Luis Pass and shoot a Piping Plover,
the full weight of the law would come
down on his head. Tell me, then, why
hasn’t TPW become involved in the
elimination of feral cat colonies, and/or
the prosecution of those who create
and support them?
Along with TPW is the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, who was so scared
of this case, they forbade the local
official, Phil Glass – an outstanding
public servant – to testify at the cat
case trial. That didn’t stop Capt.
Eddie Tanuse of TPW from testifying
for the prosecution, despite having
absolutely nothing substantive to
say. Upon cross examination, it
became apparent that feral cats
are not protected by game laws
whatsoever, and this man’s ongoing
participation in this case added to a
burgeoning debt for taxpayers that
this case rolled up.
Of course, returning to the Galveston
Police Department, one can only wonder
why their outstanding animal control
officer, Leroy Cooper, was not allowed
to do his job. He traps feral cats all
over the Island, but was obviously told
to stay away from those at San Luis
Pass – despite them breaking several
City Codes.
From the beginning, the issue of
whether John Newland actually owned
the cats there was paramount, as
ownership is required for the charge of
animal cruelty to be made. He claimed
to own the cats, but already has four at
his house – the maximum allowed by
law. Was the GPD simply looking the
other way about this matter, or is our
city’s finest being a tad selective in their
law enforcement?
Perhaps the most entertaining moment
in the trial was when my lawyer asked
John Newland about all the laws he
was breaking with these cats, like lack
of registration, shots and tags, and JN
suddenly exclaimed, “Well, I don’t OWN
those cats!” At that exact moment, the
ADA hung her head.
Now you see why the jury didn’t
convict. Despite an excellent Assistant
District Attorney, Paige Santel, there
were jurors who clearly saw that it was
ludicrous to say that Newland owned
the cat, or that I could have reasonably
been expected to know anyone was
caring for them (since the food bowls
were hidden). There were, of course,
some jurors who simply saw this as
a cruel act, and were going to vote
to convict no matter what the facts
showed.
As a taxpayer, the close look I’ve
received of law enforcement has been
disturbing. If we should wear seat belts
and use blinkers, cops should. If animal
cruelty laws are enforced, city codes
for proper care should be as well. If
people are arrested for speeding on the
highway, they should also be cited for
destroying the dunes at San Luis Pass.
If we have laws protecting birds from
the hand of man, then let’s enforce it.
And if perjury is illegal, cops should be
(at least) held to that standard.
Otherwise, Operation Enduring
Freedom needs to be fought in
Galveston County.
Jim Stevenson is President of the
Galveston Ornithological Society and
teaches various life science courses
at Galveston College, and The College
of the Mainland.
He also does
environmental consultant work, is a
professional bird guide, has written
books on wildlife and publishes nature
newspapers such as the Galveston Bay
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Wal-Mart on FM 646 at I-45, again by
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as the news media aren’t interested
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the lives and well-being of our families
at stake, people need to know what
is going on. They need to know how
many illegal’s have auto accidents,
without insurance or DL’s, and never
show up for court. They need to
know that the lawn men have bought
illegal guns and are armed within our
neighborhoods. They need to know
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Finally a Sheriff with Huevos
We found him in Florida
Polk County, Florida Sheriff Grady Judd
Some “dirtbag” in Polk County Florida
who got pulled over in a routine traffic
stop ended up “executing” the deputy
who stopped him. The deputy was shot
eight times, including once behind his
right ear at close range.
Another deputy was wounded and a
police dog killed. A statewide manhunt
ensued. The low-life was found hiding
in a wooded area with his gun. SWAT
team officers fired and hit the guy 68
times.
Now here’s the kicker:
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Votes were dropped in boxes scattered throughout the city in October
and the award was announced in
December.
The Blue Star program was started
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police officers for their services.
McCullough graduated from Angleton
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She promoted to Patrol Sergeant in
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In addition to her police duties, she
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they noticed cuts on his hands.
Shields had a history of burglary and
car theft. In 1992, at age 17, he was
arrested for stealing a car and was given
probation with deferred adjudication. In
January 1994, he and two friends broke
into a home and stole some cash and
a car. They made their way to Florida,
where they were arrested for grand
theft auto. In July of that same year, he
was involved in another car burglary.
On August 10, 1994, Christine Shields
asked the court to issue a warrant for
her son’s arrest, because he had stolen
her car. She also testified that she and
her husband had changed the locks on
their house twice to keep their son from
stealing from them.
Another of his friends testified that in
June 1994, Shields loaded a pistol and
pointed it at him. When he objected,
Shields stood up and shoved the gun
in his face shouting that he “could
point the [expletive] gun in my face if
he felt like it.” He then went into the
backyard and fired the gun twice over
the fence.
A jury convicted Shields of capital
murder in October 1995 and sentenced him to death. The Texas Court
of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction and sentence in February 1998.
All of his subsequent appeals in state
and federal court were denied.
In his appeals, Shields’ lawyers
claimed that he did not intend to kill
Stiner, and was only defending himself.
Shields gave one interview while on
death row. In it, he said that he did not
kill Stiner, although he admitted being
in the house when she died. Shields
wrote a letter to Governor Rick Perry,
inviting him to witness his execution. “I
would ask that you be there to answer
my loved ones [sic] questions,” he
wrote. “Explain to them why they too
had to become victims. It is time for
you to have the courage of your convictions and stand there looking me
in the eyes as those lethal drugs take
my life.” Governor Perry did not attend
Shields’ execution or respond to the
letter.
Eleven years later Robert Alan
Shields Jr. then 30, was executed by
lethal injection on 23 August 2005 in
Huntsville, Texas for murdering Paula
Stiner.
Both the killer’s and the victim’s
families attended the execution. After
Shields was prepared for the lethal
injection, the warden asked him if he
wanted to make a last statement.
Shields answered, “No.” The lethal
injection was started, and he was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m.
“Murdered,” said Robert Shields Sr.,
pointing at prison officials, after his son
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stopped breathing. “Murdered by the
state.” John Ross, Paula Stiner’s father,
watched and listened from the other
witness chamber. After a few seconds
of silence, he muttered, “Bastards.”
Last Meal: For his final meal, Shields
requested fajitas with flour tortillas,
shredded cheddar and mozzarella
cheeses, diced tomatoes, diced onions,
sour cream, pico de gallo, bacon,
breakfast sausage, onion rings, French
fries, barbecue sauce and picante
sauce.
Some of the information for this story
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is a
peculiar era for
capital punishment in the
United States
and not simply because
there is a de
Frank Zimring
facto moratorium on execution while the U.S.
Supreme Court decides whether the
chemicals used in lethal injections
pose an unreasonable risk of excessive pain. The legal fight about lethal
injections is really one symptom of a
much broader set of concerns about
the death penalty, and two puzzles in
the lethal injections cases illustrate
the larger confusion and mixed feelings.
While support for the death penalty remains a majority sentiment,
most citizens worry about the fairness of the justice system and the
execution of innocent defendants.
These mixed feelings produce odd
patterns of public opinion. In one set
of surveys six years ago, 63 percent
supported the death penalty, but 51
percent favored a moratorium on
executions until research proved that
the system was fair and reliable.
Perhaps this indicates that few people are in a great hurry to execute
prisoners, particularly in California.
The state has the largest death
row in the United States and has
averaged fewer than one execution
a year since executions resumed
in 1992. However, two executions
in late 2005 and a cluster of four
scheduled last year, created palpable anxiety and discomfort about a
more frequent spate of executions.
One sensed a sigh of relief when the
execution of Michael Angelo Morales,
who murdered a 17-year-old Lodi
girl, was postponed in February
after a federal district court judge
in San Jose set new restrictions on
lethal injection procedures.
Perhaps the ambivalent public in
California is more comfortable with
a death penalty that produces no
executions than with stories about
pending lethal injections covered
regularly on the nightly news. That
ambivalence is a necessary backdrop to understanding the oddity of
the lethal injection controversy.
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Mixed feelings about the brutality
of executions inspired the idea of
lethal injection. Gov. Ronald Reagan
first suggested in 1973 that the painfree injections veterinarians used to
put down injured horses might be a
more humane way to carry out capital punishment than the gas chamber
and the electric chair. Oklahoma first
authorized lethal injection in 1977,
and Texas carried out the first lethal
injection in 1982.
Yet the procedures used in Texas
and all the other states that adopted lethal injection differed from
Reagan’s 1973 suggestion in two
critical respects.
First, doctors have not been
involved in an execution of a human
by lethal injection. Because doctors
are forbidden to assist in executions
for ethical reasons, no physician
checks dosages or looks for indications of pain or assures proper
methods of administration.
The second difference between
putting pets to sleep and lethal
injection of humans is the chemicals
used to take life. Vets put down
animals with a large dose of a sedative, such as sodium pentothal. It
may take a while, but it is painless.
The people who created the lethal
injection cocktail used a more complicated three-drug sequence – thiopental as a sedative, then a paralytic
agent, and then a drug to stop the
heart and end life. The advantages
of three drugs over one are cosmetic – the process can be swifter
and somewhat less discomforting
for observers. But the process is
complex, leaving many more ways
that the plan can go wrong. Too little
sedative followed by paralysis can
produce horrible pain well before
death but no capacity for the prisoner to express it.
The first round of lethal injection
litigation to be argued before the
Supreme Court in January, Baze
v. Rees, will probably only decide
technical questions about who has
the burden of proof on the risks of
specific execution methods. But the
fact that the court has stopped the
execution process to consider the
risks of lethal injection reflects a
large set of second thoughts about
the need and cost of capital punishment.
Two puzzles in the current litigation
before the Supreme Court deserve
public scrutiny. One is why it took
so long for any court to pay close
attention to the problems. No state
By Franklin E. Zimring –
Special to The Police News
or medical organization conducted
a serious medical evaluation of the
practice. This unevaluated execution
mix was used 900 times before the
courts called time out. Why?
A second mystery is the unwillingness of states to simply change to
a single sedative injection so that
executions can resume. Why do
California officials persist in submitting a three-drug protocol to the
federal court when the court has
indicated that the combination is
dangerous?
Almost three quarters of the states
that have the death penalty use it
infrequently or not at all. Death sentences and executions have been
declining in the United States for
almost a decade. Last week, both
houses of the New Jersey state legislature passed a bill to abolish the
state’s death penalty, a measure the
governor has promised to sign.
Executions reached their peak at
98 a year in 1999, but then dropped
to 53 by 2006 – even before objections to lethal injection arose. The
number of death sentences sought
by prosecutors and imposed by
juries has dropped as well. The highest level of death sentences in the
past 15 years was 317 in 1996. In
the next nine years, the number of
death sentences dropped 60 percent to 128 in 2005. Prosecutors
and juries now issue fewer than half
the death verdicts they did only a
decade ago. Have people gone soft
on public safety?
Public safety has little to do with
this debate. Whether the state of
California has no executions next
year instead of one or two has little
or no impact on the crime rate. We
lock up 250,000 people in this state
each year to protect the public – and
none of the 650 people on death
row will become a threat to the public because they won’t get out.
The fact that public safety doesn’t
require executions turns out to be a
crucial flaw in the argument for the
death penalty. Why should we run
the risk of injustice and brutality for
punishment we don’t really need?
About the writer:
Franklin E. Zimring is the William G.
Simon Professor of law and Wolfen
Distinguished Scholar at Boalt
Hall, at the University of California,
Berkeley. He is the author of The
Contradictions of American Capital
Punishment.
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to his head inside a Galveston home
located in the 2200 Block of 59th
Street. The original report was called
in by Rene Alegria, who found the
body before 4:00 PM, and was one
of the last known persons to see Ruiz
alive. Alegria told police that he left
Ruiz with another juvenile friend of his
and went to go eat at a local restaurant. Alegria told police that when he
returned to his home he found Ruiz
on the floor. The other Juvenile was
quickly rounded up by police investigators and told police that he left
shortly after Alegria and Ruiz was still
alive.
Captain Phillip Morris with the
Galveston Police Department, then
an investigator, conducted the initial
investigation and has publicly stated
that the story given by Alegria and his
friend did not add up. Captain Morris
questioned a neatly folded bath towel
being placed under the head of Ruiz
and the “supposed suicide weapon”
being found in the “wrong hand.”
The homicide of Bruce Ochoa, which
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Bobby Wayne Woods was sentenced
to death Thursday, May 28, 1998 for
the abduction and murder of 11-yearold Sarah Patterson a year before in
Granbury, Hood County, Texas.
Woods, 32, also received a 40-year
sentence for attempted capital murder in the injuring of the girl’s 9-yearold brother.
Defense attorneys had asked for a
sentence of life in prison.
The Granbury man was convicted
of abducting Sarah and her brother,
Cody, slashing Sarah’s throat and
knocking Cody unconscious. Cody
told police to “kill Bobby Woods for
me” after he was found wandering in
a cemetery.
About a dozen witnesses, including
Sarah’s best friend, testified in the
punishment phase of Woods’ trial.
Sarah’s diary was among the evidence prosecutors offered.
“Dear Diary. Guess what? Bobby
moved out and we are so, so, so,
so happy,” says an entry dated two
months before Sarah was killed. In
another entry, the girl wrote, “I don’t
like Cody, and I hate Bobby.”
A psychologist hired by the defense
testified Woods was mentally retarded and no longer a threat to society. But he acknowledged he hadn’t
examined Woods. A psychiatrist put
on the stand by prosecutors said
Woods was not retarded and could
commit future violent acts.
During the trial, Woods admitted taking the children from their mother’s
home April 30 and knocking Cody
unconscious. But Woods claimed
Sarah was killed by his cousin, who
committed suicide shortly after the
crime.
Woods had been kicked out of
the Patterson home days before
the attack by the children’s mother, Schwana Patterson, who was
later convicted of Injury to a Child.
Prosecutors say she heard her children screaming but didn’t help. She
denied the charges.
Cody testified he was awaken by his
sister’s screams as Woods beat the
girl in the bed the children shared. He
said Woods told them to follow him,
and all three went to a graveyard.
The boy testified that Woods told
him to get out of the car and told
Sarah to get in the front seat and lie
down. Cody said Woods choked him
and knocked him unconscious. The
boy later had surgery to remove skull
fragments from his brain.
Woods claimed his cousin, Jody
Milton, agreed to “take care of”
Sarah, whose body was found with
her throat slashed.
Milton hanged himself shortly after
the girl’s death.
The trial was moved to Llano, 65
miles northwest of Austin, because
of extensive news coverage in the
Dallas-Fort Worth area.
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at gunpoint by at least two black male suspects. CASE NO> 200757353. The robbery occurred around 2:30 PM. The suspects were
after Codeine (aka “syrup or lean”) The suspects obtained 2 bottles
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observed a white colored four door Cadillac in the area. Anyone having
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Local Cop Killers on Death Row Continue
To Get Years-long Breaks while on Appeal
By TOM KENNEDY
Police News Contributor
he 10 men facing the death
penalty for killing Houston
police officers have so far
lived an average of 12.5 years longer
than the brave men whose lives they
took.
Their tenure on Texas’ Death Row at
the Polunsky Unit in Livingston will continue to grow much higher. The Texas
Department of Criminal Justice had no
names on this infamous roster on its
2007 execution list.
Each of these men have an undetermined number of years left before
they will be anywhere near execution.
They are in various stages in the seemingly endless appeals process.
Longevity Records
While Carl Wayne Buntion, 67, enjoys
writing poems and tending to his
Website, Officer James Irby, the HPD
solo officer he killed in cold blood on a
hot June day in 1990, never lived long
enough to learn about the Internet.
Buntion has survived the criminal justice system in the Lone Star State for
17 years and counting.
Buntion, a lifelong criminal, seeks
pen pals and monetary contributions
like many of his Death Row colleagues,
while appellate attorneys in the office
of District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal
experience frustration with the amount
of years that elapse so that death
penalty inmates might exhaust their
appeals.
Several years ago, the TDCJ listed
Excell White and Sammie Felder Jr.
as holding the records for the longest
time served on Death Row prior to
execution. Then both were executed.
Now, Arthur L. Williams has easily
surpassed their records of more than
24 and 23 years, respectively. On
Feb. 28, 1983, Williams received the
prospects of a lethal injection for the
senseless killing of Officer Daryl W.
Shirley while scuffling with Shirley as
the officer was serving a warrant at
Williams’ apartment complex on April
28, 1982.
This means Williams has lived at
least 25 years longer than Shirley,
the divorced father of two sons, both
of whom wound up becoming law
enforcement officers. According to
records in Rosenthal’s office, Williams
can look forward to many more years.
He is in the midst of his second round
of state appeals, still an untold number
of years before his appeals process
T
will be nearly exhausted.
While the DA’s office counts Williams’
time on Death Row from the date of
conviction in 1983, we count from the
more appropriate date of the actual
offense – a truer measure of the life
extension of these Internet-connected
defendants.
Arthur Williams’ Website, several
years old, quotes him as being on
Death Row “for 23 years and still
counting as I struggle for justice and
freedom in the courts for killing an
undercover cop in Houston (a case of
self-defense!).”
Both he and Robert M. Jennings
are the two longest-tenured cop killers sent to Death Row from Houston.
Jennings, who turns 51 this year, killed
Officer Elston Howard while trying to
write a city arcade ticket at an adult
book store on Richmond Avenue on
July 19, 1988.
Jennings has lived 20 years longer
than Howard. He will live even longer
than that because of the slow appeals
process.
Roe Wilson, chief of Rosenthal’s PostConviction Writs Division, said Jennings
and Williams have finished their direct
appeals and are now in state habeas corpus proceedings. Wilson cited
many factors that affect the length of
time it takes to exhaust the appellate
process, especially the unique legal
characteristics.
Interestingly, both of these cases
are in the court of 208th State District
Judge Denise Collins and both defendants used the same defense attorney, Randy Schaffer.
Buntion, the third longest-tenured
individual in this distinguished group,
writes poems one can read by going
to his Website, http://ccadp.org/carlbuntion.htm.
Buntion’s conviction from Jan. 24,
1991 was overturned and he was
given a new trial; however, the state
has the right to appeal the reversal.
Tough Scheduling
Prosecutor Lynn Hardaway, who
keeps close tabs of Buntion’s appeal
as part of her duties in Wilson’s office,
is encouraged by the process as it
affects Buntion.
“We went through state habeas and
through the federal district court,”
Hardaway explained, detailing the crucial steps in the appeals process. “Now
what has happened is the attorney
from the state attorney general’s office
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has appealed to the Fifth Circuit.
“It does happen that reversals will
get overturned. That happened in a
case that resulted in an execution last
week. The case was reversed and
overturned by the Fifth Circuit.”
Will it happen in the Buntion case?
Maybe.
But when a defendant fails at this
point, he has 90 days to go to the
next appellate level, the U. S. Supreme
Court. If the highest court in the land
rejects him, the state then schedules
an execution date.
None of the 10 Houston cop killers
on Death Row yet meet these criteria.
Again citing the number of factors that affect capital murder case
appeals, Wilson pointed out that victim
families often get the mistaken impression that executions take place based
on the chronology of the crimes.
Instead, the timing depends on the
complexity of the legal issues in the
individual cases, she said.
Anthony Cardell Haynes, 27, is awaiting execution for murder in the death
of Sergeant Kent Kincaid on May 23,
1998 during a confrontation on Plum
Forest near Forest Heights. Haynes
was a teenager at the time. He has
been on Death Row for “only” nine
years.
“His (appeal) is fairly new,” Wilson
said. “He’s in federal district court on
his writ. He’s moving faster. It depends
on whatever the issues are, the judge
in the case and what’s happening with
the law.”
Haynes was convicted on Sept. 17,
1999 out of the 263rd District Court.
He is like many Death Row inmates
– he also makes appeals on the
Internet. “I was convicted of capital
murder on Sept. 17, 1999 and sentenced to death a week later in the
city that I lived all but three years of
my 19 free years, Houston, Texas,”
Haynes tells his Website readers. “It
was a tough blow for someone only
20 years of age.
“These past years on 'the row’ have
been filled with many ups and downs,
but at the end of every day I somehow
make it. I would be lying if I tried to
convey that these years have not been
difficult. When you take away a man’s
power and make him almost impotent,
it hurts."
“When you take that same man
away from that which he loves (family,
friends and human contact) it hurts.
When you lock him away in solitary
confinement for 23 hours everyday
and force him to live under sub-human
conditions, it hurts."
“When a man’s own family is only
willing to help when they are forced
to, it hurts. When a grown man of age
25 can not even assist his own self
financially, but must depend on others, it hurts."
“All these things describe aspects of
my life and this kind of existence can
get hard at times. But you know what?
Through all the pains, struggles and
calamity I go through here, I still do my
best to remain positive and keep an
optimistic outlook on life. I know that
change will come one day and things
will not be as bad.”
Doesn’t Remember Victims
This Mr. Haynes left out a very important “hurt” in his dissertation, which
also seeks pen pals. He failed to detail
the hurt still felt by Sgt. Kinkaid’s wife
Nancy and two daughters, Jena Lee
and Courtney Deanne. Also there were
his mother, Mrs. Myrna Kinkaid, and
one sister, Mrs. Kathy Conway, as
well as numerous other relatives and
friends.
The Haynes saga is easily rivaled by
that of Edgar Tamayo, who turned 40
last July.
This life-long criminal figured he could
get away from Officer Guy P. Gaddis
while handcuffed in the backseat of
Gaddis’ patrol car on Jan. 31, 1994.
Unknown to the officer, Tamayo had a
gun that failed to turn up in an initial
search. He shot Gaddis in the back
of the head, causing a quick death.
The patrol car crashed into a house,
leaving Tamayo with trying to get away
while still cuffed.
Later, investigating officers asked
themselves: Now, what person in his
right mind would believe he could
shoot the driver of a car with your
hands cuffed behind you in a locked
backseat, and still be able to escape
safely?
While the crash injured both Tamayo
and a fellow prisoner, Tamayo was
able to kick out the window glass of
the left rear door and escape. He was
caught and tried and convicted on
Nov. 1, 1994 before Judge Michael
McSpadden in the 208th District
Court.
Although raised in Texas, Tamayo
was technically still a Mexican National
and as such he was affected by the
Vienna Convention, which gave him
the right to be able to consult with
the Mexican consulate for legal advice
and a lawyer. Tamayo supposedly
wasn’t aware of these rights and went
through the initial phase of the appeals
process without using them as part of
his argument.
Wilson said the International Court
of Justice in The Hague hears cases
in which Mexican National defendants
claim they weren’t afforded rights
guarantees by the Vienna treaty. Of
course, she has argued before the
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals that
defendants like Tamayo are provided
court-appointed attorneys and the full
benefits of any indigent defendant in
Texas.
“There were 51 Mexican Nationals
whose cases wound up in the
International Court of Justice in The
Hague,” Wilson explained. “Under the
Vienna Convention, if there is a dispute, it’s supposed to be settled
through this court.”
Wilson contended that Tamayo
should not have waited so late in his
appellate process to cite the rights of
the Vienna Convention, having brought
it up after exhausting his initial stateintensive appeals route and while his
second-line federal process was in
effect.
The international court gave Tamayo
and the 50 others hearings.
But Wilson said the Texas Court of
Criminal Appeals has ruled that “our
courts are not bound by decisions
of The Hague. We are supposed to
follow our Supreme Court and earlier
the Supreme Court said it (any Hague
decision) didn’t make any difference.”
She speculated that Texas’ highest
criminal appeals court would dismiss
Tamayo’s appeal based on this ruling.
Yet Tamayo still will have his federal
appeals route.
Empty Internet Pleadings
That’s not all he has, either. Tamayo
has not one or two Websites; he
has three – in English, Spanish and
German.
Tamayo uses these worldwide forums
to proclaim his innocence
“Through a series of illegal maneuvers by the police and the prosecutors, such as the use of manufactured
and falsified documents and perjured
testimony, I was not able to hire an
attorney to defend me at trial,” he
says on his Websites. “Therefore, I
was given a court-appointed attorney.
It’s commonly known that defendants
with court-appointed attorneys are at
least 10 times more likely to be convicted because such attorneys are only
permitted $500 for investigations, lab
analyses and expert witnesses.”
Even if he wanted to use monetary
terms, Tamayo fails to calculate the
losses incurred by Gaddis’ wife, his
parents, two brothers, two aunts and
two uncles.
Here are other HPD Officer killers on
the Texas Death Row and the status of
their cases:
• Shelton D. Jones shot Sgt. Bruno
D. Soboleski to death on April 12,
1991 during a drug bust in the 6600
block of Calhoun. Jones turned 40
in November. He has been on Death
Row for 17 years. Convicted out of
continued on page 22 (125 Years)
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evidence produced at my trial.
“I didn’t know who this guy was (in
the end, I discovered he was an undercover police officer), nor did he disclose his authority to me. Even when
he produced a set of handcuffs (which
now can be bought anywhere), started
chocking me, and using racial slurs, he
still did not disclose his authority.
“The police were the ones who during
interrogation interjected, saying he was
a police officer, making me call him a
police officer when until the moment I
had not known that for a fact…"
“I thought I was being robbed, carjacked, or something. A lot of things ran
through my mind. I shot him once in selfdefense. I thought he was in fact going
to kill me. That’s why I shot him. Yes, I
stole the car I was driving at the time.
Yes, I know that was wrong. But I am not
a killer, it was in self-defense!”
Blando’s survivors, especially his wife
and son, probably take little consolation in the fact that Jeffrey D. Williams
is – by Roe Wilson’s calculations – “the
closest to execution.” His mother, two
brothers and two sisters likely feel the
same way.
• Alfred D. Brown and Elijah Joubert
were charged with capital murder in the
April 3, 2003 death of Officer Charles
Clark in the 5700 block of South Loop
610 East. They shot the veteran officer
during a robbery attempt. They also
killed an employee at the check-cashing
establishment.
Joubert was convicted on Oct. 21,
2004 and Brown on Oct. 25, 2005,
both in the 351st District Court of
Judge Mark Ellis. Both are still early in
their appeals process.
• Juan Quintero was charged with
capital murder in the death of Officer
Rodney Johnson on Sept. 21 when
he, much like Edgar Tamayo, pulled a
secreted gun and shot Johnson in the
head. He is awaiting a trial that is set
for this June. Johnson’s widow Joslyn,
also a Houston police officer, anxiously
awaits the experience, as do Rodney’s
three children and Joslyn’s son and
daughter.
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communication hurts everyone within
the community. The Galveston Police
Department’s Citizens Police Academy
is designed to help eliminate any barriers and open the lines of communication
along with building new relationships to
strengthen our community, not divide it.
In closing I would ask you to get a
friend and enroll in the Galveston Police
Department’s Citizens Police Academy.
Anyone wishing to enroll should contact
Officer David Sedmak of the Community
Service Unit, 409-765-3605.
continued from page 19 (125 Years)
the 248th District Court on Nov. 21,
1991, he has finished his direct state
appeal and is currently in the first line of
federal appeals.
• On April 6, 1997, Officer Tony Thrinh
was shot to death during a robbery of
his parents’ store. Chuong Tong, now
31, was charged and was convicted of
capital murder on March 6, 1998 in the
178th District Court. His appeal sits in
the early stages of the initial state court
appellate process.
In his Internet pleas for financial help
and friends who will write to him, Tong
said, “The hardest part in dealing with
my present situation is the undeniable
reality of my own fate in the silent road
I must now travel.
“It hurts knowing that other people
who must walk this same path I am
walking down have someone who is
willing to share that lonely walk with
them, so they won’t have to walk by
themselves, and they also comfort and
encourage them.
“But I travel this road by myself, not
because I want to, but because I have
no one to share my life with.”
• Jeffrey D. Williams, now 32, shot
to death Officer Troy Blando on May
19, 1999 when Blando was attempting
to arrest him for car theft in the 6800
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he City of
Galveston
has long and
colorful history with a
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times, to our disadvantage, we have been
slow to change or adapt with current
trends and practices. This “ old way “ or
“ On Galveston Time “ attitude or mentality could use a little dose of reality and
a shot of adrenalin. There comes a time
when progress being derailed or stifled
has a negative impact on the community. The police department should
mirror the community it serves, and the
community should know and understand
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subjects you are seldom exposed too.
The Citizens Police Academy is
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Police Department is all about. We outline what our mission is, what function
and roles we have within our community,
and how each division and unit functions. We also try to dispel inaccurate
beliefs and perceptions so that you
know and understand just exactly what
our capabilities are. We do not teach
you to be police officers, and force you
to come to work once a month.
Volunteerism is something that anyone
can participate in so on behalf of the
Galveston Police Department I encourage you to enroll in the next Citizens
Police Academy scheduled to begin in
April. For just a couple of hours each
week, you can learn more about your
police department, its members, and
it’s function within our community. Just
being more informed can foster good
citizenship, and you may actually be
able to help our community in other
ways that you never thought of before.
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between the police department and its
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