Waco Trib by Tommy Witherspoon 10/16/2017
Jacob Carrizal led members of the Dallas Bandidos chapter into the Twin Peaks parking lot and was at the forefront when the battle began with the Cossacks, a rival motorcycle group, a motorcycle gang expert testified Monday.
Douglas Pearson, a policeman from Colorado assigned to a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives motorcycle gang task force, spent his third partial day on the stand Monday in Carrizal’s trial in Waco’s 54th State District Court.
Carrizal, 35, an employee of the Dallas, Garland and Northeastern Railroad, is charged with directing the activities of a criminal street gang and two counts of engaging in organized criminal activity. He is the first of the 154 bikers indicted in the Twin Peaks shootout to stand trial.
Pearson spent most of his time on the stand Monday under cross-examination from Carrizal’s attorney, Casie Gotro, who is trying to impress on the jury the defense theory that the Cossacks, not the Bandidos, were the aggressors that day, that the Cossacks put a bounty on Bandidos members and set a trap for the Bandidos at Twin Peaks by crashing a meeting of a biker coalition of which they were not members.
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