The Orange Leader
Deposit slip linked to Wade
BEAUMONT - Hardin County Sheriff H. R. "mike Holzapfel testified today that a deposit slip for a bank account in Orange County Sheriff James Wade's name was in the possession of accused drug dealer Donnie Flowers
when Flowers was arrested in Hardin County last October.
Holzapfel's statements came in a haring to determine if a temporary restraining order issued Friday against Wade should be made permanent.
When Flowers and James Watson were arrested Oct. 14, 1987 in Hardin County, sheriff's deputies found in their possession a Dayton air pump with a serial number that has been traced to the custody of the Orange County Sheriff's Department, Holzapfel testified.
Also found in a briefcase belonging to Flowers was a deposit slip with Wade's "special account" number and a book of transactions of what Holzapfel said he believed then were narcotics deals, and a telephone "beeper" which flowers told him was given Flowers by Wade "to warn if they were going to be arrested," Holzapfel testified.
Holzapfel also said Flowers told him Flowers "set up" - informed on - "meth labs" for Wade to "bust" and in return was allowed to operate his own lab. Flowers admitted to Holzapfel that he was an informant for Wade, Holzapfel said.
Five days later, on Oct. 19, Wade went to Hardin County to talk with Holzapfel about Flowers' arrest, and requested that Flowers be released to Wade on a personal recognizance bond Holzapfel said.
Flowers was released to Wade because Holzapfel said he did not believe Flowers' allegations.
At no time during Wade's visit did Holzapfel confront Wade with the pump, deposit slip r the allegations made by Flowers, he said.
Holzapfel's testimony was continuing at The Orange Leader's Deadline today.
Wade was identified in an affidavit filed late Thursday night by Federal Bureau of Investigations Special Agent Zechariah Shelton as the target of an FBI drug investigation.
Shelton's affidavit was filed in Cobb's court in support of a motion for a temporary restraining order against Wade, forbidding him orhis deputies from "harassing" two witnesses who identified..............
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