Saturday, 18th December 2004
Cecil Akisson Motors 512- 392- 4300
2701 South IH 35
San Marcos, Texas 78666
Gabriel Vega, Service Advisor, Ext.222
Texas DPS Web Site
http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/forms/
LS-16 Concealed Handgun Statutes & Related Weapons Laws
CR-1 Sign Posting
Texas Administrative Code, Title 37, Part 1, Chapter 6, Subchapter D. - NO LONGER EXITEST.
http://info.sos.state.tx.us/pls/pub/readtac$ext.ViewTAC?tac_view=4&ti=37&pt=1&ch=6
When I got to the door I notices this non-compliant sign on the door, I told Gab that was why I could not come inside the shop. I remember pointing to were the sign is located as I held the door open. Gab came out with his clip board, looked at the sign and remarked that he never noticed it. We than walked to the driver’s side of my truck.
After I had told Gab I was carrying, I shown him my CHL, which was in my left hip pocket. He then asked me if I would leave the pistol in the truck, I told him I could not, as both the Glove Box and Center Console do not have locks.
I than told Gab that I was leaving and I walked off of the Dealership. I remember walking around a bit, walking across the street and noticing that no one was doing anything with my truck when Sam drove in.
Seeing me standing there by the service drive, Sam waved at me. I returned the wave, he said something but I could not hear him. He came over to see what was going on. I asked him if he was a manager or could get one for me. He asked why and I explained what had happen. I recall that is about when the S.M.P.D. showed up.
the S.M.P.D. showed up. I was arrested and taken to the Hays County Jail.
The Charges:
The first, "Unlawful carrying of a handgun by a license holder."
The second, "Trespass by the holder of a Concealed Handgun License."
It would be over two years before my day in Court would come. In those two
years I would lose everything I had ever worked for. Indeed a very high
price to be forced to pay.
The Outcome;
The first, "Unlawful carrying of a handgun by a license holder."
--> NOT Guilty! via Jury Trial on Feb. 28, 2007.
The second, "Trespass by the holder of a Concealed Handgun License."
--> Dismissed! Mar. 26, 2007.
The cost;
1- My job, when it was discovered that I had been arrested, I was told my
services were no longer needed.
2- My House, being unable to find employment with a "Pending Jury Trail," I
was unable to make the payment on my house and it was foreclosed.
3- My Wife, not being able to handle the stress of this ordeal anymore left
me to fend for myself.
4- Very deep and long lasting Depression, after all I lost everything I ever
worked for, gone.
Having sold off all of my possessions (of any value), I am now living (if
one could call this living) Penniless, in a Cockroach and Flea infested Slum
of an apartment complex located in San Marcos, Texas. Right now I am
managing to live (if you call this living) on $5 a day, as that is all that
is left from my V.A. Disability check each month. But there is no money to
live on, many days I do not eat anything, as I can not afford to. To stretch
out what food I do have, I try to only eat something every other day. I have
been told this is not good, but it is all I can do to stay alive. But this
is the price I paid for my Freedom, Freedom is NOT cheap.
