1 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:13,360 Speaker 1: Michael darry Show is. 3 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 2: On the air. 4 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 3: If I had a hammer, I had. 5 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 1: A hammer in the mall, I had a hammer any. 6 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:34,839 Speaker 2: All over this line. 7 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:39,639 Speaker 4: I had a hammer und danger, I have a rout 8 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 4: a warning. 9 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 5: I'd have run luck. 10 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: Between my brother's emphasisters. 11 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 6: All over this bad boo. 12 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 5: If I had a bed, I hadn't ring it in 13 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 5: the mall, moarning, I hadn't ring. 14 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:07,959 Speaker 1: It any line, pottering up, pottering. These are going to 15 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 1: continue and they're only going to get worse. A hammer 16 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 1: wielding illegal alien arrested for threatening to kill his boss 17 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:19,400 Speaker 1: while working as part of a yard crew in Friendswood. 18 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 1: He was arrested after nearly a one hour standoff. He 19 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: had open warrants out of two counties, plus an ice hold. Hmm. 20 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:36,200 Speaker 1: The story from ABC thirteen. 21 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:40,640 Speaker 4: He was frantically knocking on my front door, April Hunley's 22 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:44,399 Speaker 4: longtime landscaper, clearly in distress when she opens the door 23 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 4: at her home on North Mission Circle Friday afternoon. 24 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:50,560 Speaker 7: He was afraid and he said, April, you help me. 25 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 5: She says. The day laborer he'd hired to help cut 26 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 5: her lawn was waving around a hammer and threatening him. 27 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 5: Police identify that man as Kevin Pon said. 28 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 7: He said, I want my money now, and I'm gonna 29 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 7: kill you. I'm gonna kill you right. 30 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 5: She says he appeared ready to make good od all 31 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:10,160 Speaker 5: because of an apparent dispute over payment. 32 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 7: He wanted full payment for a full day right then, 33 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:15,639 Speaker 7: and he didn't want to work out the rest of 34 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 7: to day. 35 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 5: Hunley says, the landscaper takes cover behind her while she 36 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:21,919 Speaker 5: tries talking down the hammer wielding man. 37 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 7: I said, put down the hammer and I'm calling the police, 38 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 7: and I said, Pelicia that much. 39 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,920 Speaker 5: He seems to understand, because Hunley says, he abandons the 40 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 5: hammer and instead grabs a leaf flower from his boss's 41 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 5: truck and runs down LaSalle with the blower slung over 42 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 5: his back. 43 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 7: I'm thinking that he was taking it in payment. 44 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 5: When he rounds the corner onto another part of North 45 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 5: Mischiard Circle, neighbors say he drops the leaf flower and 46 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 5: jumps this backyard fence, taking part of it out in 47 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 5: the process. From there, it's across the drainage dish to 48 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 5: the San Joaquina States neighborhood, where police eventually catch up 49 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 5: with him found. 50 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 7: Him hiding in a drainage ditch that goes underneath to 51 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 7: drive away. 52 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 5: Every police arrest him and charge him with aggravated assault. 53 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:11,920 Speaker 5: He's also facing a separate charge since police say he 54 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 5: refused to identify himself. That maybe because police say he 55 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 5: has open warrants in Harrison Dallas Counties. I says also 56 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 5: put a hold on him. 57 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 7: And I was wondering if that man was going to 58 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:27,079 Speaker 7: try and charge me with that hammer, and I would 59 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:31,559 Speaker 7: be ready for him. 60 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 1: It's only going to continue. They're not huh, what you did? What? Oh, 61 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 1: you were just cleaning it. Well, here we are more 62 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 1: soaking the taxpayers. These people in public office, school districts, county, 63 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 1: city government, they're gonna piss people off enough and they're 64 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 1: gonna end up with a revolution, a real revolution. They 65 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 1: have got to stop. They are so tone deaf, These 66 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: bastards just more money, more money, more money. Willis ISD 67 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 1: asking voters for sixty eight point eight million dollars to 68 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:26,840 Speaker 1: build a new football stadium. Well, at least voters will 69 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 1: get to vote. I mean, I guess that's better than 70 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:30,839 Speaker 1: some of the rest of this stuff where they just 71 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 1: why doesn't willis ISD just say, well, we think this 72 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 1: fits within the loophole because there was just a natural 73 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:45,359 Speaker 1: disaster and we really need a new football stadium. It 74 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:47,799 Speaker 1: will be one of the most expensive high school football 75 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:59,159 Speaker 1: stadiums in Texas. Sixty nine million dollars to build a 76 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:05,480 Speaker 1: new football st what are there ten games a year, 77 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 1: five at home? Seventy practically seventy million dollars because there 78 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:21,360 Speaker 1: will be a cost overrun, it will end up being 79 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:26,279 Speaker 1: over seventy million dollars by the time it's done for 80 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:30,159 Speaker 1: something that's going to be used a handful of times 81 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:40,600 Speaker 1: a year. That's insane. This is crazy. How does anybody 82 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:46,359 Speaker 1: think this is a good idea? Nobody loves high school 83 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 1: football more than I do. And I can enjoy high 84 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 1: school football on those same old horrible aluminum, hard on 85 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 1: your backing butt seats in the same old grass field 86 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,720 Speaker 1: that one of the assistant coaches are some retarded dude 87 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 1: that just kind of has a maintenance, you know whatever. 88 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:16,360 Speaker 1: Around the school. There's always some guy that's somebody's nephew. 89 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 1: We had that at Orangefield, and everybody loves them. They're 90 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:24,040 Speaker 1: retarded and everybody loves them. And they got keys jangling, 91 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 1: you know, out of their jeans. Keys to everything, and 92 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:33,080 Speaker 1: you you know, when something goes wrong, you call in 93 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:35,359 Speaker 1: Carl because he's good with the small engine repair and 94 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:38,480 Speaker 1: you get him some in French Fried ptators. That guy 95 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:43,160 Speaker 1: cuts the lawn. He goes out there and marks off 96 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:46,919 Speaker 1: the yard lines. Does he snap them all straight? No 97 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 1: he doesn't. Does he sometimes misspell the name of the 98 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:53,240 Speaker 1: team when he spray paints it in the end zone? 99 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 2: Yes? 100 00:06:54,560 --> 00:07:00,720 Speaker 1: Yes, it's not all good. Yeah, sometimes there's deflate gate, 101 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:03,920 Speaker 1: but not on purpose because he forgets how much air 102 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:09,480 Speaker 1: to put in the balls. Sure, but you don't need 103 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 1: seventy million dollars. And you know what, by the way, 104 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 1: a twenty seven million dollar student activity center with an 105 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:26,840 Speaker 1: indoor field, with a baseball area, wrestling space, media center. 106 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 1: How about this? How about the taxpayers are already paying enough. 107 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 1: And if you want all this crap, oh also a 108 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 1: nineteen point six million dollar aquatic center. So you're asking 109 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:49,760 Speaker 1: people for seventy make that ninety, make that one hundred 110 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 1: and thirty million dollars, one hundred and fifteen point four 111 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 1: million dollars, one hundred and fifteen million dollar bond package. 112 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 1: How about that. Let's start with the football field, all right, 113 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 1: you want a new football field for the parents. And 114 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 1: in a small town. You know, my parents still went 115 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:14,119 Speaker 1: to high school football games up until a few years ago. 116 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 1: Now part of that was I had a niece that 117 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:22,679 Speaker 1: was cheerleading for Orange Field High School. But in Orange 118 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:26,480 Speaker 1: you still go to the local football games on Friday night. Fine, 119 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:30,440 Speaker 1: how about this. How about instead of charging people on 120 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:34,320 Speaker 1: their taxes, many of whom don't come to the games 121 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 1: and don't want a football field or a football team, 122 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 1: how about you charge admission you want to enjoy the 123 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: football field, pay as you go, instead of charging people 124 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:50,840 Speaker 1: because they're in the minority that vote against this, for 125 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:54,080 Speaker 1: a football field that they don't even want and certainly 126 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 1: don't need. The Michael Perry Show. 127 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:04,560 Speaker 7: Because Russia cannot hack a piece of paper, we listened to. 128 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 1: That story again during the break and I must have 129 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 1: missed the the woman telling him that she was calling 130 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:21,360 Speaker 1: the police, but Ramon caught it. This is the illegal alien, Uh, 131 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 1: day laborer who's pulled a hammer on his boss and 132 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:29,959 Speaker 1: wants to get paid for the day. And uh, I think, 133 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:33,680 Speaker 1: if you're his boss, you go ahead and pay him, right. 134 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 1: But maybe he didn't have any cash on him. I mean, 135 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 1: there's something you could give him that he could go pawn. 136 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 1: If he pulls a hammer on you, and he's a 137 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:48,959 Speaker 1: day laborer and he's an illegal alien, you got to 138 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 1: figure he's probably committed a few murders in Venezuela, right 139 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 1: and if he is the one that's committed multiple murders 140 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:00,320 Speaker 1: in Venezuela, because there's a lot of them, you don't 141 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 1: want to find that out by being beaten to death. 142 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 1: I mean, nobody wants to be killed, but you know, 143 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:09,480 Speaker 1: a headshot be a whole lot better being beaten to 144 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 1: death with a hammer. You're not gonna die right off. 145 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 1: You're gonna lay there in pain and realize, I'm gonna 146 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:21,200 Speaker 1: die from being hammered to death. This is not This 147 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:23,600 Speaker 1: is not how I had it planned out. I thought 148 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:26,160 Speaker 1: maybe I'd be walking in front of one of the 149 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 1: lawnmowers and you know, a limb would be in there 150 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:31,240 Speaker 1: and he'd shoot up and hit, you know, lodge into 151 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:34,480 Speaker 1: my head or something. But you did not plan on 152 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:36,720 Speaker 1: getting hammered to death by some dude you picked up 153 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: in the home Depot parking lot this morning. I knew 154 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 1: that was a mad one, that one. He had that 155 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:45,200 Speaker 1: eye in him, you know, he had he had that 156 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:48,440 Speaker 1: eye he's looking at it. I knew he was troubled 157 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 1: from the start anyway, So the homeowner said, she went 158 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 1: Spanish on him. 159 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:57,959 Speaker 5: Listen, is this the hammer wielding man said, put down. 160 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 7: The hammer and I'm calling the cool And I said, Pelicia. 161 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 5: That much he seems to understand. 162 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 1: I went Spanish on him. Did you say policia? No, Pelicia? 163 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:11,719 Speaker 7: Oh police, Felicia? 164 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:13,920 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, say that again, because she told him. 165 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 1: She was like, Felicia, hey, put down the hammer. Hammer, 166 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:26,080 Speaker 1: see hammer you got? Put hammer down. I see my eyeball. 167 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 1: I call ring ring, ring, ring, policia. I called woo 168 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:42,680 Speaker 1: woo woo, gun jail, lock up, you bad. Played again, Felicia. 169 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 1: I want to hear what she said. 170 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 7: I said, put down the hammer and I'm calling the police. 171 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 7: And I said, Pelicia that much. 172 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 1: That much he understood. I guess he didn't have a 173 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:02,040 Speaker 1: way to get away home. I don't know if I 174 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:05,960 Speaker 1: maybe I like to know the decison. I like to 175 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:08,160 Speaker 1: see the decision tree that got him to that point. 176 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:13,040 Speaker 1: You know, wait, are you getting in an argument over 177 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:15,160 Speaker 1: did he have the blade setting wrong? 178 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 3: You know? 179 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 1: And you're like, nah, I like, I like that to 180 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 1: be a little higher so I can come back in 181 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 1: a week and go, Hey, time to cut again in grassy? 182 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:26,160 Speaker 1: Grassy growing, isn't it? Boy? Growing fast? So much rain 183 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 1: and everything? Your grass is high? Miss Smith? Should we 184 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:31,040 Speaker 1: go ahead and instead of waiting two weeks, go ahead 185 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:35,240 Speaker 1: and hit this one again this week? All this rain, 186 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:38,560 Speaker 1: it's growing fast. See if you get it down there low, 187 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:41,840 Speaker 1: won't pull gatto? Man, we want two weeks before we 188 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 1: can come. You want leave it up high? 189 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:47,280 Speaker 8: We all? O? 190 00:12:49,679 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 1: What? Yeah? Do? The worst Mexican accent of anybody I've 191 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:07,360 Speaker 1: ever known. And it's really embarrassing because if your parents, 192 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 1: I know your parents would be embarrassed if anyone ever 193 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 1: heard how bad. The only thing worse than your Spanish 194 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 1: is your impersonation of a Mexican. It's the worst I've heard. 195 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:29,080 Speaker 1: It's so bad that it's hilarious. But what were they 196 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:29,760 Speaker 1: arguing over? 197 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:31,080 Speaker 9: Right? 198 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:34,880 Speaker 1: What is there to argue over? Just cut the grass? 199 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:42,880 Speaker 1: And at what point did this day and this week 200 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 1: is not even that hot like I could see if 201 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 1: it's real hot. You're like that son of a bitch 202 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:52,360 Speaker 1: if he comes over here and has a single question 203 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:59,400 Speaker 1: this The blade on this mower is crooked this thing. 204 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:02,720 Speaker 1: I'm out here. I can't breathe. I got polling in 205 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 1: my eyes. I got grass cuttings. 206 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 3: All over my arm. 207 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 1: I'm tired and I'm hungover. I'm tired and I am 208 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 1: hung over. I didn't get any minudo this morning. I'm 209 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 1: pissed off. The taxi dancing club was closed last night. 210 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:33,520 Speaker 1: And if he comes over here and says one word, 211 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 1: why did they even have a hammer. There's a lawn crew. 212 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:44,560 Speaker 1: He was prepared. He was prepared, premeditated. Yep, you come 213 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 1: over here. Good to know they're doing the jobs we 214 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:57,440 Speaker 1: Americans won't do, taking out a hammer and bashing. His 215 00:14:57,560 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 1: name was Kevin Ponset. Hunley said. The laborer dropped the 216 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: hammer and instead grabbed a leaf blower from his boss's truck. 217 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:13,440 Speaker 1: Neighbors saw him running down LaSalle with the blower slung 218 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:17,680 Speaker 1: over his back. You think it was his leaf blower? 219 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:22,360 Speaker 1: Or do you think because maybe he's figuring, I gotta 220 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 1: get some money today. And if I go knocking on 221 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:27,280 Speaker 1: the door with a hammer in my hands, say hey, 222 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:31,440 Speaker 1: excuse me, sir, do you have anything needs to be hammering? 223 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 1: Do you have anything in want of hammering? But if 224 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:39,480 Speaker 1: you got a leaf blower, you get kind of rakeed. 225 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 1: You'll kind of push the leaves all up on everything, 226 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 1: and you are having bad mess. I blow, I gotta blow. 227 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:53,600 Speaker 1: I blow it. Uh yeah, sure, but aren't you The 228 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 1: guy that had the hammer down at Miss Smith's house 229 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:59,120 Speaker 1: was swinging it and wielding it and all that when 230 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:02,800 Speaker 1: they called the police. Uh yeah, but I have blown. 231 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:07,400 Speaker 1: I blow, you know, I blow. After let's see. So 232 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:11,480 Speaker 1: neighbors saw him running down LaSalle with the blower slung 233 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:15,360 Speaker 1: over his back. I gotta go back, Hundley said. The 234 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:20,000 Speaker 1: laborer dropped the hammer and instead grabbed a leaf blower 235 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 1: from his boss's truck. Neighbors saw him running down LaSalle 236 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 1: with the blower slung over his back. When he rounded 237 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 1: the corner onto another part of North Mission Circle. Neighbors 238 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 1: say he eventually abandoned the leaf blower and jumped a 239 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 1: backyard fence, damaging it in the process. After crossing a 240 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 1: drainage ditch. Popos say they found Ponce in the San 241 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 1: Joaquin Estate's neighborhood about eighty minutes after they were first 242 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:57,600 Speaker 1: called for the hammer attack. Ponce was charged with aggravated 243 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:01,280 Speaker 1: assault and also faces a separate charge for reduced for 244 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:05,439 Speaker 1: refusing to identify himself to police. Well, he may not 245 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 1: know what his identity is. They give him a new 246 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:08,720 Speaker 1: identity when they come here. That way you don't have 247 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 1: you don't get to know that they're a murderer and 248 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:13,480 Speaker 1: a rapist. He might have forgot what they told him. 249 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:16,600 Speaker 1: That happens to Kamala sometimes they give her a front 250 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:19,440 Speaker 1: story and she can't remember it. The friends with police 251 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:22,359 Speaker 1: department said he has warrants in Harris County, in Dallas County, 252 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:26,240 Speaker 1: and that is has put a hold on him. They've 253 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:32,480 Speaker 1: really got a hold on him. Yeah, he's out. Which 254 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 1: he dropped the hammer and picked up the leaf flower. 255 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:36,880 Speaker 1: I'd like to know what was going through his head 256 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 1: at that. 257 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:47,960 Speaker 7: That would look like U you try the kind of 258 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:49,240 Speaker 7: what's her name? 259 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:55,320 Speaker 1: Bill Peverley says, I think you missed in the yard 260 00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:59,080 Speaker 1: man with the hammer story, I think you missed that 261 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 1: the homeowner sounds like she was armed during the encounter. 262 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:07,159 Speaker 1: So I asked Ramona and Chad and neither one of 263 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 1: them caught that. And he said, I thought I heard 264 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 1: her say I was ready. Maybe I was wrong, but 265 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 1: that's what I thought I heard her say. If in fact, 266 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:25,320 Speaker 1: that's the case. That changes his whole thing, because that 267 00:18:25,359 --> 00:18:28,280 Speaker 1: puts her in charge of this situation. She didn't just 268 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:32,240 Speaker 1: have the moral authority as a homeowner. She's got the gun, 269 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:39,639 Speaker 1: and you know even the biggest idiot would need to 270 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 1: would be afraid of that. All right, let's listen again, 271 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:47,600 Speaker 1: and you tell me if you're getting from the story 272 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:49,560 Speaker 1: that she has a gun. That would explain a lot 273 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:51,440 Speaker 1: of things. Maybe I just didn't catch that. Go ahead. 274 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:55,760 Speaker 4: He was frantically knocking on my front door, April Huntley's 275 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:59,480 Speaker 4: longtime landscaper, clearly in distress when she opens the door 276 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 4: at her home on North Mission Circle Friday afternoon. 277 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:05,240 Speaker 7: He was afraid and he said, April, you. 278 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:07,720 Speaker 5: Help me, And she says the day laborer he'd hired 279 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:10,680 Speaker 5: to help cut her lawn was waving around a hammer 280 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:15,040 Speaker 5: and threatening him. Police identify that man as Kevin Ponce. 281 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:17,879 Speaker 7: He said, I want my money now, and I'm gonna 282 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:19,920 Speaker 7: kill you. I'm gonna kill you thread. 283 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,600 Speaker 5: She says. He appeared ready to make good odd all 284 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:25,280 Speaker 5: because of an apparent dispute over payment. 285 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:28,240 Speaker 7: He wanted full payment for a full day ride then, 286 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:30,600 Speaker 7: and he didn't want to work out. 287 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:32,840 Speaker 5: The rest of the day, Hunley says, the landscaper takes 288 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:36,320 Speaker 5: cover behind her while she tries talking down the hammer 289 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:37,119 Speaker 5: wielding man. 290 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:41,960 Speaker 7: I said, put down the hammer and I'm calling the police. 291 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:44,720 Speaker 7: And I said, Pelicia that much. 292 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 5: He seems to understand, because Hunley says, he abandons the 293 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 5: hammer and it staid, grabs a leaf flower from his 294 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:54,320 Speaker 5: boss's truck and runs down Lasal with the blower slung 295 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:55,160 Speaker 5: over his back. 296 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:58,240 Speaker 7: I'm thinking that he was taking it in payment. 297 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:00,720 Speaker 5: When he rounds the corner onto another part of North 298 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:04,159 Speaker 5: Mission Circle, neighbors say he drops the leaf flower and 299 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:07,119 Speaker 5: jumps this backyard fence, taking part of it out in 300 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:10,399 Speaker 5: the process. From there, it's across this drainage dish to 301 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:14,280 Speaker 5: the San Joaquina States neighborhood, where police eventually catch up 302 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:14,680 Speaker 5: with him. 303 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 7: If they found him hiding in a drainage ditch that 304 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:21,040 Speaker 7: goes underneath to drive away every. 305 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:24,200 Speaker 5: Police arrest him and charge him with aggravated assault. He's 306 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 5: also facing a separate charge, says police say he refused 307 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:31,080 Speaker 5: to identify himself. That may be because police say he 308 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 5: has open warrants in Harrison Dallas Counties. I says also 309 00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:36,520 Speaker 5: put a hold on him and. 310 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:38,400 Speaker 7: I was wondering if that man was going to try 311 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:42,359 Speaker 7: and charge me with that hammer, and I would be 312 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:43,240 Speaker 7: ready for him. 313 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:51,440 Speaker 1: Oh, I would be ready. Okay, you know, I would 314 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:58,000 Speaker 1: really like to see some video of this because the 315 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:04,320 Speaker 1: boss of the crew hiding behind the woman while the 316 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 1: illegal is over there with his hammer and she's in between. 317 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 1: If she doesn't have a gun and he's hiding behind her, 318 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:20,400 Speaker 1: Oh my, that's a bad visual. How do you let 319 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:24,320 Speaker 1: it get to that point? I mean, I guess, I 320 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 1: guess she can't just pay a guy when he demands 321 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,280 Speaker 1: it for the day because the others are watching. You know, 322 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 1: you got to keep up. It's like prison mentality here. 323 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:37,960 Speaker 1: But I like the fact that she goes into a 324 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 1: little Spanish on him, missus kill in your own words, 325 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:43,480 Speaker 1: your own Spanish words. 326 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:47,159 Speaker 6: Please do the judge what happened with little Loupe sue 327 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:52,120 Speaker 6: pu denor yo po der vera kstas capolo raisinabla yo 328 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:57,520 Speaker 6: starmui embarriszada poor la que poser poor lupe ela komerni 329 00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:02,640 Speaker 6: accidente they come on yo nooma squiera ke aser que 330 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 6: lupe ser libro jo tenor muco demisiados buenos honos and 331 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:11,640 Speaker 6: Frente Mivida and Fabrica cigaros. 332 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 1: I like that she's commanding him what to do. 333 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 7: Put the taco down. 334 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:25,000 Speaker 1: Do you remember? Do you remember all the details behind 335 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:30,240 Speaker 1: that story? That was one of my favorite. They were 336 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 1: on the esplanade. Whatever happened to that woman. She's probably 337 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:38,640 Speaker 1: divorced three times since then, probably got four kids by 338 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 1: three different men. Probably hate posting on Trump all day long, 339 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 1: thinking back to the highlight of her life with the 340 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 1: megaphone and telling people to put the taco down. Somewhere, 341 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:56,800 Speaker 1: ta taco down somewhere. She's remembering the glory, Oh, the glory, 342 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 1: standing outside the restaurant and telling people to stop eating. 343 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 1: Y'all stop eating because they let the Attorney General come 344 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:13,960 Speaker 1: here and eat y'all. Put your taco down. Taco down, 345 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:17,320 Speaker 1: you just put it down, with the taco down. I'm 346 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:21,720 Speaker 1: out here with the taco down, with the taco down. 347 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:27,960 Speaker 1: What is going through your mind when you're commanding people 348 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,359 Speaker 1: to put the tago down, the taco down. 349 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 7: Put the taco down, put the taco down. 350 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:41,720 Speaker 1: Don't eat the tar down. 351 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 8: No more margarita, for you do not accept tahine on 352 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:47,879 Speaker 8: your margarita. 353 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 2: No tahin. 354 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:55,120 Speaker 8: No salt. Put the margarita down. Do not eat another chip. 355 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:59,880 Speaker 8: It's just a fried tortilla. Put it down, no chip, 356 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:05,320 Speaker 8: no saltsap. Tomatoes had to die for you to have 357 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:05,800 Speaker 8: that salt. 358 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 5: Sap. 359 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:13,919 Speaker 8: Godah, do not eat the fajeta. That's a skirt steak. 360 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:16,680 Speaker 8: It's the cheapest cut of meat. Don't eat the fijeta. 361 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:23,160 Speaker 8: Do not eat the complete poeta. God, oh, you're eating chicken. 362 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:27,399 Speaker 8: Who eats chicken? Put the chicken? Feed it? Who eats chicken? 363 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,439 Speaker 8: Why did you get a half chicken half steak? Everyone 364 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:35,040 Speaker 8: eats the steak. Put the tortilla down. What the pieta down? 365 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:36,879 Speaker 8: Put the tamo down. 366 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:38,960 Speaker 2: Put the hammer down, Dave. 367 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:41,280 Speaker 10: Everyone thinking they could actually live the American True. 368 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:42,760 Speaker 1: The Michael Berry Show. 369 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:48,280 Speaker 7: Buses. Theirs are really. 370 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:49,320 Speaker 3: Clear, so feed it. 371 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:53,439 Speaker 1: Michael Jackson caused a lot of kids to go blind 372 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 1: over this. 373 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:56,440 Speaker 3: Oh where I'm at. If you can't get a hold 374 00:24:56,440 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 3: of me, I'm sure so woo woo that she had 375 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:03,240 Speaker 3: a wreck right in front of me. This guy ran 376 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,920 Speaker 3: a red light and hit uh hit four old ladies 377 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:10,760 Speaker 3: in a in an impalla just kind of clipped them and. 378 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:12,119 Speaker 9: Turn him around right in front of me. 379 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:12,920 Speaker 3: Man, that was close. 380 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:13,560 Speaker 9: Oh. 381 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:16,080 Speaker 3: Now this guy is getting out of his car, got 382 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,160 Speaker 3: a you got a white shirt on with a tin 383 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:20,119 Speaker 3: of cigarette hanging out of his mouth. He's throwing his 384 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:22,520 Speaker 3: hands up in the air like he like like it 385 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 3: was their fall. Oh, hold on, he's going over there. 386 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 9: Window. 387 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 3: She's rolling down the window. 388 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:37,600 Speaker 9: Oh, man, I think she's spraying with premper spraying. Man. 389 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:40,400 Speaker 9: He's owning his hand. He's on his face and he's 390 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:42,520 Speaker 9: on his knee. She getting out. She feeding him with 391 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 9: an umbrella. It's them and they're kidding o food. 392 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:53,600 Speaker 1: There's one woman with a little black person. 393 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:54,879 Speaker 9: She's turn of hocket him. 394 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:55,120 Speaker 10: Man. 395 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:59,199 Speaker 9: She she looks like a sunbout twenty twenty horse par 396 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:08,320 Speaker 9: jack hand. We got another woman that's she's there like well, 397 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,080 Speaker 9: he's got a cattle frog. Then she's got a scut it. 398 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:15,359 Speaker 9: I'm probably she's sticking in inside. Oh, there's a knowing that. 399 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:21,920 Speaker 9: It's a little woman looks like mother goose. She's got Oh, 400 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:24,760 Speaker 9: she made him, she made her. She's got this hu 401 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:28,000 Speaker 9: bid bag. It's huge. It's about the side though she's 402 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,920 Speaker 9: about four foot nothing. She hit him over the head. 403 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:35,080 Speaker 9: Everything went all of the place. Her bible felt had 404 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:43,880 Speaker 9: a bible. She picked this file up and she left 405 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:47,040 Speaker 9: here where over her head, you know, was a hark 406 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:53,440 Speaker 9: back in the eye version. There's still mean the has 407 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:59,040 Speaker 9: got she picked this bible up and raised it up 408 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:02,639 Speaker 9: above her heads and being the guy. This guy's not 409 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:06,200 Speaker 9: getting up. I just steal oh God, just stealing it. 410 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:09,679 Speaker 9: In the work with the little black person stealing as 411 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:22,760 Speaker 9: Oh okay, he's not just being a given a big bang. 412 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:26,080 Speaker 3: He's running too his car. 413 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:33,879 Speaker 1: Some of the best journalism done in this town in 414 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,440 Speaker 1: the last ten years has been what Fox twenty six 415 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:41,960 Speaker 1: has done on the crime beat. They have absolutely owned it. Also, 416 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,479 Speaker 1: some of the best journalism done in the last ten 417 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:49,320 Speaker 1: years is at KPRCTV Amy Davis. She has done an 418 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:53,880 Speaker 1: ongoing series on Sylvester Turner's corrupt administration and the water 419 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:59,000 Speaker 1: scheme that was going on. And now this one the 420 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 1: Houston Housing of the already the CEO, David Northern, this 421 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,800 Speaker 1: guy's up to no good. So the AC units that 422 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:09,000 Speaker 1: they had paid to put in in the public housing 423 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:10,800 Speaker 1: projects and they had to pay to remove them and 424 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 1: put them back in. It turns out the guy that 425 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,680 Speaker 1: David Northern hired to put him in was a buddy 426 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,159 Speaker 1: of his in Chicago who has a clothing company and 427 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:22,840 Speaker 1: has never installed a window unit. Oh my god. 428 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:28,120 Speaker 2: It Trucker hats lounge wear men's and women's clothing made 429 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:32,480 Speaker 2: by Bragger Company out of Chicago, Illinois. The company's Instagram 430 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:37,280 Speaker 2: page describes Bragger as design and fashion, an esthetically clean, 431 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:41,560 Speaker 2: classic and confident brand. So is it any wonder? Owner 432 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:45,320 Speaker 2: Jonathan Stevens wanted to bring his fashion sense thousands of 433 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:48,960 Speaker 2: miles to Houston for a chance to install window acs 434 00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:50,520 Speaker 2: for the Houston Housing Authority. 435 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:54,480 Speaker 10: That's odd because you would expect to want to hire 436 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:57,240 Speaker 10: companies that had the experience to do the job, and 437 00:28:57,360 --> 00:28:59,880 Speaker 10: you would want to go local. It's Houston's a huge 438 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,480 Speaker 10: We have plenty of companies that can do good AC work. 439 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:05,080 Speaker 10: So why would you have to go to Illinois. 440 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:08,760 Speaker 2: Houston City Council Member Julian Ramirez is asking a question. 441 00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:12,480 Speaker 2: We couldn't get the Houston Housing Authority to answer, but 442 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:16,240 Speaker 2: we did pull together some documents that provide some insight. 443 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:20,479 Speaker 2: Take a look. Jonathan Stevens signed the contract for Bragger 444 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 2: Company to install window acs on September fifteenth. On October fourth, 445 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:29,720 Speaker 2: a Housing Authority procurement manager sends this letter to Stevens. 446 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,760 Speaker 2: HHA has discovered that Bragger Company is not a registered 447 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,760 Speaker 2: business in the state of Texas. He wrote, Stevens must 448 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:40,280 Speaker 2: provide proof the company is registered here or the contract 449 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:45,360 Speaker 2: will be terminated. October ninth, Jonathan Stevens registers his company 450 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,120 Speaker 2: with the Secretary of State and on the line to 451 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:52,120 Speaker 2: explain the purpose or purposes the company proposes to pursue, 452 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:57,400 Speaker 2: Stevens boldly wrote, contract business with the Houston Housing Authority? 453 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,760 Speaker 2: Can you at all address those you're the director. While 454 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,680 Speaker 2: he wouldn't talk with us on camera, Houston Housing Authority 455 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:07,960 Speaker 2: CEO David Northern did meet with me off camera. Northern, 456 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:10,680 Speaker 2: who is from the Chicago area, to me he knows 457 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:15,280 Speaker 2: Jonathan Stevens, but he didn't say how. AHHA general counsel 458 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:19,600 Speaker 2: Jeanine Cox told me simply knowing someone doesn't constitute a 459 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:25,240 Speaker 2: conflict of interest, but why we found another connection. In 460 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, Northern hired Marquise Barnes, also from Chicago, 461 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:35,840 Speaker 2: to work as ahja's construction manager and contractor. Kevin Calvin, 462 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:40,760 Speaker 2: owner of TPMG Construction, says Barnes asked him to do 463 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:42,440 Speaker 2: the work for Bragger Company. 464 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:47,040 Speaker 3: They told me that if I would play ball and participate. 465 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:47,959 Speaker 7: And be it a certain way, that they would tell 466 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,040 Speaker 7: me what the vietnambers wore, that they would actually make 467 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:52,480 Speaker 7: sure I got some other contracts. 468 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:56,960 Speaker 2: This letter from Stevens in Chicago to the AHHA asks 469 00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:00,120 Speaker 2: them to release work materials in checks to Kevin and 470 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,600 Speaker 2: Calvin here in Houston. When we reached out to Marquis 471 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,520 Speaker 2: Barnes to ask him if he knew Jonathan Stevens of 472 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:11,920 Speaker 2: Bragger Company before Stevens got the HHA contract, Marquise wouldn't answer, 473 00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:16,600 Speaker 2: but these pictures and videos on Barnes's own Facebook page 474 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:20,959 Speaker 2: seemed to answer for him. This is Marquis Barnes showing 475 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:25,640 Speaker 2: off his Bragger Company apparel in January, seven months before 476 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:27,560 Speaker 2: the AHHA contract was signed. 477 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 10: I guarantee you we've got plenty of MWBEAC companies in 478 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,120 Speaker 10: Houston that can do that work. And so it raises 479 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,680 Speaker 10: some suspicions why this company in Illinois was chosen over 480 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:42,320 Speaker 10: all these companies in Houston MWBE firms that would be 481 00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:43,240 Speaker 10: able to do this work. 482 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:47,440 Speaker 2: I did call Jonathan Stevens in Chicago. He told me 483 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:50,720 Speaker 2: he has no comment about the contract. When I asked 484 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:54,320 Speaker 2: why he would want a job installing AC units in Houston, 485 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:58,480 Speaker 2: he hung up. Hopefully we will get more answers soon. Yesterday, 486 00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:02,360 Speaker 2: the Houston Housing Authority Boys voted to hire outside legal 487 00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:06,360 Speaker 2: counsel to investigate the contracts and payouts. They also voted 488 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:10,000 Speaker 2: to hire a consultant to evaluate Houston Housing Authority President 489 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:11,720 Speaker 2: and CEO David Northern. 490 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:20,479 Speaker 1: He has a clothing company in Chicago. Probably also has 491 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:26,240 Speaker 1: a mortgage company. And he's a rapper. Oh you know 492 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,920 Speaker 1: the type yep. And he just received how much money? 493 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:32,680 Speaker 1: Now he can't keep it all. He got to kick 494 00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,680 Speaker 1: a bunch of it back. This is your local government. Now, 495 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,760 Speaker 1: this is what Sylvester Turner and Rodney Let's get you. 496 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:43,240 Speaker 1: It's lappable. You know that guy. Without knowing that guy, 497 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:44,880 Speaker 1: you know everything about him.