01/27/2023
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On February 11, 2008, Tim Sherber drove his company truck down to Conroe, Texas to work with his tank welding company and took his friend, Rodney Anderson, with him to help. Along the way, Tim Sherber gets a phone call from a desperate co-worker saying he was stranded and needed a ride. It was pouring down rain and getting dark and the co-worker sounded as if he was really in need of some help. Tim agreed to help and made plans to pick his co-worker up from the Kroger parking lot near the South Loop 336 and Interstate 45.
Once Tim arrived at the Kroger parking lot, he saw the co-worker jumping up and down, waving his arms frantically in the rain. Tim parked next to the co-worker and opened his door so he could enter, but instead of entering, the co-worker turned and ran in the opposite direction. Confused, Tim shut the door and started backing out of the parking spot. As Tim started backing up, he noticed 2 men wearing dark masks and hoods carrying baseball bats and pistols running towards his truck. Tim tried to back up and drive away, but the masked men started shooting at Tim’s truck.
As Tim was driving away from the flying bullets, a big truck with 2 more masked men tried to block Tim from moving his truck. Tim jammed his truck forward, but his tires just spun out in the pouring rain and soaked parking lot. The masked men on foot who were shooting at Tim reached Tim’s truck and tried to bust out the glass. One of the masked shooters, Stuart Hightower, looked inside and saw Tim’s passenger, Rodney Anderson and shot Rodney in the face at point blank range. Rodney pulled Tim Sherber down into the floorboard to try to protect him as he tried to hold his face together.
Tim Sherber was shot three times and tried to get his truck out of danger but could not see where he was going from the floorboard. After slipping and sliding another few feet on the rain-drenched parking lot, Tim’s truck bumped into the front fender of a police car that had just arrived and turned into the parking lot. Another smaller truck rammed into the back of Tim’s truck and pinned it against the police car. The police officer driving the patrol car jumped out, unharmed, and helped Rodney hold his bloody face together while the masked gunmen threw Tim Sherber out of the truck and onto the ground.
The police car driver was an off-duty elementary school security guard and admitted he could not see where he was going. He was not injured and refused any medical treatment.
Tim Sherber and Rodney Anderson had no drugs, weapons, or prior history of any violence, but they were arrested immediately that night, February 11, 2008, for possession of narcotics with intent to deliver and attempted Capital Murder of a police officer.
To cover up the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department failed drug bust and shooting two unarmed Texas Citizens with no drugs or weapons found at the scene and no prior history of any violence, Tim Sherber and Rodney Anderson were later charged with 2 Felonies at trial:
1). Possession of narcotics with intent to deliver and
2). Aggravated Assault of a public servant
Rodney Anderson was forced to have his trial first before Tim Sherber’s trial which began in August 2009 while Tim Sherber was free and out of jail on a bond until late 2010.
Rodney Anderson was convinced by his attorney to let Judge Kathleen Hamilton decide his fate. After seeing what the judge did to Rodney, Tim Sherber let the jury decide his punishment.
Tim Sherber was the owner and driver of the truck that allegedly had the drugs that were never found and the jury gave Tim Sherber Probation for his drug charges and he only served 14 months in prison for the Aggravated Assault charges. The jury was not a part of Bret Ligon’s Gold Coin Of Death Game. Montgomery County Sheriffs and Prosecutors could not control the jury’s choice of punishment.
With no jury to control her choices, Judge Kathleen Hamilton gave Rodney Anderson, the passenger in the truck who was shot in the face, 40 years for the drug charges and Life in Prison for the Aggravated Assault charges.
Judge Hamilton was the leader and overall winner each year for Bret Ligon’s Gold Coin Of Death Game. She gave out more Life Sentences than any other judge throughout the state. Rob Freyer was the State’s prosecutor for Rodney’s case and Freyer was the winner over all other Assistant District Attorneys for most Life Sentences given. Rob Freyer and Judge Hamilton were the two biggest winners of Bret Ligon’s Gold Coin Of Death game.
EVIDENCE AFTER THE ACTION:
The masked and hooded gunmen shooting Tim and Rodney were undercover sheriff’s deputies. The four other truck drivers ramming their trucks into Tim’s were also undercover agents. The police officer driving the police car was an off-duty elementary school guard. No officers were injured, and no officers required or asked for any medical treatment.
Tim Sherber’s co-worker, who said he was desperate and needed a ride was a drug addicted m**h-head, alcoholic who received drugs and money from the Montgomery County Sherriff’s Department in exchange for fake drug busts. Before being hired and given drugs for Tim Sherber’s and Rodney Anderson’s fake bust, this informant had a long criminal record of arrests and convictions of drugs, battery, domestic abuse, and terrorism. This informant was paid to go to trial and testify against Tim and Rodney in exchange for not going to jail himself.
The officers who shot Tim and Rodney had a long record of shooting before talking and were fired from the Sherriff’s office for this shooting. However, Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department had to cover up this botched bust and do whatever it took to get convictions to stick.
Tim Sherber and Rodney Anderson had no weapons and no prior history of any violence. No weapons were found at the scene other than those used by the Montgomery County Sheriffs.
In the officer’s reports created at the scene, the night of the failed drug busts, there were no drugs reported as being found at the scene by any of the officers. The Crime Scene Investigators who collected all the evidence from the scene (bullet casings, officer’s guns, bloody clothes, broken glass, etc.) did find and collect 6 white rocks that they thought were drugs. The white rocks were tested by the Montgomery County Crime Labs in Houston and were found to be just white rocks, no drugs. The white rocks were tested and proved to be only geological rocks.
Caryn McAnarney, the Lead Crime Scene Investigator who collected all the evidence that night of the botched bust was fired days before Rodney’s trial. None of her collected evidence ever made it to trial. Rodney’s attorneys were forbidden to use her name in front of the jury.
The drug evidence brought to Rodney’s trial by Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department and State Prosecutors was fluffy, powdered m**h in two baggies. During trial, the Sheriffs and prosecutors said they left the crime scene and walked over to Taco Cabana in the rain to get plastic spoons so they could scoop the drugs off the ground. It was raining and had been raining all day… the parking lot was full of puddles, but somehow, they were able to scoop up fluffy powder from the puddles. No photos or videos of the two baggies at the crime scene ever existed, nor ever submitted as evidence.
The drug evidence brought for Tim Sherber’s trial was not two, but three baggies and all different colors and consistencies from the evidence used at Rodney’s trial.
All the drugs used as evidence by the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department in both Tim and Rodney’s trials showed they were tested nearly 4 months after the night of the botched bust. The lead sheriff who planned and produced the botched bust, David Womack, said he kept the drugs from that night, February 11, 2008 in his desk for safe keeping. He admitted to not keeping it in an evidence-lock up or secure site for evidence, but in his desk in an unlocked office. David Womack allegedly had the crime scene drug evidence in his personal desk for 4 months before giving it to anyone for testing for Rodney’s trial.
Police car video footage was taken live at the scene by the Sheriff’s Department and by the State Troopers along with Crime Scene Investigators during all evidence collection and documentation at the scene. However, no video footage was allowed to be used during Rodney’s trial. The State Prosecutors did not turn over the videos until years after the trial. Judge Hamilton has refused to allow any of the video footage to be used as evidence for any of the appeals, as if it never existed.
Since Rodney’s trial and sentencing, the alcoholic, drug addicted paid informant has cleaned up his act in rehab and is no longer a drug user. He came to Rodney’s 2015 Appeal hearings to testify that he lied and was fearful for his life if he did not say and do what the Montgomery County Sheriff and State Prosecutors told him to say and do. However, Judge Hamilton did not allow him to speak at the hearings. His recanting of his testimony was not allowed into evidence for Rodney’s Appeals.
Caryn McAnarney, the Montgomery County Crime Scene Investigator who was fired just before Rodney’s trial, has tried to submit her testimony of what evidence was collected to prove Rodney and Tim’s innocence but has not been allowed to give her testimony for any part of the trial or appeals.
15 years later, Rodney Anderson is still in prison serving a Life Sentence for being an unarmed passenger who got shot in the face by Montgomery County Sheriffs during a drug deal set up and paid for by Montgomery County that never happened.
Judge Kathleen Hamilton and Assistant District Attorney Rob Freyer are still the winners of most Life Sentences ever awarded.
Where is the Justice for Rodney?
