
Statement -  September 9, 1998 
   Michael Lynn Mincy  



At about 11:20pm on Friday, July 28, 1995, I entered the Win-Dixie Food Store in Haltom City, Texas to buy a can of  "Coca-Cola" soft drink . After that and just before I started to leave, my niece Amanda Gail MINCY (12 years old then, now 15 years old) and her friend Dana GRIFFIN (15 years old at the time, now 18 years old) approached me as I stood there in the store, and began a conversation with me. All three of us continued talking to each other from about 11:30pm to about 11:45pm, and at about 11:45pm,  I left the store and after only a few minutes of driving around the city, I went home.

On Sunday July 30, 1995, my brother Randal Jack MINCY (Amanda Gail MINCY's father) came to visit and told me that his daughter Amanda had "something to tell me". When I asked what it was she wanted to tell me, Amanda told me then, that immediately after I had left the Winn-Dixie Store on the night of July 28, 1995, some of the store personell and the store manger ran over to my niece and  her friend Dana,
and "demanded" to know "what" we had been talking about, who "I" was, who "I" was in relation to them,"what" and "how much information" did "they" (Amanda and her friend Dana) know about me.
They told them I (Michael Lynn MINCY) was Amanda's uncle, but they said they did "not" believe them.
The store personell and store manager then "detained" them both, and also called the Haltom City Police Department. 

Very shortly after that,  a Haltom City Police woman arrived and "also" detained them both, and proceeded to interrogate them about me also, and "demanded" to know "what" they "knew about
me", then told them that I was "always driving up and down streets". Then the Haltom Policewoman
"warned" them to "stay away" from me. After some time of this type of interrogation, this policewoman let them go, and they both returned to Amanda's home, at 4108 Doeline Street, Haltom City, Texas, only a few blocks and a few minutes from both their homes. Dana GRIFFIN at that time, lived at 5232 Caroldean in Haltom City, only  about one block from Amanda's home. 
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No "charges" were brought against either my niece or her friend, and there was "never" any contact
between the Haltom City Police and myself over this incident on July 28, 1995.

On Monday,  July 31, 1995, at the suggestion of   Brenda, a member of the law firm of Jerry Loftin, Attorney at Law in Fort Worth, I called the "Internal Affairs Office" of the Haltom City Police Department, which then consisted of a single person, Sgt. HANSON. Sgt. HANSON was not there at first, but later that day Sgt. HANSON returned my phone call, and after I had explained and "complained" about the incident on Friday July 28, 1995, he began to argue with me, saying that "No!....you are not
making a complaint!" That I was "only telling him what happened".  At that point I told him I "was"
making a "complaint" !  Finally, he told me he would have the "patrol officer" (the UNKNOWN Haltom
City policewoman) call me that night. But she "never" did. And, after three years, I have "never" been
given an "explaination" for those actions of the Haltom City Police Department on that night of  
July 28, 1995.
 

                                               

                                                               Michael Lynn Mincy


