Prologue
So, as the late Paul Harvey used to say: “Here’s the rest of the story.”
July 10, 2019 – Round Rock, Texas
The first thing I remember was the light.
Not sunlight. Not headlights. Floodlights — cutting through my windows, turning my living room into a stage. Red and blue strobes bounced off the walls. Shadows jumped across the furniture like they were alive.
Then came the sound.
Thump-thump-thump. Helicopter blades hammering the air above my roof. A loudspeaker crackling orders outside. The distant echo of boots pounding asphalt.
I peeked through the blinds — and froze.
Fifty cops, easy. Snipers on the rooftops. SWAT armored truck parked like a tank at the end of the driveway. Rifles trained on my house like I was Osama bin Laden.
For what?
A 911 call from my ex-wife. A domestic dispute that should’ve been a couple of deputies and a clipboard.
But this wasn’t police work. This was a show.
A production.
And right in the middle of it? The ex-Williamson County Sheriff himself — the same one who later caught charges tied to Live PD. Back then, though, he was riding high, loving the cameras. That night he wasn’t there to keep the peace. He was there for the spotlight.
Through social media posts, he made sure I wasn’t just a suspect — I was a storyline. My standoff was content. My humiliation was entertainment.
The Standoff
“Come out with your hands up!” a voice boomed through the bullhorn.
I stood there in my own living room, barefoot, adrenaline flooding my veins, wondering how the hell I’d become a one-man war zone. My heart was trying to punch its way out of my chest.
I didn’t have a gun in my hand. I wasn’t threatening anyone. But that didn’t matter. They came in heavy, because the heavier they came, the bigger the paycheck — and the better the footage.
Minutes stretched like hours. Negotiators barked from the loudspeaker. Red dots from sniper scopes danced on my walls. My phone was blowing up with texts from people asking if I was okay.
I wasn’t.
But I wasn’t about to let them make me into the monster they wanted for their headlines, either.
Eventually, I walked out. Hands up. Bare feet on the hot pavement. Rifle barrels tracking every step. The whole block watching me like I was a circus act.
Aftermath
The charges?
Nothing. They collapsed in court, thrown out for lack of evidence.
But the real damage wasn’t in the courthouse. It was in the systems my name got dumped into that night.
That standoff landed me in databases most people don’t even know exist. NCIS. TCIS.
From that moment forward, I wasn’t just some guy in Williamson County. I was flagged, tagged, and tracked like a piece of government property.
They can tell you those systems are about “national security” or “crime prevention.” Don’t believe it. Once you’re in, you’re marked. And when you’re marked, every agency in the alphabet soup has you on their radar.
January 2024 – Déjà Vu
Fast forward four years. Same detectives. Same agencies. Same playbook. Another round of bogus charges.
Only this time, I wasn’t clueless. I’d been connecting dots. Listening to comments, watching how the pieces moved, figuring out who was really calling the shots.
It wasn’t the local yokels in Sheriff’s uniforms.
They were just the costumes.
The real players? The Feds.
The U.S. Marshal Service pulling strings. NCIS. CID. FBI. DEA. ATF. Maybe others. All hiding behind “intergovernmental agreements” and the legal costume party they call dual sovereignty.
It looks like county law enforcement. It feels like county law enforcement. But it isn’t. It’s federal power in disguise.
Most people would never figure that out. Most people would just eat the charges, rot in a cell, and never know whose hands were on the controls.
I figured it out.
But figuring it out nearly killed me.
Over the course of almost two years, I was tortured, pushed to the edge, and came closer to dying than I ever want to admit.
And that’s why I’m here.
To tell you my story.
LeRoy Nellis 
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