Opinion ID: 1456526
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Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Christopher Walters

Text: Christopher Walters, a confidential informant, testified about statements Warman's son, Johnny Warman (Johnny), made to him about Warman's drug sales. Walters stated that Johnny told him that he processed cocaine for Warman and others, cutting it with cheaper materials and compressing it into the shape of a hockey puck. (JA 514.) Walters testified that according to Johnny, Warman received one to two kilograms of cocaine at a time from a Florida supplier, that Johnny also processed cocaine for Hannum and other Outlaws, and that although Johnny and his father worked on Outlaws' motorcycles and peddled their cocaine, they would never join the OMC because they did not want to pay the significant club dues or share a percentage of their drug-related profits. Walters testified that after he witnessed Johnny with thirty processed pucks and one brick (kilogram) of cocaine, which he considered a large quantity, he called the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and began making controlled purchases from Johnny for DEA Agent Brent Rasor. He recalled that during one such transaction in 2002, Johnny was repairing his mother's driveway when Warman stopped by to inform Johnny's mother that he needed to talk to Johnny about a shipment that had arrived; Johnny subsequently left his mother's home for the rest of the day. Walters testified that he assumed Warman was referring to a shipment of cocaine that he needed Johnny to process. Other than that single incident, however, Walters had no direct contact with Warman, and he never saw Warman sell drugs. At trial, Warman testified that he had never met Walters but that he remembered visiting Johnny's mother's house in 2002 to ask Johnny to help him with a shipment of bike parts that had just been delivered to S&S.