Bastrop, Tx–An attempted drug purchase in Bastrop County a week ago ended with one man hospitalized with stab wounds to the arm and another man in jail on charges of robbery with a deadly weapon, according to public records obtained by Bastrop-News.com on Monday.
The alleged victim in the case told criminal investigators he contacted Clarence Edward Nealy, 43, about 9:30 p.m. Sunday, May 3 to buy drugs. But before dawn the next day the victim was being treated in the Smithville Regional Hospital emergency department for stab wounds to his right forearm, he was apparently missing $100 and and authorities were trying to track down a robber.
Nealy was booked into the Bastrop County Jail just before 3 a.m. May 6. He was still being held there late today under $20,000 bail.
The victim told Sheriff’s Department investigator Wayne Wood that he went with Nealy and a female companion to an area just west of Bastrop where he and the woman “were to wait on the side of the road for Mr. Nealy to return with the drugs,” according to a court document obtained today under the Texas Public Information Act. However, Nealy grabbed $100 from the complaining witness, the woman jumped back into the vehicle they were riding in and she cried “go” as the auto drove along Shiloh Road toward FM 20, according to the officer’s sworn statement.
The alleged victim told investigators he then reached through the open driver side window of the vehicle, grabbed the steering wheel and was dragged toward FM 20 before being stabbed repeatedly in the arm with a knife, the court document says. At the intersection of Shiloh Road and FM 20 Nealy and the woman abandoned the vehicle and fled into nearby woods, the statement says.
The victim told Investigator Wood that he then attempted to drive the vehicle to the Smithville hospital but wrecked it, apparently on FM 535, after which a relative took him to the hospital, according to the court document. Wood said he was called about 2 a.m. May 4 about a stabbing victim at the Smithville hospital.
In his sworn statement, Wood said he subsequently found “a large amount of blood” at the intersection of FM 20 and Shiloh Road as well signs of blood “on the front seat and driver and rear passenger doors of the vehicle,” which is registered to a relative of the woman allegedly present during the incident.