BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) -An attorney representing Bryan Mayor Bobby Gutierrez and his private business, La Pistola Cattle Company, issued a statement on Thursday addressing allegations that surfaced on social media that he demanded a ransom in exchange for releasing an aircraft that made an emergency landing in late December in a field near Easterwood Airport.
The plane’s owner, Borrel Rene Jean Luc, of Marksville, Lousiana, says was blocked from having access to his plane in exchange for a $250,000 payment.
Gutierrez’s counsel says his involvement in the incident was as a private citizen and rancher, not in his capacity as the Mayor of Bryan. The field where the plane landed is owned by the Bryan Business Council, a non-profit organization that leases the land to Rafter D Genetics, LLC, a private company specializing in artificial insemination and embryo transfer for cattle.
“At the time of Mr. Borrel’s landing, Mr. Gutierrez’s cattle business, La Pistola Cattle Company (“La Pistola”), in coordination with its paid consultant Rafter D, was gathering cattle on the BBC property for artificial insemination and to start an embryo collection process with the ultimate goal of selling the embryos to its customers,” said Gutierrez’s attorney Matthew Doss.
The statement further explains that La Pistola Cattle Company suffered substantial financial losses as a result of the interruption caused by the plane landing and that Gutierrez was only seeking to resolve the dispute with the...
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