Huey Meaux Twofer - He's About a Mover: Search on for suspected child abuser PLUS Huey Meaux Dead At 82 with WFMU Aircheck (mp3)
Search is on for suspected child abuser
Authorities launched an international search Wednesday for a Houston
music
producer, charged
with child pornography and cocaine possession and sexual assault of a
child,
who failed to show
up in court.
Huey P. Meaux, 66, forfeited bonds totaling $130,000 by skipping his
court
appearance
Wednesday. He is being sought on a new felony arrest warrant stemming
from
his absence.
"Our feeling is he is out of the country right now," said Dwayne Wright,
a
Houston Police
Department juvenile sex crimes investigator.
Wright said Meaux is known to have ties in Mexico -- it is rumored he
keeps
a home there -- as
well as in Europe.
Rumors also have surfaced that Meaux, said to be worth about $30
million,
has money in Swiss
bank accounts, although Wright said investigators have found no evidence
of
that.
Meaux's bond required that he undergo weekly drug tests and be fitted
with
an electronic
monitor. He failed to report to the probation department Monday to
fulfill
those requirements. A
hearing was scheduled Wednesday for Meaux to explain his failure to
appear,
and he again was
absent.
Police have learned he was still in town Monday and was having his
telephone
service
disconnected.
Edd Blackwood, whose bonding company posted Meaux's bonds after Meaux
was
arrested Jan.
29, said some of Meaux's friends fear he might attempt suicide.
"I certainly would not eliminate it as a possibility," said Meaux's
attorney, Rick Stover. "He was
very upset after he left court last week."
Police discovered Wednesday that four men in a rental truck removed all
the
furniture from
Meaux's home in the 11100 block of Sageorchard Court Sunday. His cars
were
removed from
the property as well.
Those cars, a white 1984 Mercedes bearing Texas license plate FXT-11C
and a
white 1995
Buick bearing PFB-44S, remained missing Wednesday. Also missing was
James
Davis, a close
business associate of Meaux's.
Wright and Blackwood said Davis had accompanied Meaux to their offices
and
had been at
Meaux's house when Meaux was arrested. Wright said he believes Davis and
Meaux probably
are traveling together.
Anyone with information about the producer's whereabouts is asked to
call
police at 731-5376,
Blackwood at 1-800-222-BAIL, or Crime Stoppers at 222-TIPS. Blackwood is
offering a
reward of up to $10,000 in the case, in addition to the reward of up to
$1,000 offered by Crime
Stoppers.
Dick DeGuerin, an attorney representing a woman who alleges in a lawsuit
that Meaux sexually
abused her, said Meaux's disappearance was expected.
"He's been abusing young girls for many years, and he got caught. He
knows
he's facing spending
probably the rest of his life in prison,"DeGuerin said.
DeGuerin said his client and other women who say Meaux abused them are
safe
for now from
the threat of retaliation.
"The fact that's he's running means he doesn't have time to retaliate,"
DeGuerin said.
Asked whether he considered Meaux a dangerous man, Wright, the HPD
investigator, replied: "I
consider the people he hangs around with ... yes, dangerous."
In addition to HPD and Blackwood's team of bounty hunters, Meaux is
being
sought by the
criminal warrants division of the Harris County Sheriff's Department and
the
Gulf Coast Violent
Offender's Task Force.
During his long career in the music industry, Meaux has recorded the
work of
a number of
well-known artists, including the Sir Douglas Quintet, Freddie Fender,
"Rockin' " Sidney Simien
and Mickey Gilley.
Police say Meaux used drugs to lure numerous children into the
"playroom" at
the back of his
leased Sugar Hill Recording Studio offices at 5626 Brock.
Officers who raided those offices Jan. 29 on a tip confiscated hundreds
of
videotapes and more
than 1,000 Polaroid photos showing Meaux in sexual encounters with girls
as
young as 8,
although the typical age ranged from 13 to 15. One young boy also was
involved, police said.
The back room of the offices contained a king-size bed, wall mirrors in
which Meaux could be
seen in the films, instructing the girls and operating the camera, and a
doctor's examining table
complete with stirrups. About 15 grams of cocaine was found in his
office,
officers said.
After authorities charged Meaux with possession of cocaine and child
pornography, women came
forward saying Meaux had sexually abused them when they were children or
teen-agers. This led
to the sexual assault of a child charges.
Attorneys DeGuerin and Percy Isgitt, who represent Shannon McDowell
Brasher
in the civil
case, will be in court again this morning for a hearing. Isgitt said
Meaux
will face no further
charges if he fails to appear, since he was served with a citation in
the
lawsuit last week and the
period during which he may reply has not ended.
Wright said that wherever Meaux has gone, "I feel confident, it will
take
some time, but we will
find him. Anybody who wears a badge will be looking for him. Anybody who
knows him will be
looking for him."
DeGuerin pointed out that Meaux will "have to watch his back, no matter
where he goes --
Mexico, the Caymans, Brazil, anywhere. No one has any sympathy for a
child
molester."
Ultimately, Wright thinks two patterns of behavior will be Meaux's
undoing.
"One is, he's addicted to cocaine. He can't get off the stuff, been
using it
for years," the
investigator said.
"The other is, he likes being around people, and he likes to
brag,"
"When he got his
presidential pardon in the '80s, he has bragged about it since."
That pardon came after Meaux had served 14 months in federal prison in
the
late 1960s for
violating the Mann Act. He and his partner, the late Charlie Booth, were
convicted of transporting
a minor to a recording convention in Nashville for "immoral purposes."
"He can't keep his mouth shut,"Wright said of Meaux.
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FROM THE HOUSTON CHRONICL
9:27 PM 2/7/1996
By S.K. BARDWELL
Copyright 1996 Houston Chronicle
Huey Meaux Dead At 82
The devil finally caught up with Huey Meaux
Before all the
gory details of his wicked personal life became public, it was hard not
to marvel at Huey Meaux's remarkable accomplishments as a producer.
Huey was one of the primary architects of swamp pop music - Gulf Coast
Rock and Roll - epitomized by Meaux-produced hits like "Breaking Up Is
Hard To Do" by Jivin' Gene and Joe Barry's "I'm A Fool To Care". Then
there were all the hits Meaux scored with Barbara Lynn, Freddie Fender,
and Doug Sahm.
But best of all were all the oddball records the man
released on both major labels and hopelessly obscure imprints.
Like Kim
Fowley, a Huey Meaux credit on a 45 meant something interesting,
strange and possibly disturbing was in store. Huey was also the most
passionate (and pill-fueled) deejay to ever man a microphone--surpassed
only by Dewey Phillips for pure broadcast mayhem.
Here is some random weirdness from the Crazy Cajun including a sheet
from his personal "memeaux" pad purloined from his office, an extended
aircheck from an early 80s Meaux show on KUT in Austin, TX, and perhaps
the most disturbing Christmas 45 ever!
As the Crazy Cajun himself would
say,
"you better sure believe it!!!"
Huey Meaux on WFMU's Aircheck (mp3)
The Weird Beard & Crazy Cajun - T'was A Weird Nite Before Christmas
Editor's note: Don't miss this youtube clip of the Crazy Cajun in action on KPFT!
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