Ex-Ram Accused in 2nd Drug Deal
Only two days after he was charged with arranging a $1-million heroin deal from behind bars, former Rams football star Darryl Henley was accused Thursday of engineering a second major drug deal from jail, this one involving his youngest brother, his girlfriend, and the mother of his child.
Two affidavits unsealed Thursday also shed new light on Henley’s alleged plot to arrange the slayings of the federal judge who presided over his 1995 cocaine trafficking trial and the former Rams cheerleader who testified against him.
One affidavit describes tape-recorded conversations in which Henley tells an undercover agent that he wants U.S. District Judge Gary L. Taylor “blown up” and cheerleader Tracy Donaho to “disappear.”
One of Henley’s jail guards, Rodney Anderson, an alleged partner in the heroin deal, apparently agreed to murder Taylor and Donaho, court records show.
The records state that Henley told a fellow jail inmate that “Anderson was a sharpshooter with extensive military experience and that Anderson would be provided with addresses for the intended targets.”
According to the affidavit, Anderson boasted that with “the proper equipment, he could shoot a person from a substantial distance, thereby minimizing the chance of being caught.”
In unveiling the charges Thursday, federal agents said that more of Henley’s family members and close friends were involved in this latest scheme to distribute 25 kilograms of cocaine. Henley’s uncle and a childhood friend were convicted along with Henley in his 1995 cocaine trafficking trial.
On Thursday, agents arrested Henley’s youngest brother, Eric, in Waco, Texas, charging him with being part of the latest plot. Also named as co-conspirators in the federal complaint were Ronald and Donald Knight, twin brothers who have been longtime friends and business associates of Henley.
Two women named in the complaint, Kym Taylor and Alisa Denmon, were still at large. Denmon is the mother of Henley’s child, and Taylor is the former football star’s girlfriend. Both women reportedly plan to surrender to authorities within the next 24 hours.
Henley has testified in court that he owns a record label, Rhythm Records, with the Knights, who were arrested at their Los Angeles residences early Thursday.
