Springtown Prison Outreach
The Dru Ewing Story
William Clements, Prison
Amarillo, Texas
I moved to Mineral Wells,Texas from Dallas,Texas to get away from drugs. I was looking for a new life and the only way I knew was to run away to a town that no one knew me. My twin Sister, Sue, asked me to move to Mineral Wells, Texas in 1990. In two days I was working roofing houses with a friend of my sister. I was doing alright. One thing I did not like about it was all the roofers would drink beer on the job. I was not a drinker at all. It was a matter of time for me to look for more work.. I had save up little money to get my C.D.L.. I got a job driving a mix truck. I knew then that is what I was going to do for a living. A year has gone by and I have made a lot of good friends. I met a wonderful woman her name was Cheryl she was a church going person. We got married. We would go to church together and one day something came over me. I was on fire about Jesus. I could not stop talking about him. The more I talked about him the happier I got. I had been going to this church for two years. The name of this Church was “Set free". I feel like at times I was not doing all I could be doing for the Lord. So I put my phone number on the T.V. ad and it said “ if you need prayer call this number 07pm to 11pm . When I got off work and got home, I would get cleaned up and go to the church and sit there by the phone and pray that it would ring. You would not believe how many calls I would get in four hours .
Sometimes I would go till past midnight. My wife Cheryl would have to come and get me. She was so happy for me. We would get home and I would go into the bathroom and get down on my knee’s and thank God for all the calls he had bless me with. That went on for about six months. I loved working for the Lord. One day the pastor of the church came up to me and asked me would I like to take over the youth class. I told him I did not know and let me pray about it and I would let get back to him in a day or two.
My wife and I then went to prayer God about if is your will to have me take over your young people let it be. God gave me and my wife so much peace about what I asked him. I went to the Pastor of the church and told him I would be happy to be with God young people. The ages were 13 to 17 years old. Back in 1993 most of the young people would listen to rap music. I asked God to show me how to get through to his young people. I tell you what! I had my job cut out for me. I never...not once did I get out of prayer the whole time. I let God know everything I was doing with his young people. I ask God what did he think about Christian rap music.
So believe it or not ,that is what I did, it all came together so beautifully. I know God had his hand in it all. When I first walk into the classroom there was only ten at the most. young people there.
As time went on and before I knew what was going on it grew up to 30 young people. It was so beautiful. We would have Bible study and talk about the Lord. I would show them that prayer was the key keeping every thing in the right place. We would go to the city park and play our Christian rap music and they would dance and break it down. You would not believe how many people would stop their cars and come up to watch them dance . It was like a tool. God was using this to get the people to come up. When it was all over the young people in two’s would go out into the crowd. Talk to and to pray with the people young and old alike.
It was so beautiful to see God's hand at work. The young people would get so happy every time they would bring some one to the Lord. We went from 10 young people to 40 in our class. We would have such a wonderful time. I was on my knees all the time thanking God for helping his young people. We then went to their church and put on a little show for them. They all loved it. I had Pastors from their churches come up and ask me if I would come and stay with them for about two week and show them how to get their young people together. I would tell them let me get with my Pastor and we would pray about it. I would get back to them. I was so happy how every thing was falling into place for the young people. I then went to our Pastor and told him that the churches would like me to show how they could get their young people together . I would like to show them how God put everything together. The Pastor said “no” that was his way to get young people together. I look at him and said Do you mean God's way? He just turn and walked away.
I ask God to help me to understand what he meant by it was his way. Anyway days went by and the young people would take time away from their family and friends to practice on Sunday after church. I told all of them we were going to take a day off to go home and be with your family and friends today. Everyone was so happy about that was their day off.
That day for some reason I felt they needed time with their family and their friend. The pastor heard about it and told me to call everyone back to the church because we were going to practice. I told him "Sir, I gave the young people time off to be with their family". He looked at me and said “no, you need the time off go home .I am taking over the young people class, so go take your day off" I could not understand what was going on at all. I turned and started to walk off. I got to the front door of the church and turned around and said you are making a big mistake. I looked right into his eye’s and said "you are wrong by doing this to me". I had tried running from my past . My wife did not go to church with me that day. She had to do something for the nursing home. I pulled up to the house and just set there for a moment trying just to understand what had just happen. I got out of the car and waked into the house. My wife looked at me and said "honey what is wrong?" I could not said a word. I just started to cry so hard. I could not talk. I went in the bedroom and sat on the bed. I was crying like a little kid. My wife sat there with me her hand on my back saying, "Honey please tell me what is wrong". That day my job was taken away from me . The pastor {that man} hurt my heart. I thought no one could hurt me that way. When I got where I could talk to my wife , I told her what the pastor had done. He had taken the young people away from me. I know I cried for six or eight hours that day. I cried myself to sleep. I felt like I had lost my best friend. The next day I took off work. In six years I had never missed a day of work. I felt like a lost sheep walking around with no joy in my heart. I could not understand why God let it happen. I went back to the church that morning to give back the keys to the front door. There was a woman sitting in the pastor's office. I walked over to her and she said, " good morning Dru. how are you doing this morning?" I ask her would you please give back the keys to the pastor . Tell the young people that I had to go away. I started to cry again. I looked down at the woman and I am so sorry then I turned around and walked away. The woman was so sweet she did not know anything about what had happen. I know that I should have talked to the young people about what happened but I just couldn’t do it without crying. I didn’t want to hurt them like I was hurting.
I never stepped back into a church after that day. Three or four months went by. My wife loves me so much. She would ask me to pray with her. I would look at her and say "no thanks" and walk away. Every time I would stop and think about what the pastor {the man} did and what I did that was so wrong for him to do that to me and the young people. How could God let that happen? I would start crying all over again. I would say to myself {no stop crying} I will not do this and the tears would go away. I told myself that I would not cry anymore. So help me God. My wife would start to cry. She would say "honey, please pray with me". I would look at her and say "no, please don’t ask me again" I then would turn and walk out the front door and say "honey I love you. I’ll be back in a hour or two". It would hurt me so bad to see my wife crying. I would go for a long walk and look up into the sky and say "please God take this pain away". My wife stopped asking me to pray with her I would see her praying and I would just walk away. The more I walked away the darker it got for me at home. I was so lost I could not believe what was going on with me. I found myself getting farther and farther from my wife. I would go to work every day and come home and sit in front of the T.V. ofr I would stay outside most of the time. I would see my wife looking at me at times. I know she loves me and I love her but we have something between us. I did not know how to remove it. God bless her heart...I miss her. I was at the auto store getting some wax for the car. I saw one of my sister's friends I worked with roofing a house . We started talking about things here and there. I asked him what drug he was taking?. I was joking about that ,and he said so fast you know methamphetamine, I look at him and said Man I would like to do some, he ask me over to his house. We got into our cars and before I knew it I was sitting in his living room doing drugs. We got to talking about how much money a person could make if he knew the right people. Because Mineral Wells was not a town for drugs. I got to thinking about Dallas,Texas. I could not say anything about it to anyone. This would go on for about two or three months .
I would go home at times and my wife would ask me how I was doing. I would just say I was fine thanks for asking. My wife loved me so much. She never would think I was using drugs. She would not know what a person looked like when they were high. She had never been around anyone like that .She is such a sweet person. I love my wife very much. I would not hurt her in any way. I knew if she knew I was using drugs it would kill her. I was back in my own little world. I did not think of the church anymore. I had been using drugs for about a year. My wife would ask me about the money that had been drawn out of the bank. I would tell her that my friend Mark needed some money to pay his rent. He would pay me back when he got a job. She would understand and no more would be said about it. Mark would come by the house and we would talk about making money . If we knew the right people. I would think about all the money I could put back in the bank. My wife would never know. She would think that Mark was paying me back. I got with Mark and ask him if I had a way and could get one or two ounces. Mark said a week if that long. I told him about the people in Dallas and that they would help me anytime I asked them. Mark could not believe that I knew people like that. You can’t say anything about it to my wife or anyone at all because if you did it would mess up everything for me. I told my wife that Mark needed a ride to Ft .Worth to check on a job. I could not let my wife know anything about Dallas. I knew she would put two and two together and know something was wrong. She had heard me talk about Dallas more than once and she knew that I hated that city. I just couldn’t let her know that I was going back to the city of Dallas. I got with my friends in Dallas and that is when it all started. I would pay $1500 for two oz. and make $3300 and back in three days. I would put the $1500 back in the bank plus $300 at a time and let my wife know that Mark was paying us back the money he got from us for his rent. He would come over and my wife would ask him how the job was doing in Ft. Worth and he would look at her and say thing are doing well. It would really hurt me to sit there and hear someone lie to my wife knowing that I to was lying to her too. I was turning into a person I hated. It was like Dallas all over again . I wished I was dead. I stopped going to Dallas and I got to thinking how hot they had to be up there. I made a call to Dallas and asked them how much money would it take to teach a person to cook. They told me $3000. I agreed and they told me what day to show up on . I told my wife that I was going to take Mark to Breckenridge, Texas to see his mother. We would be back in two days. I knew Mark had to be hot himself so I took him to Ft. Worth and got him a room and told him to stay put. I would be back in a day or two to pick him up. He knew that I was doing something in Dallas. Well now I am my own cook. I did not tell anyone , not even Mark: That was my biggest mistake I ever made in my life was to learn to cook, God please forgive me. I was gone all the time from home. I did not have a home. I was staying at people's houses I didn’t know. Mark would set me up with them. I would ask him how he was doing and the only thing he could talk about was when could we get some more drugs He had people waiting . I told him I was waiting for a phone call from Dallas. I let him believe I was still getting it from Dallas. I lied to Mark because he was so far out there he did not know if the cops was looking at him. or not. I would go home and my wife would run up to me put her sweet arms around me and tell me how much she had missed me. I know she knew. We would sit together in the living room and talk about anything but where I had been. I missed my wife it feltl so good to be home. I wish I could come home and stay but we both knew that was not going to happen. My wife came up to me and put her sweet arms around me and said Dru Honey, Remember I love it you need someone to talk to please remember me. She kissed my hands and looked up at me and said Honey, We love you and started to walk off. “ I go hey who is we . She stop and turn around and said God and me.
My eyes water up for the first time in years a tear started to run down my face. I open my arms and call for help, We set there in the floor and cried for the longest time. I knew right then I was back with my family, That is Me and my wife and Jesus once again . We were so happy again. Now I had been the drug world for six years in Mineral Wells . I was set free from drugs. But there was one person that would not stop coming around. He would harassed me and just wouldn’t take no for an answer. I told my wife I was going to give Randy a gram to get rid of him. She ask me not too. But I told her I knew what I was doing. She walk off crying. I called Randy up and told I him I had a gram to come and get it. Well he needed money. I have known Randy for five years . Anyway Randy called Officer Rodney Price who has served as a Mineral Well Police Officer he gave Randy $100. To make the drug buy, and wired him with a hidden tape recorder. Randy come by I got into his car and gave him the gram, are you happy now. please stay away from my family and me. I had not seen Randy for six months until they give me my indictment. I went to jail and set there for nine days before they set my bond. I had to pay $3000. To get out of Jail. I got home and my wife ask me, Now what are you going to do. I had to get a good Lawyer. I called Michael Burns and ask him if he would be my attorney, And how much would it cost he told me, $5000., I had to pay $2500.Up front. I told my wife I had to go and cook something up to pay this Attorney. .She could not see me doing that again. I told her I am sorry and walk out the door. I would be gone weeks at a time. I would go home and my wife would not be there I could not hang around there, So I would put a note and some money on the T.V. and tell her how much I loved her, And I would be gone again. I would ask my wife to pray for me, The money I made I had to put it back into the drug to make more. I was not making money like I was before. I would give my attorney $300. To $400. I was cooking three time a week. I would ask God to help me get it all done in time to go to Court. I would call my wife and she would not be at home. I was thanking about turning away and never coming back. I would go by the house and check the mail once a week, The attorney would be asking for his money. I would fine my wife at home and ask her to pray for me.
She said Dru Honey, God will help us if you will stop cooking and ask him for his help.
I had to be in court in four days, and I need to pay my attorney $1500.and you ask me to stop cooking. She said yes, Honey we love you. Okay I will stop cooking I would set around for two or three hours an worry about the money I had to pay the attorney. I just couldn’t set there and wait. I called my attorney and told him I could not pay him anymore money. He told me will let go to court and you plea guilty, I know the jury will not give you a life in Prison for a gram of methamphetamine. I told my wife what the attorney had said, so we knew that I am going to Prison. I told my wife to stay home on my court date. I could not see her crying at the courthouse, the day of court there was no one in the court room for me. I was all alone.
But I had Jesus with me all the way. Amen.
This is what Mineral Wells Index{ the New paper } said about me the next day.
Drug case plea net man 75 years.
Polo Pinto - Mineral Wells man was sentenced to 75 years in prison and fined $5000 in 29th District Court Monday for deliver of methamphetamine. Judge Jerry Ray accepted the guilty plea of Dru Allen Ewing, 46 before trail testimony begin . Ewing was represented by Attorney Michael Burn of Weatherford Texas. A Jury of ten women and two men then heard the testimony to assess punishment ranging from five years to life in Prison. With two previous felony conviction on his record, Ewing was not eligible for probation former Cross Timber Narcotics Task Force Offer Rodney Price, who had served as a Mineral Wells Police Patrolman since Aug. 2002, Testified that a long time confidential in formant , Randy Glover contacted him in July of 2002 with information that Ewing had methamphetamine for sale . Price said he arranged to meet with Glover at Mineral Wells Stockyards on the North Oak Avenue on July 7th where he gave him $100. To buy the drugs and wired him with a hidden recorder. Price told the Jury that he followed Glover to Ewing residence at 1802 South West 8th ave. Ewing came out to Glover’s car and sold him 1.18 grams of methamphetamine for $100. Glover took the witness stand and corroborated Prices testimony , Saying that he was a contracted in formant . And had worked on over 40 cases for the Cross Timbers and the department of Public Safety in the past. He said he was paid $100. By Price for his services in the undercover drug purchase involving Ewing. During his own testimony Ewing who had a 1988 conviction in Dallas county for forgery, and 1989 conviction in Stephens County for possession of a control ed substance, before moving to Mineral Wells, in 1990 Said Randy harassed him and wouldn’t take no for an answer . He said He gave the methamphetamine free to get rid of him, he did not receiver the $100. From Glover for the drugs and admitted to the Jury that he was a drug user but not a dealer. Burn agued the Jury to assess Ewing a minimum prison sentence of five years. He said he’s going to Prison and he know it. But give him some life back to straighten himself out. He stressed Ewing’s plans to enroll in a three years drug rehabilitation , at Cenikor when he is released from Prison. Polo Pinto County District Attorney Tim Trod said, this is not a five year case. Mr. Ewing has served two previous third-degree felony sentences, But that didn’t work he still made the decision to sell methamphetamine to Randy Glover. It’s about deterrence if you deter enough people you’ll clean up your Community.
So here I set at the William Clements unit with a sentence of 75 years. But Please understand I am happy because I am not sick no more I am well and I am with God every day . I thank the Lord for saving me and taking out of the drug world. God is with me everyday A-MEN.