Missing Texas real estate agent’s husband kept in jail with high bond as family rips his lack of cooperation

Nearly 2 weeks aft Texas mom of 4 and luxury existent property cause Suzanne Simpson disappeared, her hubby is being held connected an unusually precocious enslaved successful what 1 adept said was a maneuver by investigators to support him down bars arsenic they proceed their search.

"Brad Simpson is being held connected a $2 cardinal bond. For what? Definitively each misdemeanors. So I'm profoundly troubled by that. I tin archer you from a ineligible position that they are conscionable trying to clasp him," lawyer and erstwhile homicide detective Ted Williams told Fox News Digital.

"$2 cardinal for misdemeanors is conscionable thing that is rarely, seldom ever done. And the lone crushed that it would beryllium done is that they are trying to support him incarcerated portion they find out, portion they behaviour their betterment operation."

Suzanne, 51, disappeared connected Oct. 6 aft reportedly warring with her hubby of 22 years successful Olmos Park, extracurricular San Antonio. Police person been searching the area, including astatine a landfill this week.

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Suzanne Simpson disappeared adjacent San Antonio, Texas connected Oct. 6. (Olmos Park Police)

Brad Simpson was arrested successful Kendall County connected a household unit complaint successful narration to his wife's disappearance, Olmos Park constabulary said. The $2 cardinal enslaved was acceptable for him, but a national detainer placed connected him by the national Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives connected a weapon complaint is keeping him down bars.

The national complaint is for illegally owning a firearm, according to an affidavit obtained by Fox News Digital.

Investigators searched Simpson’s location successful Olmos Park connected Oct. 9 aft executing a hunt warrant related to the disappearance of his wife, according to the document. 

On Oct. 10, a household subordinate informed instrumentality enforcement officers that Simpson owned aggregate firearms they wanted to surrender. The household subordinate recovered respective firearms from a locked country successful the Simpson location and past transported the firearms to the Olmos Park Police Department, records show. 

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Brad Simpson booking photo. (Kendall County Sheriff's Office)

A short-barreled firearm that was surrendered to constabulary was not registered with the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Records. Owning a short-barreled firearm that is not registered with the feds is illegal, and Simpson faces up to 10 years successful national situation and a $250,000 fine, according to the affidavit.

This complaint is the crushed Brad Simpson has a national clasp connected his merchandise from the Bexar County Jail. He was primitively charged with battle causing bodily injury, household unit and unlawful restraint for the Oct. 6 incident.

According to jailhouse records, Brad Simpson was primitively sent to the Kendall County Jail connected a combined $2 cardinal bond. He was aboriginal transferred to the Bexar County Jail.  

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On Sunday night, Oct. 6, determination was a "disturbance" betwixt the Simpsons astatine the Argyle, a nine adjacent San Antonio, Olmos Park Police Chief Fidel Villegas said astatine a erstwhile property conference. Police person tried to interrogation Brad, but helium has been "uncooperative," Villegas said.

"Normally, erstwhile a idiosyncratic is not progressive successful transgression activity, they voluntarily volition speech to instrumentality enforcement," Williams said. "But if the idiosyncratic feels that law enforcement suspect them specifically are being progressive successful the transgression activity, specified arsenic his wife, Suzanne Simpson, having been progressive successful immoderate signifier of foul play, past rather naturally, he's not going to speech to them whether he's engaged a lawyer oregon not oregon he's not going to speech to them."

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Brad's household has condemned his deficiency of practice with instrumentality enforcement. 

"Until Brad chooses to cooperate, we volition proceed to cooperate for him, arsenic we person from the precise opening of this heartbreaking ordeal," Suzanne Simpson's brother-in-law, Barton Simpson, wrote successful a Facebook station Wednesday morning. "This is not however helium was raised, and this is not who we are. Our parents instilled successful america the values of honoring and protecting others, and they are genuinely singular people. 

"The devastation this has caused to our household is overwhelming. Brad's refusal to cooperate is unacceptable. My sister and brother-in-law person stepped up to instrumentality attraction of the children, but the interaction connected our parents has been shattering. Our lives person been irreparably changed. We volition not remainder until we find Suzanne."

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The Texas Department of Public Safety released a photograph of missing ma Suzanne Simpson from the nighttime she disappeared. (Texas Department of Public Safety)

Prior to Suzanne's disappearance, Brad relocated to his ranch spot successful Bandera County, Texas and appeared to beryllium separating himself from his family, according to the apprehension affidavit. Barton Simpson told constabulary that Brad had called him and apologized for each the problems helium had caused. 

A neighbour told constabulary helium saw Brad and Suzanne physically warring each different connected the nighttime of Oct. 6 and aboriginal heard screams coming from a adjacent wooded area, according to the apprehension affidavit. The neighbour observed that "Ms. Simpson was attempting to get distant from Mr. Simpson's grasp arsenic helium tried to propulsion her downwards," the study continued.

"That nighttime we deliberation she was successful distress … it's precise suspicious, though, that evidently she's not going to work, and she's not checking successful connected her children," Villegas said. 

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San Antonio constabulary cadets hunt a landfill successful the disappearance of Suzanne Simpson. (Chief Bill McManus/X)

Suzanne's mother, Barbara Clark, told News 4 San Antonio connected Sunday that she does not judge her girl is alive.

"The mode successful which they are present conducting their probe leads 1 to judge that it's much apt than not that she's not alive," Williams said. "For instance, their probe close present is focused connected a landfill. And if they're looking into the landfill, rather naturally, they are not looking for idiosyncratic who's alive." 

Sgt. Deon Cockrell of the Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed with Fox News Digital that authorities were searching the landfill. 

In a post connected X, San Antonio Police Department Chief William McManus said the Olmos Park constabulary asked for SAPD’s assistance successful the search. McManus said 25 cadets assisted connected Tuesday.

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Suzanne was past seen connected Oct. 6 astatine 11 p.m. successful the 500 artifact of East Olmos successful Olmos Park. She is 5 feet, 5 inches gangly and weighs astir 140 pounds with brownish hairsbreadth and hazel eyes.