Fort Worth Police officers, two drug dogs and a helicopter, that initial fright turned to confusion then to questioning. Once the dust had settled, the lead DEA agent approached Andy and asked, “Where are the drugs?” Andy replied by asking him if he had the correct house to which he answered by showing him the search warrant. The address on the search warrant that had given these men the so called right to violently enter and remove him and his family from their home was incorrect. Andy then told the agent that was not his address and asked him if he was sure he had the right house. He replied by saying, “we have the right place and we know who you are.” He once again told them that, “if you’re looking for drugs then you do not have the right place.”

The two drug dogs and thirty plus officers and agents then scoured the residence, for the next five hours finding only a single marijuana cigarette in his wife’s bathroom cabinet. “That’s if, that’s all you’ve got” the agents asked and he once again responded that he didn’t do drugs of any kind whatsoever, nor had he ever. Unsatisfied with their lack of findings the agents continuously harassed Andy as to the whereabouts of the drugs to which his retort was, “sorry, but you’ve got the wrong guy.” After they had exhausted the possibility of finding the drugs that were supposed to have existed they began to load up and take with them anything of value at Andy's estate. They seized every vehicle to include his daughter’s and mother’s, every ring, watch, phone, computer and all cash. After all of this, one of the agents went so far as to force his wife to remove the wedding ring from her finger. They then told him that he was being arrested for conspiracy to possess more than five hundred grams of methamphetamine and he was carted off to jail.

Andy was now in the custody of the U.S. Marshals as a Federal detainee and presumed guilty until found innocent. Within approximately one week of his arrest, Andy was granted a bond hearing in which he was swiftly denied due majorly to poor representation. That prompted the search for a Federal Attorney with experience in cases of this caliber and a reputation that paralleled. In came Kirk Lechtenberger, an attorney from Dallas, Texas; whom was understood to be one of the best Federal Attorneys in the United States. At their initial meeting he introduced himself candidly by saying, “Hi, my name is Kirk Lechtenberger, they want your money.” That very statement was the preface to investigations and court proceedings in which ethics, morals and even lady justice herself would have been ashamed. Liens were immediately placed on the entirety of Andy's assets to the sum of approximately five million dollars. Everything he had worked for laboriously over a period of more than twenty years was whisked away by a rapacious and totalitarian Federal legal system and overnight he was broke.

Lechtenberger's first mission was to acquire bond for Andy. As he told him the task at hane would be exceptionally difficult as is true of Federal cases in that 99.2% of bond hearings are denied. To ensure the judge was made aware of the credibility of Andy's nature and truthfullness of his statements the hired of the most renownd paleographers, Joe Morris from Polygraph Srvices in Dallas, Texas. These types of examinats aree not admissible in court of law unless the judge approves it, but this paleographer was certified in Federal court.  When considering a person's guilt or innocence, they wpeak volumes when verifying a person's statements.

The equipment used was an Axciton Computerized Polygraph System and a program designed to record a subject's cardiovascular responses, breathing responses, and galvanic skin resistance. The testing format used was a Raskin of Utah Polygraph Testing Technique, consisting of three test charts which are numerically graded. Scores producing a positive six (+6) or higher are considered to be truthful. A score of negative six (-6) or greater indicates deception and scores falling between are inconclusive.

Andy scored a positive fourteen (+14) an amazing eight points more than what is considered truthful. Joe Morris, in the official polygraph test results noted that he, "would conclude, based upon Mr. Anderson's polyghaphs, that he has had no involvement in drug and criminal activity" and further, that he, "would also conclude that he did not conspire with Thomas Gerry to distribute drugs.