Brad Simpson’s business associate released from jail after judge slashes his bonds [Video]

SAN ANTONIO — A day after a Bexar County judge slashed his total bonds from $1 million to $100,000, 65-year-old James Cotter was released from jail. 

Cotter allegedly helped hide Brad Simpson’s AK-47 just before he was arrested in connection with the disappearance of his wife, Suzanne, last month. Brad Simpson’s longtime business associate, Cotter faces tampering with evidence and prohibited weapons charges after authorities searched his home on Oct. 8 and found the gun in the wall. 

The firearm had a string attached to its sight that would allow it to be retrieved “out of the void” in the wall, according to the documents. Video provided by someone working with the investigation appeared to show the same gun in a vault in the Simpsons’ home, but when authorities searched the home on Oct. 9, the gun was “missing from the same location …