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Border group leader injured in New Mexico jail altercation |
2019-04-25 |
![]() [10 News] Authorities say the leader of a civilian group that has detained asylum-seeking migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border was injured while he was jailed in New Mexico, after being arrested on federal weapons charges. The Dona Ana County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday in a statement that 69-year-old Larry Hopkins was transferred Tuesday out of the county jail after suffering non-life threatening injuries Monday night. The statement did not provide specifics on the "alleged battery" in which Hopkins was injured in Las Cruces, but Hopkins' lawyer, Kelly O'Connell, told the Albuquerque Journal that his client was hospitalized for rib injuries following an altercation. The FBI arrested Hopkins on a federal complaint accusing him of being a felon in illegal possession of firearms and ammunition. O'Connell has said Hopkins will plead not guilty. |
Posted by:Frank G |
#2 1. make you a felon 2. arrest you for: 3. send to prison full of the people he's trying to keep out of the country WAD (Works as designed) |
Posted by: Injun the Ugly3820 2019-04-25 13:12 |
#1 a federal complaint accusing him of being a felon in illegal possession of firearms and ammunition. Reading his history, this seems like a major reach to contain him, rather than response to a criminal act. |
Posted by: Skidmark 2019-04-25 11:06 |