Douglas Ranch Rescue Arrest : AZ IMC

Wednesday, November 26, 2003
Ranch Rescue member held on federal rap
FBI says he fled Texas to avoid prosecution
By Ignacio Ibarra
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
DOUGLAS - A member of Ranch Rescue who says he owns the Cochise County ranch where the volunteer patrol organization is conducting its "Operation Thunderbird" was arrested Tuesday morning on a felony charge of flight to avoid prosecution, officials said.

Casey Nethercott, one of two Ranch Rescue volunteers accused of unlawfully detaining and beating a Salvadoran couple in Texas last March, is being held without bond at a federal detention facility in Tucson, said Susan Herskovits, an FBI spokeswoman. Charges against the other volunteer have been dropped.

Federal officials plan on extraditing Nethercott, a convicted felon, to Jim Hogg County, Texas, to face charges of unlawful imprisonment and weapons violations, she said.

Nethercott and Ranch Rescue are also named in a lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund.

"This is what our own government does to its citizens who try to protect themselves and their property from criminals," said Ranch Rescue spokesman Jack Foote, who was on the Texas ranch the day members were accused of mistreating the Salvadoran couple.

Foote, who said the Texas abuse claim is unfounded, called Tuesday's arrest politically motivated and intended to intimidate Ranch Rescue volunteers.

It won't work, Foote said. "We're going to bring in more volunteers, lots more. We're going to fill this place with volunteers and protect this home until the owner comes back."

Foote said he worries about the health of Nethercott, who he said needs insulin.
Nethercott requires a special diet and medication, which Foote said was denied to Nethercott the last time he was jailed in Texas.

Douglas police assisted the FBI and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in making the arrest as Nethercott pulled into a Douglas gas station, said Detective Mark Wilkinson, a Douglas police spokesman.

Nethercott had just pulled into the station when his vehicle was surrounded by squad cars. Law-enforcement officers were screaming orders at him and pointing their weapons, said Brian Patterson, a Ranch Rescue volunteer who was with Nethercott at the time of the arrest.

Patterson said he watched as Nethercott was surrounded and forced to the ground.
"After that I didn't see anything, because they had me on the ground, too. They took me to an interrogation room somewhere and questioned me for about an hour before they let me go," said Patterson, who was carrying a shotgun and back on patrol with other Ranch Rescue volunteers later in the day.

The group's "Operation Thunderbird" is ongoing at the former Puzzi Ranch, where the Texas-based group has been joined by a contingent of Missouri Militia patrolling private property they say is being invaded by criminal trespassers - some of the hundreds of illegal entrants who cross through the Douglas area each night.

Nethercott has told numerous people, including Cochise County sheriff's deputies, that he owns the ranch and adjacent property. But there is no record of the transactions with the Cochise County assessor's or recorder's offices. Records show the property is owned by Richard L. Puzzi Jr. and Renee L. Puzzi.

At the time of Nethercott's arrest, the Cochise County Sheriff's Department had opened its own investigation after deputies responding to calls complaining of gunfire and loose dogs had seen Nethercott, a felon, in possession of a semiautomatic handgun.

ranch rescue fuckers can burn...
lock them up along with all the other neo-con fascists and throw away the fucking key...
who do these assholes think they are?
!MORE MILITANCY AGAINST BORDER MURDERS!
STOP allowing border vigilantes operate their businesses in town, and confront their supporters

What we need is an anti-militia militia. The ranch rescue fucks say they are doing it because these people are "illegal." How ironic then that forming a militia in arizona is illegal. We need to form a militia detain these fucks at gunpoint, Call the cops and turn them and ourselves in.

Stupid white supremecist fucks.

these pendejos are not EVEN FROM ARIZONA! they are invating us from texas and are in this "operation" with the missouri militia, same goes for the chris simcox and glenn spencer hate groups.
a message to you: FUCK OFF!

corruption in earth first;

for years now we have seen the accounts from insiders exiting the earth first collective. we have heard of money being diverted from advertised activities to
profiteering for the leadership of this group.
company cars, vacations for the leaders, purchasing office buildings, and the best of all "THE PURCHASE OF THE EARTH FIRST RECORD COMPANY"
while this is going on the volunteers working for this group are made to endure dangerous living conditions
use sub standard equipment so money won't have to be spent on "them"
the protesters who languish in prison are left to fend for them selves, as the leadership of earth first REFUSES TO HELP PROVIDE LEGAL REPRESENTATION (these "children" would not be in prison if not for their involvement in earth first.
the posting from the leader ship denies miss-use of money but refuses to open the books to members and donors.

I say we get rid of the border and become one with mother Mexico. aye carumba!

Hey Jason do you have underwriting from a sheet company?

The illegal aliens are allowed through because of the egalitarian leftists who want to make the USA into a third world shithole like Mexico.

The GOP of course are in the pocket of big business who want cheap labor. So they are part of the problem too.

Time to elect some Paleo-Conservatives into office and build a wall along the border with Mexico.

Any of you who think that guarding your home or the home of your neighbor is stupid and "militia like" deserve whatever punishment comes from the hands of those who wish to do you harm. I have no respect for those that deal with problems like this by pinning blame on underfinanced groups trying to help them out. Furthermore if OUR government would step up to the plate and take charge of the defense of its people, honorable men and women would'nt have to do it for themselves. And for the 15 year olds that obviously have small vocabularies grow up this is a real problem which you will have to deal with some day as well.

Your comments and others with equally insensitive remarks don't exactly conceal your racist attitides very well. Even the former KKK "Grand Dragon" David Duke does a better job in that sickening regard by, predictably, opposing Affirmative Action and the MLK holiday in his book called "My Awakening":

You are so stupid. The only thing that will do is increase the number of burglarys in the area and open a door for terroists comming in to our country. The only defence we have against the worthless that sneak like rats under our fences is the Ranch Rescue. The only ones that want more illegal mexicans here are the other illegal rats that are already here.

The odd thing is that these anti-immigration vigilantes are no grass-roots effort. Their strings are being pulled by a retired opthamologist named John Tanton, who has ties to white supremacist groups, and who ls largely behind the "immigration reform" (pronounced "anti-mexican") movement in this country. He is aided and abetted by an ignorant turd of a Colorado senator named Tom Tancredo.

Read the SPLC's article, The Puppeteer-

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=180

And this on Tanton, Tancredo, and the Arizona Militias-

http://www.jbholston.com/weblog_discussion.php?post_id=66

Ain't it a hoot? These characters have no business in our State- Simcox is a recent immigrant from southern California, the other major players, Jack Foote and Glen Spencer areTexans, and they are all getting their marching orders from some racist fuck in Michigan, and a right-wing senator from Colorado.

I think that these bozos are the immigrants that need deporting-- We don't need out-of-state assholes like Simcox, Spencer and Foote getting in our business.

Why are so fucking retarded? You are one stupid MF Who cares where the people who protect our borders are from. Thank god they came to help. It would make you feel better if some ONE is "pulling strings" That way you can continue with your wacky conspiracy theorys. The fact is most people hate that ILLEGAL's are sneaking in to our country stealing and turning everything they touch in to a smelly mess like the country they came from. Learn english or get the hell out.

"ILLEGAL's?" "Theorys?"

Learn English or get the hell out!

Make fun of his spelling, bucause thats all you have. What he said (with out spell check) was all true. Its funny how you picked that out to comment about. You must know what he said its true too. You are truly the ignorant one.

The real criminals are the vigilantes, every single one of the groups are having law problems, Simcox the failure, Glenn the great fat SOB, the ranch rescue wannabe rambos, oh and the Barnets are being suit for invading their neighbors private property. The law is caching up to them. All your anti-immigrant heroes are CRIMINALS! they are not the law, no one wants them here. The last thing I want is for hateful, xenophobic, paranoid, extremist, racist arm idiot to be protecting me.

Well 3 out of 30 statements have some guts. Haters are in every group of people. Look closely and you will see your socialist masters in charge of them. When it all falls apart dum-dum what are you going to do, you who think you want to fight the Militia? Yes there are stupid people in every group and thanks to the socialist media they paint the picture and most of you buy it and hang it in your apartments. The real Militia you have never seen Mr. And you better wise up and get some understanding in your life. We don't hate anyone and most of us are real Christians who do not want any of this to happen, but we will not allow our loved ones to be enslaved. Most can be deceived very easly these days. Its getting real thick, just sit back and think, Do I really want to be someones boy or do I want to be a Man.

"Do I really want to be someones boy or do I want to be a Man"

Christian hypocrite, you are already afraid that you are someone's bitch. You are misdirecting your fucked up manhood issues towards illegals because in the back of your mind you think it's safe because they can't fight back.

Get over it, closet queer. If you want to be someone's boy, bend over and yell "all aboard" but don't make it about immigrants.

You don't even know me. Did I come at you with this kind of stuff? Did I come at anybody with this kind of stuff? No. I pointed out reality, You speak the way I did when I was a punk on the east coast. Grow up. You can spout off all you want. If you need to get in someones face my website has my address. But remember I am in the closet because I am scared.

Lets see now, not fair that you can't over run another country and it use to be mexico so give it back. Is that basicly it? Well your getting a lot of help from this country in making your paradise you think our traiters are your freinds you think when you get CA AZ TX NV back it will be just wonderful, until you look with horror at the rest of the world taking your things and those friends you counted on telling you to be tolerant, we are all brothers and sisters remember. The thing about the liberal mind is its ablility to be deceived, over and over again to the destruction of everything and everyone in its pathitic path. It reminds me of the bully being the deceiver, tells the child that his friend next to him, called his mother a name. And the child beleives the bully and starts a fight with his friend. Divide and Destroy. We will give it back when all mexicans with spanish decent go back to spain. Whats wrong with that?

you should be thankfull that people are willing to come and risk their lives to patrol the borders to stop the illegal drugs and imigrants coming through.if you were a landowner on the border and got threatened and atacked you would think a little different

Chuck you are trying (vainly) to talk common sense to those who have none. These people are brainwashed mindless children with no common sense education or values, they have the intellect of a crushed worm and the life value of a cockroach.
they truly are the "Immoral Minority"
they don't get it and they never will.
-Propaganda spoiler

These vigilante groups are nothing but terrorists, and should be treated as such.

I'm afraid I am educated, and have plenty of common sense, so I'm sorry to burst that little bubble. Yes there are some very dangerous people who cross the border, but the majority are actually very scared people who are risking everything for a better lives for themselves and oftentimes the families they leave behind in what is to all intents and purposes a 3rd world country. Look to your own backyards there are plenty of drug dealers and murderers in every town inthe USA, what are you doing to take them off the streets? As for them being "terrorists" have we actaully found any links to terorism in Mexico - no not the last ime I checked. These militia groups sprang up out of fear, and ignorance. I will never understand how a country that prides itself on its freedoms and its democracy can hold the covert belief that it is freedom and democracy for all provided we say so.

..becuase the idea of freedom and democracy are spooks that do just that play on peoples fear and ignorance.

In Liberation, Voluntary association, Mutual aide & Solidarity against domination!

Wannabe Rambos? You people are so fucking retarded. Rambo was a FICTIONAL character and the Ranch Rescue guys are REAL! As for "racists", I believe RR is open to all people regardless of race, creed, religion, or sex. So now you dont have your pathetic "race card" to play. Vigilante? Look the fucking term up and you will notice it does not coincide with Ranch Rescues agenda. So now your whole debate can't hold water. And as far as racism goes- mexicans are the most racist people I have ever met. If hating them makesme a racist...then thats exactly what I am.

They complain about conditions in Mexico, but do nothing about it. They come over here to the United States ILLEGALLY, and then demand "rights" they dont fucking have, and whine when they get deported. What arrogance! There will NEVER be an amendment or a law passed which legitimizes the illegal invaders from mexico. As soon as one is passed, the Feds will come in and overturn it. Its just a matter of time before the people of the United States sue the Federal Government for not doing their job of securing the borders.

For you stupids that don't know a thing of History. The stupid white people killed to take our land from Mexico. So, you should pack up your crack making trailers and move to where the hell you came from. Find your own culture, that's what your missing.