Glenn Spencer's Mea Culpa: The inevitable consequences of failure to execute zero tolerance for loons, racists, anti-semites and assorted sociopaths.

The Shawna Forde perp walk.

My thanks to Jackie J. for forwarding this to me regarding Shawna Forde. I will have some comments on the other side.

Mike
III

Full Disclosure about Shawna Forde

By Glenn Spencer -- American Border Patrol

June 22, 2009

About ten o’clock on the morning of June 12, I was at my computer working on the Operation B.E.E.F. final report when suddenly someone appeared behind me. It was Shawn Forde, the “Minuteman activist.” She had not called for an appointment but merely showed up at American Border Patrol’s front door (and my home) and was let in.

Being a polite person, I spoke with her, even though last summer I told American Border Patrol employees that, due to her strange behavior, she was no longer welcome at the ranch.

Sitting down at my desk, Forde told me she was setting up an organization to put unemployed veterans to work protecting the border. Knowing that this was ridiculous, I quickly ended the conversation and excused myself. Forde asked if she could use our family room to do some work on her laptop. She stayed about twenty minutes and left.

I still don’t know why Shawna Forde suddenly appeared at my front door, but I am sorry she did.

As she left she asked if she could return the next day and retrieve something she left in the RV. I said OK. (Last summer I let Forde and her daughter use ABP’s RV for about a week.)

With the exception of allowing her to use our RV, I have never had any dealings with Shawna Forde. She has never participated in any of ABP’s border work and none of our people have participated in any Minuteman border operation, including those involving Shawna Forde.

Shortly after Forde left, Waste Management called and said they couldn’t pick up our trash as the FBI the road leading to my house blocked. I jumped on an ATV and drove to the end of the road where I saw a number of vehicles and people who appeared to be law enforcement. I asked if their activities had anything to do with the border and they said no. I returned home and called the Sierra Vista Herald to report the activity. I spoke with reporter Bill Hess, whom I have known for years, and explained the situation. He said he would look into it. That was about 11:30 a.m.

About 12:30 p.m. I left to go into Sierra Vista to do some shopping. I drove my Hummer and waved as I passed the “FBI” people who were still at the north end of my road - they waived back.

On the way home I was just pulling onto my road where the “FBI” people were when I encountered Melissa Jaramillo, my office manager ,who was just leaving. It was a little after 3 p.m., the end of Melissa’s workday. She pointed out that one of the cars on the road looked like it belonged to Shawna Forde. I confirmed this and took a picture of the vehicle ( the brown SUV).

Upon arriving home I called Bill Hess of the Herald and told him what had happened. He asked about Shawna. I told him she was a very strange. He said there were a lot of strange people in Sierra Vista. I amplified by saying she was a braggadocio and had claimed that she had visited drug hideouts north of the border. He said it was unlikely drug smugglers would be hanging out with Minutemen and that they would know who she was. I agreed. He said he would pass the information along.

About 5:30 p.m. I was in my yard, playing ball with my German Shepherds when two sheriff deputies arrived. They said that others would be arriving and that they had a warrant to search my home. They said that Shawna Forde had been arrested for murder. I was handed a copy of the warrant.

Shortly thereafter more officers arrived and then came an armored vehicle loaded with a SWAT team. As I was kept to one side the SWAT team entered my home and a search began. I was approached by a Sheriff deputy who said Forde had murdered two people. I corrected him, saying “you mean she is suspected of murdering two people.” He said, no, she murdered them.

I was then interviewed by a female detective from Pima County. We talked for about twenty minutes and I told her all I knew about Shawna Forde. I told her I had very little to do with Forde and that I had told my associates that we should have little to do with her. I told the detective I had heard from others that Forde had bragged about visiting a drug smugglers hide out inside the U.S. I also said I was concerned because of the way Shawna dealt with her daughter, then under eighteen years old, or so I was told.

I told the detective that the deputy who said she had committed the murders was not very professional. She said he was only human.

They finished the search of my home and apparently found nothing that bothered them as they took nothing. After a quick search of ABP’s RV, they all left.

American Border Patrol stopped using volunteers for border work five years ago. We now concentrate on the use of high technology and aerial surveillance.

This is an object lesson about understanding with whom you are dealing in the border volunteer effort. This is why I urged the Minutemen to do background checks on everyone they signed on. They did, which is one of the reasons I allowed Forde and her daughter to use the RV – I thought they had done a background check on her.

Glenn Spencer

PS – Earlier today I learned from a reporter based in Washington State that the FBI was tracking Shawna as she used her laptop to send e-mails over her cell phone Internet link. She sent an email from ABP’s headquarters and this may explain why they arrested her as she left our headquarters.

OK, crew, here's my observations. We do not yet know if there was an FBI snitch in all of this, or if so who it might be. I do know that the racist and anti-semite groups of the 90s were riddled with them. Sometimes, as in the Identity compound at Elohim City in early 1995, there were at least five snitches and provocateurs in, or circulating through, all of them working for the FBI and ATF yet ignorant of each other's CI status.

Carol Howe, who was a CI for the ATF, told her controller about Andreas Carl Strassmeier, an FBI provocateur (or perhaps another agency which shouldn't have had its mitts in CONUS operations, the CIA) who proposed bombing federal buildings in Oklahoma City. The ATF Tulsa office was set to raid the place in February of 1995 when the US Attorney and the FBI up from OKC intervened, telling the ATF, "back off, Elohim City is OUR operation."

You had government paid snitches snitching on each other and provoking each other to commit federal crimes, all on the taxpayer dime. Not even the secret police of Tsarist Russia was this convoluted or worked at such evident cross-purposes to the maintenance of public order and the protection of innocents.

Which leads me to point out part of FBI SOP when dealing with a criminal conspiracy. They like to follow the people (and especially, the money) from a criminal enterprise to see how many people they can net before they make the "big bust.". For in casting their nets as wide as possible, they find more confidential informants to turn for use in later operations. It is not beyond possibility that one or more of this bunch, working at the direction of the Fibbies, channeled Forde in the direction of Glenn Spencer. It is also not beyond possibility that Forde herself was a federal snitch playing both sides against the middle.

This is what the 90s taught me -- If you lie down with dogs, you get up with federal fleas. A cautionary lesson I'm sure Glenn Spencer wishes he would have internalized before letting Shawna Forde have unsupervised access to his house and headquarters long AFTER he knew she was poison.

"Trouble finds Shawna Forde": You're Going to Hear a LOT About This Murderous Loon.

Meet Shawna Forde, MAD woman.

Madness accumulates.

On Friday night, I received several emails from friends -- some of whom I served with in the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps back in October 2005 on the border near Hachita NM -- about this story from the Everett, Washington Herald.

Anti-immigration activist from Everett arrested in Arizona killings

By Scott North and Jackson Holtz, Herald Writers

TUCSON, Ariz. -- An outspoken anti-immigration activist who was at the center of a series of violent crimes in Everett earlier this year has been arrested in Arizona in connection with the home-invasion killings of a man and his 9-year-old daughter.

Shawna Forde, 41, is charged with two-counts of first-degree murder, one count of first-degree burglary and one count of aggravated assault, according to a press release from the Pima County Sheriff's Department in Arizona.

The killings were believed to be premeditated. Forde and the two others allegedly went into the home intending to steal money and drugs, the press release said.

Raul Flores, 29, and his 9-year-old daughter, Brisenia, were killed when a group of armed people, including a woman, forced their way into the home on May 30, officials said.

The child's mother traded gunfire with the attackers. She survived, but remains hospitalized with gunshot wounds.

Forde was arrested without incident in Sierra Vista, a few miles from the Mexican border.

The shootings occurred in Arivaca, about 60 miles south of Tucson and 10 miles north of the Mexican border.

It is in an area where Forde and her group, Minuteman American Defense, have been operating. Forde has said her group conducts desert surveillance and undercover investigations aimed at curbing illegal immigration and drug smuggling.

Later, I was fowarded this link to the Green Valley, Arizona News with more detail.

Suspect in murders headed Minuteman group

By Daniel Newhauser and Dan Shearer, Green Valley News

Published: Friday, June 12, 2009

Two of the three people arrested in connection with the May 30 murders of an Arivaca man and his daughter headed up a splinter Minuteman group, and were looking for drugs and money to fund their efforts to keep illegal immigrants and drug runners out of the country, sheriff’s officials said.

Jason Eugene Bush, 34, was arrested Thursday in Kingman; Shawna Forde, 41, was arrested Friday south of Sierra Vista; and Albert Robert Gaxiola, 42, was arrested Friday afternoon in Tucson.

All three have been charged with two counts of first-degree murder, one count of first-degree burglary and one count of aggravated assault in connection with the murders of Raul Flores and his 9-year-old daughter, Brisenia. Flores’ wife was shot during the incident but managed to shoot one of the intruders.

“No, I did not do it,” Forde said as she was led out of the Pima County Sheriff’s Office in front of reporters Friday afternoon.

Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said Forde was “still trying up until today to get together a large amount of money to further sophisticate the type of operation she’s interested in.”

“She’s, at best, a psychopath,” he said.

Gaxiola, Bush, Forde

Officials said Forde is associated with the Minutemen American Defense group and that Bush and Gaxiola, who is from Arivaca, are associates of Forde. The group is not associated with the national, 12,000-member Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, though Forde shared the stage with Minuteman Project co-founder Jim Gilchrist at a 2007 Elks Lodge event in Washington, according to a Southern Poverty Law Center profile on her.

But her association didn’t last long, and within Minuteman group circles Forde is controversial, according to a February article from the Daily Herald in Everett, Wash.

Hal Washburn, vetting officer for Washington state chapter of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, said Forde was encouraged to leave the group over questions about honesty and her inability to follow orders, according to the story. San Diego Minutemen lists Forde among people they won’t work with, calling her “unstable.”

Forde is listed as executive director of the Minutemen American Defense on the group’s Web site, which says its mission is, “To secure the U.S. Borders, Coastal boundaries and constitution against unlawful and unauthorized entry by all individuals, contraband and foreign military. To also increase the awareness of the devastation caused by illegal immigration to our state and country.”

Bush was listed as “operations director,” and is known as “Gunny.”

Dupnik said Bush was the shooter, under orders from Forde, and called the murders “one of the most despicable crimes that anyone in our organization has ever been associated with.”

Dupnik called it “a planned home invasion where the plan was to kill all the people inside this trailer because they might be witnesses, and rob them.” He said there are other people involved and the investigation continues.

PCSO Lt. Michael O’Connor called the killings an “assassination,” and said the shooters were looking for Flores’ other daughter, who was not at home.

Dupnik also said Raul Flores was “a large dealer” who likely had connections to large Mexican drug cartels and “has a history of being involved in narcotics.”

News of the arrests quickly spread through Arivaca on Friday evening. One woman said she knew Gaxiola and occasionally partied with him. The house where Raul and Brisenia were slain was dark, and neighbors had locked their gates as night fell.

A message from Forde on her Web site reads, “I would like to let everyone know that we are in full operation we have people coming from Florida and other parts of the country to assist in gathering exclusive footage of drug cartel drug smuggling and humane trafficking. Our point is to let the world know that we as American citizens have a choice and a responsibility to those who have stained the ground red for our freedoms.”

Bush was shot during the incident and was taken to a Kingman hospital after his arrest. He was also being held on a probation violation warrant out of Washington state for auto theft.

Scott Anderson, who belongs to the 80-member Green Valley chapter of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, said he has never heard of Forde or her group, but knows others will associate his group with theirs.

“I figured something like this was going to happen,” he said Friday evening. “We’re all going to be painted with the same broad brush.”

Anderson said anybody joining the national group must undergo a background check, an interview with a national officer and go through four to six hours of training.

“Our rules are very strict,” he said. “We’re doing everything above-board according to the law.”

Even before the arrests Anderson knew the Minutemen had an image problem with some people.

“I wish people could see our standard operating procedures,” he said. “We don’t impede the movement of anybody — we give them (illegal immigrants) water and medical aid just like the Samaritans do, but then we call the Border Patrol. We can’t convince people of that.”

I met Shawna one weekend a couple of years ago at a Patriots Border Alliance conference in St. Louis. She struck me immediately as being someone who was not too tightly wrapped -- a potential loose cannon. I commented on this at the time to several folks, and they agreed. The name of her group was Minuteman American Defense, or by acronym, M.A.D. She was called "the MAD woman."

Yet no one at the conference, I think, could have predicted the cascade of events that began in December 2008 with the shooting of her estranged husband John (he had filed for divorce in October yet still livd in the same house) by unidentified intruders. Although he lived, the details were murky and police suspicion focused on Shawna. No charges were ever brought. Then came a string of incidents where Shawna was allegedly raped and beaten by Mexicans, then later, shot.

Her claim at the time was that she and her husband had been the victim of drug cartel retribution for her border activities. I was immediately skeptical because if she had excited the interest of the cartels or MS-13, well, they are not known for doing things in little slices.

She has been shunned and denounced by almost the entire spectrum of immigration activists and border watch groups (save Jim Gilchrist and Laine Lawless, who embraced her and defended her). No one, though, thought she was capable of premeditated murder. Shows what we knew.

Some clues to her bizarre behavior can be found in an earlier Herald story here entitled Trouble finds Shawna Forde: Border activist at center of recent spate of violence.

In the coming days, you are going to hear a lot about this murderous loon. You will not hear that she was shunned and denounced. You will hear, courtesy of ADL, SPLC and their willing tools in the media the words "Minuteman," "vigilante," "nativist," amd "right-wing extremist" all in the same breath with "child murderer."

This will be pointed to, once again, as evidence the Homeland Security report was right. Thus proceeds the "Narrative of 1995."

The grim certainty that can be taken from this tragic murder of an innocent nine-year old girl is that regardless of how the trial of these three turns out, they are all, at this moment, dead folks walking. The cartels do not forget and they do not forgive.

But no matter the date of Shawna Forde's death, we will all be tarred with the broad brush of her sorry life, bad choices and evil deeds. Our enemies will use it as an excuse for our repression. That too is a grim certainty.

More on Shawna Forde: "She knew a guy who would sell the drugs and give them 60 percent of the proceeds."

Lipstick on a pig.

Thanks to Jackie J. who forwarded this latest on MAD woman Shawna Forde to me with the comment:

What is the difference between rogue cops who shoot, beat, tase, citizens- or those like Lon Horiuchi who killed Randy Weavers wife and baby - and nut cases like Shawna Forde? I mean what is the difference beyond one group having a badge and the protection of the Attorney General Janet Reno? All are mentally challenged in one way of another. The fact that one is acting under the guise of Law does not change the outcome of their actions.

Yes, exactly. Note that this story does not mention her Christian Identity shooter buddy. Also, her willingness to hijack drugs and sell them for profit tracks with the MO of a number of Identity and neoNazi terrorists over the years. Am I being impolite if I point out that even Tim McVeigh and his buddy Fortier were meth heads/dealers?

Mike
III

Killings highlight risk of fringe activists

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press Writer

PHOENIX (AP) - The tagline on Shawna Forde's anti-illegal immigration Web site says her group was "doing the job our government won't do." They wanted to patrol the border, but her small band of activists needed money to do it.

So, authorities say, Forde and two men dressed up as Border Patrol agents and broke into the southern Arizona home of a man they thought was a drug dealer, hunting for money or drugs to sell. They found neither, but killed the man and his 9-year-old daughter.

The May 30 killings rocked an anti-illegal immigration movement that prides itself on being vocal but not violent, and added to a growing list of activists accused of using violence to advance their aims.

In recent weeks, a white supremacist was accused of killing a black guard at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., and an ardent abortion foe allegedly shot and killed a prominent Kansas abortion doctor.

The possibility that activists in the anti-illegal immigration movement would use violence did not surprise Heidi Beirich, research director at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups.

"We figured for a long time that we were going to get violence out of this movement," she said.

Her organization says the number of hate groups nationwide has risen 54 percent since 2000, fueled by opposition to Hispanic immigration and, more recently, by the election of the nation's first black president and the economic downturn.

Several groups focusing on stopping illegal immigration formed in the past half-dozen years, and many were drawn to southern Arizona, the busiest corridor in the nation for illegal border crossings.

"Some are using the movement to promote their own bigoted, racist ideology," said Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University-San Bernardino. "But I want to be clear: That's not everyone in the movement, and it poses a real problem."

He said the movement's message attracts people with ulterior motives. Larger groups try to patrol their ranks for potentially troublesome people but have no power to stop exiles like Forde from starting splinter groups, and even from using the Minuteman name.

After the killings, some of the movement's leaders quickly distanced themselves from Forde and her Minutemen American Defense group, saying they warned for months that she was potentially dangerous.

"We knew that Shawna Forde was not just an unsavory character but pretty unbalanced as well," said Chris Simcox, the founder of one of the original border watch groups, the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps.

Forde, charged along with the other men with murder and other counts, declined interview requests, but she had denied involvement in the killings when she was led away after her arrest.

Before coming to Arizona, Forde, 41, lived in Everett, Wash., where she ran for the city council in 2007 promising to allow police to check the immigration status of suspects, according to local news accounts.

She became a lighting rod in the community of 100,000 north of Seattle and famous in anti-illegal immigration circles when she alleged that her ex-husband was shot and that she was raped, beaten and shot in retaliation for her immigration activities.

The allegations caught fire and Forde drew a following among online border security advocates. Everett police are investigating the shooting claims but have not made any arrests, police said. An investigation into the rape allegations was closed for insufficient evidence.

Some leaders of the anti-illegal immigration movement said her story didn't add up and that Forde was lying.

In October, Forde showed up at a border-watch event organized by Simcox's group, he said. She bragged about her own group and said it would be going after drug cartels, which made Simcox worry about the safety of other Minutemen, he said.

"You don't go pissing off the drug cartels," Simcox said. "That was something we were not really happy about."

Simcox said the fact that his group kicked Forde out in 2007 amid allegations of lying and pretending to be a senior leader proves that the anti-illegal immigration movement is effectively policing itself.

Her group was small and unorganized, with about 14 members and no formal meetings or activities, said Chuck Stonex, a former group member from Alamagordo, N.M., who severed his ties to the organization following Forde's arrest.

Forde claimed to have reconnaissance and covert mission teams that she called "Delta One Operations" but she refused to identify their members or activities, Stonex said.

She often talked about buying 40 acres of land for staging border surveillance activities in southern Arizona, but she would get angry when Stonex asked her how she planned to pay for it, he said.

Stonex and Forde once talked about what they would do if they encountered a truck full of drugs in the desert, according to Stonex. Forde said she knew a guy who would sell the drugs and give them 60 percent of the proceeds.

"She had her own private agenda," Stonex said. "She was doing her own thing, and she wasn't concerned about who she hurt."

Yet more on Shawna Forde: "She hates all ethnicity with the exception of Caucasians."

More lipstick on what turns out to be an even uglier pig.

My thanks to Jackie J. for forwarding these. My apologies for taking so long to get them posted. They provide certain small but revealing details about the woman, the motivation and the crime.

Mike
III

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090624/NEWS01/706249604&news01ad=1#Everett.woman.was.suspect.just.hours.after.Arizona.slaying

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Everett woman was suspect just hours after Arizona slaying

By Scott North and Jackson Holtz

Border-watch activist Shawna Forde of Everett surfaced as a potential suspect in an Arizona double-murder investigation within hours of the killings after a co-defendant told detectives she'd been staying at his home nearby, according to police reports.

The Pima County Sheriff's Department today released roughly 200 pages of case reports to The Green Valley News and Sun newspaper in southern Arizona. The records focus primarily on the investigation in the hours immediately after the May 30 killings.

News apparently was swirling through the small town of Arivaca, Ariz., about the home-invasion robbery that took the lives of Raul Flores, 29, his daughter, Brisenia, 9, and left the girl's mother with gunshot wounds.

Talk in town quickly brought detectives to the home of Albert Robert Gaxiola, 42, who was said to have had bad blood with Flores, in part because of alleged drug trafficking.

Gaxiola told investigators he didn't know anything about the shootings and had been in Tucson, the police reports said.

"Upon being questioned about other individuals that were present at his house, he stated that a group of people whom he identified as 'Minute men' had been staying there," the report said. "He stated that he had a relationship with the leader whom he identified as Shawna Forde."

Gaxiola reportedly told detectives that the military-style clothing and gear in his house, plus a blood-stained van that was at his home all were associated with Forde, 41.

Detectives took items from Gaxiola's home under a search warrant, including an improvised grenade and numerous firearms, including a shotgun found in a hidden compartment, documents show. They also seized Gaxiola's cell phone.

"I opened the cell phone and questioned him about contacts whom he had listed in the phone; one of which was identified as 'White,' " one officer wrote. Gaxiola "stated that White was the nickname of Shawna Forde. I then asked him why that was her nickname. He stated that she hates all ethnicity with the exception of Caucasians."

The phone appeared to contain numerous text messages between Forde and Gaxiola during the night of the fatal robbery, the police reports said.

The documents released today say little about what happened with the investigation between June 1 and June 12, when Forde and Gaxiola were arrested. There also is no mention of Jason Eugene Bush, 34, who also is charged in the case.

The records contain a summary of the interview detectives did with Flores' wife after she reached the hospital.

She said Raul Flores had told her that law officers were at the door, demanding entry to search for fugitives.

She said that two people entered the home, both wearing camouflage clothing. One was a large man; the other a short, "heavyset or chubby" woman, both white, the documents said.

The shooting victim "stated that the female appeared to be giving orders to the male and was talking on a walkie-talkie or similar device to other individuals," perhaps outside the home.

The tall man shot her husband, shot her, and shot their daughter, she told police.

The woman said she heard more people come into the home, perhaps speaking Spanish. They left, and the woman managed to get her husband's pistol in the kitchen and call 911.

The large man returned to the house and a gun battle erupted. The woman said a Hispanic man stuck his head in the door at one point and hollered something.

The woman told police that she thought the Hispanic intruder could be Gaxiola, although she wasn't certain. She also described a teal-colored minivan, similar to the one found at Gaxiola's home, the reports said. The woman said she remembered it because it had cruised through her neighborhood days before. The man and woman inside the van waved at her, reports said.

The intruders left behind a sawed-off shotgun in the house. A trail of blood led to a handgun that was found outside.

The robbers apparently left without finding the $4,000 cash hidden in the house.

Pima County officials have alleged the purpose of the robbery was to get money and drugs to fund Forde's group.

Forde was arrested in Sierra Vista, Ariz., nearly two weeks after the shootings. Investigators believe she and Bush went to northern California, where they are suspected in a home-invasion robbery and burglary.

One of the documents talks about Forde's demeanor while being fingerprinted after her arrest. She reportedly refused to sign the fingerprint card.

When she was searched, a white piece of paper was found in one of her pants pockets. It appeared to contain GPS coordinates, the documents said.

Forde reportedly said that the paper contained information about a drug cartel in Mexico.

A Pima County grand jury returned indictments late Monday against Forde, Bush and Gaxiola.

Pima County Deputy Attorney Rick Unklesbay said Tuesday each defendant is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of aggravated assault and one count of attempted first-degree murder, first-degree burglary, armed robbery and aggravated robbery.

They are scheduled to be arraigned Monday.

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http://www.komonews.com/news/local/49046871.html

Report: Minutemen leader was involved with accused accomplice

Jun 24, 2009 at 5:58 PM PDT


By ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Authorities released new details Wednesday about an Arizona home invasion that left a little girl and her father dead, with investigators saying a 12-gauge shotgun was found in a concealed compartment of a suspect's printer and he harbored members of an anti-illegal immigration group.

Albert Robert Gaxiola, 42, told Pima County Sheriff's investigators that he let members of the Minutemen American Defense group stay at his house and he had a relationship with 41-year-old Shawna Forde, the leader of the border watch group accused of planning the attack to help fund her anti-immigrant operations.

Reports released Wednesday show investigators searched Gaxiola's house in Arivaca two days after the May 30 home invasion and found military-style gear and clothing. The report also said that a printer in Gaxiola's home had a concealed compartment in which a 12-gauge shotgun was found, with a spent shell in the chamber and seven more shells in the magazine.

"I observed numerous firearms, camouflage clothing and other military type gear being found," the detective said.

The robbery in the small community of Arivaca left 29-year-old Raul Junior Flores and his 9-year-old daughter, Brisenia, dead. Gina Gonzalez, the girl's mother and Flores' wife, was wounded.

Authorities arrested Gaxiola of Arivaca; Forde, of Everett, Wash., and Jason Eugene Bush, 34, of Meadview, Ariz., near the New Mexico border, in connection with the shooting.

Bush was arrested at a Kingman, Ariz., hospital undergoing treatment for a leg wound. The three were indicted this week by a county grand jury on charges including first-degree murder, aggravated assault and aggravated robbery.

After the shootings, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik described Flores as a suspected drug dealer.

Detectives began focusing on Gaxiola a day after the shootings and after a hospital interview with Gonzalez.

Gonzalez, 31, was shot three times and she shot and wounded Bush during the home invasion, authorities said.

She gave detectives information that helped tie Gaxiola to the shootings, according to the report.

She told Detective R.M. Svec that a man "who stuck his head into the residence did match the approximate height and weight of Albert. When she heard the man yell, she said, he sounded like Gaxiola.

She knew Gaxiola from living in Arivaca, she said, and he and her husband had a dispute last year because Gaxiola had allegedly stored marijuana on their property.

According to another incident report from Svec, Gaxiola told detectives a few hours after Gonzalez's interview that he had heard about the fatal shootings and the wounding of Gonzalez "but he had absolutely no knowledge of any participation in the incident." Gaxiola said he was in Tucson on May 30, according to the report.

Gaxiola told detectives that clothing and military-type webbing gear in a container in his home belonged to "a group of people whom he identified as Minute Men." The people had been staying in his home, he said.

Gaxiola denied owning any weapons, according to the report, and he told investigators that any weapons found in his home belonged to Forde's group.

A van Gonzalez described as suspicious and one she had seen drive past her home a few days before the attack also was parked in front of Gaxiola's home during the interview, Svec's report said. Gaxiola told authorities it belonged to the Minutemen group and Forde had driven it.

Gonzalez told detectives that the intruders wore camouflage clothing and told her and her family that they were law enforcement personnel looking for fugitives.

Well, well, well. Mistaken Identity raises its ugly, toothless cadaver face in the Shawna Forde case. Go figure.

My thanks to Jacki Junti for forwarding this little piece of illumination.

It seems Identity has a big piece of the Shawna Forde case, too. Hey, if we get lucky the cartels will declare war on Hayden Lake and all their fellow-travelers. If that happens, all we'll have to do is count the guilty bodies of both sides as they stack up. And if this spreads to the prisons, it could end up saving the taxpayers a considerable dime.

OUTSTANDING!

Mike
III

Anti-immigration advocate held in '97 slaying

An anti-immigration crusader, who faces murder charges along with a former Everett woman in a double slaying in Arizona, was also charged...

By Seattle Times staff and news services

An anti-immigration crusader, who faces murder charges along with a former Everett woman in a double slaying in Arizona, was also charged Friday in a 1997 Wenatchee killing.

Jason Eugene Bush, 34, was charged in Chelan County Superior Court in the stabbing death of Hector Lopez Partida, 29, a homeless man.

An informant told Wenatchee police that Bush had bragged about killing "a Mexican" behind a store and that Bush had ties to white supremacist groups, according to court documents. Prosecutors say he was linked to the death through DNA evidence.

Bush and two others, including Shawna Forde, 41, who grew up in Everett and ran for the Everett City Council in 2007, are charged with two counts of murder in Pima, Ariz. During a May 30 home-invasion robbery, a woman was wounded and her husband and their 9-year-old daughter were killed.

A sheriff in Arizona said Forde, Bush and Albert Robert Gaxiola, 42, wanted to steal money from the man, whom they suspected to be a drug dealer, to fund operations of Forde's Minutemen American Defense, an anti-illegal-immigration group focused on the Mexican border with Arizona.

One of the group's stated missions was to gather video of drug smuggling and human trafficking by drug cartels, according to its Web site.

The site, which has been taken offline, listed Forde as the group's leader and Bush as its operations director.

Forde was once associated with the better known and larger Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, known for its surveillance of U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico.

She formed her own organization after she was ousted by the Washington state group "for conduct unbecoming of a member" two years ago, according to Joseph Ray, director of the Washington state chapter.

In the Wenatchee case, police describe the victim, Partida, as a homeless man who was sleeping under a blanket behind a store early on July 24, 1997.

After being stabbed several times, he managed to walk to a nearby parking lot, then collapsed, court documents said.

Arriving officers asked Partida who had hurt him. He muttered, "Gavachos" (white guys). He died minutes later.

A bloodstained shirt was found nearby.

Earlier this year, DNA extracted from the shirt was matched to Bush, who had a lengthy criminal record in Washington, including convictions for possession of stolen property, unlawful possession of a firearm and taking a motor vehicle without permission.

After his release from prison, Bush moved to Hayden Lake, Idaho, where he lived until 2007, according to court papers.

Wenatchee police "learned Bush has had long-standing ties to Aryan Nations groups that commonly believe in white superiority over other races and have been known to be violent towards nonwhite races," according to the charging documents.

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